Daniel Terhorst-North
@tastapod.com
Runs Goalwards: 'Your business, optimized.' Started BDD, caused Cucumber. Optimizes orgs, teams, code. Coach, mentor, geek, mischief-maker. Christian, infrequent blogger. WWGH https://goalwards.co
What if the best architecture isn't the most scalable, flexible, or future-proof one? 🤔 @tastapod.com argues for building the Best Simple System for Now—and avoiding the trap of solving problems you don't have yet. Watch: youtu.be/u4Cv65F9DcY?...
Best Simple System for Now • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2025
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'I want a new playlist please. I'm not in any hurry for it, but for pity's sake don't put any of that terrible prog rock on it like you did last time.' 'Sure thing, I hear you, no Rush.'
If I had a trillion dollars [ if I had a trillion dollars ] I'd buy you a right-wing riot [ but not a real right-wing riot, 'cause that's cruel ]
@sarahjwells.bsky.social, Patrick Kua and @tastapod.com od.com discuss what engineering leadership looks like when uncertainty becomes the norm rather than the exception. 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast
- My girlfriend loves football! - Wow, she sounds like a keeper - No, she plays midfield - Well my girlfriend works at the zoo - She definitely sounds like a keeper! - No, she does event management - My girlfriend looks after bees ...
If a vegan crossfit fan is using Claude to write Rust, which thing do they tell you first?
beyoncé: if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it sauron: brb
Public Service Announcement: Inserting a pointless voice or chatbot between me and the human I want to talk to—who still works there but now only ever picks up the phone to frustrated and angry folks fed up with repeating themselves—is not an 'AI strategy'.
What if you think of your LLM as a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would centre an image...
I feel like the last generation—DevOps into Continuous Delivery—was defined by Conway's Law, and this generation—AI tokenmaxxing and shoehorning—is defined by Goodhart's Law.
Abigail Dombey@abigaildombey.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores Paging @ketanjoshi.co
I will be teaching my two-day course, Practical Messaging, at NDC Oslo this year. I suspect it will be the only public presentation this year. It's two days.
Practical Messaging | NDC Oslo 2026
In this tutorial, we will look at distributed systems, and how we integrate them. We will understand why we would prefer to integrate via messaging, the fundamentals and key concepts of messaging and…
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There was a wonderful period of about 30 years between 'We will only ever need five or six computers' and 'We will only ever need five or six computers' that has been most of my working life. I hope with the shift to local AI models and the resurgence of on-prem, we get some of that back again.
Jon Ayre@jonayre.uk · 3mo agoWell, this is bad. All that data protection law the technology industry has spent millions rightly complying with blown out of the water in one careless act.
indentical (adj): two lines in a Makefile that look the same but one uses a tab and the other has spaces.
Mark Dalgarno@markdalgarno.bsky.social · 3mo ago#TypoOfTheDay indentical
Want to be more effective? Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @emilybache.com for her session: “Legacy Code - Characterization Testing with Approvals”. 🛠️ Learn Approval testing to get control of legacy code! 🔗 socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/4)
Live from the Tavern Hall in Bellevue at the Party with Palermo for the MVP Summit - it's episode 2000 of .NET Rocks! Lots of stories from listeners and party attendees about their experiences with .NET and how the show has been a part of their story. Listen at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2000
.NET Rocks!
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
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Compaction be like: 'what did I come into this room for again?'
I've been having some lovely chats with old and new clients recently about my coaching work. One of the things that came up was how I deeply sucked at letting people know what I did. A first attempt at doing a better job of that is now at quietstars.com/coaching Feedback welcome :-)
Personal 1-1 Coaching with Adrian Howard — Quietstars
You're having problems managing complex cross-disciplinary product development. You want work to be fun and productive again. I can help get you unstuck.
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Proposal that Brits start celebrating American Independence Day on 7 April.
Spec-driven development is back. But not how you think. Gojko Adzic & @tastapod.com debate custom linting rules, AI guardrails, and why "automation makes things faster — not better." Enjoy 40 minutes of signal. 🔥 youtu.be/6mLYZF97oaU?... #BDD #SoftwareCraft #Linting
Spec-Driven Dev Is Back. But Not How You Think • Daniel Terhorst-North & Gojko Adzic • GOTO 2026
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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/
We completed the half marathon! And we beat our target time. And we didn't die (yet)! Please throw some appreciative pennies at the donate button if you haven't already
Trisha Gee@trishagee.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday, @helenjoscott.com and I are running the #llhalf for @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social. If you want to donate a little to motivate us, that would be enormously helpful! www.justgiving.com/page/trisha-...
I wrote a blog post! Just a quick update on what I'm up to these days, but at least I'm blogging again trishagee.com/2026/04/09/t... #techlayoff #layoff
There are only opportunities - Trisha Gee
Trisha is looking for her next career move. Also, new website design.
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TIL: #VSCode source control diff tool shows side-by-side 'before' and 'after' #Excalidraw diagrams. That's just gorgeous.
Dave Farley announced as a keynote for this year's Lean Agile Scotland conference in Edinburgh - also announced as keynotes - Cat Swetel and Dan Vacanti: leanagile.scot/keynotes Full event programme coming soon...
Dave Farley
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PSA: Use @pnpm.io minimumReleaseAge. A simple way to make NPM supply chain attacks, like the one affecting the `axios` NPM package, more unlikely. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...
PNPM minimumReleaseAge
Learn how PNPM's minimumReleaseAge setting helps protect your project from compromised packages and improves supply chain security.
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'#Claude is down' is the new '#GitHub is down' xkcd.com/303/ In other news, today I discovered there is no #xkcd comic number 404.
Compiling
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April Fools’ Day. The only real joke is waiting until you “feel ready” to speak. No one feels ready. They just decide their experience is worth sharing. Stop waiting. Step into the spotlight. Submit your JavaZone talk: 2026.javazone.no/speaker
Today's suggestion: start saying 'LinkedIn' like you would say 'rinky-dink'. No reason, just more fun. And #LinkedIn could use more fun.
