opinionated quotes - into my own blog

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws

this one not that great

https://github.com/castorm/engineering-principles

1.25 ^ 10 ≈ 10

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413832

let small fires burn

https://swizec.com/blog/let-small-fires-burn/

By centralizing services and standardizing your tooling, Backstage streamlines your development environment from end to end. Instead of restricting autonomy, standardization frees your engineers from infrastructure complexity. So you can return to building and scaling, quickly and safely.

https://backstage.io/

release form

https://www.aprilsoetarman.com/Unfinished-Projects-Release-Form

kwargs large hammer

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/on-kwargs.html

50x 44 (or even 50)

that poster is 60 x 85 really

or small 42 by 60

https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Visual-Summary-Extreme-Ownership-Jocko-Willink-by-TKsuited/157021445.E40HW?country_code=GB&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuuP4-4zMiAMV_ZpQBh0vNgvREAQYASABEgJQOvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

We believe in a community-driven approach of open-source tools that are composable and extensible.

https://mystmd.org/

longer toolchains are more brittle

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_testing/Understanding_client-side_tools/Introducing_complete_toolchain#toolchains_and_their_inherent_complexity

Hyrum’s law of complete API

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

one second solutions

https://www.bitecode.dev/i/110396390/if-this-is-all-true-why-didnt-i-read-that-somewhere-else

developer focus is not a fungible commodity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958455

US national security room

https://x.com/ettingermentum/status/1779245872313671708

if your PR sits open for more than an hour, your team has failed you.

, if your PR takes more than 15-minutes to review, you have failed your team.

If you can decompose your large problems down into a series of smaller problems, then the cost of context switching approaches zero.

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4013-an-opinionated-guide-to-handling-pull-requests-prs-on-my-team.htm

Code is a liability, not an asset. So goal of software engineer is delivering the maximum amount of desired functionality at the cost of the least amount of code complexity, even as desired functionality evolves over time.

Greg Brockman

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1606485739679932416?lang=en

start with a simple system

https://personalmba.com/galls-law/

monorepo vs multirepo tradeof

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56990419/multi-repo-vs-monorepo-and-nested-monorepos

observation: With minimum bespoke we can afford more variance across deployments. Also a lower switching cost, arguably

devastating

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws?tab=readme-ov-file#the-dead-sea-effect

unrelated changes in a PR

Single responsibility principle is for software, not code changes imo

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws?tab=readme-ov-file#the-scout-rule