Upcoming appearances at ETLS, LeadDev panel, and Monktoberfest, with some book signings!| Heidi Waterhouse
Communications jobs are siloed in organization charts, but most of them share basic skills, and the specialization lies in the various audiences and tools. Communications is a continuum from UX to support.| Heidi Waterhouse
It started two years ago, on a street in Dublin. They have a cool program where notable historical figures get a little bio on walls. The key part was this: She invented a unique uncrushable linen …| Heidi Waterhouse
A review of Vincent Toro’s book Hivestuck. “An app that rots or riots / on command. An app that / functions without a thumb / to guide it. An app to eliminate undesireable / scents. An app that sha…| Heidi Waterhouse
I want you to remember that technology is not the enemy. It's just a lever. Where we're standing and how we're trying to move the world is what matters.| Heidi Waterhouse
Rachel Chalmers and I talked about how to think of Progressive Delivery in the context of CI/CD and observability, and then we got into the nitty-gritty of what I think about AI and how it intersects with user choice.| Heidi Waterhouse
Your career is long, and it has a lot of fluctuations, but you'll never regret being curious about your industry, your role, and how people interact with computers.| Heidi Waterhouse
The hard part of technical writing is not figuring out what order to put words in. Indeed, an LLM can do a medium job of that given a sound prompt. The hard part is thinking through the context that makes it useful to the people reading it.| Heidi Waterhouse
In many ways, the teams that have made it possible to port so much from one device to another have been doing excellent progressive delivery, as have the teams that have pushed out OS and security updates to our phones, and updated our apps, and made the whole thing something that I never have to plug into a computer. They've included sensors that are speculative, for the benefit of future features.| Heidi Waterhouse
Being a developer advocate is a bit like being an ambassador in another country. Your ceremonial roles sometimes hide your real negotiations and strategic power.| Heidi Waterhouse
Look around you. Do you feel like maybe it would be nice to be able to have relational databases in your nice safe DVCS? What about streaming releases? What about coders who might be scared about s…| Heidi Waterhouse