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
Can’t make me! Possibly not everyone has this immediate reaction to software telling them to do something, like SIGN UP NOW or TRY AI or USE OUR CHATBOT. I do. My day is full of ignoring that reaction and also learning every tip and trick possible to avoid being alerted when I don’t want it. […]| Heidi Waterhouse
Trade wars are hard on marketing in a lot of ways, but if you do conference-focused swag, now is the time to worry.| Heidi Waterhouse
Get your account established Watch before you post Remember that this part of the internet is permanent Be kind and human, as well as a brand| 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
