Software Development

SCARF

• Status is about our relative importance within a group (“Am I respected and seen as important?”).
• Certainty is our brain’s desire to be able to predict the future (“Can I anticipate what is going to happen next?”).
• Autonomy is about feeling a sense of control over…

Neurobiology: 2 hemispheres

As human beings, we have 2 hemispheres:

1. The first one is responsible for exploratory mechanisms, but is not particularly good at executing things precisely and immidiately. Especially this failure is obvious during mechanical operations. 
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💩 Smelly assertions

If you’re reviewing someone’s code and see that the developer is asserting on the tests on

Diffusion of responsibility

When multiple teams work on the same project — is an antippattern.

Documentation

Agile methodologies are notorious about massive lack of documentation.

The impostor syndrome

The impostor syndrome is the feeling that we are not worthy. We have the impress that we don’t know how to do properly…

How Google handles code review

🤔 Totally legal kind of comments in the code

So far I can be sure that the only type of comments in code is legal, needed…

Full Potential of a Developer

I spoke to some good developers, and found one common idea: they care about business, about the company…

Team productivity

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
 — Fred Brooks