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ryantk.uk
Software Engineer, social media avoider. Human. I remember damage, then escape #noAi
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If you see this post a walker

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If you see this, post a Walker

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Deming said, "Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product." 1/10

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it. You can donate to them here. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

submitted 60 days ago • 74 comments

The hardest part of working with a "user story" is capturing the user's story. 1/4

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

"Alegre, a barrister specialising in technology and human rights, cited the Post Office scandal “as a reminder of the dangers of putting too much faith in technology without the resources for effective accountability”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Keep AI away from public services for the love of god

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

“TDD doesn’t create good designs”. I see statements like this frequently. I agree. Programmers create better or worse designs through their design decisions. Their workflow can provide more or less, sooner or later, better or worse feedback. So can the social structure of their team.

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

1989 tech that makes today’s gear look boring.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

A great take on why planning and org alignment aren't great enablers of velocity, instead they're ways we cope with a lack of velocity. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/slow-deplo... Thanks @kentbeck.bsky.social!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLEX... You need Technicall Excellence so you can move your codebase quickly. That's Agile! @kevlin.bsky.social nails it as usual! Trying to measure productivity without taking this in account is a big red herring.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I will never use GitHub copilot to automate my coding, or any other AI based tools for that matter. No one asked but I feel the need to post it.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The Recurse of Factorial I've just revisited this essay on recursive functions, data structures, functional thinking and control flow, reformatting the code, fixing a couple of links, clarifying a few points and rewording some things. kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-recurse-...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

When even Bloomberg are on to you, the jig is up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQV-...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Was asked what my "Sprint planning secret" was. My secret is to do something effective instead of a fake-Agile waterfall-planning session complete with SWAG story-point estimates and tactical planning—something that makes no room for learning as we work. Instead, pick a single story. 1/5

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I pull on the "Oh, you must be using them wrong" thread with "A.I." coding assistants, it seems to lead to a lower quality bar. That's the "prompt engineering" secret sauce, apparently. Care less.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

What @hsbt.org shared is very important for the whole community. We all need to do our part to ensure that Ruby 3.4 is rock solid. If you maintain an app or a gem, run its CI against Ruby head. Find regressions & report them. Find incompatibilities & fix them in your code. This work helps us all.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

[blog] Using CoPilot-Like Tools is Not Pairing chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2024/11/usin...

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