Hey, my talk "6 Safe Refactorings for Untested Legacy Code" that I gave at @confooca.bsky.social 2025 is available online! How cool is that? 😄 So here it is: I'm presenting you with 6 moves you can use in VS Code to refactor untested code ✊ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YEm...

Why logic alone never convinces anyone open.substack.com/pub/fffej/p/...

What Actually Makes You Senior terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/w...

Hotelling's Law open.substack.com/pub/fffej/p/...

Recently heard this on Lenny's podcast: "The only ones who'll remember you working late are your kids"

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

Stop Avoiding Politics terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/s...

Claude told me that it doesn't automatically load CLAUDE.md files, despite the docs saying so. When I asked why it contradicted its own docs, it went and scanned them (consuming loads of tokens) and told me I was correct and it was wrong. You really can't trust this thing.

When you die, what is the last part of your body to stop working? Your pupils. They dilate.

This amazing video makes me think again that someone needs to build a BlueSky and Twitter account that literally just republishes all the cartoons, comedy sketches and radio shows mocking Trump from around the world.

Bullshit Detectors open.substack.com/pub/fffej/p/...

Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...

Check your context randsinrepose.com/archives/che...

New blog post: Growing other developers as a staff engineer Alternative title: How I use the Dreyfus skills model to help other engineers progress. barryosull.com/blog/growing...

The PM Litmus Test bloomt.org/p/the-pm-lit...

TrunkVer is a nice tool for generating version numbers on GitHub Actions. from my friends Raimo and Krys trunkver.org/

I literally had a conversation with one of the managers I work with where I asked him point blank: “if I brought you results that changed every time you looked at them, how would you feel about that?” He said he wouldn’t trust them. Then I asked him why he was trusting ChatGPT results.

2 MILLIONS de signatures contre la loi Duplomb, c'est extraordinaire ! Désormais on vise 2,4 millions pour que cette pétition devienne la pétition la plus signée de France. PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ, PARTAGEZ ! petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Using a builder to create your mocks is a clear signal that you are doing something wrong and should start looking for an alternative solution. (And that solution is probably an abstraction using domain language)

My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing it... So I did. We had a few drinks, pretty cool guy, said he works as a web developer.

The government is going to release Half Life 3 before they release the Epstein files

An initiative is an initiative...right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOFa...

TBM 364: Three Team Vibes open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...

We Tried That staysaasy.com/management/2... by @staysaasy.bsky.social

(comic) Temporary fix

The productivity paradox: Why smart developers initially struggle with AI coding tools: testdouble.com/insights/fro...

AVAILABLE NOW | One Big Question ❓📽️ @trishagee.bsky.social & @emilybache.com | Can You Measure The Value Of Refactoring ➡️ youtu.be/re7whFXlOFk

My new side project is live - @legacy-modernization.io I curated my knowledge of legacy modernization patterns into a website. I still have lots of content to add but the current version is hopefully a bit useful legacy-modernization.io #legacyModernization #architectureModernization

*Lots* of really good guidance and concrete tips on AI-assisted coding in this post!

It's me lol

Trying to solve with technology what should have been a conversation between teams ... a timeless classic.

#javascript is still so funny in 2025 😅 See this Date constructor? Let’s use a 0 based index for months, and a 1 based index for days 🫶 What’s wrong with you guyz ??!

From Whine to Win: Transforming Complaints into Actions candost.blog/transforming...

in the over 15 years i've been using database migrations i can't recall a single time i've ever used a "down" migration roll forward, not back

On burnout, quitting, and redefining what matters modernleader.is/p/quitting by @kvlly.com

Published: my notes of @flowcon.bsky.social #flowcon For the list of topics, see thread 🧵👇 thinkinglabs.io/tags/flowcon

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Leadership Fundamentals and Tech www.subbu.org/articles/202...

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

The Move Faster Manifesto brianguthrie.com/p/the-move-f... by @bguthrie.bsky.social

This is huge for me! I'm so excited to be joining @davefarley77.bsky.social, @trishagee.bsky.social, @kevlin.bsky.social @stevesmithtech.bsky.social and @kentbeck.com on the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel. Woohoo! I think we are all going to learn so much. youtube.com/shorts/eVQkE...

I feel there's too much focus on the two clowns in the US government, compared to understanding conditions that over years shaped the system in a way to make the two clowns in the US government possible.