We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs lalitm.com Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart.
What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter or so, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups.
Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users:
an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups. Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users: an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.
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Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney danieldelaney.net 80% of the people only need 20% of the features.
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NaN, the not-a-number number that isn’t NaN NaN, the not-a-number number that isn’t NaN piccalil.li We're pretty aware, generally that JavaScript is weird, but did you know Not-A-Number (NaN) is a type of number? Mat Marquis walks us through why that is and how to deal with NaN well in your codebases. 
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Rethinking async loops in JavaScript - Matt Smith Rethinking async loops in JavaScript - Matt Smith allthingssmitty.com Struggling with 'await' in loops? Explore common mistakes and modern solutions to optimize async code for performance.
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'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety 'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety bbc.com Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.
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Measured AI | Note to Self Measured AI | Note to Self notetoself.studio The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...
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