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Most people are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize. All it takes is one accident, infection, virus or stroke of bad luck. Your life can change in an instant, and no one is the exception. You can’t “try harder” your way out of it, and it’s not a personal failing.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

In 2025 we have just had a global internet outage caused by a null pointer introduced by a change with no tests and no config flags.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Weekend goals: - Booleans - Conditionals - Starting library of builtin functions e.g. is_empty, eq, reverse, trim Stretch goals: - Numbers - Start of a VS Code extension

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's so interesting that in some languages you almost never think about how object equality works. Not that it's not at play (it is) but you're not really exposed to it or forced to deal with it at all. It does play a role in your program at runtime.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's the weekend, baby

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

It's overwhelming how much dumb shit happening (and has been happening) in the world and it seems like it's going to get (a lot) worse before it gets better.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

While I'm already choosing chaos today

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

90% of programming is thinking and 10% is writing code and llms can't think.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Starting over is something I do a lot for side projects and it's an amazing learning tool.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I'm running on 3 hours of sleep today. Caused by a horrible head cold/sinus thing, a final gift our daughter brought home from her last day of kindergarten.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

There is a maximum amount of time each day you're supposed to focus on the world's problems instead of your own, after which you have a legitimate need for therapy on your thought processes being self-destructive. At some point you have to stop scrubbing your hands you are bleeding into the sink.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

"So 3 days then?"

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"You have to write tests at all levels for true coverage"

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

My recommendation for anyone wanting to write their first tech book is: multiply your expectations of how much effort it will take by at least 3. "But I have realistic expectations" - cool, multiply them by 3 "It can't be that bad" - sweet summer child, multiply them by 10

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Pointing isn't about time or even really about complexity. It's about alignment. "But it is about complexity" Kind of. I don't really care about complexity if we're building the wrong thing.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

That's hard to say. My dad always had computers at home, worked on them at work, plus computers at school. Probably an Apple II.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

Most metrics don’t measure quality. Coverage ≠ confidence. Bug counts ≠ risk. DORA ≠ trust. If the numbers look good but something still feels wrong, you’re not imagining it. I’m working on something for testers who want better answers. More soon.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool interview. Especially around converting a Starfox cartridge in to a SuperFX dev kit.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If you're going to use String as a field type, please document what the expected/acceptable values. Tests count for this BTW. Yes, I'm calling you out on not writing enough tests...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't firing from the hip. It's blind firing in to the holster. Who didn't see this coming?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Also… 🙈😳

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I feel no other context is needed.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

121 days to go! Early Bird pricing now live. 🧑‍🚀 Now’s the time to commit to curiosity, back your future self, and make space (pun intended) for learning that sticks. https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/testbash-brighton-2025 #TestBash #SoftwareTesting #QualityEngineering #ContinuousLearning

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Someone in the school pickup line is happy it's Friday 🎵

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Folks who push commits and open PRs without looking at the diff have an unstable energy 😅 Seriously though that was one of the best tips a senior dev gave me: push it up, review it yourself, add additional comments in the diff as needed

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

A pull request written by AI, directed/driven by comments. It reminds me of those cooking competitions where the contestant has to tell someone else how to cook the dish. I've tried this style of chat prompting to develop a feature. I was asked to trial it for work... It's maddening.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I'm taking a break from parsers and compilers to work on some gamedev stuff. I'm still using Rust but trying out Bevy again. Bevy is great except for the lack of documentation. There are lots of code examples but most of those are extremely simple use cases for any given feature.