Software engineering enthusiast
Joined January 2011
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Jan 25
I don't think I could go back to doing software development without LLMs any more, but I must say it's always somewhat disconcerting when your pair programming partner decides to become a pathological liar out of nowhere
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17 Oct 2024
A 16,000 lumen laser projector with a short-throw lens is a very bright projector. Source: my eyes
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6 Sep 2024
What's the cool way of parallelising tests in Rails these days? Knapsack or parallel_tests or something else?
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24 Jul 2024
I will never understand people who make squash / cordial by putting the water in first and cordial second
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12 Jul 2024
Any @incident_io fans in? Worth the migration from @pagerduty and @Statuspage? We have an on-call rota of 4 people total. We’re not an enterprise.
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12 Jul 2024
(My blog post about how to operate a high traffic product with one full-time backend / infrastructure person is still being written btw, for now I’m too busy keeping @tuple up)
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12 Jul 2024
(By which I mean I’m too lazy, because I sleep deeply every night and am only paged once every 2-3 months or so)
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1 Jul 2024
I had a (minimal) hand in this; it feels like such an upgrade, and a pleasure working with @ashugeo on the engineering – maybe designers should code after all
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24 Jun 2024
Manchester Airport remains the worst airport in the world. 2 hours to drop bags and go through security; what a shitshow
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10 Jan 2024
Boring tweet: love me a database index. From 5 seconds for one query to 50ms with no extra lines of code, we love to see it
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Josh McMillan retweeted
8 Jan 2024
I spent far too much time on this.
Jungle is massive.
8 Jan 2024
Please, please will someone sample @amolrajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊
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9 Nov 2023
After a week or so of coding in nothing but C I really have no idea how full-time C developers do it
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20 Sep 2023
It appears that AWS' reaction to people accidentally exposing loads of credentials via S3 buckets is to make the process of creating a bucket with public objects in it nigh on impossible
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27 Feb 2023
Hotel WiFi’s been broken for so long that I’ve had the time to write a script to let me know when it works again
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27 Feb 2023
(This screenshot reaching the internet via an AirDrop to my phone, which appears to be limited to early-2000s DSL speeds thanks to roaming)
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7 Feb 2023
Excited to announce my new role as a “Heavy Equipment Supervisor”
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