It's time I found a new contract, so... If you’re looking for a backend dev (C#/C++), need a hand with build/test/deployment automation, or getting to grips with TDD/agile ways of working, etc. then I might be of use. London, Cambridgeshire, or remote. www.linkedin.com/in/chrisoldw...

Chris Oldwood - Symmetry Investments | LinkedIn

An experienced developer (30+ years), who has worked on front-office, back-office, and… · Experience: Symmetry Investments · Location: Huntingdon · 298 connections on LinkedIn. View Chris Oldwood’s p...

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Thursday the DORA.community will be discussing software delivery governance with @meekrosoft.com. Join the community for meeting details and an invite to be part of the discussion. #GRC #DORA #ContinuousCompliance #GBGB

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The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.

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Absolutely love how easy it is to get the apple password manager to "fill & save" a password, consigning the current password to the memory hole. 👹

En route to Oslo! 🛫

You don’t need more time between releases. You need less risk in each release. buff.ly/hhPyphD #ReleaseRidiculouslyOften

Release ridiculously often — Doc Norton & Associates

The seventh behavior, “Release ridiculously often,” is usually met with nods from half of the crowd and raised eyebrows from the other half. The nodders want to know why it isn’t higher on the list…

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Over the summer I'm not planning to travel much, but if you want a remote presentation or workshop for your company, please get in touch.

If they’re not selling a cocktail shaker maker then what are they even doing?

General Boles@generalboles.bsky.social · last yr.

I'll take 2 t-shirts, a bucket hat and one of them cutlery sets for my lasagne #Oasis www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The Co-pilot Delusion: deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

The Copilot Delusion

Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...

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Nick Cave is indeed a Wild God

A beautiful, crazy and amazing story of science right under our collective feet. I'd heard when the signal got originally reported but got distracted. It's a great example of what makes science simultaneously fun, important and beautiful.

Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · last yr.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Hey folks, quick/odd request.. if you *recently* read "Observability Engineering" and are up for a quick 15 min phone chat, within the next 6 hr, drop me a DM? I am refactoring the chapter list (due @ noon Friday) and could use some fresh eyes on chapters to add/drop for 2nd edition. 🙏🥰 Thanks!

I'll be the controversial one: in this case, if NATS had never been given to the CNCF, I would argue they would be *less likely* to need to pull these shenanigans. They mortgaged their ability to build a lasting business and community to get access to more potential users.

Rachel Stephens@rstephens.me · last yr.

Just gonna leave this right here, for absolutely no reason at all. redmonk.com/jgovernor/20...

Unfortunately both occupations come with a risk of severe neurodegenerative disease

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last yr.

NFL draft day! Annual reminder that the median 5 year earnings for a big tech software engineer are *higher* than for an NFL player. Higher. 🎼 "They think I play in the NBA. They think I went in the first round. They think I play in the NFL. They think I'm scoring them touchdowns." - Money Man

Man Machine at the Greek Amphitheater in Berkeley- Kraftwerk were so ahead of their time 👾

What better start to the weekend than a long walk in the redwoods with this queen 🫅

I joined @rachelchalmers.bsky.social for episode 34 of @heavybit.com's Generation Ship podcast. We discussed how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and more. www.heavybit.com/library/podc... #AI #DORA #GBGB

Generationship | Ep. #34, Together with Nathen Harvey | Heavybit

In episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience.

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I'd be in favour of tariffs on NPM imports, though.

@kevlin.bsky.social on agility and/or speed at #accuconf

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey. A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it! Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel: “Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷

This, I think, goes some way to explain why productivity gains reported by individual engineers using "AI" coding assistants evaporate at the level of what actually gets delivered at the team level. (See 2023/24 DORA reports). Faster cars != faster traffic.

A great documentary about the UK rave scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0xt...

"Everybody in the Place" by Jeremy Deller | Frieze & Gucci

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“We refuse to accept a fascist America” Anti fascist protest in Oakland today

Right! Heading back to the states after 5 weeks on the road… anything happen while I was away?

lol. I had to sign up again to Facebook to join a group temporarily 🤮. Since I didn't send any friend requests I got flagged as a bot and suspended 🤓

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Google can't block cold email senders that I explicitly mark as spam. Is this a hard problem or just normal weak product?

Selling out Ukraine in *Munich* of all places is so on the nose you couldn't make it up.

Have google completely given up on their office products? It's infuriating how bad even simple tasks like exporting a slide produce such terrible results...

I absolutely love when folks share real tech culture stories from inside their companies, and this article by James Shore is exemplary: "The Best Product Engineering Org in the World" www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025...