I don't like meetings (topic for another day). But when I complain about standups, I get push back, mostly because they're quite short (in the ideal case at least). And yeah, it's true. Which is why they don't bother me as much as other meetings, but they've still got problems: 1. They're unnecessary. You could just write your update d...

Writing config is a part of life for software engineers. Particularly in certain environments, like Kubernetes, which have opted for a very heavily declarative approach for defining infrastructure. But I have worked in teams in which developers spend most of their time writing and editing config files, instead of writing and editing co...