I'm very excited to be conducting this fabulous production of the iconic musical CHESS in a few weeks 🎶 – at Eastleigh, England
Have you booked your tickets yet for this musical extravaganza, coming to @PointEastleigh from 23 to 26 November?
🎫 here: thepointeastleigh.co.uk/even…
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With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)
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One of the things that surprised me following last week's Jepsen report on Radix DLT (jepsen.io/analyses/radix-dlt…) was seeing both blockchain/DLT people *and* the database community go "Hang on, 16 transactions per second can't be right"--and expecting wildly different figures.
Fantastic deep dive on the UK Covid Dashboard! techcommunity.microsoft.com/… – at Eastleigh, England
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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.
How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.
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What is the most mind-blowing AWS service, you ask?
It's not EC2. It's not S3.
It's IAM.
500 million API calls EVERY SECOND 🤯... Imagine that.
Neat library for defining and running abstract state machines in Go. cc: @Lukasaoz who loves a good state machine and I haven't spoken to in far too long 😀 developers.redhat.com/articl…
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"Not sure why you don't have this yet. It's very simple code; I'll send a PR"
ALT Iceberg Above water: writing the code Below water: * testing it on all platforms * interaction with other configuration * performance * security * documentation * localization * interaction with future features
When you manage to remember that line you analysed months ago... 😀 #chess lichess.org/BNS5zWPB/white
I hit 2100 rating on #lichess rapid!! Huge thanks to @GmNaroditsky and @hellokostya for their amazing YouTube videos - they have improved my play so much. What next?! (don't say OTB, I've never played OTB and it sounds terrifying) 😁
Goddamit I miss Swift
The use of Task as a shared await-able future in this hidden code sample is the answer to a dozen questions I had about async composition in Swift 5.5.
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It was great to play my first chess game against an International Master 🥳 Of course I lost, but I was proud @fins0905 called it a battle afterwards! lichess.org/1SVKbIQ2
I don't know how many times I've watched this video. Best live demo ever, see an industry change in an instant. youtu.be/wW9CAH9nSLs