Pablo Bouzada
@pbousan.rocks
Galician. Continuous learner. Sometimes grumpy. Expert level in procrastination. I've been turning ideas into software for 20+ years.
Engineering Manager @ Viaplay Group
My opinions are my own and don't express the views or opinions of my employer.
Engineering Manager @ Viaplay Group
My opinions are my own and don't express the views or opinions of my employer.
A @kevlin.bsky.social crashing trying to report another crash
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A @kevlin.bsky.social crashing trying to report another crash
Me ha encantado este post de @josecgil.bsky.social newsletter.managerpro.team/p/un-ano-aqu... Me quedo con esta frase: "Lo urgente grita. Lo importante susurra. Te costará más escucharlo." 👏
Un año aquí y no he visto cambios
La frase que no quieres escuchar
newsletter.managerpro.team
August 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Me ha encantado este post de @josecgil.bsky.social newsletter.managerpro.team/p/un-ano-aqu... Me quedo con esta frase: "Lo urgente grita. Lo importante susurra. Te costará más escucharlo." 👏
Vibe coding offers the same promise that Visual Basic 6 did 30 years ago: anyone can "create an app". And the result is the same, they do it... and someone else who actually knows what is doing has to fix the mess 🧹
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Vibe coding offers the same promise that Visual Basic 6 did 30 years ago: anyone can "create an app". And the result is the same, they do it... and someone else who actually knows what is doing has to fix the mess 🧹
No aprendo! 😫 Otra vez volví a trabajar un lunes después de las vacaciones. Hoy es martes y me parece que falta muchísima semana por delante. Hay que volver un jueves o viernes. Solo una toma de contacto rápida. Y volver del todo a la rutina después del fin de semana. #ThanksForComingToMyTEDtalk
August 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
No aprendo! 😫 Otra vez volví a trabajar un lunes después de las vacaciones. Hoy es martes y me parece que falta muchísima semana por delante. Hay que volver un jueves o viernes. Solo una toma de contacto rápida. Y volver del todo a la rutina después del fin de semana. #ThanksForComingToMyTEDtalk
I'm glad to share with you the collaboration I made with #JAVAPRO magazine. Should we stop discussing about technical debt with top management?
Hope you enjoy the article ☺️
javapro.io/2025/06/18/s...
Hope you enjoy the article ☺️
javapro.io/2025/06/18/s...
Should we stop discussing about technical debt... with top management? - JAVAPRO International
Cyclomatic complexity, coupling and cohesion, orthogonality, big O… are concepts that technical teams use when analyzing complex software…
javapro.io
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm glad to share with you the collaboration I made with #JAVAPRO magazine. Should we stop discussing about technical debt with top management?
Hope you enjoy the article ☺️
javapro.io/2025/06/18/s...
Hope you enjoy the article ☺️
javapro.io/2025/06/18/s...
Por primera vez esta semana llego antes de tiempo a una reunión. ¿El truco? Haberme equivocado de hora y estar 30 minutos antes 😣
Sígueme para más consejos sobre reuniones eficientes 😆
Sígueme para más consejos sobre reuniones eficientes 😆
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Por primera vez esta semana llego antes de tiempo a una reunión. ¿El truco? Haberme equivocado de hora y estar 30 minutos antes 😣
Sígueme para más consejos sobre reuniones eficientes 😆
Sígueme para más consejos sobre reuniones eficientes 😆
What excellent article! Thanks @whitep4nth3r.com for sharing your thoughts. We, as industry, are blindly following a promise, and focus on the tools, instead of using those tools to improve our job, the products we are creating, and the impact we could have in the world.
AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better".
That's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening.
The promise that wasn’t kept
AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?
whitep4nth3r.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What excellent article! Thanks @whitep4nth3r.com for sharing your thoughts. We, as industry, are blindly following a promise, and focus on the tools, instead of using those tools to improve our job, the products we are creating, and the impact we could have in the world.
Leyendo este fantástico post the @eferro.net me vino a la mente esta frase de John Seddon: "Peoples' behavior is a product of the system; when you change the system, peoples’ behavior changes".
Nuevo artículo Cómo superar las resistencias al trabajo con calidad, y cómo crear las condiciones donde la calidad no dependa del heroísmo.
👉 www.eferro.net/2025/05/supe...
¿Te resuena? Feedback y repost bienvenidos :)
#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #XP #Agile #Calidad #TechLeadership
👉 www.eferro.net/2025/05/supe...
