M123: One README should be enough for any open source project
Some of us believe that a good open source project (or some of them) must have extensive and big documentation, in multiple Wiki pages or Markdown files. I don't believe in this. I believe that any pr...
27 Elo 20205min
M122: Don't help them, instead use their free contribution to improve the product
When someone comes to your product and asks questions about how it works, why it doesn't work, or simply complains about its problems: don't help them right away. Instead, fix the product while they a...
24 Elo 20206min
M121: Don't be frustrated by the enterprise chaos around you, conquer it!
No matter what kind of enterprise you are working in, you won't like what's happening around you: chaos, lack of control, lack of logic, and so on. Don't expect them to improve. Instead, find a place ...
20 Elo 20205min
M120: Don't wait for your manager to tell you what to do, do what you think is right (open source)
Most managers are incompetent, lazy, and stupid. If you expect them to tell you what to do, you will have a lot of frustration. Because they don't know and they don't want to know. The solution is sim...
17 Elo 20205min
M118: Deploy your ready-to-use open source artifacts into immutable repositories
Having a good source code repo in GitHub is not enough if you want your users to trust you and use your product. They expect you to deploy it somewhere where you can't delete it. Maven Central is a go...
10 Elo 20205min
M117: Breaking responsibility down is the responsibility of a manager/architect
When they say that we are working for a big goal and that's why we don't use fine-grained metrics, be aware: you are dealing with an incompetent manager or an architect. Their job is to decompose larg...
6 Elo 20204min
M116: Which license to use for an open source product?
Do you still wonder what is the best license to use for your new open-source product? GPL, BSD, Apache? Stop thinking about this. It doesn't matter. Just use the most simple one: MIT. The video is he...
3 Elo 20205min
M115: Going along with large open source projects is a perfect strategy for newbies
There are three strategies to get into open source when you are just starting. They didn't work for me. There is the fourth one, which I would suggest you try. I didn't try it myself, but I'm sure it'...
30 Heinä 20206min
