writing tools that heckle devs to fix code - @ClojureBridgeLN coach - live-tweeting tech conferences and events of #London Also at #hachyderm

London, England
Joined June 2011
All talk details day 1 and 2 are now available reclojure.org/#schedule the program is stellar! Grab your seat: eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclojure… Info about workshops will follow soon (separate ticket).
Replying to @jyhsu
Staff engineer: but no seriously, who asked you to do this, and what are we hoping to get out of it, and if we don't do it, do you think they'll just forget they asked?
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some people weren't around when it was cool to have 5+ years of uptime and it shows
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"Let's do a WhatsApp audio call so I can do housework while talking to you" is the new "Let's be besties" 🥰
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Being friends with your coworkers makes everything better, but the systems we have for creating these friendships also end up reinforcing systems of marginalisation, and I have no idea what to do about that and am kinda hoping someone else does. notebook.drmaciver.com/posts…
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📢Well-meaning managers/allies: Black and brown employees don’t *always* want to talk about race. Here are some guideposts to acknowledge their humanity without overdoing it 📢:
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It's hard to do better than Sutcliffe's eight symptoms of bureaucratic breakdown when analyzing org internals.
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we should make it a norm that every open source project has an open "issue" serving as a guest log for people to specifically write nice things about it
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Now that the American experiment has failed, I made a library for writing CSS properly 🧐 github.com/jevakallio/css-pr… You're welcome!
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The largest amount of tea you can store at a given location is defined in the C99 programming language standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999) as OOLONG_MAX
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The happiest memories in my career include shared moments of fun, joy, celebration, putting out fires, launching new things etc. with coworkers. If I worked remote all the time (in this “WFH forever” utopia some people are so desperate for), I’d be deprived these moments.
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Write code that checks code Maybe that sounds redundant Really it is not
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is it you?
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We might think our servers and black boxes run on some weird fucking magic shit but we got nothing on Taiwanese Kuai Kuai (乖乖) reliability engineering rituals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuai_K…
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Traditional Polish folk embroidery #womensart
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The 10x in 10x developer means 10x the tabs open
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We all agree that March was six years long and April has lasted six minutes, right? Can we get some sort of explanation on that. Genuinely baffled by how elastic time is right now, but more by how we seem to be experiencing it in similar ways.
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