Jonathan Hall

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Jonathan Hall

May 18

Rose bushes and story points

#agile #scrum #storypoints #estimation

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Readability is paramount

But let me ignore all that for a moment, and take your argume...

Jan 25

Readability is paramount

Thanks for the links. I don't see supporting evidence for th...

Jan 25

Readability is paramount

Aside from that, readability is not primarily about reducing ...

Jan 25

Readability is paramount

I'd love to see some reference for your claim that "Bugs are ...

Jan 25

Where to host your kubernetes

Yes, it absolutely can. But it's a lot of work, especially fo...

Dec 29 '21

Should we switch to a monorepo?

I'd ask them the same question: "What problems will it solve...

Nov 18 '21

Readability is paramount

Comments are a really bad way to solve this problem, because ...

Nov 11 '21

No, you're not doing DevOps

You've touched on another issue: "DevOps" should never be co...

Sep 8 '21

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 21

Work from the bottom up

#tdd #unittests

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 10

How to be a Digital Nomad

#remotework #wfh

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Feb 9

Take the Reader Survey

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Feb 11

The importance of seeing red

#tdd #xp

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Feb 3

How to get better at story slicing

#pullrequests #codereview #tdd #mikadomethod

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Feb 2

How to switch from GitFlow to Trunk-Based Development

#gitflow #trunkbaseddevelopmen

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Jan 31

Agile houses

#agile

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Jan 28

Pick a methodology: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean or DevOps?

#agile #scrum #devops #xp

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 17

Does "DevOps" Matter to Investors?

#devops #investors #startup

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Jan 27

What's the officially correct time to mark a user story "complete"?

#userstories #agile

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 21

No, writing HTML is not programming. But watering your lawn is.

#turingcomplete #html #css

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Feb 21

Why "Consider refactoring this" comments are silly

#codecomments #codestyle

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 17

TODO: Add an intriguing title

#codecomments #codestyle #projectmanagement #issuetracking

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 17

The Blind Leading the Sighted: What We Can Learn From an Ex-Software Engineer Without Sight

#podcast #video #interview #a11y

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 3

A little bit of chaos

#chaosengineering

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 2

Three things I learned from my readers in 2021

#readerresponse

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 2

My 5 best reads of 2021

#bookreview #devops #softwaredevelopment #productdevelopment

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Feb 11

Things that blew my mind

#devops #testing #continuousdeployment #ci

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 11

DevOps, DevSecOps, TriceratOps?

#devops

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Feb 10

Why most Agile Transformations fail

#agiletransformation #agile

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 10

Science is never settled

#continuousdelivery #continuousdeployment #gitflow #trunkbaseddevelopment

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Feb 9

We can't afford automation right now

#cicd #automation #continuousdelivery #continuousdeployment

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Jonathan Hall

Feb 9

Levels of testing

#qa #tdd #softwaretesting #softwaredevelopment

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Feb 3

How to handle schedule slippage on an agile project

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Feb 2

Shop talk

#hiring #interview

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Jan 31

When is 95% test coverage worse than 5%

#unittests #tdd #codequality

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Jan 31

Disecting Complexity With the Mikado Method

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Jan 27

Do you have a Star Trek team?

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Jan 25

Does Scrum belong in DevOps?

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Jonathan Hall

Jan 25

20% of the code is executed 80% of the time

#testcoverage #tdd #unittests #codequality

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Jonathan Hall

Jan 25

Code Roast 2

#go #codereview

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Jonathan Hall

Jan 10

On a mission to connect with local businesses

#podcast #video #startup

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Jonathan Hall

Jan 10

I don't like your programming language of choice

#tooling #rewrite

2 min read

Jonathan Hall

Dec 29 '21

When are the best tools too expensive?

#makefile #build #tooling

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 27 '21

You can't help everyone

#gitlab #cicd #tooling #culture

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 27 '21

Kubernetes is the future of DevOps... or is it?

#kubernetes #devops

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 15 '21

Should you build an MVP?

#mvp #productdevelopment #productmarketfit

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Dec 15 '21

What certifications should I get?

#devops #certifications #aws

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 14 '21

What to do with broken tests

#automatedtests #testing #tdd #codequality

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 14 '21

Where to host your kubernetes

#podcast #video #kubernetes #aws

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 9 '21

Should you speak at meetups or conferences?

#speaking #meetups #conferences #career

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 9 '21

Code Roast

#hiring #jobsearch #go #codereview

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Dec 8 '21

Break glass in case of emergency

#emergencyresponse #emergencies #pullrequests #codereview

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 8 '21

Does Scrum make sense for a "DevOps Team"?

#scrum #devops #kanban

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Jonathan Hall

Dec 4 '21

XY Problems in User Stories

#xyproblem #userstories #designthinking

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Dec 3 '21

Hiring, Fast and Slow

#hiring #cognition #itjobs

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Nov 26 '21

How can I eliminate technical debt?

#technicaldebt

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 25 '21

Types of technical debt

#technicaldebt

2 min read

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Nov 29 '21

Beware the false premise

#productmarketfit #productvalidation

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 26 '21

Counterintuitive ideas

#innovation

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 25 '21

The thing with agilists and deadlines

#noestimates #estimation #agile #deadlines

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 24 '21

When is a pull request too big?

#pullrequests #codereview #github

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 23 '21

Mastering Evolutionary Design

#podcast #video #tinydevops #evolutionarydesign

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 19 '21

The importance of finger painting

#agile #scrum #noestimates #estimates

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 18 '21

The one code review method to rule them all

#codereview #pairprogramming #pullrequests

2 min read

Jonathan Hall

Nov 16 '21

Staying DRY in a WET codebase

#dry #wet

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Nov 15 '21

DRY can be expensive

#dry #wet #prematureoptimizatio

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 11 '21

Readability vs performance

#readability #optimization #performance

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Jonathan Hall

Nov 10 '21

Readability is paramount

#perl #readability #codereadability

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