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valkyrie. love tacos, flowers, and Diet Coke.
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Today, @nicolefv.bsky.social and Abi Noda's new book "Frictionless" is officially published. I liked it enough to write a foreword for it:

martinfowler.com/articles/fri...
My Foreword to "Frictionless"
A book that describes how to best improve productivity by identifying and removing friction.
martinfowler.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Won't someone PLEASE think of the data engineers? A plea for tooling for the underserved folks :)

www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...
While We're Measuring Developer Productivity, Won't Someone Think of the Data Engineers?
Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless: seven steps to help engineering teams move faster in the age of AI. Forsgren created DORA. She created ...
www.distributedthoughts.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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People, just know that if you accidentally added me to your group chat back in 2001, I am still in there.

And when you butt dial me, sure, sometimes I hang up right away. Sometimes I yell, so I can be a tiny voice in your pocket. But sometimes I keep listening, like "I want to see where this goes!"
March 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv.bsky.social) is the brains behind DORA, lead author SPACE, and the co-author of Accelerate. Hardly a better person to share how to think about, measure and improve developer productivity!

Stream the full episode:

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wufj...

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February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
how many tech CEOs are having private convos, cheering Twit on for doing “new disruptive things, sticking it to the working man”… and then laughing as they design and launch their own competes to fill the void as the bird site burns (hi threads)
July 6, 2023 at 3:37 PM
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I’ve been thinking of this a lot recently.
twitter was a super useful tool (not to mention resource for literal revolutions??) but also I have friends on there I’ve known for like a decade and idk if I’ll ever see some of them again
July 3, 2023 at 11:38 PM
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Every time someone else I know from Twitter follows me here
July 4, 2023 at 1:20 AM
What’s the over/ under this new code is gonna work 🫠
July 1, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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I did this once, when someone told me I needed to chill out about work
July 1, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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FUCK IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
May 16, 2023 at 9:25 PM
My fiancé: wow you know all the words to these songs

Me: this is HRH Rihanna how do you *not*
June 23, 2023 at 2:19 PM
What is the law that says I never run into people I know at my home airport but always bump into people I know in random airports around the world
May 23, 2023 at 2:38 AM
Savage
Just wanna say happy 5/10 to all you 5’8” kings out there
May 11, 2023 at 12:55 AM
Perf season is the worst season 😫
May 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Academics will tell you just how successful and effective paywalls are at driving engagement with the stuff that’s behind them 🙃
It's like he wants bluesky to win
April 30, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Oh look I found my people
The bugs and debugging in real time is a joy to see . The shitposters doing qa'ing
April 29, 2023 at 2:37 PM
The real pro move is ice cream for lunch
April 27, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Maybe it’s time for an intro post 👋🏻

🌮 *love* tacos and Diet Coke
📕 lead author Accelerate
👩‍💻 researching dev productivity, well-being, & community
🧐 reimagining the future of software engineering
📊 metrics for tech & work
💐 🏝️ flowers & beaches make me happy
💪 working out
🐶 cute puppy pics
April 27, 2023 at 12:57 PM
As soon as this platform has gifs, my genius will really be unlocked
April 27, 2023 at 12:19 AM
There go my screen time stats
April 26, 2023 at 1:35 AM