A quick rant about quality assurance in software

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Numbering the rows in our datasets is a time-honored tradition allowing us to uniquely identify each record. Over the decades we have realised that is a bad idea in data storage, with implications to privacy and security.

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I got bored over Christmas and wrote a post about estimating and automating the enforcement of privacy in datasets.

- Objective Data Privacy Evaluation
- Estimating Data Privacy Levels
- Automated Checks for Enhanced Workflow

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Trying to teach myself to work with AI programming assistants... two weeks into it and I am *very* frustrated.

- stop interrupting me
- your solution is not related to the task
- your answer looks right, but its wrong

Don't worry ... they aren't even improving efficiency.

This really spoke to me ...

'There’s a common mischaracterization of Agile as 'going faster.' If all you really want to do is 'go faster,' you’re looking for the Death March approach, not the Agile approach.'

The Agile Death March by LeadingAgile link.medium.com/4ZbVJgtYnyb

Jefferey Cave: The Habit of Ignoring Developer Error Messages jeffereycave.substack.com/p/the-habit-of…

My update to why executives need to take their IT department more seriously.

2023–02–28: After 2 weeks of trying to book a flight from London (LGW) to Calgary (YYC), my sister-in-law has learned that WestJet can't accept payment from UK citizens.

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I got a little excited about creating a simple chart at work (part of a larger dashboard), only to realise that most people won't see how complex the simple wire-frame created was. I thought I'd go all in on showing the complexity behind simplicity.

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Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/0…

hexadecimal

It’s the end of 2022 and I’m still working with companies to implement Agile and XP development. Over the years, I’ve worked with some excellent Agile teams, and some that pay lip service to the ideas.

In the words of Tim Ottinger, 'I want my agile back'

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Education, training, and indoctrination have value to an organisation. Clarifying the primary objective of training material may help in ensuring the material is meaningful to both the organisation and employees.

#education #training #changemanagment

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Debugging is hard, not logically, but psychologically. We don't want there to be bugs, we feel like people are blaming us, we want to be perceived as not making mistakes. ... but we are human ... I thought 🔎Julia Evans🔍 really captured the essence of it.

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I just wrote 'The Angry Chatterbot', where I demonstrate ow I reduced inappropriate social behaviour in a virtual environments through negative feedback (with examples in PHP).

#php #chatbot #behavior #teambuilding

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I previously described the benefits of storing digital data on physical media (paper). I wanted to give a demonstration on how such a thing is possible. Makes a nice classroom ... activity? ... enticement?

(free link ... Follow me on Medium)
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I went to copy and paste a meaningful snippet, but found found every paragraph is a powerful statement unto itself.

As someone who gave educating a crack, and quickly walked away, I recommend giving it a read.

heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-probl…

A description of reading and writing data to paper as a low cost, immutable, and long term digital storage strategy.

Don't forget to follow me on Medium

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#data #storage #archiving #privacy

Just in time for a new school year, a lesson in building algorithms, suitable for kids 8 to 80.

#StemEducation #Algorithms #lessons

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Technologic (In)accessibility buff.ly/3w3D0pE — by Jeff Cave