Danny Faught

I learned about it from this talk by the show's writer at Ignite Seattle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw-kDht3avg

#igniteseattle #ignite

My third Ignite Seattle experience about to start.

#ignite #igniteseattle

Happy Tau Day, to those who use a weird date format. Unfortunately, there’s no pie.

#tauday

Overheard:

Dunning-Cougar effect

I will not speculate what it might mean.

#dunning not #kruger

I just tried #MacWhisper for the first time to transcribe some recordings of interviews I did for a book project, and wow, it really nails it.

Well, there was some singing, and I can forgive it not getting those parts right.

Opinions can change over time. Here's what has changed since I gave an interview to @angryweasel. Of course, I had to mention Mastodon.

"Four Years after the 343"
https://swalchemist.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/four-years-after-the-343/

#abtesting #generalist #biography #DuoLingo

I’ve been reading about software crafting, which says software development is not engineering, and also Jerry Weinberg’s Quality Software Management Vol. 1 which emphatically states that it is engineering. I’ll give Jerry a pass given the age of the book.

#softwarecrafting #engineering

Yeah, I went there. Because, why not?

Test-driving fizzbuzz in bash - https://swalchemist.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/test-driving-fizzbuzz-in-bash/

#TDD #fizzbuzz #bash

Not the first time a picture of me with a drum has been spotted in the wild, but perhaps the first time while at a technical conference.

https://www.agileopennorthwest.org/blog-posts/april-2024-were-back

#AONW #agileopennorthwest #djembe

Do I know crypto? Posted on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/faught_do-i-know-crypto-i-spoke-to-an-old-friend-activity-7182076323593424896-bbL_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

#cryptography #crypto #iknownothing

Trying to rest after the first day of Open Agile Northwest. It’s been too long since I’ve been to a conference! #AONW

@PaysonHall Thanks for sending me this set of Efron's dice! I just played a game with my team. (Spoiler: I won.)

#intransitive #dice

It's gotten me thinking about my experience at Convex Computer Corporation, which I wrote about here - https://swalchemist.wordpress.com/2003/04/01/convex-is-dead-long-live-convex/.

#convex #convexcomputer #excon

I occasionally check in on the podcast "Rob Morgan is a Curious Person", and I really liked this episode: "The Power of Allow"
https://www.thecuriouspod.com/questions/thepowerofallow

I hadn't heard of the "doctrine of non-striving" before (sounds like the opposite of being goal-driven), but I want to learn more.

#curiosity #goals #striving

"Everything is deeply intertwingled."

#TedNelson #intertwingled

My tribute to #FredBrooks. He was a contemporary of Jerry Weinberg at IBM and possibly the first person to use the term "architecture" for computers. Jerry said to me -

"Fred asked me if I thought the term 'architecture' was appropriate for what he was doing in designing the 360. Nowadays, with the term 'architecture' bandied about in meaningless ways, I regret that I told him it was okay."