I applied for a job and haven’t heard anything. It was at a chiropractors about a weak back.
I also applied to work for a TV UX design company. But I miss understood when they said it was remote-first.
I’ve also missed out on joining a well known large sweet manufacturing business. To be honest it was my fault as I choked in the practical interview.
Finally I’ve also interviewed at the bird food making company, but waiting to see if they have a successful seed funding round, as I don’t come cheep.
I’ve also asked my local hairdressers if they had any vacancies, but they were going through a round of cuts.
Might look at yoghurt companies next as apparently they have great cultures.
Oh wait, it looks like the mining company has some vacancies, let me dig a little deeper.
Ah, shame turns out the bakery hasn’t got a roll for me.
But once you find yourself with those customers and that creaky codebase … what next? How do you start to pay down that debt? Here’s my playbook for managing tech debt:
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- Measure: there are no great measures for tech debt, but there are several serviceable ones. Pick one, be consistent, and track it over time.
- Agree on a tech debt allocation, a percentage of time Engineering will spend working on reducing tech debt.
- Monitor and adjust regularly.
While it worked, it would’ve worked vastly better by turning the entire team into a mob programming team. We did this after our new Director joined and the change was incredible; it wasn’t enough to have everyone working in the same area, they needed to work on the same thing at the same time, together. Not only did this speed up the entire team, but they grew closer together, collaborated better, and huge chunks of siloing disappeared overnight. Did I mention that we’re fully remote? We are. We still did mob programming, and it was amazing. I highly recommend it as a way of accelerating a team in the storming and norming phases.
]]>Get these things right in your engineering team and almost anything is possible.
]]>Write a list of the test scenarios you want to cover.
Turn exactly one item on the list into an actual, concrete, runnable test.
Change the code to make the test (and all previous tests) pass (adding items to the list as you discover them).
Optionally refactor to improve the implementation design
]]>Until the list is empty, go back to #2.
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]]>Castro changed the way I use inboxes/queue for managing my listening. It was my favourite app. It’s been on my home screen for years.
As a long time paying subscriber of Castro it has deteriorated since the sale/merge. Running PocketCasts in parallel showed how far Castro has fallen. Podcasts would drop days or weeks after release, often needing manual refreshing, occasionally I would get 10 episodes drop in one go, some dates months ago that I had missed, whilst PocketCasts got new episodes in my inbox instantly. Finding new podcasts is easy and error free.
Having been subscribed to 293 podcasts it makes it hard to keep track when one isn’t working in Castro.
Using a VPN was a problem too.
The searching for podcasts would often return multiple results - inevitably I’d pick the one that throws an unauthenticated error.
I’ve cancelled my subscription.
PocketCasts filters allow me to process my inbox and define my playlist just like Castro did. All without a subscription so far, but may look at synching to iPad or a web browser if the need arises. No errors or issues.
RIP Castro.
Castro has been a popular iOS podcast app for many years, but right now things look grim….
The cloud database that backs the service is broken and needs to be replaced. As a result, the app has broken….
]]>What’s worse, according to former Castro team member Mohit Mamoria, “Castro is being shut down over the next two months.”