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waltertamboeron Don't write clean code, write CRISP code

"The problem, of course, is that few of us can agree on what "clean code" means, and how to get there. A rule like "methods should only do one thing" looks great on a T-shirt, but it's not so easy to apply in practice. What counts as "one thing"?

I don't agree with this statement at all. From my experience this is perfectly possible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the statement... why would it be hard to write methods that only do one thing?

waltertamboeron Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path

I can so much relate to the first paragraph. When you just start your career, you enter a junior role. It's than expected of you to grow to a medior role, a senior role and than somewhere along the line become a lead.

Well, that's the biggest BS there is. Not everybody is a good lead. It's a completely different job compared to engineering. It takes people skill, organizational skill and it requires you to approach engineering from a much higher abstract level.

Personally I was really unhappy being a lead and I decided to step down. I was doing more harm than good and no-one benefits from that. Not the company, not the team, and definitely not me.

FWIW, if you still have to work 50 more years before you can enjoy a retirement, you better learn what makes you happy and do what makes you happy.

waltertamboeron A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

They are not sure whether there are 80 or 90 sensors in the keyboard. The video says 90, the descriptive text says 80 :')

Other than that, it looks like a nice keyboard. I wonder if mouse activity and keyboard activity conflict with each other, that your mouse starts moving while you only wanted to type or something...