. @boicy.bovon.org interviews @russmiles.bsky.social on CNAPPs and their role in security, innovation, and collaboration. Key points: CNAPPs boost teamwork & platform engineering’s future is AI-driven with commercial potential.

PREACH, Ed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Assigning agency to techniques seems to me to be an attempt to avoid responsibility. “I used TDD & got poorly designed/unreliable/hard to understand code—not my fault.”

A literary festival and #Eastbourne go together like tea and a great book (on the craft of writing in this case by the awesome Ursula K. Le Guin, “Steering the Craft” — highly recommended!). Help us make Eastbourne Literary Festival a reality here: www.eastbourneliteraryfestival.com/contact

Today I got this little project off the ground after some wonderful support from the local council and our awesome Member of Parliament. Hello, World to the new Eastbourne Literary Festival 🤞 www.eastbourneliteraryfestival.com

Evening’s readings.

Join me at @gotocon.com GOTO CPH 2025 with this early ticket offer

Automation isn’t a panacea. @courtneynash.bsky.social explores how it plays complex roles in software incidents, emphasizing: Humans' critical role in recovery, The need to feed incident insights back into systems.

If you're looking for a friendly community of writers who write of and about software, the Software Inklings is here for you: www.softwareinklings.com No strong marketing just a growing community of people that care about writing and each other. Please feel free to spread the word ❤️

Schrödingers documentation: If there are docs, noone will read them. If there are no docs, everyone will complain.

Great (technical) product owners and leads have at least one skill very much in common. They can all actively listen. #productowner #colleboration #teamwork open.substack.com/pub/russmile...

I've been so looking forward to this interview coming out. Barbara Oakley was an absolutely joy to interview. I'm incredibly lucky with all the wonderful, amazing people I get to interview for the lovely people at @gotocon.com but I have to admit this one is a personal favorite.

I’m creating a little community for writers in software over on LinkedIn. If that sounds itneresting to you, come join the “Software Inklings” - www.linkedin.com/groups/13122...

Inspired by my time at @ox.ac.uk I’ve created a little group for writers by writers in software: The Software Inklings. www.linkedin.com/groups/13122...

Play. Why not?

Clarity sometimes comes with a brisk wind breaking up the clouds over the hills

Hate the early starts; love the early morning light

Storm over the sea

Really enjoyed this talk by @kevlin.bsky.social that explores, demystifies, and explains #TechnicalDebt in better ways in the context of software development and code bases. youtu.be/9iLxR1h2208?...

Ready to do my second to last talk of the year: “The 12 Days of Christmas: Platform Edition” Evolving DevOps to Platform as a Product is an excellent journey. It’s time to look back and celebrate and look forward and salivate! P.S. Thank you for my t-shirt choice today @gotocon.com ❤️

Every time I talk about learning to read code, a million* people chime in with "let's just write readable code". This misses the point. Yes, please do that. But when you inherit a codebase, and when you let AI generate your code, you don't have any choice. trishagee.com/2020/09/07/r...

Ok, it’s the first Sunday of Advent and therefore acceptable to start getting Christmassy. Should you be in the market for a seasonal historical crime story, I have this collection of 3 Young Bruno novellas that would make a lovely gift for all your friends & family 🗡️🩸

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

Getting our advent on…

Tomorrow, it begins. May you all enter the gates of #Whamhalla with heads held high. Unless it's only Dec 2nd. That's just shameful, like you aren't even trying. #Whamageddon #LastChristmas

In software, make things "opt-in" rather than "try desperately to dig out of".

Early morning near The Bohemian. Devonshire Quarter, Eastbourne.

Happy December 1st!

Three years ago I got a spot of bad news. Cancer. Several months of amazing and gruelling exploration and then treatment, and I celebrate every August my cancer free. For now, but then for now is all we ever get. Each year I celebrate in late November and early December that strange gift ❤️

My company this evening ❤️

Such beauty in prose and code…

Yeah, I know. Too early. Step back Grinch 😂

Free shipping this weekend, lads - best way to support independent bookshops (and striking Amazon workers) 💪🏼

As a general note, when designing an SDK, try to avoid forcing design decisions onto your users, as to how they write their code. You may believe that "you know best" but you cannot know their context. If you want to be opinionated, provide defaults, but allow an escape route.

Books are art forms. Especially well-read second-hand varieties.

Robert Icke’s Oedipus w/ Mark Strong & Lesley Manville is the best theatre I’ve seen this year, & they’re doing an extra matinee on Dec 19 for under-30s, all tix @ £10 - pls do share if you know a young person who might enjoy a bit of incest & murder: www.soniafriedman.com/under-30s?fb...

Pls do share this - it’s a brilliant opportunity for young people to see an extraordinary play that currently only has £200 tickets left 😬 (if you can pass for under-30, now’s your chance…)

Readying for the first dinner with friends of the season ❤️

The view may be incredible at the end, but the moments on the way with the people are what you’ll remember with happy tears in your eyes.

A home is more than just a building because of the memories, the moments, it hosts. Many moments coming this season to be lit by this beauty ❤️

‘tis the season to toast tummies in front of the fire, so I’m reliably informed by Sophie ❤️

“On this platform of peace, we can create a language To translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other” — Maya Angelou

Dreaming of Versailles again

“On this platform of peace, we can create a language To translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.” - Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace www.oprah.com/oprahshow/ma...

My alphabetical history of software in three-letter acronyms (or HoS in TLAs) continues this week with G is for GNU: the story of free software, laser printers, MIT, Linux, the General Public Licence, OpenWRT, and what I think the GNU project *should* have been called: youtu.be/v_PWWQ-S9_Y

“I can therefore I am” Personal motto inspired by Simone Weil.

The guitar will be back next year ❤️ If anyone is interested in “The Domain Driven Design of Chaos Engineering” talk, just let me know. Les (Paul) will be accompanying me 😂

When people come and go from your life ❤️ replace he with she, or they, as you need… “You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile because he has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that he’ll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all he’s left. 1/3

Da boss ❤️