2022-11-02: Oddly fascinating how one toxic person can create a toxic company culture in mere days https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/1587768307725238275
2022-10-20: I wish every DAM system had this “external links” feature. For some assets, it makes sense to list, link and metadata-enrich them without having to copy the actual files into your system’s storage. https://blog.pics.io/dam-for-everything/
2022-10-12: “Because we don’t go into an office now, people think, ‚Oh, my God, our culture is gone.‘ … Culture is not what happens in an office. Free food and Ping-Pong tables are great, but culture is really how work happens between people.” https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-dont-skip-the-soft-stuff
2022-10-04: „Das bringt uns zurück zum Anfang und zu dem Programmierer, der sich um die Veröffentlichung der ‚Panama Papers‘ kümmerte. Denn diese Geschichte, die Sie hier gerade lesen, ist mit derselben Software entstanden, die damals ihren Anfang genommen hat.“ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/verlag/sueddeutsche-zeitung-journalismus-visual-journalism-e230177/
2022-09-28: “… people now expect flexibility and autonomy around how, when, and where they work. Policy alone will not reverse this reality: 73% of employees and 78% of business decision makers say they need a better reason to go in than just company expectations.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work
2022-09-14: “vendor X’s… amazing user experience or vendor Y’s… highly scalable media delivery infrastructure… are isolated benefits which pale by comparison to my main problem: the need to login, download and log out of one, two, three, four or more of them within a short space of time.” https://ci-hub.com/blog/why-dam-vendors-need-neutral-content-digital-asset-hubs
2022-08-02: My extensibility / interop wish list: Plugins, API, webhooks, a BPMN engine. “In 2019, we initially launched business rules to execute certain activities through automation. […] In 2022/23, we will see great enhancements around this feature.” @ChezPAX https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-2022-digital-asset-management-dam-wish-list-philip-axmann/
2022-07-29: „Wenn Management oder Auftraggeber sich nur unspezifisch festlegt, besteht die Gefahr, dass das Projektteam mit ungenügenden Ressourcen in die falsche Richtung losarbeitet und man später feststellt, dass man sehr unterschiedliche Zielvorstellungen hat.“ https://projektmanagementhandbuch.de/handbuch/projektinitiierung/zieldefinition/
2022-07-19: „it is necessary to understand the practicalities of what happens after the smiles and handshakes have concluded and the difficult work of integrating the acquisition starts.“ @daydreamuk https://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/features/the-dam-software-markets-customer-acquisition-problem-part-1/
2022-07-08: „The best time to refactor and re-architect is as late as possible, as you are constantly learning more about your system and business domain as you build. Designing a complex system of microservices before you have domain expertise is a risky move…“ https://shopify.engineering/deconstructing-monolith-designing-software-maximizes-developer-productivity
2022-07-05: „Die Umstellung auf Statamic und WoodWing Studio ist eine wesentliche Investition in die Zukunft — eine zwar nicht für jeden sichtbare, aber essenzielle Modernisierung unserer technischen Basis.“ https://devspiegel.medium.com/wie-wir-unsere-workflows-und-systeme-f%C3%BCr-pay-first-umgebaut-haben-257572d21c85
2022-06-15: “… absolutely show your prototype to people in order to get feedback. You just shouldn’t expect feedback about whether or not anybody will actually buy or use your product. You can’t use a prototype to learn if you are building the right product.” https://www.usersknow.com/blog/2014/02/building-right-thing-vs-building-thing.html
2022-06-15: “Der Wille, die Büros oder gar den Newsroom wieder mit sich selbst zu füllen, ist nicht bei allen so stark ausgeprägt…” https://www.spiegel.de/psychologie/vom-homeoffice-zurueck-ins-buero-hilfe-ich-muss-wieder-ins-buero-kolumne-a-77d5fec7-1c6b-4400-8365-5f624ba0ebb9
2022-05-30: „Insgesamt wollen laut der Umfrage 65 Prozent der Erwerbstätigen nicht mehr überwiegend im Büro arbeiten.“ https://www.spiegel.de/karriere/homeoffice-arbeitszeit-chancengleichheit-die-problemzonen-der-neuen-arbeitswelt-a-a3dbc411-0c62-44f2-8bfe-226a6c69475f
2022-05-24: “Despite the velocity chart and the disciplined feature-tracking, the developers didn’t seem to be making all that much progress.” “… laboring under Agile may not be the liberatory experience it’s billed as.” “Software dev has never fit neatly into the timelines and metrics…” https://logicmag.io/clouds/agile-and-the-long-crisis-of-software/
2022-05-11: „Building a design intuition is a critical skill for front-end developers. Believe it or not, we’re constantly making design decisions in our work. Even the most detailed high-fidelity mockup is still missing a ton of important context.“ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/you-dont-need-ui-framework/ via @smashingmag
2022-04-11: TIL that when (happens once in a while) my Docker Desktop containers cannot reach servers in the company network though my Mac is in the VPN, “docker network prune” helps. (There seems to be more to it, but I’m too lazy to read or understand all of https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/2820)
2022-03-22: Our current project would have been impossible to pull off without the Corona pandemic forcing our company into fully remote work. Many short meetings, and spontaneous problem solving / information sharing via chat or screen sharing in a large project team, in the office? No way.
2022-03-09: “… the need for machine-readable rights. The standard exists, in the form of RightsML. […] Most meetings, we hear from members on how crucial machine-readable rights are to effective workflows in their business, but the Working Group is currently without a lead.” https://t.co/vrCrdj6Wu1
2022-03-09: Nice: @IPTC Photo Metadata Mapping Guidelines https://iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/mappingguidelines/ . Some minor surprises; I’d have expected 1) a URL in Digital Image GUID to map to https://schema.org/sameAs not https://schema.org/url 2) Description to map to https://schema.org/description not https://schema.org/caption
2022-02-23: I like @symfony but the Security stuff is hard. Still fighting with integrating @auth0 (in a Symfony 5.4 app)… Their SDK https://github.com/auth0/auth0-PHP works great on its own, but both https://github.com/hwi/HWIOAuthBundle and https://github.com/Happyr/auth0-bundle fail to install.
2022-01-26: Benefits of „pair management“: „Every output has been internally challenged and verified. […] We are a high availability cluster. […] There’s a knowledge cluster as well. […] There is way far much more fun.“ https://medium.com/@Pasky/pair-management-an-extreme-management-version-of-pair-programming-28e616ef2822
2022-01-24: “One person constantly worries and upholds the effort of coordinating all the moving pieces, while the other passively waits to take direction: ‚You should’ve asked. I would’ve helped.’” https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/mental-load-invisible-work-stress
2022-01-14: Sales driven features are the worst. (Even for the customer who asked for them – implementation is usually either half-assed or plain terrible.) https://t.co/BgG7w9wNWz
2022-01-04: “Was ich an meiner Arbeit mag: dass ich fantastische Kolleginnen und Kollegen habe und jeden Tag ein wenig schlauer nach Hause gehe.” “Warum ich gern hier arbeite? Nirgends bin ich auf mehr Kompetenz gestoßen. …” https://www.spiegel.de/backstage/die-spiegel-dokumentation-stellt-sich-vor-a-3ddcbce6-bb78-41c2-97e1-49e0f450d7f9