Just published a post: 'Reinventing the Wheel, Now At A Bargain Price!'
It tries to answer the question: has the rising cost of using third party libraries, and the lower cost of cutting code, changed the economics of writing your own libraries?
Enjoy!
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I've moved over to bsky. Aif you want to see my 'too hot for linkedin' posts follow me at:
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I'm giving bsky a try, as Twitter is now less vibrant than LinkedIn...
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If you're on there let me know here, or follow me and I'll follow back.
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People tell me making software is different from manufacturing hardware. But reading 'ASML's Architects' (amazon.co.uk/ASMLs-architect…) shows there's nothing fundamentally different about these human endeavours.
A 🧵 about DevOps, 80s style in manufacturing...
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I think this comes under the heading of 'engineer spent much time analysing a decision which, to the outsider seems blindingly obvious'.
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alol'd at my son's quote on seeing this:
'Needs immediate privatisation'
So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from @northernassist telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time.
I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid.
A thread 🧵
25 year old me: if I don't write this software, some other idiot will, and we don't want that.
49 year old me: if I don't write this software, some other idiot will, and I'm fine with that.
Pretty fantastic week, all in all!
A trip to New York beginning with a visit to watch the Pirates play at Yankee Stadium from the press box.
Then attended the Open Source Finance Forum in Times Square, a great location to hear about the latest from like-minded geeks.
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Then celebrated my birthday with my old friend and his family in New Jersey, and came home to fantastic presents from my nearest and dearest: a framed picture of the first Harry Beck tube map, and a set of imagined Detectorists book covers!
#detectorists
Fame at last!
I've had a piece published in the Financial Times' FTAdviser section!
It's a piece advising on how to 'help your firm adapt to change'.
Enjoy!
ftadviser.com/better-busines…
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The bundle Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way by Ian Miell is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $38.98; get it for $17.49 with this coupon: leanpub.com/b/learngitbashan… @ianmiell #Devops













