A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.
How do marketers measure campaign success? The secret lies in UTM codes, essential tools in digital marketing analytics. UTM codes decode each click, revealing the effectiveness of your marketing endeavors across varied channels and campaigns. But here's the surprise...
Remember your first time wrestling with Dependency Injection (DI) or Inversion Of Control (IoC)? I do. And it was like trying to decode a foreign language. When Castle Windsor and other similar projects were starting to take the limelight, I won't deny it - I was...
HTMX proves you don't need the complexity of React, Angular or Vue. The stack and build steps are getting insane with all these JavaScript frameworks. HTMX reduces the complexity of the stack, by removing layers. SPA: DB - Backend-logic - JSON - Frontend-logic - HTML...
What makes SPAs feel modern? Because Single-Page Applications feel fast. This is largely due to targeted partial page rendering: the strength of SPAs. HTMX allows you to build the same modern-feeling apps, just simpler, faster and cheaper. It allows you to do a...
I almost never Debug my code. Somehow this is strange in the eyes of fellow developers. They can't image coding without a debugger. For example, I have never felt the need to attach a debugger to a deployed Dynamics 365 Plugin. Never! Ok, one time. I wanted to know...
Wild take about AOT: .NET Native AOT is not for making your containers smaller. It's to get Wasm assembly's smaller, so MS is in a good position for the next fase in web.
🌞 Fun fact: Scrum was created in the time of ICQ, AOL Instant messenger and Skype. Is Scrum just really a reaction to the fact that developers don't know how to talk to other people? Developers didn't have a good chat app to avoid talking to people. Now we have Slack...
Standup meetings Why have a Teams channel where everyone can post what they are struggling with, so anyone can respond to help and start a 1-on-1 call. If we can have 15-min meetings informing everyone once a day.
Complexity <> Sophisticated It can be just overly complex, because the person who created it didn't understand it well enough. Teachers face the challenge of breaking down complex subjects for their students. The ability to simplify abstract ideas without losing...
I can't read it anymore! You know those old guys with MASSIVE text on their phone or laptop. I have joined the club. I am 47 now and I started to pinch my eyes more and more. Today I increased my font size on my phone and laptop. I increased my text-size to 110% and...
The Scrum ticket system You're churning out tickets, classified as 'features', that strongly resemble clean-up tasks. Are all team members solely focused on their own individual ticket? This surely isn't the Agile methodology that was initially pitched to you....
5 reasons NOT to automate. This might sound odd coming from me, a staunch advocate of automation. However, beware! If you're handling a process for the first, second or third time, don't rush to automate it immediately. Patience is key. Why? 1️⃣ Automation works best...
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