Saying No

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I’m reading a book called The Coaching Habit so I can coach my team better and specifically make my 1:1s with them more productive. While reading, I came across a quote by Peter Block who defines an adult-to-adult relationship as … Read more

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

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Axe-time, sword-time, shields are sundered,Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls.– Völuspá, Poetic Edda As of Firefox 148, SpiderMonkey’s asm.js optimizations are disabled by default, and we plan to remove the code entirely in a future release. If you maintain a … Read more

Saying Goodbye to Agile

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14 Apr 2026 RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally – because no one was ever clear on what it was. Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice … Read more

The art of saying no without saying no

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How does a non-Japanese business person know that a Japanese person is declining something, if that person never actually says, “No”?  The “indirectness” for which the Japanese are known can cause some stress and confusion for non-Japanese business people. In … Read more

Stop Saying C/C++

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Stop Saying C/C++ | Bryce Vandegrift’s Website For as long as I can remember, I have heard people say C/C++ when referring to a project written in C and or C++. A lot of programming/developer jobs also refer to C/C++ … Read more

Saying Goodbye to Open Source Bridge

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This post is more than two years old. As a result, it may contain information that’s out of date or that I no longer agree with. Last week we held the tenth and final Open Source Bridge conference. It’s been … Read more

Stop Saying “Technical Debt”

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We were supposed to release this feature three weeks ago.  One developer got caught in a framework update. Another got stuck reorganizing the feature flags. A third needed to spelunk a long-abandoned repository to initiate the database changes. The team … Read more

Saying “sup” with `net send`

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When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each … Read more