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quietkoala

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quietkoala··on Notes on Software Quality
I think you're circling the definition I most closely align with which was coined by Gerald Weinberg - "Quality is value to some person". You can have the best looking interface and the cleanest codebase, but if nobody is getting value from your software, who cares? If somebody is getting a ton of value from your software they're more forgiving of defects they run into.

There isn't some intrinsic value to software, it's gotta be used by somebody

quietkoala··on Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language
What is it about Cucumber that is so attractive to early in career engineers (myself included)? Is it the naive belief that others, non-engineers even, will actually want to read or write your tests? It's great in theory, but like many ideologies that attract young people, political or otherwise, its promise of egalitarian test authorship rarely holds up in practice. My experience is that it ends up as an extra abstraction layer to maintain.
quietkoala··on Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly
This absolutely solves a problem I have on macOS, but don't have on my iPhone given I can configure home screens based on focus modes. Get it while the getting is good as I wouldn't be surprised if Apple "sherlocks" this feature in an upcoming release