Software developer, Crossfitter, barefoot runner, and parttime nutcase.
Joined February 2009
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
3 Sep 2021
Fucking lol
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3 Sep 2020
Developer Experience is often terrible because we'd much rather solve hard technical problems than hard user experience problems.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
4 Feb 2020
A solid 10% of being an engineering manager is asking two people if they've talked to each other yet
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
2 Dec 2019
Internet rule proposal:
If your website asks for notification permissions immediately on the first visit, I get to call your house at 3am to ask why.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
29 Sep 2019
TV people: why do all reality shows involve elimination? I want to watch a show called “Onboarding” where two teams compete and must accommodate one new member each week
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
19 Jul 2019
I’ve started telling JS devs that semantic html elements are preloaded microframeworks that ship you accessibility and performance plugins.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
29 Jun 2019
What working in tech means to my family:
- can fix WiFi
- can fix any laptop
- understand all cables
- app troubleshooter
- technical dictionary
- phone signal operator
- Bluetooth ninja
- build any website/app
- spreadsheet wizard
- document formatted
- email assistant
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7 May 2019
Working from home today. Feel kind of lonely now that my roomba finished cleaning. It's just all quiet now. 😥
Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
5 Apr 2019
In my experience, not any single programming technique (FP, TDD, etc.) is a predictor of success in software. The only predictor I know is — caring.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
31 Jan 2019
I rarely have problems getting CSS to work as expected, so the Family Guy CSS gif used to baffle me. But, actually, it’s a perfect metaphor when you consider Peter Griffin has no idea how the blinds work, no patience to learn, and still expects them to magically do what he wants.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
15 Nov 2018
In programming, natural selection is "survival of the ugliest". Small and simple code gets extended and repurposed. Ugly and complex code stays untouched and becomes legacy.
It's very interesting that efforts to write good code are in direct opposition to the nature of code.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
6 Nov 2018
The first lesson is that before you have experience you can't design something in its entirety without iteration. The second lesson is that after you have experience you can't design something in its entirety without iteration.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
10 Aug 2018
'... the best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.' -- Melinda Varian
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
9 Aug 2018
“We’ll be finished testing this release next Thursday”. Don’t you mean “we will run out of time for testing next Thursday”?
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
1 Jul 2018
DEVESTATING. Today, #British oil company Soco International has been given permission to drill in Virunga National Park in the #Congo, home of critically endangered Mountain Gorilla. Last month 6 Rangers died defending the #gorillas. We must stop this. RT to start #TheResistance
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
29 Jun 2018
Public sector pro tip: if you're paying 350 million USD for customizing "off the shelf" software, you're not buying "off the shelf" software. You're getting tailor made software. (Made by tailors forced to wear boxing gloves)
It's a con. Don't fall for it.
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
21 Jun 2018
“Software development has been steered wrong by the word 'requirement,’ defined as something mandatory or obligatory. The word carries a connotation of absolutism and permanence – inhibitors to embracing change. The word ‘requirement’ is just plain wrong." @KentBeck #prodmgmt
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Flemming Hoffmeyer retweeted
2 May 2018
Programming is so flippin' enjoyable that when/if it becomes an automated skill I'll probably still do it for the simple fun of it. Wonderful medicine for a brain that doesn't stop.
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