brmatt.dev
Software Engineer in London
Twitter handle was @BRMatt
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Too true. We had some builders up repointing the walls last year and when they got to the chimney (directly above the neighbour’s bench) they found it could be pushed over
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Was distractedly washing a kitchen knife and ripped through the tendon and an artery in my thumb
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Ooh that sounds snazzy 👀
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I think that’s literally what the folks at @incident.io / @lawrencejones.dev / @martylambert.bsky.social are building?
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I mean, Tuple has also been around for years too (~2019), and lets you use apps other than VSCode. Liveshare is good, but it can be frustrating when you’re trying to show something outside of the editor.
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It’s such a great app! It feels like you’re sat next to your pair - completely different class to screen sharing in zoom/meet, and has nice touches such as obscuring sensitive apps like 1Password from your pair
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There was something on the news recently about similar “misbehaving machine” issues www.bbc.com/news/article..., seems wild they can be so obviously broken. Have you also seen money saving expert’s article on fines? www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/priv...
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Wait, you have to choose the duration up front but also pay when you leave? That sounds like a helluva dark pattern
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+++++ strong agree, wish I could tell Tesco to just include it in every delivery
Also, sprinkling za’atar over it for fancy points when having people over (or you just want to feel fancy)
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Also, Royal Mail and the Post Office are separate companies - was it a Royal Mail collection point you went to rather than a post office?
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For sure. We tried to make it a little less “you vs them” by having our slackbot report “denied” reviews in the same way as comments - “X has left some feedback on your PR”
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I heard it may be possible to cancel early by first switching to a different subscription, then cancelling within the 14 day refund period of the new subscription. Worth verifying first, but could get you out of that prison.
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In that example there was a preamble that established longterm challenges we faced as an engineering team, and how we’d have to address them at a high level, but I’d need to read the book to know if that counts as a “diagnosis”.
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*nods enthusiastically*
Thanks, that’s interesting food for thought.
When you say “who are you competing against” are you expecting engineering strategy to _explicitly_ derive from a broader company strategy?
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Will have to read the articles, but would you say a set of “principles” that a team refers to and uses to guide how work is chosen and planned counts as a strategy (strategies?), or does it have to be singular headline?
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If the AWS bill is 5 figures, and has more obvious savings that allow it to be halved, then trying to change JSON parsing is absolutely premature.
You’re right that knowing where to optimise before it’s painful can yield dividends.
But claiming all optimisations are equally appropriate is silly.
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Yes, I’m sure, but your opening point was that it’s _always_ appropriate to make those kinds of optimisations, and that saying otherwise is “white belt” thinking, which comes off as crass.
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But equating “making JSON parsing slightly better” with the AWS bill becoming untenable and burning through runway is a strawman argument.
There are easier ways to cut an AWS bill, and the biggest savings are probably unrelated to that JSON parser.
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If you’re saying “it’s worth taking time to think about the design of a system, and its implications, before building”, then sure, that’s super valuable to do.
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It was premature because the existing performance was “good enough” that we couldn’t justify migrating the clients to use the optimisation, so it sat behind a feature flag for several years before we removed it.
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It feels like you’re talking about a very specific type of optimisation? I’ve definitely seen optimisations from a “gotta save some CPU cycles when decoding blobs of JSON” mindset, when really “let’s avoid hitting this code path as much” would’ve been better. The former was definitely premature.
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Looks like you did a nice route!
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You’re visiting France to purchase guttering?
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Are people outside the conference welcome too, or you’d prefer just attendees?
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There’s probably an accredited course just for that
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1. Incomes have gone up over the last few years, but this has all been eaten up by rising costs.
People we help with debt are now £13 in the red every month after paying for basics. Pre-covid most people were about breaking even.
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Arggh had a coffee shop recc but it seems to be permanently closed. What kind of thing are you looking for? This bar was small, chill and had nice cicchetti. There was also a small art studio ~100m west of it selling some nice prints maps.app.goo.gl/VkuPV5eqVuLq...
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Yeah they’re great, so glad they were able to graduate from the hole in the wall to a proper place where you can sit in and get dinner. Are you going to start spray painting your office? 😉
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Are you going to show them LOK too?
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If you're asking specifically about email delivery, we send non-transactional email with Postmark (via a messaging stream) and we're pretty happy with it.
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(As an adult)
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Yeah the later seasons really hit hard on the story arcs/lessons about empathy. I remember crying at little soldier boy.
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Gotcha, thanks. Was hoping I wouldn’t have to buy so many, but at least there’ll be spares 😅
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Can I ask where you got the temperature sensors from? Alibaba, or somewhere else? Seems like they aren’t sold by many retailers