We get the best results from "AI" coding assistants when we: * Take small steps * Test, review and refactor continuously * Use version control to keep our code shippable * Integrate continuously * Cleanly separate concerns If only there was somewhere we could learn these skills!

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

“In the ‘who cares’ era, the most radical thing you can do is care” dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Just hit a 500 day streak on my @dayoneapp.com journal. Longest streak after 6 years. Day One is awesome (not a paid ad), even though the recent UX change means I need to update my muscle memory.. If you don’t journal than start. It helps me make sense of the non-stop thought carousel in my head.

This is going to be epic!

Open Works Digital@open.works · last yr.

VERY excited to be moving into our new office in Kings Cross next week! Such an exciting part of London 💪

We know the future only by the past we project onto it. History, in this sense, is all we have. Gaddis.

<shameless-plug> We have two weeks still available (w/c Feb 24th and w/c March 3rd) for anyone hoping to take advantage of our half-price offer on TDD and Code Craft training delivered by March 31st. Details on the website. Hurry while stocks last! :-D </shameless-plug>

if someone asked me if i were to do it all over again & start a new cloud/saas/hosted testing thing today, this is what I'd reply with: gist.github.com/hugs/7ba46b3... (plot twist: i'm doing it! wanna help?)

valet-network.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

My daughter made some new friends at school, and I asked if she got their phone numbers. She looked at me like I was an idiot, and said she had got their snapchats. Apparently only young kids and 40 year olds exchange numbers. And "who the hell uses WhatsApp?"

“This fence symbolises my feelings toward the Scaled Agile Framework Dad” “I’ll listen to your opinions when you stop eating other dogs shit Iris” “Let’s just enjoy the sunset”

OKRs have morphed into a performance management system tracking individuals over the past few years. The tools these organisations are using to manage OKRs go down to individuals so they must think "why not?" Got me thinking about this curve, and at what point good concepts become enshittified.

I have just discovered that Jerry Maguire did actually write his mission statement. You can read it here: www.theuncool.com/films/jerry-...

Jerry’s Mission Statement – The Uncool - The Official Site for Everything Cameron Crowe

theuncool.com

Contemplating life while walking chocolate labs. As a combination, it’s pretty hard to beat.

"The most important thing to me is inspiration, not fame" "It is not about becoming famous but diffusing that inspiration to every human being. My happiness is meeting people and they say to me: 'No human is limited.'" "That makes me so happy." Eliud Kipchoge www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Eliud Kipchoge: The humble home life in rural Kenya behind remarkable athletic success

Witnessing Eliud Kipchoge's humble home life in rural Kenya sheds light on some of the secrets behind his remarkable athletic success.

bbc.co.uk

Tw*tter officially deactivated. App deleted. Bookmarks cleansed. Such a nice feeling.

www.techradar.com/computing/ar... “Dude, pull my finger”

You could start smelling the roses from far away using AI

AI can "teleport" scents without human hands (or noses)

techradar.com

In other news, cats vote to make dogs illegal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales 20mph: Calls made for 1,500 roads to revert to 30mph

Despite widespread opposition to the plan, police point to a drop in casualties and crashes.

bbc.co.uk

I have recently become infatuated with Obsidian. I love its simplicity, its openness and how easy it is for me to share thoughts rather than keeping them locked away in my Notes. So much so I created my own Digital Garden with it here https://buff.ly/3LEtoJC #obsidian #curatedthoughts #joy

It appears we were visited by the Labrador stork and they dropped another little bundle of insanity into our lives. The little one has been named Iris by my boy, she likes to forage for treats and chewing everything in sight.

I find it’s very important to let your fellow passengers know you have the opening of the door covered. It settles nerves. We are getting off this train first folks, the thumb is poised.

Reposting this rather awesome article from @karawynn.bsky.social “Language is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence”. Slowly going through my twitter likes before shutting down my account means I get to rediscover things all over again! karawynn.substack.com/p/language-i...

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence

With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood

karawynn.substack.com

Having to use OneDrive and SharePoint on a Mac. When it’s not failing to sync, it’s trashing files. Or it’s claiming it’s “preparing to upload” when really it’s plotting the next way to annoy me.

A chap called Patrick Collins described the SablierV2 code base as a “chef's kiss of a test suite.” Which is a lovely statement to make. Check it out here: github.com/sablier-labs...

GitHub - sablier-labs/v2-core: ⏳ Core smart contracts of the Sablier V2 token distribution protoco...

⏳ Core smart contracts of the Sablier V2 token distribution protocol - GitHub - sablier-labs/v2-core: ⏳ Core smart contracts of the Sablier V2 token distribution protocol

github.com

Going through my old twitter likes, will reshare cool things here for posterity. My buddy Kate Leto wrote this a wee while ago: www.kateleto.com/articles/emo...

Finally made it onto Bluesky, now trying to work out whether I shutdown my twitter account for good. Hmmm….maybe go through my likes first and see whether I saved anything interesting…