Why the Dev Tools Market is Designed to Confuse You, 4:00 Pacific This is a talk by Chris Riley, of Splunk. And it starts off with a great hook, which is “dev tools market is really confusing.” It’s so confusing, in fact, that here’s a screenshot of the tools available for you to choose from:…
Keynote: Launch Darkly, What Developers Need to Know, 6:00 Pacific Journalist TC Currie interviews Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Cofounder of LaunchDarkly. Let’s talk feature flags and testing in production! The recent Iowa Caucus debacle made for a good segue into the subject of production software testing. TC Currie introduced the topic that way and talked…
I’ve been doing a pretty good job so far in 2020 when it comes to weekly content. And so here I am, today, keeping that dream alive. I recorded a video last week and set it to auto-publish this morning. So I’m going to do a digest post for it. This is going to be…
I’ve got what might well be a new term for you. You’re probably going to love it, assuming you haven’t heard it before. It’s the sort of poorly-named Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, so maybe just call it frequency bias. This is the term for when you learn a new word, and then you immediately start hearing it…
Ever since I started treating content creation as a hobby, I’ve been getting things out pretty consistently. Mostly, this has just meant doing stuff on weekends, for fun, rather than when I’m tired at midnight on a school night and feel obligated. I suppose this means that my content production could vary seasonally or by…
