Dave Pradko

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...

A police officer and a metals salesman have a cup of coffee together while a man tries to reconcile with his estranged wife

@mulaney.bsky.social There's a horse...in the hospital www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Give me your favorite moment and affix the corresponding basketball score as a donation to the edsbscharitybowl.com. Mine is holding a double-digit lead over Purdue all night at Mackey, then thanking their fans for making it feel like it never got past 2: x.com/ByAZuniga/st... #charitibundibowl

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

bring back "software bug of the month" BYTE choose violence / named and shamed a broken FORTRAN binary search used by Turing Award winner Robert Floyd—a literal pioneer of program correctness imagine getting roasted in print and then having to wait 30 days for the magazine to publish the solution

>let claude code fuck with production >no backups incredible.

Part of the disconnect is of course that techbros insist that a total revolution in the way that software is made is taking place, but anyone who uses software can observe that software continues to suck more than ever before

Write in present tense, whenever possible. Reasons: * Brevity. * Consistency. * Clarity. I was taught this back when I wrote tech manuals. "When you click on GO, a dialog box will appear." WHEN will it appear? Immediately? Or sometime before the sun goes nova?" #AmEditing

Live your life so you don’t notice cloud flare outages.

@sickoscommittee.org not only does this need to come back, the Super Bowl needs to adopt this

Happy 10th anniversary to the discovery of gravitational waves www.livescience.com/space/black-...

Album cover of the year

How do you teach techniques such as incremental refactoring and test driven development (TDD)? Back in January I was interviewed by @sasworkshops.bsky.social for the Labview Experiment podcast, and we had a great chat about Samman Technical coaching,

I need Batman 66 starring Jon Hamm.

Stories about someone porch-snatching your Spider of the Month Club package feels like nostalgia for what Twitter was a decade ago

This should probably go on my headstone

Something I often encounter when working with technical leaders is the following worry: "My senior engineers know more than I do!" People worry that they're losing touch with the pace of change in technology.

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Exciting news! Starting in May, I will be working with www.agile1tech.com to deliver #businessanalysis and #scrummaster training. More details to come If you're interested in personalized coaching or mentoring, you can also DM here or email me dave@pradkogorup.com

This is my first time coming across the Agile Laws site. Looks like a lot of great laws and insights

Software should be as mutable as this #softwareEngineering

I've seen turnstiles in the DC Metro put up more resistance than the Chiefs offensive line tonight

Focus on delivering value NOW, not on future possibilities. Defer anything that isn't immediately needed. This reduces code, cost & complexity. #agile #lean #software #value

A lot of software development is about risks and tradeoffs, not just right and wrong #agile

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