Jessica Joy Kerr

@jessitron

Developer and symmathecist. Panelist, , . Tweets are mine, licensed CC0. she/her

St. Louis, MO
Joined November 2006

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    15 Apr 2018

    Software is not a craft. Nor is it an art. Nor is it engineering, or architecture, or anything we've ever before. I now have words for what development is: the practice of symmathesy.

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  2. Jan 31

    Questioning common sense is expensive. And sometimes priceless.

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  3. Jan 31

    Does one of the indie art sites offer "Pay a few dollars to use this art on your web site"? I want header images for blog posts that are original art, not stock photos.

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  4. Jan 31

    “it’s the shift from the safety of IF-THEN-ELSE to the adventure of IF-THEN-MAYBE.” on Cynefin and recognizing complexity.

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  5. Jan 31

    “Coherent heterogeneity” Cool phrase. We are different and know how to move together

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  6. Jan 31

    Expectation of conflict can lead us to healthy dialogue. Expectation of mind-reading sure doesn’t.

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  7. Jan 31

    “Most conflict is between people who are similar” Your greatest rival is the next football team over. Given only small differences, people will fight over the smallest things.

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  8. Jan 30

    Humans: you can tell me what to do, but not how, I’ll choose. Computers: you can’t tell me what to do, only how, in excruciating detail.

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  9. Jan 29

    GOTO Chicago is an excellent conference Also I’m speaking this year, about development as investigating and creating new subsets of reality.

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  10. Jan 28

    What is your preference?

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  11. Jan 27

    Hmm. I never thought about that expression applied to people. Thank you

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  12. Jan 27

    Is there a command-line option for "Open in in the container" ? Because type 'code .' wait wait wait Click 'Reopen in container'" is getting old.

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  13. Jan 27
    Replying to

    (And thanks for asking)

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  14. Jan 27

    Lateral signaling, communication between group members, lets a Camerata excel beyond the surrounding culture and lets extremists deviate from reason. If anyone can simulate this it’s

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  15. Jan 26

    The other day I tried to extract a function into a common dependency in PowerShell. Then I glanced into the depths of module loading and fled

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  16. Jan 26

    One reason to use bash is because it DOESN’T have a system for sharing and loading dependencies. So you feel OK with copy-and-paste. Which is easier and in some ways safer.

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  17. Jan 26

    Part of expertise is knowing who to ask. Getting too know people is knowledge building.

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  18. Jan 25

    “Doctors don’t heal. They create the conditions for healing to occur.” Managers of software teams don’t develop. They create the conditions for development to occur.

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  19. Jan 25

    Intrinsic motivation is the motivation for knowledge work. Anything external is sideways, distracting, it takes us in the wrong direction.

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  20. Jan 25

    Instead of freelance, can I call this polyemployment?

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  21. Jan 24

    If these promises are false (and they are; I agree with ), then why WOULD we use event sourcing? IMO, it's as close as we can get to modeling the real world.

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