¿Te resuena? Feedback y repost bienvenidos :)
#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #XP #Agile #Calidad #TechLeadership
Lean Software Development: Superando resistencias y creando condiciones para la calidad
Quinto artículo sobre calidad en Lean Software Development. En los posts anteriores hablamos de cómo construir con calidad desde los errore...
www.eferro.net
May 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Leyendo este fantástico post the @eferro.net me vino a la mente esta frase de John Seddon: "Peoples' behavior is a product of the system; when you change the system, peoples’ behavior changes".
Hoy estoy on fire en Linkedin 🔥 El mismo día que se publica un artículo mío en la revista JAVA PRO, se anuncia que seré speaker en la Developer Week - DWK ☺️
May 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hoy estoy on fire en Linkedin 🔥 El mismo día que se publica un artículo mío en la revista JAVA PRO, se anuncia que seré speaker en la Developer Week - DWK ☺️
Está mi hijo de 12 años escuchando Rage Against the Machine en su habitación todo feliz. Siento que lo estoy haciendo bien como padre ☺️
March 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Está mi hijo de 12 años escuchando Rage Against the Machine en su habitación todo feliz. Siento que lo estoy haciendo bien como padre ☺️
I'm glad to announce that I will be giving a talk at the @leaddev.com meetup on Feb 26th in Barcelona.
Anna Terés Sáez will talk about her trip From Engineering to Data Science.
Following her, I will share my insights on a topic that's hard for me as an introvert: how to give feedback to others.
Anna Terés Sáez will talk about her trip From Engineering to Data Science.
Following her, I will share my insights on a topic that's hard for me as an introvert: how to give feedback to others.
February 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm glad to announce that I will be giving a talk at the @leaddev.com meetup on Feb 26th in Barcelona.
Anna Terés Sáez will talk about her trip From Engineering to Data Science.
Following her, I will share my insights on a topic that's hard for me as an introvert: how to give feedback to others.
Anna Terés Sáez will talk about her trip From Engineering to Data Science.
Following her, I will share my insights on a topic that's hard for me as an introvert: how to give feedback to others.
I think this is the best definition of legacy code I've ever read: "Legacy code is that code that makes more design decisions than the team working on it" by Ángel Siendones Sillero.
I got this quote from this excellent talk by Kevlin Hennyes: Technical Neglect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWH...
I got this quote from this excellent talk by Kevlin Hennyes: Technical Neglect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWH...
Kevlin Henney - Technical Neglect - NewCrafts 2024
YouTube video by Aardling
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think this is the best definition of legacy code I've ever read: "Legacy code is that code that makes more design decisions than the team working on it" by Ángel Siendones Sillero.
I got this quote from this excellent talk by Kevlin Hennyes: Technical Neglect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWH...
I got this quote from this excellent talk by Kevlin Hennyes: Technical Neglect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWH...
Poco que añadir a las reflexiones de @carlosthesailor.bsky.social No vendamos nuestra alma y nuestro futuro a cambio de un supuesto progreso que sólo beneficia a unos pocos y abre aún más la brecha entre los que lo tienen todo y los que no tienen nada. Buenos días!
Lo que más me preocupa de este momento global es la confluencia del fortalecimiento de la ideología autoritarista reaccionaria y el vertiginoso desarrollo de la IA.
El potencial transformador de lo segundo es peligrosísimo por la deriva de lo primero. 🧵
El potencial transformador de lo segundo es peligrosísimo por la deriva de lo primero. 🧵
January 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Poco que añadir a las reflexiones de @carlosthesailor.bsky.social No vendamos nuestra alma y nuestro futuro a cambio de un supuesto progreso que sólo beneficia a unos pocos y abre aún más la brecha entre los que lo tienen todo y los que no tienen nada. Buenos días!
"They [the CEOs] do not use their power to silence people and then swagger around like they own the moral high ground."
@mipsytipsy.bsky.social is one of the more clever minds on this industry.
charity.wtf/2024/07/24/p...
@mipsytipsy.bsky.social is one of the more clever minds on this industry.
charity.wtf/2024/07/24/p...
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over ho…
charity.wtf
January 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"They [the CEOs] do not use their power to silence people and then swagger around like they own the moral high ground."
@mipsytipsy.bsky.social is one of the more clever minds on this industry.
charity.wtf/2024/07/24/p...
