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'Linux MD,' which runs Linux on an actual Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) console, has been released.
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (623+ words) Linux MD is an experimental project that aims to run Linux on the Mega Drive, a home video game console released by Sega in 1988. Developer Daniel Palmer has made it publicly available on Git Hub, allowing users to boot the…...
Why Your Team Feels Slow (Even If Everyone Is Good)
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1705+ words) The engineering manager sat across from me with a look I've seen too many times. "I don't understand it," he said. "We have good developers. Smart people. Everyone is working hard. But we're always late. We're always behind. Every sprint…...
It's Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (215+ words) Hackaday If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 derivative, or the Sega Megadrive, sold as the Genesis in North…...
30 days, 6 projects, 1 with real users " my actual workflow
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (959+ words) I got laid off in March. By April I had 6 side projects shipped, including one Chrome extension with 15 real users. When I tell people this, they ask: how do you have time for 6 projects while job hunting? The answer is…...
How Large Engineering Teams Can Move With Small-Team Agility
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (594+ words) Small development teams are often praised for their speed, agility and ability to deliver meaningful results with limited resources. Larger engineering organizations face different pressures, including added complexity, broader coordination needs and higher stakes, but that doesn't mean they can't…...
Your Agile Teams Aren't Autonomous. They're Just Politely Dependent
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (34+ words) Cross-functional teams sounded great at twenty engineers. At fifty, hidden dependencies between teams are quietly killing your delivery speed-and your sprint board won't show it. A platform engineer's honest take for founders...
Agile Is Not Broken " Your Portfolio Is
1+ week, 1+ day ago (294+ words) Let's be honest. Agile isn't failing in your organization. Your portfolio management is. Most Agile transformations focus on teams: And teams do improve. But the business outcome? Still disappointing. The Real Problem: Agile Solves Delivery, Not Decisions Agile is great…...
Introducing Scrum Suite | A Sprint Poker & Retro Board Platform
1+ week, 1+ day ago (140+ words) " Introducing Scrum Suite - a real-time agile toolkit for scrum teams. It worked well enough for us that we figured other teams might hit the same walls. So we hosted it for everyone. " Sprint Poker - Instant rooms, Fibonacci voting, hidden cards,…...
Developer Experience as a Competitive Advantage: What Shipping Velocity Actually Depends On | Hacker Noon
1+ week, 3+ day ago (48+ words) Bad tooling drives out your best engineers. Treat developer experience as an owned infrastructure measure: build times, environment health, and review latency. Developer Experience as a Competitive Advantage: What Shipping Velocity Actually Depends On Correlating Logs, Metrics, and Traces at…...
3 Things Nobody Tells You About BDD Before Your Cucumber Suite Becomes a Maintenance Nightmare
1+ week, 4+ day ago (924+ words) You have six years of automation experience and a Cucumber suite that takes forty minutes to run, and you still can't tell me what a single feature file actually tests without reading three layers of glue code. Here's what nobody…...