Don’t recommend watch Severence S2E7 followed by the Black Mirror S7 trailer. Epic, but I think I need a hug now 😅

There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

Merry Christmas!

John McClane has acquired a machine gun. Ho ho ho.

We’ve all been there 😤

Hackmas season is here 🎄🎅🤶🎁 (Frank Carey of Bell Labs, 1985)

I always prefer my dates in ISO 8601 format... #ProgrammerPunvent

I’ve always assumed those Santa tracker web sites must use SQL behind the scenes because searching requires a “where Claus?”... #ProgrammerPunvent

Hello, I wrote a new talk that is ultimately about how misery is a dumb strategy egoless.engineering

Part 1 of 5 I assume.

"For each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change" @kentbeck.bsky.social September, 2012 Standing the test of time.

I got chiles They’re multiplying

When joining systems together you have to think about the failure cases. I don't often agree with Postel's law. When providing an API, the best response to invalid input is usually to reject the request. However, if you're an actor within a workflow, that might not be the best path. 🧵

Looking back, one of the best investments we made at @incident.io was the work we did to bake-in good observability from the start. I don't get to work in the code anymore but our tracing setup was such a superpower for understanding what was happening in the system. incident.io/blog/observa...

What if I want to create a shrubbery?

Now we know what the budget actually contained... As a working person my tax burden is virtually unchanged! As a business owner the goal is to pay as much CGT as possible at whatever the rate may be at that point in the future 🤘

Death to DST, the UK should adopt GMT year-around. gshutler.com/2024/10/deat...