AI really has made me a far more productive software engineer

After a cracking 6 months helping out plain.com with their DX and platform, I'll be looking for new work from the end of July. If you're after a full-stack engineer with experience working on web, mobile, backend, infra and AI projects, give me a shout!

I don't think I could go back to doing software development without LLMs any more, but I must say it's always somewhat disconcerting when your pair programming partner decides to become a pathological liar out of nowhere

A 16,000 lumen laser projector with a short-throw lens is a very bright projector. Source: my eyes

I have a new favourite Slack emoji

What's the cool way of parallelising tests in Rails these days? Knapsack or parallel_tests or something else?

I will never understand people who make squash / cordial by putting the water in first and cordial second

I had a (minimal) hand in this; it feels like such an upgrade, and a pleasure working with @ashugeo on the engineering – maybe designers should code after all

Manchester Airport remains the worst airport in the world. 2 hours to drop bags and go through security; what a shitshow

Seems legit, @dnsimple

Boring tweet: love me a database index. From 5 seconds for one query to 50ms with no extra lines of code, we love to see it

After a week or so of coding in nothing but C++ I really have no idea how full-time C++ developers do it

It appears that AWS' reaction to people accidentally exposing loads of credentials via S3 buckets is to make the process of creating a bucket with public objects in it nigh on impossible