Robustness principle

Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

How to set apps to always run as an administrator on Windows 10

From https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-apps-always-run-administrator-windows-10

Here is one way to always run as an administrator

- Pin the application to the windows taskbar.
- Right click on the application in the taskbar.
- Right click on the application in the popup. Choose Properties then the Advanced button
- Check the "Run as administrator" checkbox

Relative Sizing

Complexity, Repetition, Risk or Unknowns

All we are doing is comparing our stories with other stories.

Ensure we keep in mind all the domain knowledge of all the individual team members.

Dark Mode for the Win

A list of how to get dark mode or dark themes in several apps and web sites.

Here’s how you can enable Dark Mode on Google Chrome for Android

Windows 10 Settings - use "Default Blue" for the accent color and check "Show accent color on the following surfaces"

Slack picks up the Windows 10 setting 

Set color theme and fonts - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs

Change theme in https://cbre.visualstudio.com/ or https://dev.azure.com/cbre/

 - click on your profile in the upper right

 - click on the three dots -> User Settings -> Theme

 - Chose Dark or Light

Dark Theme in Azure DevOps! – A Developer's Life

Gospel Library Night Theme

SQL SERVER Management Studio 18 – Enable Dark Theme

- Open NotePad++ in admin mode

- Edit C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\ssms.pkgundef

- Edit Line 460 commenting out the removal of the Dark Theme.

MS Outlook
MS Teams

Google Text Messages for Web - Go to https://messages.google.com/web/settings  and toggle "Dark Theme"

Atlassian Sourcetree - use the Tools\Options\Theme setting

TortoiseGit - use the Settings\Colors\Dark Theme setting

Code Katas Explained

https://youtu.be/OPGTPQ4kURU

The Costs of Developing Software

I am working to better practice test driven development. In a course I am taking on Pluralsight this graph caught my attention.

By practicing code katas. By being disciplined in "create test first", I will tackle the highest cost of developing software and be a more valuable professional.

Fake, Make, Triangulate

I learned about a pattern in creating tests where you can choose to
1. Fake it
2. Make it
3. Triangulate

There is a simple, somewhat contrived example of this in a Fizz-Buzz example of a function.
Pluralsight has a video on it here.