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Jakub Zalas

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Joined February 2009
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
10 days
Me in 2005: let me code this whole system over the weekend. Me in 2015: let me glue these open-source projects together to confirm if the idea is worth doing. Me in 2025: let me spend a couple of hours creating a spreadsheet so I don't have to write the app.
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
10 days
Me in 2005: let me code this whole system over the weekend. Me in 2015: let me glue these open-source projects together to confirm if the idea is worth doing. Me in 2025: let me spend a couple of hours creating a spreadsheet so I don't have to write the app.
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@VaughnVernon
Vaughn Vernon
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There is no single part of Scrum that is bad. It's the inseparableness of and strict adherence to all the parts of Scrum that is bad. By definition, you can't separate any parts of Scrum, as in use a subset of Scrum linked with common sense, and still call it Scrum. Not being
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@Stop_Cham_W_wa
Stop Cham Warszawa
2 months
WAŻNE❗️POLICJA ZNOWU ZAATAKOWAŁA https://t.co/MRKiWLn4va❗️PODAJ DALEJ 🔁 Sielanka, w której Policja - jak w normalnym państwie - pomaga mieszkańcom i reaguje na zgłoszenia, nie mogła trwać długo. Dziś wprowadzono limit liczby zgłoszeń z https://t.co/dcTfxP7rn8, które w ciągu
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
2 months
The day hasn't passed yet and I think Ghostty will also replace tmux for me.
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Jakub Zalas
2 months
/me installs ghostty
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Jakub Zalas
2 months
/me installs ghostty
@SebAaltonen
Sebastian Aaltonen
2 months
No wonder iTerm2 is so bloated. They just added a web browser inside the terminal. Who asked for this? Empty iTerm2 window now uses 400MB of RAM :(
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
2 months
I still can't believe I can just play this game on my mobile.
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Jakub Zalas
3 months
"If you can’t have those conversations, stop. You can’t do BDD. You might be able to write some scenarios or some acceptance tests, but they’re likely to be brittle and it’s unlikely that anyone will be interested. Here’s why." https://t.co/KftrDSI3gl
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lizkeogh.com
This may seem odd coming from someone who spent months coding a BDD tool, but seriously… put it down. Step away. BDD has taken off in the last few years, and lots of people have approached me…
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
3 months
. @lunivore 's blog is such a great #BDD resource. "Don’t start with BDD, and definitely don’t start with the tools." "Start by having conversations, engaging both testers and business stakeholders or their proxies (analysts are good here)."
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
"There’s always more to build than we have time or resources to build—always." If you somehow started to build 10x quicker, would you fire 9/10 of your developers or would you rather start building 10x more? 🤔
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
- Your job isn’t to build more software faster: it’s to maximize the outcome and impact you get from what you choose to build.
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
- Stories aren’t the requirements; they’re discussions about solving problems for our organization, our customers, and our users that lead to agreements on what to build.
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
- Stories aren’t a written form of requirements; telling stories through collaboration with words and pictures is a mechanism that builds shared understanding.
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
"There’s always more to build than we have time or resources to build—always." "Minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact." "Remember: at the end of the day, your job isn’t to get the requirements right—your job is to change the world."
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
"Good story conversations are about who and why, not just what."
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
4 months
Impact. Impact is a longer-term consequence of good outcomes. Outcomes are often something you can observe right away after delivery. The impact takes longer.
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Jakub Zalas
4 months
Output vs Outcome Output is what happens between the idea and delivery. It's what we build. Output isn't the point, an outcome is. Outcome can be measured by looking at what people do differently to reach their goals as a consequence of what we've built.
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
4 months
"To help remember, photograph and shoot short videos of the results of your conversations."
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@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas
4 months
Documents. "Good documents are like vacation photos" "But, remember, what’s most important isn’t what’s written down—it’s what we remember when we read it. That’s the vacation photo factor."
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