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The janitor strategy
Episode 196
Published 7 years ago
Description
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.
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Mood board:
- Buying something different to try something new.
- Australian bagels.
- “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.”
- “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
- More fools giving their software away for free
- I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon
- Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague
- I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap.
- Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure.
- Matt’s little bit of glue.
- How much simpler can you get than straight code?
- General Container’s army of yamlites.
- Developer tools = vomit on the floor
- Write in if you disagree.
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