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Ideas

Ideas & Thoughts

A collection of random thoughts, observations, and ideas from my Bluesky feed. These are usually shorter-form content that doesn’t warrant a full blog post but might spark interesting discussions.

From Bluesky

The future of front end experience could be in the backend. Dynamic canvas experiences seem to make sense to be server side rendered.

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Had a few conversations over the last few days regarding how to weigh work priority. My internal rubric for priority is something like this:

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  • Production impacting issues – Production down – Client experience severely limited
  • Colleague(s) blocked – team blocked – individual blocked
  • Product work - Tech-debt work - Self optimisation (60:30:10 or thereabouts)
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Does this align with what others are already thinking? Do you have alternative ways of looking at the world?

Earlier Ideas


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