Chris Backhouse

Hello, sorry no job openings but let’s connect and engineer our feeds into something nerdy and glorious.

Hi, there! Let’s connect and engineer our feeds into something nerdy and glorious!

Hey there, Let’s connect and geek up our feeds together!

And then be there as the business / Tech sponsor to help, guide and cajole as required.

My experience as a Tech Lead is exactly the same. Treat devs like they can’t plan and they won’t plan. Give them a goal and say go do it, they’ll work all hours to get it done. Daily, weekly rituals interrupt a profession that are masters of concentration. Let them do their job …

But when you have smart, autonomous teams who understand the business context? Scrum often becomes overhead that slows things down.

Scrum works great when you have:
"Kitchen sink teams" which have everything thrown at them
* Teams that need protection from stakeholder interruptions
* Organizations where business people don't understand engineering

The main reason these companies [Google, Facebook, Netflix etc] didn’t need Agile is because the main problem Agile aimed to solve — bridging the divide between tech and non-tech employees — does not exist at these companies.

The Death of Agile: Why Tech Giants Are Abandoning Scrum and What They Use Instead by Sohail Saif
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Interesting article on Medium that discusses the need for Agile/ Scrum more as interface between non-technical and technical teams whereas in companies that have a tech backbone little project management is needed …

Build Type-Safe Components with Vue 3.3 Five days ago, Vue version 3.3 "Rurouni Kenshi" was officially released and it's packed with amazing...

Vue.js ~ I’ve just discovered Generic Types and how they could transform some of my common components.

Here are two articles that introduce this concept:

dev.to/vincentdoria...

logaretm.com/blog/better-...

#vue #vuejs #frontend #dev

jakebailey.github.io/static/.well-known at main · jakebailey/jakebailey.github.io Contribute to jakebailey/jakebailey.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

You can also do this if you already have an existing github.io site by making a dir there instead of a whole new repo, e.g. my hugo build has this: github.com/jakebailey/j...

(But I can understand the separation)

Hi Stan, good to meet you. I’m mainly on Symfony-vue stack. I use other PHP frameworks too. Dabbled in python but never on a serious project. A little nodes.js more for utilities than apps.

Symfony 7.2 curated new features (Symfony Blog) Symfony 7.2 curated new features

#Symfony 7.2 has just been released. Here is a list of curated features symfony.com/blog/symfony...
Big thanks to all the contributors!