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Published: Environment Branches Harm Quality Environment feature branches were popularised in the 1990s. Since the 2000s, this practice has become increasingly rare because of the awareness of its costs and risks. Yet, some organisations still rely on them. thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

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Well done to Zelenskyy for standing up to Putin’s attack dogs.

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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“Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK. Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened” – excellent article by @message4bob.bsky.social www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/paper...

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You’d think there is nothing else going on in software development other than AI

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I asked CoPilot to turn some documentation to a script. It did it generally well but made a couple of silly mistakes (off by one) that an inexperienced dev would have found it hard to spot.

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It’s never too early to start teaching event driven coding

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Are we undervaluing the benefit of junior developers? GenAI won’t kill junior devs - if anything, it proves why we need them. Coding is the easy part; real value comes from inquisitiveness, problem-solving, and teamwork. Here’s why juniors matter 👇 blog.robbowley.net/2025/02/11/a...

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RPC with regex is a little too close to reality 🤣

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Tech needs to get it's story straight. They push the narrative of a hyper connected society through tech. Be anything from anywhere, collaborate in the metaverse etc.. but not for their own staff who have to RTO

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New year's blog post on sources of resistance to XP, and helping teams overcome it without coercion. benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2025/01...

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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but pushing it -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

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Published: Continuous Integration, Only Two Tools! To achieve Continuous Integration, we only need two tools. The rest are practices. The main reason teams struggle to adopt true Continuous Integration. Tooling is easy while practices require deliberate practice. thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

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The amount of bribery I have to use as a parent would put a banana republic to shame.

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The next round of Silicon Valley startups will exploit the dysfunctions of the American government. “Look ma, the tech sector is booming”

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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

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Many years ago, I went to the Topography of Terror Museum in Berlin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topogra...). What I saw there scared me. The exhibitions mapped out the rise of Fascism and the Nazis and how the dehumanisation of the Jews was made acceptable and I'm watching the same play out again.

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On the 21st Jan at 6.30 pm NZ I am hosting Hazel Weakly at Virtual DDD. Hazel is going to be talking about Abstractions (her blog has many gems and we are focusing on this https://buff.ly/3PDyLKR ) It's going to be great Sign up: https://buff.ly/4gXMGr5

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I’m reading about decision making in systems and love that it includes moral framing. Quote from George Lakoff’s book on Moral Polictics

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Something has to change with Observability tooling costs. It’s a Damocles sword. It’s getting hard to build a consistent Observability story when I can’t compare costs between providers and extra pricing for additional features means it’s harder to build a culture of curiosity

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A Month in System Seeing: Journal Starter Kit (2025 edition) This pulls the #AdventOfSystemSeeing prompts together in one place, and adds several more to make it a month. PDF: www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...

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Tech still trying to make smart fridges a thing since the 2000s.

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a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen"

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Watch this talk by Kenny Baas-Schwegler and you will get a deeper understanding of how patriarchy influences software design and practical steps you can immediately apply to foster a shift towards a more inclusive environment: https://buff.ly/4gq6l2Z Join us again in 2025!

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#AdventOfSystemSeeing so far: 1: Draw a Bicycle bsky.app/profile/ruth... 2. Draw Your Org bsky.app/profile/ruth... 3. Explore System Concepts bsky.app/profile/ruth... 4. Ackoff of Systems bsky.app/profile/ruth... 5. Attending (more) Closely bsky.app/profile/ruth...

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It’s always DNS and multiple monitor support that is broken.

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An odd trend I’m noticing: A lot more startups (esp AI startups) bragging about how much they work: in terms of well past midnight, 6-7 days per week, 12+ hour days etc. What is the end game here? Good job grinding. But it’s v hard to innovate + ship quality sleep deprived…

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We need to have a talk, y'all. Stories about tools are only fun if you first discover a problem, solve it, and THEN add the shiny tool Wanna show me your fancy hammer? Nobody cares. Talk about the nail, the rock you first drove the nail in with, and now... The hammer looks pretty cool, doesn't it?

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