@mipsytipsy.bsky.social is one of the more clever minds on this industry.
charity.wtf/2024/07/24/p...
Reposted by Pablo Bouzada
Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
January 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
Mañana tengo el día libre y lo usaré para acabar de digerir todas las comilonas de la Navidad. Send sopitas 😅
January 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mañana tengo el día libre y lo usaré para acabar de digerir todas las comilonas de la Navidad. Send sopitas 😅
“Metrics are products that require iterations and have bugs. Deal with it.”
thenewstack.io/metrics-driv... @jkriggins.bsky.social
thenewstack.io/metrics-driv... @jkriggins.bsky.social
Metrics-Driven Developer Productivity Engineering at Spotify
Learn how Spotify's Platform Insights team sets OKRs and metrics to connect developer productivity with company-wide objectives.
thenewstack.io
December 31, 2024 at 10:44 AM
“Metrics are products that require iterations and have bugs. Deal with it.”
thenewstack.io/metrics-driv... @jkriggins.bsky.social
thenewstack.io/metrics-driv... @jkriggins.bsky.social
Long story short, I would like to share here one of my musical discoveries of 2024: RAYE. And this concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in particular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRf...
RAYE - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 | Full Performance
YouTube video by RAYE
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Long story short, I would like to share here one of my musical discoveries of 2024: RAYE. And this concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in particular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRf...
Esta conversación con @drmario.tech bsky.app/profile/drma...
me recordó el mayor cumplido que alguna vez me hicieron como manager: "Me gusta que me expliques las cosas como son y no uses técnicas de manager 🥷 para convencerme de que algo es bueno para mí cuando es bueno para la empresa."
me recordó el mayor cumplido que alguna vez me hicieron como manager: "Me gusta que me expliques las cosas como son y no uses técnicas de manager 🥷 para convencerme de que algo es bueno para mí cuando es bueno para la empresa."
Me sorprende mucho líder en tech que habla de que "hay que venir motivado de casa" (que lo comparto), porque verdaderamente el problema no es ese.
El problema es que la cultura en tu compañía reviente la motivación que trae la gente de casa.
El problema es que la cultura en tu compañía reviente la motivación que trae la gente de casa.
December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Esta conversación con @drmario.tech bsky.app/profile/drma...
me recordó el mayor cumplido que alguna vez me hicieron como manager: "Me gusta que me expliques las cosas como son y no uses técnicas de manager 🥷 para convencerme de que algo es bueno para mí cuando es bueno para la empresa."
me recordó el mayor cumplido que alguna vez me hicieron como manager: "Me gusta que me expliques las cosas como son y no uses técnicas de manager 🥷 para convencerme de que algo es bueno para mí cuando es bueno para la empresa."
Reposted by Pablo Bouzada
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
Reposted by Pablo Bouzada
True facts. Our standards and expectations have risen a lot for managers over the past 5-10 years, which is unequivocally a good thing.
Our ability to equip them for the job is...spotty? Let's say it is "catching up."
Our ability to equip them for the job is...spotty? Let's say it is "catching up."
It's 2024, and most companies still suck at leadership training and development. As someone who's now growing engineering managers, I'm thinking about how to tackle this for my own folks.
October 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
True facts. Our standards and expectations have risen a lot for managers over the past 5-10 years, which is unequivocally a good thing.
Our ability to equip them for the job is...spotty? Let's say it is "catching up."
Our ability to equip them for the job is...spotty? Let's say it is "catching up."
Wrapping things up on Twitter. I had considered sharing my favorite tweets here, but I believe it's a good time to start from scratch. For new followers, I enjoy discussing software teams from a manager's perspective, the impact of company culture on employee performance, and whatever else comes up.
October 23, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Wrapping things up on Twitter. I had considered sharing my favorite tweets here, but I believe it's a good time to start from scratch. For new followers, I enjoy discussing software teams from a manager's perspective, the impact of company culture on employee performance, and whatever else comes up.
Reposted by Pablo Bouzada
I'm excited there are more and more techie folks landing here 🦋
Tell your friends! Why are they still on X?
ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇
Tell your friends! Why are they still on X?
ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇
October 20, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I'm excited there are more and more techie folks landing here 🦋
Tell your friends! Why are they still on X?
ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇
Tell your friends! Why are they still on X?
ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇
Hi Blue sky people! It's nice to be here 😊
September 7, 2023 at 2:22 PM
Hi Blue sky people! It's nice to be here 😊