Everyone in software delivery is obsessed with everything being “shifted left”. Well, this is what happens when all you do all day is shift left, shift left, shift left, … :P
Off to the cinema to watch Terminator 2, in 3D*. I’m not sure I’ve watched a film in 3D since the original Avatar came out. I wonder where I put our 3D glasses… *I’m skeptical, but I haven’t seen it on the big screen for years, and there were some favourable reviews.
The death of Gloria Steinem is a good opportunity to remind everyone to watch the TV show "MRS AMERICA", which is currently on Disney+. It came out during the early pandemic and sank without a trace, but it was a really good drama on the feminist battles of the 70s!
In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.
TFW you wonder what a GCC warning flag has to do with athletics… :o)
London-based client's looking for a snr software engineer with Extreme Programming experience on the JVM - ideally Kotlin. Open Source start-up with US backing, working on dev tools. Salary range: £90K-£120K. Hybrid, 2 days/week on site in central London. You must be eligible to work in the UK.
$ ln -s ASTROLOGY.md AGENTS.md pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/y... :P
Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything
AI coding bot vendors tell you to use a context file with instructions for the chatbot on how to edit your project. Claude Code wants a CLAUDE.md, or there’s AGENTS.md in general. [Anthropic] But d…
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If "the cloud" is now the dominant off-site data storage metaphor should we replace "upload and download" with "evaporate and precipitate"?
In Star Wars: A New Hope when Luke Skywalker refers to "old Ben Kenobi" is that an off-by-Wan error?
"This graph clearly indicates that software is cheaper to make, Jason" It indicates that software nobody wants is cheaper to make. Yet again, we forget there's a speed limit on the feedback loop that really matters.
“Undercooked Bun leaves bad taste in the mouth” would have been my preferred title :o).
Rob Bowley@robbowley.net · 2w agoAt the start of a retrospective I always like to read the following declaration: "A team should only be divisible by itself and The One." I call it The Prime Directive…
[article] Afterwood — Show Your Workings accu.org/journals/ove... Results are useful, but sharing the journey allows others to learn from and/or validate your approach. (It’s not a coincidence that it’s also GCSE results day in the UK today 🙂.)
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We were told to ‘show your workings’ when we were at school. Chris Oldwood explains why that’s also a good idea in the workplace.
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I recall Microsoft trying this... :P
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w agoThey used to call this malware.
![Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigrejwbg64jtzv6hvauqkucxefcn7cn33kyuar44f6jz5degv6nma)
Due to demand, I've scheduled a second Code Craft & AI workshop on Tues Oct 6th at 18:45 BST. Join me and learn how classic software engineering principles and practices are not just compatible with AI, but *essential* It's funny how that turned out 🙂 www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...
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Code Craft & AI – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - September 1st 18:45 BST SOLD OUT October 6th 18:45 BST £99 + UK VAT Large-scale studies by the DevOps Research & Assessm...
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A do wish they would stop realigning the GPS satellites while I’m trying to exercise…
Watching The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended #Odyssey #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #CRT #Teletext youtube.com/shorts/1VWgL...
Watching The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended
YouTube video by Jamie Nemeth
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A fascinating linguistic feature I just learned about: "Rebracketing", where the way we read a word changes over time by "bracketing" different prefixes/suffixes differently in our minds, leading us to invent new spinoff words purely from misunderstandings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebrack...
Light mode. I want to actually be able to read what’s on the screen.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWhat's your old person trait?
I suppose with X/Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon, etc. the AI prompt would be longer than just typing the tweet yourself :o).
Pawel Brodzinski@pawelbrodzinski.bsky.social · 2mo ago"LinkedIn was the most AI-saturated platform, where more than 40% of longform posts flagged as fully AI-generated." www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-y...
As I have Spain in the family sweepstake it seemed appropriate to make a giant paella on the fire pit for dinner 😋.
[article] Afterwood — Milestones accu.org/journals/ove... A retrospective of my ACCU Overload back-page column which celebrated its 10th anniversary in June, along with celebrating milestones in general.
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Milestones are important. Chris Oldwood reflects on some of those he considers worth celebrating.
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I’m pretty sure I quipped about them rebranding it Pithon back when it was released last year but I can’t for the life of me find it now 🤷♂️.
David Whitney@davidwhitney.co.uk · 2mo agoThe latest python version being 3.14 seems like a good pun
It’s often said that Ben Kenobi is a complex character. How complex? I’d say at least O(B(1)).
Perl scripts are the Vogon poetry of the sysadmin world. :P
In amongst today's big chungus of a patch Tuesday there are some .NET updates, so let's begin #dotnet #aspnetcore #patchTuesday