Kent Beck

@kentbeck.com

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Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.

Bright yellow flower with jagged petals in a field of green leaves
Orange and blue bird of paradise flower with a backdrop of a spray of luminous green leaves
Plot of the CCDF of function lengths showing a clear power law distribution
An illustration featuring emojis arranged in perspective on a turquoise surface with black lines. It includes smiling emojis representing good changes and purple devil emojis representing bad changes. Some emojis are translucent, having fallen through the mesh, but more good than bad.
Specialist activities first concentrate in a single team, then that team makes them self-service to avoid becoming a bottleneck.
Graph showing that programmers who introduce more files tend to have more of those files changed by others. Duh. But also there is variance above and below the trend line.
Graceful concrete bridge lit by morning sun and reflected in the river beneath
A system with tests, then the system is broken into parts, then the parts get their own tests, then the tests for the whole system can be radically slimmed.
Pointilist Space Needle at night surrounded by skyscrapers.
Tree with positive effects of software development as the fruits, practices as the roots, and overall labelled "Community".
BlueSky DAUs were flat for a long time, then "suddenly" jumped.
Vivid colors on a black background. Overall chaos by there's also a logic to it. Flows left to right.
Market street sf with blue light rays coming from the Ferry Building.
Technicolor doodle. Lots of highly saturated light colors with a big blue swoosh in the middle & dark nozzle (?) in the top left.
Graph of a fairly smooth pareto distribution with noise at the top end. The graph axes are--vertical, the number of lines with a given depth of indent, horizontal, the depth of indent.
Market Street, San Francisco at night with blue search lights emanating from the Ferry Building.
Impressions per tweet is distributed as a power law.
Colorful doodle on both sides of glass.
Colorful doodle with spirals in the corners.