I love Tweeter. I was once a Tweeter skeptic – what can one say in only 140 characters? I thought of it as another example of the modern culture of superficiality – where you don’t have to go deep to understand anything.
Boy was I wrong. Since joining Tweeter this year, it has become my communication hub, specially since Google decided to scrap Google Reader. Instead of subscribing to blogs using RSS, I now follow the writers of the blog, and doing this I also get some extra stuff that are not published in a blog (thoughts that are not long enough for a blog post but short enough for a tweet). This is the story of one of these “extras”.
If you are a software developer, and you haven’t been under a rock for the last 10+ years, you have surely read/heard about Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming. This guy is really popular. A while ago he tweeted one of his thoughts:
once again, trying to do it *and* do it right was too much all at once, resulting in little progress and little learning.
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) April 15, 2013
Interesting… but what does he think should come first? Do it, or do it right? Well, this is tweeter, no walls anywhere… so I decided to ask him the question:
@kentbeck so what comes first?
— Arieh Bibliowicz (@vainolo) April 16, 2013
To my greatest surprise, he answered (surprise because he is followed by ~45K people, and I’m surely not the only one who replies to his posts):
@vainolo make it run
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) April 16, 2013
Wow! The world is definitely getting flat.
Edit: @KentBeck posted an extended analysis of this thought in a full blog post. Very interesting reading material.
Respect.
I think that developer should follow some great developers, and also the tools they use (many Open Source projects for example has twitter account), to be updated with the news..