Literate Programming

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

I can say a little bit on tooling: We’ve experimented with Chromatic. We’re on a mobile app though, so the idea with Chromatic is to render via react-native-web, which has its own issues, so the ROI is such that we haven’t taken it beyond POC. Seems nice though, and probably more in line with your domain.

But for org strategy, I take it you’re on a much bigger team than I ever have been. (10 people max for me) So I can’t speak to personal experience there, but what I will say is that being able to control your entire env top to bottom is crucial for pretty much anything where you want high fidelity testing.

Like, being able to set up an env that allows you to play with stuff like externally-sourced ads and CDN caches in a space that’s private and temporary. No small feat, but that’s pretty much what you have to do if you want to catch those Rube Goldberg style failures before prod.

It depends how much it’s worth it to you, to have a test env that’s 99.999% realistic. As with anything, the first two 9s are the cheapest.

Meanwhile at work we just had a training course that specifically said doing “opt out” instead of “opt in” violates the principle of informed consent.

I did it to invite collaboration and connect with other developers with similar interests. FOSS is more about building communities than building software, after all.

I did not anticipate that it could be (legally) used to dismantle the kinds of communities I wanted to build. (I did anticipate that it could be illegally used to that end, but historically that has tended to cause a Streisand Effect, so that risk seemed worth it.)