A case for replacing environment-based feature flags with user bucket management in principle. For the longest time I think I’ve been solving the wrong problem ; progressing features through environments when I should have been progressing features through user buckets. For anyone unaware a feature flag is a way of hiding feature development work from users until its ready while preserving your deployment capability.
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RIP Pix4D Mapper
Hey folks. I moved from Wellington to Switzerland a few years ago now and a big part of the move was an application called Pix4D Mapper which I really liked. It was the beginning of the drone revolution, before all the modern warfare stuff and it was just a really nice time to like flying, geospatial and maps.
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Planning is Guessing. Here’s How to Guess a Bit Better.
The age of AI has changed how we plan as much as how we write. Prior to AI we already had a problem with people setting bad goals. With AI, those same people have an increased capacity to act on them. I once heard someone describe intelligence as analogous to the engine of a car. A 100 IQ engine will arrive more slowly to its destination than a 140 IQ engine, but with enough grit it will still arrive. The real question is the destination. I’m old enough now to have seen quite a few 140 IQ engines drive very fast in the wrong direction.
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Anything Mapping 