Why "Build vs Buy" is the wrong question quii.dev/Why_%22Build...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Let's see how far I get writing learn rust with tests quii.github.io/learn-rust-w... #rust

My archery app, fits on a floppy about.fastarchery.co.uk/blog/fits-on...

I can only marvel at the logic that concludes that organisations who want greater predictability from software development should wait as long as possible to test their assumptions.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Testing the app again fastarchery.co.uk/share/c05e3c...

Software has always been buggy shit, but when you see stuff like this, you cant help but think this is the result of some mandated vibe coding shite (cant wait to use my pens on NYE 2199, when I am the ripe age of 216)

Learn Go with Tests, in Vietnamese! #golang sons-organization-15.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit...

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Long shot: Anyone who does #archery want to help me? I have been building a scoring app for the past 2 years. It's a PWA, you can try it for free right here about.fastarchery.co.uk . I am currently doing a closed test on google play store and need volunteers, please reach out if you can help

"Perhaps the real unlock of AI isn't this "10x" thing, it's that engineers finally have time to deeply understand what they're building, and why." This post by @quii.dev resonates a lot with me quii.dev/The_weight_o... / worth a read.

An abstraction having a property of being indeterministic cannot be an abstraction. If an abstraction is flaky (different from leaky) it pulls you back into the details to understand if it abstracted the thing in the way it should've abstracted.

The first two hours this morning

Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them. When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it. Wanna boost your dev productivity? * Write code that's easier to understand * Get better at understanding code

Testing the app fastarchery.co.uk/share/a49558...

obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin

One of my best work achievements this year was convincing book club to read a book about a struggling manufacturing plant in the 80s We discovered how the lessons they learned translate to software development. Everyone in tech should read The Goal

YAGNI is too often a plague infecting otherwise good software design. It's a knee-jerk reaction to "I don't have a clue, so I'll ensure that I don't need to have a clue."

It's Mental Math Monday! What goes on in your head when you're mentally calculating 45% of 40?

Another test

Testing

Very mature software engineering

“Teslas aren’t woke” insists UK Tesla rep and urges us to stand up for Elon Musk youtu.be/kuY_ywICSZs?...

Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency". "Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile." www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...

Have to do a presentation about engineering culture in a few weeks. Thought I'd spend a bit of time making some very business-serious slide images

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland". JFC

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is.... quite dystopian asm.org/Under-Review

Learn Go with Tests: Working without mocks quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang #tdd (not new, but I re-read it, thought I did a good job!)

I am tempted to adopt this formula across the widest possible range of topics "Regardless of whether one thinks that's a realistic option - which I do not - should we not have the courage to ask these questions?" - Suella Braverman What might we call these? A 'Braverman conjecture"?

funniest possible end game event has entered the field of play

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

berthub.eu/articles/pos... Great post, a lot of wisdom. How much of the discourse in tech is about writing things that barely last a year. How many systems have you made that have ran for 5+ years?

“Learn Go with tests” is a high watermark for both TDD resources and programming language introductions. Even if you have no interest in Go this is a fantastic introduction to TDD in action Thank you @quii.dev

I have added a short, possibly silly example usage of a custom iterator to the end of the mocking chapter in Learn Go with Tests. quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang

I'm sure there are wiser heads than mine who know why: How come there is no way to go from iter.Seq2 to iterate.Seq built into the standard library for #golang? (or is there and im not finding it?) Do you really have to write something like this?

"In 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors." very innovative, very cool

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

This is not a parody www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfY...

Merry Christmas

Favorite sentence of @quii.dev's Learn Go with tests so far... "This looks nice but while programming is a hugely subjective discipline, this is bad and wrong."

quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... by the inimitable @quii.dev. It's the resource I give to all my folks to get up to speed on Go as part of our onboarding.

From the experts on LinkedIn. If you subscribe to this POV, please find a way to change jobs and work with people who know what they're doing I have never worked in a place that would accept this in at least 15 years.

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.