Your tech debt is now a market opportunity; For someone else. AI agents will rewrite your codebase in a modern language and it'll all go away. Impressive pitch. Don't buy it.
When @mrjamesob.bsky.social refers to the cladding scandal as being in the past, as he did today, he harms the thousands of leaseholders like my family and I, still locked in an unsellable home 8 years later. It isn't solved. Despite all the promises made to us by @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
My new favourite term is Slop Creep. Every engineer working with AI knows exactly what I'm talking about when I say it. It's great.
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
Where do the XP folks hang out these days? I feel like all the online communities I had in the 2010s have gone stale.
I've started a new role and writing Golang for the first time in my career. I don't get it. Maybe it's because I've gotten used to the rich type systems of Rust and Kotlin, but Go feels like I'm back to basic OO again. What am I missing?
I walk in on my wife and 10 month old having a dance party without me, to the tunes of Lady Gaga. My wife: "this was *his* choice, BTW" " And how did he express this choice, exactly?" I enquired. She looks me dead in the eyes: "he said ga ga". Fair.
My team at NatureMetrics is hiring a product-minded Full Stack Engineer (London/nearby) who cares about nature. We're turning complex biodiversity data into something people can actually understand and act on - your code could directly help save ecosystems. 🌿 Go + K8s a big plus.
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This is cool. The three norths (True, Grid, Magnetic) met in Dorset in November 2022, worked their way northwards in tandem, and are now about to leave England and go hand in hand into the North Sea. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-n...
Honestly, the PSF has shown more ethical backbone here than any other tech-centred org I know. Huge respect.
Python Software Foundation@python.org · 9mo agoTLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Sad to say I'm seeing as much racism and antisemitism on bluesky as I was seeing on Twitter before I left it. Might be time to just switch it all off.
I would guess aprox 95% of the tests that candidates have submitted to our take home exercise have been generated by LLMs. The telltale signs are pretty obvious. Its pointless to test that your implementation does what it does. You should be testing that implements the business logic.
When people tell you who they are - believe them. Reform are climate change deniers and they are a real threat to our future existence. If you know anyone who is considering voting for them, make it your personal project to help them understand what they are voting for.
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 11mo agoChristopher Monckton says that under a Farage government, "there is a sporting chance that you are now looking at the Secretary of State not for but Against Climate Change Nonsense.”
Generating tests based on your implementation is like setting exam questions based on your answers.
I never appreciate how hard it is to bridge the gaps between Data Science, ML and Engineering. You often have folks from these three backgrounds fully aligned on the outcome, but wholly misaligned on the path there, and as a result - stalemate.
Every millennial knows exactly what this guy looks like.
a man is sitting in a chair with a can of soda in his hand and another man is standing behind him .
Alt: Gif of Nedry from Jurassic Park, played by Wayne Knight, sitting at his desk with a can of soda
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TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 12mo agoThe ex-developer was convicted of planting malicious code designed to crash its servers in the event that he was fired.
In the words of a former colleague: "Every line of code is a business decision."
Fork Around and Find Out@fafo.fm · 12mo agoEngineering isn't special when it comes to business needs
If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this: You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.
If you're having a discussion with someone, don't send your LLM bot into their mentions to argue in agreement with you. It reeks of bad faith, and earns an immediate block by me. Maybe it's just me, but this is not the kind of interaction I'm interested in having on here.
Most people think the cladding crisis is over. It's not. 6 years after Grenfell, we're still trapped in flammable buildings, paying the price while freeholders profit. This is what it actually costs to live in the "post-Grenfell" world: 🧵
I find this all so weird. Basically, what he's saying, is that programming is a skill and that if you have that skill you can utilise code generation tools, like LLMs, effectively. In other words, vibe coding isnt a thing. I won't go as far as to say its a grift, but it doesn't feel far off to me.
One thing I'll always appreciate about Rust: I can come back to a project two years later and it still compiles flawlessly. Meanwhile, return to a Node project after six months? Some random transitive dependency is broken. Python project? Good luck taking PTO.
Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
Pairing with a couple of senior devs this morning who've been using Claude to do code reviews. We've been having fun looking for issues in non-existent code. We'll have more fun later addressing some of the issues I spotted straight away that Claude missed. LLMs aren't linters, folks.