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post_secret_feed) wrote2025-07-13 12:08 am
Sunday Secrets began 20 years ago. This week I did not receive enough postcards to share back. Free your secrets today.
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heidiwaterhouse_feed) wrote2025-07-08 04:55 pmI was on the Generationship podcast to talk about Progressive Delivery!
Rachel Chalmers and I talked about how to think of Progressive Delivery in the context of CI/CD and observability, and then we got into the nitty-gritty of what I think about AI and how it intersects with user choice.
My favorite pullquote:
When we realized that we needed continuous delivery to do faster releases and get more value from our work in a more immediate way, that was really revolutionary to say, releasing faster makes you safer, makes your product better, that was astonishing. But we felt like we had left something out, and what we had left out was the user experience.
post_secret_feed) wrote2025-07-06 12:09 am
Dear Frank-
My wife found my PostSecret that you put up this Sunday and I was a little scared. She cried and told me it was the sweetest thing she has ever been a part of.
I sent it before we got married.
The young woman I speak of on the cards and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary last October and have an amazing 4-year-old that completes our beautiful family.
PS. . . I’m no longer scared that she knows all my secrets.
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heidiwaterhouse_feed) wrote2025-07-03 04:12 pmIn April, I went to Brooklyn to talk with a crew of early-career technologists. Y’all, it’s a rough time to be trying to start your career. I wanted to give them a real acknowledgement of that, and also some optimism about how it will work out in the long run.
The key takeaway is that the ups and downs of the employment market are usually cyclical, and although they are emerging at a down part of the cycle, there will be other parts. I also told them that whatever they are doing, even if it’s not what they trained for, can be helpful and useful in their future careers, if they pay attention and stay curious. The people who know the most about point-of-sale terminals are often the people who spend all day babying them. No experience is wasted time, even if it wasn’t the plan.
Your career is long, and it has a lot of fluctuations, but you’ll never regret being curious about your industry, your role, and how people interact with computers.
