Welcome to 2009 #Holyhead

Emergency alert on wildfire 🔥 #Cymraeg

The teams that deliver consistently don't have fewer specialists. They have more people willing to help outside their usual comfort zone. That's what turns a collection of experts into a real development team. #Agile #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringCulture

A useful question during stand-up isn't: "Is this my area?" It's: "What can I do today to help move this forward?" That small shift changes behaviour across the whole team. #Leadership #SoftwareDevelopment

age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends

Specialists matter. But if every ticket has to wait for one specific person, the whole team becomes slower. The bottleneck isn't the technology. It's the dependency. #EngineeringCulture #Agile

When that happens, something changes. Knowledge spreads. Queues shrink. Finger-pointing fades. Progress speeds up because fewer people are waiting for "the right person" to become available. #Teamwork #SoftwareEngineering

Oh that is nice #AerLingus

Scientists have finally managed to create the virus featured in the classic sci-fi "Don't create the torment virus".

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG

YEAH YEAH

I’ve had the privilege of being on the #InfiniteMonkeyCage two or maybe three times. Simply put, it won’t be the same thing without @robinince.bsky.social. And what Robin doesn’t say is that the BBC press release simply eradicates him from the show’s history. Total shit.

The strongest teams I've worked with have specialists. They also have curiosity. Front-end developers investigate API issues. Back-end developers learn the customer journey. QA joins conversations before code is written.

Who's cape's that jacket? www.bbc.com/news/article... See those two X-Wings, mine's the one in the middle.

Star Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversary

The Welsh language version of the classic 1977 film will feature Matthew Rhys as Han Solo.

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Think about a relay race. Winning isn't about running your section perfectly and dropping the baton. It's about getting the baton across the finish line. Software delivery isn't much different. #SoftwareDevelopment #Leadership

This doesn't mean everyone needs to become an expert in every technology. It means being willing to ask questions, pair with a teammate, learn something new, or help remove the next obstacle. That's how knowledge grows. #EngineeringCulture #Agile

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Good development teams don't think, "My part is done." They think, "Has the customer problem been solved?" That's a very different mindset, and it changes how people work together. #Teamwork #SoftwareDevelopment

The more I think about it, the more I believe that Odysseus is Irish. 1. Went out with his pals and didn't come home for ages 2. Wouldn't take any advice 3. Absolutely loves songs about struggles 4. His name is O'dysseus, for Christ's sake!

I think people believe what they see in movies. Modern data centers bring the lowest number of employees to an area of any kind of business

The ticket moves. The problem doesn't. Users don't care which part of the stack failed. They only know the feature doesn't work. That's the difference between finishing a task and solving a problem. #Agile #Engineering

"That's not my job." It's a phrase that quietly slows more software teams than most technical problems. A developer builds the API but won't look at the UI. Another updates the UI but won't check the database. Someone else says testing belongs to QA. #Agile #SoftwareDevelopment

The goal isn't estimation accuracy The goal isn't to produce perfect estimates. The goal is to make good delivery decisions. If better information becomes available, use it. That's agility. #AgileCoaching #SoftwareDevelopment

Forecasts evolve Sprint planning creates a forecast, not a fixed prediction. Every day the team knows a little more than they did yesterday. Good teams adjust their plans based on reality, not wishful thinking. #SprintPlanning #Agile

Commitment is behaviour A committed team: • collaborates • raises risks early • asks for help • adapts when needed • focuses on the Sprint Goal Commitment isn't blindly delivering an outdated estimate despite new evidence. #ScrumValues #Agile

www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fina... I've lost count of the number of startups I've seen who would have benefited from this :)

RIP Bill Oddie. "On Ilkla Moor Baht’at," his version of a 19th Century Yorkshire song set to a parody of Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from my Friends," done for John Peel's Dandelion label in 1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir_Y...

Bill Oddie - On Ilkla Moor Baht‘at, feat. Jim Capaldi (A-Side Single, 1970)

YouTube video by Berkin Altınok

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“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

Tim O'Brien@proftimob.bsky.social · last mo.

www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2629113...

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... There's a strong parallel with software delivery. The original estimate isn't a promise that reality must obey.

David McWilliams: There's a reason the State gets away with wasting so much of our money

The power of data is transparency. It is the power of the future

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