Apple’s new “mail categories” sure has created a lot of familial technical support…

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

2025 Book Thread 📚 Book 1 of 2025 was Orbital, by Samantha Harvey Amazing imagining / telling of the experience of astronauts on the space station, beautifully and wistfully written. Amazing how the intersection of space "technical" stuff and dreaminess works. www.amazon.co.uk/Orbital-Awe-...

Big jokes using Voxi @vodafonegroup.bsky.social support - if you don't write something every minute or so, it cuts you off! Taking it very seriously, as you can tell

More like ickTok, amirite

CMAT’s Hootenanny performance of Have Fun is now up on YouTube. It’s something else from one of my favourite artists right now :) youtu.be/gWaNwqFDUdc?...

CMAT - Have Fun! (Jools' Annual Hootenanny 2024)

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Built something with Retool today for the first time in a while. So powerful and quick. Docs are SHOCKING though. The google results are useless community posts and the official docs are disorganised and incomplete. Testament to the quality of the product that you can build without any support!

every year I blog my thoughts on the year before - here's my blog post for 2024 in which I cover my professional and political career, my personal life, and reflections on my transition chrisn.xyz/reflections-...

I feel like there’s two spectrums of nihilism: - depressing: …nothing matters - optimistic: yay! nothing matters!

All projects are agile... eventually.

In the State of JS survey when I answered I was a woman, I was asked to share this link to invite more women: survey.devographics.com/survey/state... I nearly didn't do it, the JS ecosystem drives me nuts, but if I don't contribute, it will continue to drive me nuts and I'll remain unrepresented...

State of JavaScript 2024

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“How much longer will this take to build”? Not much longer. It’ll just break all the time.

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I’m surprised by how often engineers (of all levels) underestimate the amount of time software takes to maintain after it’s “done”. Even the most senior engineers seem to believe that maintenance is free.

New laptop... going to a bunch of websites for the first time, as you'd expect. Type "Li" into the address bar and realise this laptop has never been to linkedin.com Lucky it. Half tempted to keep it unsullied!

joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiqua... Super good stuff from @collinsworth.dev

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

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I send the same 5 blog posts to pretty much every new software engineer I mentor. They're all articles I wish I'd read when I started my career, about salary, priorities, and decision-making. Sharing here in case they're helpful: 🧵

Startup CTOs - your code is a liability. I wrote the first version of this post in 2012, and it's still as true as ever. www.chrismdp.com/your-code-is...

Your code is a liability

Every chunk of code you commit is more for someone else to read, digest and understand. Every complex “clever” expression requires another few minutes of effort for each of your team. They must now i...

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G'morning Manchester tech people, here's some locals you can follow. Let me know if there's anyone here I can add. Plus, be careful this morning, it's icy out ⛸️❄️ go.bsky.app/UzwaD5

These look cool - Temporal Tables. "A temporal table is a table that records the period of time when a row is valid." github.com/arkhipov/tem...

GitHub - arkhipov/temporal_tables: Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension

Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension. Contribute to arkhipov/temporal_tables development by creating an account on GitHub.

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If you really care about productivity, why aren't you examining the value of mandatory code review? I know this is my least popular take, but it remains unclear to me that it improves quality commensurate to cost, and it's the most unquestioned shibboleth in tech today

Microservices are Technical Debt (Not watched the whole thing, but thought it was an interesting contribution) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJK...

Microservices are Technical Debt

YouTube video by NeetCodeIO

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Check out git reset --keep as a less destructive alternative to git reset --hard adamj.eu/tech/2024/09...

This week in Feeling Old in Tech: none of my team had ever used Subversion. I envy them.

2024 Book Thread! 📚 Book 1 of 2024 was Going Infinite by Michael Lewis. Very readable as usual from Lewis but with unprecedented access as he was interviewing SBF / FTX around the time things kicked off. amzn.eu/d/cDyP0th

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon: Amazon.co.uk: Lewis, Michael: 9780241651117: Books

Buy Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon 1 by Lewis, Michael (ISBN: 9780241651117) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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