Thanks for all the kind words & shares of my radio doc, Becoming German. I'm thrilled it was pick of the week in the Sunday Times, Observer & Radio Times. It's being repeated today on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm and is now on BBC Sounds. Danke meine Freunde. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021q5…

I'll be at @extremetuesday club on Tuesday 16th July. We're hosting it at #FordDigital... An Open Space evening meetup, covering all things in and around #agile software development, leaning towards #extremeprogramming... Sign up for free here: meetup.com/extreme-tuesday-c…

Digital and IT services are now core to keeping a government running smoothly, like transport and other infrastructure. Personally I would bring *more* IT in-house. A large team with lots of experience of digital service would allow better management of outsourced projects, imo.

One thing a new UK government needs to do is sort out the various disastrous IT projects. Here's the goods transit system having a risky big bang upgrade on a Monday

Hey systems research folks! My team at @neo4j will be hiring for postdoc positions on some very cool next-gen database runtime stuff. If you're PhD-ish and want to build kick-ass systems, ping me.

reminder that there's still alpha in Rob Pike's 1989 article on recursively composable window systems based on concurrent processes communicating with synchronous channels

An experiment for devs to try. I started keeping a "dev diary" while working on @breezbook . It was prompted by a statement by Stuart Ervine when I asked how others keep broader context of decisions behind code that are not visible in code, tests or comments. I wanted to start simple, so it's just one long markdown file. My partner on breez, Metehan Altuntekin, suggested that a tool like Obsidian or similar might be more appropriate. But I'm happy I stayed with a simple text file. I can edit it in my code editor, while I'm coding, without breaking flow. It's a good sounding board when I'm working on my own. I can write down my doubts and concerns, and just the act of getting them down helps me think them through better. And I can feed it to an LLM and ask questions, like: remind me why I decided on @inngest for messaging? Or why might the location_id field on service be optional instead of mandatory. I consider this a worthwhile experiment to try on dev teams. Yes, ADRs, but consider this as an alternative or complement. And Stuart Ervine, if you have any experience reports to share, I'd be all ears. The dev diary is here btw - github.com/cozemble/breezboo…

Unpopular opinion: open source software is a scam designed to quell the Free Software movement and turn it into something useful for corporations. Google and pals have had billions of hours of free work from "hobby" devs and paid back fractions of pennies for it. Time to pay up.

This is what 525 years of #sewage dumped in a single year looks like on a pretty map. Each dot is one of the 16,000 locations poisoning our rivers. top-of-the-poops.org

ok #scotland - you've been asking... so please find the latest figures for Scottish Water at: top-of-the-poops.org/company… Scottish Water is an outlier in the UK, as the monitoring regime is far worse, so the real numbers are probably 3x or 4x higher. #SewageScandal

Scrum and Agile and all methodology bollocks goes right out the window when you're paying for the build yourself. Every software professional needs to go through this process at least once. Put 5K or 10K of your own on the line to build something, and see how many of your sacred cows are slain. You're not an effective economic decision maker (which is what all software decisions ultimately are) until you have had your own skin in the game.

We can now reveal who is "Top of the Poops" (England and Wales) for 2023... top-of-the-poops.org/ Find your local constituency, beach, river or shellfish area. The pollution is hugely increased across the board.

The #sewage overflow information for 2023 must be released by the 31st of this month.. but that is Easter Sunday... so it's likely to happen before Friday. Will we see an improvement? Check top-of-the-poops.org for your local area. Share & follow for updates!

Playing around with hamkrest-style matchers in #golang for fun ✅ Composable ✅ Clear test output ✅ Can build your own custom matchers

London Borough of Hillingdon has applied to discharge 9000 litres of sewage daily into the River Crane - at : maps.app.goo.gl/QKBYhdRFeCw6… (Limited) application information at: gov.uk/government/publicatio… Replies close on the 15th - soon!

FYI Sweary Lightweight Agile Planning slap.pm and SFW version slap.pm/bowdlerised #NoEstimates Good planning advice on one page of text, which you can read in under 2 minutes.

Well this is a new record - with it being the largest @kotlinconf to date, with just under 3 months left, we're 8 tickets away from selling out. 2000 awesome people this year!

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Old rockabillies never die (we just go to Torremolinos and write articles about it in between naps). theguardian.com/travel/2024/…

There are only 150 tickets left for KotlinConf’24! x.com/kotlinconf/status/1755…