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Steve Jobs famously asked for smooth scrolling (i.e. not line-by-line) in a Smalltalk demonstration and they changed the UI live. Here's a lovely 2 minute YouTube video demonstrating that modification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEz08IlcNMg

Listening to the latest episode of Maintainable interviewing Daniela Baron, and she introduces a clever concept: ticket rotation. When you divide programming jobs into tickets, deliberately give team members tickets from different areas. This prevents knowledge silos.

I wish that build tools considered *current* CPU and memory utilisation. $ make -j $NUM_CPUS This is problematic if some jobs use a lot of memory (common in linking) or if you're using your machine for anything else.