Software developer working with Ruby, Swift, Go and Javascript.
Joined July 2009
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Oli Peate retweeted
22 Sep 2023
7 bins. SCRAPPED ❌
Meat tax. SCRAPPED❌
A windfarm in every bedroom. SCRAPPED❌
Folding up second homes when you're not using them. SCRAPPED ❌
Every policy that Rishi Sunak scrapped, as told by Colin from Portsmouth.
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Oli Peate retweeted
9 Jun 2023
I’ve heard a couple of you are refactoring code without approval. Let’s be respectful to the business. Do not refactor unless we have business approval and we’ve moved a refactoring card into play on the board.
#NotMyAgile
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Oli Peate retweeted
4 Apr 2023
I wish folks would think about the tradeoffs & incentives of team coding workflows instead of arguing about who to copy. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thi…
(P.S. Not a fan of being used for argument from authority. I know too much to trust me.)
31 Mar 2023
"Why you're not using PRs in your project?"
"Because we prefer to use CI/CD"
"But but..."
"Listen, @KentBeck invented CI, @davefarley77 invented CD. They both agree that PRs and feature branches are incompatible with CI/CD.
What do you know that they don't?"
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Oli Peate retweeted
19 Oct 2022
Look, I get it, compiling nokogiri is a great joke and it will never get old. But at least update your mental models:
Pre-1.11, 94% of users had to compile, and it was a struggle.
Post-1.11, 96% are installing precompiled libraries, instantly, it just works.
ALT Download statistics from Rubygems.org showing before-and-after numbers for precompiled and generic nokogiri gems.
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Oli Peate retweeted
25 Aug 2022
you either die a heroku or live long enough to become the villainku
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Oli Peate retweeted
26 Aug 2022
In honor of the passing of the Heroku free plan, a story about Pivotal Web Services, aka "p-dubs," "prod," aka the Portal Money Maker Project. 1/x
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Using private ActiveRecord models, as a precursor to engines, is a really elegant technique: kellysutton.com/2019/10/29/t… - thanks @KellySutton
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Oli Peate retweeted
29 Jul 2022
Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.
chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/
Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by @juliustens.
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Oli Peate retweeted
23 Jul 2022
The media talking about the queues at Dover
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Next month I’m riding from London to Brighton 🚲 and fundraising for the British Heart Foundation ❤️. Donations welcome: justgiving.com/fundraising/o…
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Oli Peate retweeted
1 Apr 2022
Many aspects of software are subject to entropy. It takes extraordinary effort to do any of these after the fact:
• Simplify features
• Increase code quality
• Make designs more opinionated
• Reduce build & test duration
• Decrease resource consumption
Later ≈ Never
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Petitioning @github to add chef-kiss to their supported emojis
11 Nov 2021
Normalize positive comments on PR reviews!
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Oli Peate retweeted
30 Nov 2021
Thinking of designing a new open source license for small personal projects that have the bad luck of becoming immensely popular.
The "You Break It, You Buy It" (YBIYBI) license would stipulate that whoever reports a bug is subsequently obligated to fix it.
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Oli Peate retweeted
11 Nov 2021
Normalize positive comments on PR reviews!
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Oli Peate retweeted
9 Nov 2021
🎲 Using random data in regular RSpec unit and integration tests is just asking for intermittent CI failures. Don't do it! And yes, that includes using Faker in your factories.
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Oli Peate retweeted
18 Oct 2021
that colleague who touches your screen
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