I am playing to Divinity: Original Sin II  (D:OS2) which is the game done before Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) by Larian Studios

BG3 is a success despite its launch was anticipated in August to avoid head-to-head competition Starfield. If we compare the success of  BG3 with CyberPunk2077 launch failure, I think we can learn something about software developing PLANNING.

Divinity games are a tactical game with a lot of freedom, you can take things, combine them, and solve quests with different approaches (brute forces, talks with different paths,  etc). For instance you can try to open a door with a key, with a burglar kit, or bashing it until it is destroyed (more long but feasible).

There is very handy feature of SpringBoot which is called Dev tools. Dev tools enable hot reloading of spring-boot- based application every time your IDE recompile the code.

Because Spring Boot is often used with Microservices in mind, the reload is quick, and quite seamless.

I love the super professional Changelogs you see in a lot of open source project.

Git-chglog is a Golang program you can run inside docker, to generate very professional change logs.

It works by collecting git comments with special keywords (like “Fix”, “Feature” and so on) and  in the last version is also feature a JIRA integration can further simplify your work

There is a funny article called “I’m OK; The Bull Is Dead” I want to use as incipit for this post.

The Last week I went in a meeting about flipping a BUY/SELL direction involving three services A -> B -> C. The initial B spec was right, but it was supposed to be wrong, someone (A) asked a change, and then it raised a complain on C. The entire meeting was a circula discussion on how we could fix it (just a revert of the fix?), why it was done in that way, etc.

God summons Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Gates to his office and tells them: “I have called you to announce the end of the world: it has been set by me for midnight on December 31, '95. Go and communicate the good news to the world.”

Yeltsin gathers the Duma and says: “Dear comrades, I have two bad news to give you: the first is that God exists, the second that the end of the world has been set for December 31, 95.”

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I will admit it right now: I like to small talk, even at work.

Italian meetings are time-stealer nightmares.

So I have developed three simple rules, for my remote work:

• Pretend and provide a meeting Agenda or at least a meaningful subject
• Space out meeting with at least 15 minutes between them, to be able to prepare them
• Try to be very time boxed, and alert when 15 minutes remaining (for Italian guys, 30 minutes :) If you present, be very clear and ask confirmation, because guys sometimes does not listen to you or play with web browser. Speak slowly if needed.