olivier
@olivier.demeulder.us
Dad, husband, Director of software engineering @ New York Times.
Fan of The Cure. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸
Fan of The Cure. 🇧🇪 🇺🇸
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olivier
@olivier.demeulder.us
· Nov 21
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Just published a highly opinionated guide to stand-up meetings. It’s based on ~25 years working with close to 100 product teams, and seeing first-hand what actually helps teams deliver - and what just wastes everyone’s time.
If your stand-ups feel like a chore or status theatre, this is for you.
If your stand-ups feel like a chore or status theatre, this is for you.
Stand Up Meeting Best Practices | Rob Bowley
blog.robbowley.net
April 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Just published a highly opinionated guide to stand-up meetings. It’s based on ~25 years working with close to 100 product teams, and seeing first-hand what actually helps teams deliver - and what just wastes everyone’s time.
If your stand-ups feel like a chore or status theatre, this is for you.
If your stand-ups feel like a chore or status theatre, this is for you.
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It's international women's day and that means it's the day I self-promote! I've written a few good books including my most recent on Platform Engineering, check them out here!
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Camille Fournier: books, biography, latest update
Follow Camille Fournier and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Camille Fournier Author Page.
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March 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's international women's day and that means it's the day I self-promote! I've written a few good books including my most recent on Platform Engineering, check them out here!
amzn.to/3QYGaoB
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My favorite yearly column from @nickkristof.bsky.social
“The worst thing that could happen is to lose a child. And 2024 appears to have been the year in which the smallest percentage of children died since the dawn of humanity.” @nickkristof.bsky.social putting much needed perspective to keep focus on all that goes well. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
Opinion | The World Is a Mess, and It’s Still the Best Time to Be Alive
What matters isn’t so much a Trump rant as that children are less likely to die now than at any other time in the history of the world.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
My favorite yearly column from @nickkristof.bsky.social
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It may be over 12 years old but I often find myself thinking about this @scott.hanselman.com blog post. As he says himself, this advice doesn’t just apply to debugging internet issues, taking a step back and thinking about what is going on under the hood is a good way to solve any problem.
The Internet is not a black box. Look inside.
All too often I see programmers trying to solve their problems on the internet ...
www.hanselman.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It may be over 12 years old but I often find myself thinking about this @scott.hanselman.com blog post. As he says himself, this advice doesn’t just apply to debugging internet issues, taking a step back and thinking about what is going on under the hood is a good way to solve any problem.
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In my experience, it’s rare to find someone in QA who is as good at writing automated tests as a developer.
My theory on why: If you’re good at writing automated tests, then you’re probably good enough to become a dev and make more money.
My theory on why: If you’re good at writing automated tests, then you’re probably good enough to become a dev and make more money.
December 24, 2024 at 11:52 PM
In my experience, it’s rare to find someone in QA who is as good at writing automated tests as a developer.
My theory on why: If you’re good at writing automated tests, then you’re probably good enough to become a dev and make more money.
My theory on why: If you’re good at writing automated tests, then you’re probably good enough to become a dev and make more money.
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I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.
December 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.
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Writing isn't what you do after you have an idea. It's how you develop an inkling into an insight.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
December 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Writing isn't what you do after you have an idea. It's how you develop an inkling into an insight.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What's fuzzy in your head is clear on the page.
"I'm not a writer" shouldn't stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.
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Nice vizualization of a LLM's transformer
Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained
An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Nice vizualization of a LLM's transformer
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Impostor syndrome: “I don't know what I'm doing. It's only a matter of time until everyone finds out."
Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."
The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."
The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
December 5, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Impostor syndrome: “I don't know what I'm doing. It's only a matter of time until everyone finds out."
Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."
The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."
The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
Ceci n'est pas un Bluesky post.
November 21, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Ceci n'est pas un Bluesky post.