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Peter Hilton

@peterhilton.bsky.social

Product manager at https://pafyll.com • speaker, writer, and musician • B2B SaaS • blogs software product management/design/development
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Wikipedia humour: ‘Requirements analysis can be a long and tiring process during which many delicate psychological skills are involved ’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Require...
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Unicode emoji are standard language; custom Slack emoji are slang
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Just wrote: "Stop trying to make refactoring happen, it’s not going to happen." A short and cynical rant about why I think refactoring will never be the default option of making code better. We cannot resist the shiny new thing, can we? www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2024/06/stop...
Stop trying to make refactoring happen, it’s not going to happen. – Journey Into Qualitywww.maaikebrinkhof.nl
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Startup idea: calendar that lets you set one-on-one meeting event titles to [other attendee’s name], so I don’t have various meetings all called ‘1:1 Peter’ with different people
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#coding hot take: if code comments often indicate that the code should be improved and the comments removed, then those comments do in fact serve a useful purpose 😬
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The secret to conference presentation preparation procrastination is not leaving it so long that you get stressed about whether you still have enough time to write it, while leaving it long enough to have thought about it so much that the slides write themselves.
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A #product development team that decides to incurs technical debt needs product management help with stakeholder management, which means that as product manager you have to understand that decision’s consequences.
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Technical debt is like financial debt, but without EBITDA reporting
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If you're at Devoxx UK in a couple of weeks, come and see me and @kevlin.bsky.social and some Very Special Guest Stars tell you about 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. Tickets still available... for now: www.devoxx.co.uk
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Is the critical weakness of TDD that it doesn’t care about naming? #code
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One cappuccino costs ¥800, so two cost… ¥1601. Should someone have used a different rounding rule for adding VAT? 🤔
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😔 Drawing opportunity solution trees on infinite canvas boards 😅 Creating an OST in Notion with nested toggle lists
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