ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship

applying for jobs again

Gleam sponsorship has been slowly dropping over the last few months. The project is free from influence by any corporation, but it means the team and I need your support! Just a few dollars makes a big difference, so please sponsor if you appreciate Gleam. github.com/sponsors/lpil

Testing Rule of Thumb: if some pieces of data are in the assert they must appear in the arrange or act phase first.

At this point I'm wondering if they're just teasing us on purpose

I quit Twitter before it was cool. I walked away from 3.2M followers, and absolutely nothing changed in my life, other than fewer garbage people disrupting my peace. There was little value then, and there is even less, now. Staying on Twitter is a moral and ethical failing, disguised as business.

For me, one of the best definitions of Test-Driven Development comes from the paper "Mock Roles, Not Objects" by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Tim Mackinnon, Joe Walnes. http://jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf #tdd #unittests #softwaredesign

Among the amazing folk I got to work with/learn from: ExploreDDD @lanooba.com @indu-alagarsamy.bsky.social @patandkat.com DDDEU @rebeccawb.bsky.social @settling-mud.bsky.social @johncutle.fish @andrewhl.bsky.social @tekiegirl.bsky.social @tcoopman.bsky.social @neolytian.bsky.social

Guillaume Hivert, VP of Engineering at Steerlab, shares how being a Gleam business has been the best choice they have made!

The Call for Proposals for #DDDEU is open until December 5, 2025. We're looking for hands-on labs and talks. No need to submit fully formed abstracts: if you submit a rough idea we like, we'll have a conversation with you to see where it could go: buff.ly/us1O2wz

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

My own emerging thought on this is that the "Bluesky is Dead" crowd are like people who break up with a longtime partner, get together with someone who superficially resembles the former partner, and then are annoyed the new partner persists in having their own personality and preferences

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic. By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that

PROTIP: did you know the folding desk in hotel rooms can also be used for ironing your clothes?

A sneak peek of the WIP theming support for Fluxon UI (should take a few more days). Also supporting the inner|outer affixes to the other field-based components + a bunch of other cool stuff! 🙌 #elixirlang

✨ Powered by AI

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Diverse teams and psychologically beneficial cultures are more innovative and more successful at solving problems

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

“When programmers are having a problem, their first attempt to solve it will almost always involve writing a program.” — Gerald Weinberg

The other LLM products may be less obvious about it than gork, but they're still putting a finger on the scales.

Trump is using your tax dollars to give himself a birthday parade anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-autocr...

it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are

This is incredible

LLM being a bit too enthusiastic: "This is a fantastic error to encounter" 😅

“I asked ChatGPT”

After having used a split keyboard for about 5 years now, I don't think I can ever go back. Just a couple of hours for a few days working on a laptop and I already have issues with my upper back.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was. This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living.

As usual, I want to force UI designers to either take their glasses off, or put different ones on. www.theverge.com/news/682636/... "What I want is LESS contrast in my interface" said no one over 40 ever.

LiveView devs – new is coming 👀 New LiveDebugger release will be soon live – here's what to expect👇 🔥 Firefox extension 🔥 Global callback traces view 🔥 Callback execution time metrics 🔥 Enhanced redirect debugging All coming soon with LiveDebugger 0.3.0 🔥🔥🔥

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

How I would love it if Spotify had some actual music organisation features. At this point I'm not even waiting for it anymore because it seems like they will never be added :-( At some point I'll bite the bullet and switch to something else.

🧵 I’ve reviewed conference talk submissions for +10 years. Here are my tips: (Side note, I've sinned against all these tips myself 🙃)

Elixir 1.19 is a banger! Honestly I'm so pleased with the direction that #ElixirLang is going. My programs just get faster and more correct every time. I just know that we're in good hands. Thank you to everyone on the team for your hard work! github.com/elixir-lang/...

I've heard a version of this from a number of folks, so it seems worth pulling out: Going all-remote with a core group of folks who got their start working in an office together is MATERIALLY DIFFERENT. It is WAY EASIER than trying to form & storm & norm with an all-remote team, from scratch.

Fascist authoritarian coup. You gotta learn to say it. You're watching it happen. If we just start calling it that, we'll see the responses start to change.

Now we are done, and already one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. 🙏🏻🎉💙 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @settling-mud.bsky.social @johncutle.fish

I've literally had AI boosters tell me "AI is not biased, you're just bad at prompting" because they don't actually understand how bias works or how an LLM is productized outside of a chatbot. The scariest thing about this tech isn't when you talk to it. It's when you don't see it at all.

Would we know if we already reached artificial general intelligence (AGI). If I was an AGI I'm not sure I would be doing a lot different. We're spending huge amounts on infrastructure and improvements basically what AGI would want. And in the meantime it's domesticating us via some "fun" tools. 🤷

“The way you work is as much a part of your product as the product itself” #dddeu

it's amazing how quickly "bulleted list of sentences with bold headers and creative use of synonyms" has gone from inoffensive to 🚨this wasn't written by a human🚨

About one hour ago I observed the reverse doorway effect, when leaving the room I remembered something that I couldn't remember at all while in the room. "We don't think about a context, we think in a context" @cyetain.com at #dddeu

On stage in Antwerp, Kiran Prakash (Thoughtworks) is delivering his talk "What we talk about when we talk about Data Products." #datameshlive #dataproducts

From an engineering perspective, software wants to be decoupled. From a business value perspective, software wants to be deeply interconnected. That's the fundamental friction that software design, and Domain-Driven Design specifically, attempts to address.

"We have this mythical person in the DDD community: the domain expert" @settling-mud.bsky.social in the keynote with @johncutle.fish #dddeu