Ready for human
I run a coding session per repository and they can't talk to each other. For a while the thing carrying messages between them was me, and I kept getting it wrong.
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Craft
What I took back off the shelf
I put my working practice on a public shelf, and then took some of it back off again. Working out which half was the interesting part.
They'll meet me eventually
Recording a voice clone in a wardrobe, what it sounds like when the accent slips, and the line I drew about where my synthetic voice may go.
A website for the place I still call home
Rebuilding the website for a fifteenth-century coaching inn, which happens to be my dad's pub and the place I grew up in.
The feature your users are already faking
The one real user of my photo tool was already faking a feature with a workaround. That workaround was the specification.
What burnout taught me (more than once)
Burned out more than once across twenty years, and the point is that none of them looked the same as the one before it.
The take-home goes in the bin
Hiring engineers for judgement rather than output, and why every part of a normal interview is measuring the wrong thing.
