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Fantastic day as usual @dddnorth.bsky.social 2025. #dddNorth

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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

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Had my talk “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” selected for @dddnorth.bsky.social in February!

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Registration now open for @DDDNorth 2025! The agenda has been published (just one or two slots left to fill... t.co/8qrDeR8IxK

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Writers, musicians, actors & other creators strongly oppose upending copyright law to favour AI companies, as suggested in the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan. As Kate Mosse says, seeking economic growth "cannot be on the basis of theft of our work". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Just submitted two talk ideas for the next DDD North 2025 coming up in February - one on evolutionary design and one on getting unstuck in problem solving and debugging.  www.dddnorth.co.uk

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“We create quick and dirty solutions…” “Actually … we compensate for the lack of speed with extra dirtiness”

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“A man, woman, boy, girl and a dog walk into a talent agent’s office…”

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Got visited by only two ghosts last night because I’m not doing too badly but there’s definitely stuff I still need to work on. My personal growth goal forChristmas 2025 is to get just the pointy dude

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New Christmas Movie theory: the prequel to John Mclane in “Die Hard” from 1988 is Kevin McAllister from 1990’s “Home Alone”. Mystery still surrounds why he changes his name after moving from Chicago to New York

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#HugOps for the Morrisons IT folk and the system that can’t do anything like the basics it used to yesterday

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@xlontrax.bsky.social I had a funny feeling you would be here :)

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#sketchnotes

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Yay! Need to come up with a suitably click-batey subject

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Introducing a new person to “Rolling Rocks Downhill” by @clarkeching.com with my last physical copy

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Don’t know why I did it, but I’ve got a feeling @woodyzuill.bsky.social is going to be pretty proud of me :)

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@sayedha.bsky.social I have recently seen some c# code in a standalone utility that instantiates an msbuild task (fills in properties) and calls execute(). This feels like a bad idea and I’m sure I saw a specific warning about this back in the day but can’t find it now. Is it awesome or not so much?

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SInce it's almost snow time here, a micro:bit snowglobe #microbit

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Best use story I have ever seen: “As a tester I want to make sure that there are no defects in the program” #agile

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People in (software) teams are not equal. This often leads to uncomfortable conversations during the tech leader training sessions I run, including the last one with Evelyn. It’s common for clients or participants to say, “But everyone in the team is equal.” A thread....

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Stressful day today

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Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

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RIP Andy Paley youtu.be/sCdnVEMcU-M #ThrillingAdventureHour

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I might be available for on-site work in Winnipeg in spring 2025 in these areas: - cultivating technical excellence (training? workshops?) - guiding emerging/struggling technical leaders (workshops? 1-on-1 sessions?) - #Lightweight/#Agile For the Confused (interesting ideas considered) hmu!

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Is there a word for a test framework that doesn’t fail when it absolutely should? I’m thinking ‘overly optimistic’ rather than plain old ‘broken’. #tdd

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At Summerhall in Edinburgh yesterday

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