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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Intro</h1> |
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2019-06-18 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/intro/">#intro</a> |
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<p>"Things I Learnt The Hard Way (In 30 Years of Software Development)" started |
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as a simple sequence of toots (the same as "tweets", on |
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<a href="https://functional.cafe/@juliobiason">Mastodon</a> when I was thinking about a |
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new presentation I could do.</p> |
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<p>But why "a new presentation"?</p> |
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<p>I go around my state with a group called |
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"<a href="https://tchelinux.org/">Tchelinux</a>": We usually go to universities and talk |
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to people starting uni, explaining things about free/libre software and |
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sometimes telling people about things they wouldn't normally see in the uni |
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curriculum.</p> |
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<p>One thing that annoys me is that there are very few presentations about "when |
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things go wrong". All the presentations show prototypes or tell the good |
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stuff, and hide all the wrong things that could happen<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. Obviously, after |
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working 30 years in the field of software development, I saw my fair share of |
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things going wrong -- sometimes in unimaginable piles of crap -- and I thought |
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"maybe that's something people would like to hear".</p> |
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<p>(And, to be completely honest, some of those piles of crap were my own fault.)</p> |
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<p>And that's when the toot sequence started. Just before I noticed, I spent the |
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whole day just posting this kind of stuff (fortunately, my pile of things in |
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the "incoming" folder was a bit empty at the time) and it had 30 points, plus |
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addenda and a few explanation points. That's when I decided to group all |
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them in a single post.</p> |
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<p>(Actually, I'm lying: Someone mentioned on Functional Café that I should make |
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a blog post for making it easier to read.)</p> |
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<p>All I thought when I grouped everything in a post was "this will make things |
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easier for the people following the thread on Mastodon". But then the post |
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appeared on Reddit. And Twitter. And HackerNews. And YCombinator. And none of |
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those where mine.</p> |
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<p>But here is the thing: Each point was limited by the toot size, which is 500 |
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characters. Sometimes that's not enough to expand the point, explain it |
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properly and add some examples.</p> |
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<p>And that's how the idea to write this "book" came to life.</p> |
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<p>One thing you must keep in mind here: <em>These are my options</em>. I understand |
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that not everything is so black and white as put here, and some people's |
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experiences may not match things here. Also, you get a bit cynical about |
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technology after 30 years. So... thread carefully, 'cause here be dragons.</p> |
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<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup> |
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<p>Yup, I'm guilty of that too.</p> |
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