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Marc Egea i Sala
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My job is computers. And sadly, people.

Opinions are my own, I think.

More personal stuff @meis.cat
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you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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added a cheat sheet to the official Git website

(with a lot of help from other folks who work on the website)

git-scm.com/cheat-sheet
Git Cheat Sheet
git-scm.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent article referencing an excellent book: "Seeing like a software company" by Sean Goedecke and "Seeing like a State" by James C. Scott

www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...
Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
www.seangoedecke.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Everthyng I know about good system design" by sean goedecke

www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-...
Everything I know about good system design
I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…
www.seangoedecke.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another
Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.
August 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I keep reading about things like detailed up-front Sprint plans, about "failed" Sprints, about people panicking when a Sprint doesn't go according to plan, etc. There is no agility in that thinking, whatsoever.
1/7
July 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Fix This Sign

xkcd.com/3113/
July 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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I missed the fact that people were talking about Kubernetes 2.0 this week

Here’s my wish list I wrote down last year

justingarrison.com/blog/2024-06...
Kubernetes 2.0
Breaking changes I would like to see in Kubernetes 2.0
justingarrison.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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I'm so old that I'm still kind of scared to put spaces in file names
February 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Been there
Done that
Mental note: Do not hold the cat @ 7:30 am or 5:30 pm when the automatic cat feeder dispenses food.
June 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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1) it's part of the job description for that level

2) The work intrinsically matters (and they care about doing a good job)

"Make the org run well" is the domain of senior contributors, who have the skills and good judgment to do so effectively and efficiently. Juniors don't.
June 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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💡 Empezamos nueva aventura y voy a empezar un "Build in Public" tanto del equipo como del producto.

Si te gusta la idea, dale al repost 🔄 y suscríbanse a mi canal.
May 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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current status: putting a few weird terminal facts that I do not have any practical use for into the terminal zine

(mostly I’m keeping it extremely practical but I think it's fun to have SOME weird stuff)
April 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Choosing Languages
steveklabnik.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored
#FreeJavaScript

deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...
deno.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
February 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I've made a brief summary of @bethcodes.bsky.social and @kentbeck.com's metaphor of The Forest and The Desert.

martinfowler.com/bliki/Forest...
bliki: Forest And Desert
A metaphor for why two software development ecosystems have difficulty communicating.
martinfowler.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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If you have a slow Saturday, let me remind you of my fine collection of "interesting" emails I received: daniel.haxx.se/email/
Daniel Stenberg -- Emails
The Daniel email collection
daniel.haxx.se
January 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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❓ ¿Qué organizaciones privadas (empresas, fundaciones, asociaciones...) admiráis por su impacto social?

Me interesan especialmente temas como salud, inclusión, acceso digital y economía solidaria.

Se agradecen RTs 🫶
January 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Imagine having a $300K+ year job at Apple. Then notice Apple matches charity donations up to $10K/year and deciding… you want that additional $10K/yr. So you defraud Apple with a fake charity to funnel the matching contribution back to you.

6 ex-employees did this. Just… wow:
January 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Been using @pocketcasts.com for years now and I like it a lot.

Here's a 2-month guest pass if you want to give it a try.

pocketcasts.com/redeem/2CwPE...
Redeem Guest Pass - Pocket Casts
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pocketcasts.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM