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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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      Tried to wrestle down one of the pernicious rhetorical tactics that's leading teams away from success: https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/ …

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    2. вкαя∂εℓℓ‏ @briankardell 11 Sep 2018
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      "The unstated agreement is that developers share all of the same goals with the same intensity as end users and even managers." - explain what you mean here?

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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      End-users have preferences. Developers also have preferences. Those preferences are, by inspection, not identical.

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    4. вкαя∂εℓℓ‏ @briankardell 11 Sep 2018
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      This much is clear, but in the same sentence you say "even managers" this is what I would like clarity on. Are you suggesting that managers align more closely with users than developers?

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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      Managers generally aren't dialed in on the tradeoffs being made. A good manager trusts their team's technical instincts and sets rough guidelines. That is, they tend to trust that the team is making good engineering tradeoffs from the same place in the value-tradeoff space.

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    6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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      I can't tell you the number of managers I have tried to (hopefully gently) correct when they come face-to-face with their site and think "I _knew_ those engineers were up to no good!" It's a management failure, not primarily an engineering mistake.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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      The goal here has to be to teach managers to put constraints on this aspect of development the same way they cap other costs. Without constraints, there's no "wrong" amount of JS; just apply however much makes it "work".

      12:35 PM - 11 Sep 2018
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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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          Under reasonable constraints, I think we'll look back on the web development in this decade as confused. We've invented incredible prototyping systems that make us feel all-powerful and then forgot they're not production quality.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 11 Sep 2018
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          It's the engineering equivalent of that meeting where the PHB gets the design presentation and says "ok, so it's mostly done, right?"

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        2. Rhy Moore‏ @morewry 13 Sep 2018
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          As a dev, I always viewed it as my responsibility to understand & summarize these tradeoffs for mgmt, who'd make the call which way to lean. I've heard many times: I provide too much information, too many options, or I'm trusted to make the call myself. Except I'm a little...

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        3. Rhy Moore‏ @morewry 13 Sep 2018
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          ...more designer than a traditional software engineer and a little more conservative toward new things than the Bay Area's zeitgeist. It frequently happens that other devs take risks & cuts corners I won't (especially in UX).

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