Culture is set by actions and not words. A culture is what you do, not what you say.

I’ve been put on documentation duty 😭

Are we going full tilt to… please maximise your tokens. Don’t use them on simple tasks pretty please 🙏. Budget properly… I can’t wait for consultants telling us how to manage our AI token allowance 😅.

We don’t give senior titles out because everyone is one…

We are going to shift from one bullshit story estimation of t shirt sizes to token estimates aren’t we 🥲

Today is the day I’m fighting the pipeline. Finally got approval to switch everything to pnpm 😎

Could I make my return to nuxt and vue. 🤞 hopefully

Pay lots of money to get AI to push crappy code? YES!! Pay for visual regression? NO!! Too expensive!! Invest time into pipeline to make sure AI code is governed. No!! Makes merging to production slower. Make it faster to push code to production by removing stuff from the pipeline? YES!!

Ironic watching Microsoft build goodwill through VS Code and GitHub, then start rug pulling trust in the AI era. Google too: years building strong developer ecosystems, now “progress at all costs.” Everyone racing to be first to AI(LLM). Stability and trust become optional.

One of the most common office dynamics is when someone asks for solutions to a problem they’ve already decided is impossible. “We need to reduce bugs.” “Maybe we improve test coverage.” “Yes, but that slows delivery.” “Maybe we tighten ownership.” “Yes, but teams are already overloaded.”

Greenfield systems built primarily with AI assistance in 2024–2028 will, in 2035–2040, present the same archaeology problem that COBOL systems present today: large volumes of functional code whose internal logic is opaque, whose authors are no longer available, and whose documentation is inadequate.

Returning to my roots. Building an assembly game to run on raspberry pi.

The four day work looks more and more likely. I’ve ran out of tokens!!! Go home 😂

AI bubble “AI will make everything cheaper and faster” But Baumol says “Only the scalable parts get cheaper”

Who should we layoff to boost our stock prices.

In a meeting someone asked if I knew Monte Carlo. I confidently said, “Yeah, repeated random sampling.” They stared at me and went, “No… the one with yachts.” 😬

AI/LLM gives 10× productivity. But look around what have we actually made better? It almost feel’s like it doesn’t give us 10× outcomes. It gave us 10× motion.

Ai generated text tends to feel robotic and lack emotion. Sorry that’s just how I write 🙃 it seems.

Short term pain…. Long term pain….

Time is a flat circle.… We can now move faster. But the problem isn’t moving slow. It’s now moving completely in the wrong direction.

People keep asking if I’m back… I didn’t really have an answer. But yeah. I’m thinking I’m back.

We added 200 new tags to Microsoft Clarity so we can be more data-driven. Every meeting:

Had to build an agent network 🙃. Sub workers are named mr meeseeks. The longer it runs the more unhinged it gets

Extra, extra: In 6–12 months we will once again hear next year that AI could replace software engineers in 6–12 months

No internet and no electricity until 8am. Books in candle light it is then :)

Windows 10 an OS with spyware Windows 11 spyware with an OS

Stuck in review duty after the code freeze the changes and commits are insane 😭

Today I got to sit back and build a command line tool. No AI just going through the motions 😁

"Microslop 365 Copilot"

it involves being consciously unconscious

“Care doesn’t grow from fixing another person. It grows from the courage to stand with them without becoming their solution.”

Happy new year!!

I’m not wishing everyone a “wonderful” day, because for many it isn’t. For some, it’s the first Christmas after a divorce. After a loss. After leaving their country and family. For others, it may be the last one with someone they love.

Does anyone have good references or websites they use with regional pricing? To show the regional pricing options

ME REALISING I’M ABOUT TO SMELL LIKE LYNX AFRICA in 6 days time.

Code freeze: “Ship everything now”. “No wait that’s broken”. “Add this”. “Now we’re missing something we didn’t think of”. “Okay this feature doesn’t make sense”. “Just one last thing before freeze”. “Build failed”. “Fix it.”. “Build failed again”. “Oh someone else touched this area.”

We ban athletes from betting because it could influence the game. Makes sense. So why do we allow politicians to trade stocks that could influence their decisions? Hard to defend that double standard.

Im hoping to open source some bits in the coming weeks. Stuff used internally that might be of some use. Currently resting though due to sickness.

On call tonight yikes!!

Just got rid of my 90 tabs! I now have 10 groups with over 200+ tabs yikes

Today is refactoring the dashboard tiles. Finally got buy in that loading all the data upfront is killing us. Now time to architecture it all out.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

MRs be like # this prints hello world fmt.println(“hello world”)

Decided to play around with leptos with a nice and easy pokemon api project. Been using rust a fair bit for some APIs. danielphilipjohnson.github.io/leptos-poked...

AWS deny anything is wrong and says it’s operating as normal emmm kay

AWS down again???? Also Microsoft maybe lol

Just reduced a rogue project that was 5.2mb to 1mb 😂. Ask me anything

I’ve survived a huge upgrade plan. We need to get to next js 16 at some point in the future. Currently stuck at 14. We have lots of microfrontend stuff stuck at react 18. A bunch of iframe and a custom form library. Currently updating them all the react 19 and then after that it’s Eslint upgrade

Deployed Astro with only Astro components to GitHub, leptos project and then a next.js project. An Astro react project is almost on its way 😅. I’m enjoying the just build it and forgetting this has to be super professional to be portfolio piece. It’s been a cure for my burnout 😅 so far

Images fixed what a pickle deploying to GitHub with next js 😂. Glad my others are Astro