We’re back to measuring productivity by lines of code are we? Because that always goes well.

I think that’s a little harsh. When the CEO groupthink network says AI all the things, what are the PMs supposed to do?

Caulk is in there, I would say that’s fairly technical. My wife didn’t know it.

I am not a native speaker but how does your wife name the caulk in the shower? Silicone? Or do you maintain it in such pristine condition that no word was ever spoken about it?

I assume she calls it grout, like a normal person. ;D

Caulk and grout are different things. She calls the sandy stone stuff between the tiles the same thing as the rubbery bead in the corner?

If it were me, I'd call a rubbery bead in the corner "sealant".

Yeah, silicone or just sealant. Maybe it’s an Americanism.

I don't think so - wooden ships have been caulked to seal the planks for a long time.

These hype articles are getting very boring.

This is a meta-hype article. It's an article about the hype.

Same, my MP is clueless. They won’t listen to the experts. This is what he said:

The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both. The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate. The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.

The response is the same boilerplate responses I used to get when I used to write to my MP. This is why I just gave up emailing my MP. You are essentially pleading with someone to reverse their previous position when they have no incentive do to so.

All of which is arguably true, but misses the point that uploading your age verification documents to every social media site you might want to look at is very likely to result in them getting hacked and leaked.

Working with startups, I've signed up for 100s of sites. My password manager lists 550. Those signups are currently low-risk: just my email (already widely public) and a random password. But it would put a big chill on my work if I had to upload government age verification docs to each one.

In some situations it may be politically useful to pretend that an LLM makes things faster because that is what your boss wants to hear though.

I had great experiences with XSD as a contract in systems integration scenarios, particularly with big systems integrators. It's pretty clear whose fault it is when somebodys XML doesn't validate.

The issue is that XSD came along much later, and its use did not become binding in XML validation scenarios, hence partial success, even when the XSD-based validation tooling was available at the time.

XSD provides a clean abstraction for the technical validation that sits separately from the application / business / processing layers and dramatically increases the chances of a «clean» request reaching the aforementioned layers without having to roll multiple defensive checks in there.

Granted, an XSD can become complex very quickly, especially if indulged in too much, but it does not have to be.

There are a lot of good arguments against the XML ecosystem, but "I'm too lazy or dumb to understand it" is not one of them.

It is called DevUx and it is certainly a thing.

If the tooling sucks and the entire ecosystem is hard to understand, people won't adopt a technology.

XML was forced down everyone's throat for a decade! The second something else came along literally everyone who could jumped ship.

Interestingly, I've never heard the term 'DevUx' before. I suspect it's the same concept as Developer Experience, which I also find supremely important and historically underappreciated. Companies like JetBrains for example make a killing by being a company that really takes this aspect seriously.

On the other hand I've had a fellow developer laugh at me when trying to explain how this is important, so I'm unsure this is as important to others as it is to me.

Yeah devux is just short for developer experience.

The apple app store had an amazing initial devux, vs the blackberry app store which famously was a huge pain just to apply to and all the tooling was horrible.

Particularly search on Google drive / gsuite docs. For a search company, it’s just embarrassing.

Nah, seems increasingly accurate. Spend keeps going up, successful projects in production not so much.

lack of visibility != lack of deployment

Companies all quietly agrees to stop talking about their successes. Right.

Yes. Right.lol