Developer @ Masabi. TDD zealot, cyclist, bassist and recent convert to the joys of woodworking
Yorkshire
Joined November 2012
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Colin Vipurs retweeted
any time a jr DMs me with a question I always ask them to re-ask in the team channel so that it's searchable for future ref, and for others to see - maybe others have the same prob or they have the answer and will get to it faster than I can
I was told this is rude and makes them anxious. is that so wrong??????
Colin Vipurs retweeted
If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶
If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶
If it's flaky and you know it, and you really wanna show it
If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶
Colin Vipurs retweeted
#TechnicalWriting: Prefer the active voice over the passive voice. For example:
❌ “The XYZ object is returned by this API.”
✅ “This API returns the XYZ object.”
Colin Vipurs retweeted
If you give your code to a competent programmer who's never seen it and they ask any questions, you've failed. Every question is a defect. Fix it.
Colin Vipurs retweeted
Great to see so many of the @Masabi_com crowd at our London office party last night, including music from one of our in-house bands featuring @cdpjenkins, @iamkenloh, Andrey and Doug, and also amazing double-decker bus cake from the positivity legend that is Jason Parmar.
Colin Vipurs retweeted
"Kotlin is now the recommended programming language for server-side JVM usage at Google, set to replace Java while still providing access to a large existing Java ecosystem."
youtu.be/o14wGByBRAQ
Colin Vipurs retweeted
idea: a gameshow called Imposter Syndrome where you take 10 senior developers and tell them that one of them is actually just a sales guy who's been taught to say DevOps buzzwords. to win, they have to figure out who the fake dev is. the trick: there is no sales guy
Colin Vipurs retweeted
the best engineers i've worked with are not ones who write "great" code (whatever that means!) but instead are the ones who are extremely skilled communicators.
Colin Vipurs retweeted
Looking forward to this hive.co.uk/Product/Kevlin-He… , published tomorrow and featuring a contribution from my colleague @tddmonkey
Colin Vipurs retweeted
Found out from @paltaie that @FortniteGame stays reactive with Akka in the backend. That's one Fortnite fact I'm pretty sure my kids don't know!
Read more about our upcoming Reactive Systems & #akka event in our interview with @paltaie now on the blog - buff.ly/2MTJUpV
Colin Vipurs retweeted
TfL analysis revealed that the ACTUAL (not theoretical) people moved on a cycle lane is 5x more efficient than the vehicle lanes which have cars and buses. 2k per hour on half-width bike lane, 1.5k on two car lanes. Cities should re-balance entirely the view of road land-share. xitter.cf/urbanthoughts11/status…
Colin Vipurs retweeted
A day's back-and-forthing on a PR can save you literally minutes of pair programming.
Colin Vipurs retweeted
To modern web designers: we had the whole pop-ups discussion over 20 years ago. Recap: the answer was 'no'.
Colin Vipurs retweeted
Absolutely thrilled, honoured and excited to win 'Most Innovative Customer Serving Operator' with @nxwestmidlands at the prestigious @Trans_Ticketing Awards 2018 for unlocking access to education and reducing deprivation #TTGlobal18 #MassTransit #PublicTransport
Colin Vipurs retweeted
If you're looking for a mentor in Software Engineering & Tech Leadership space you should sign up to Meet a Mentor group @ recworks.co.uk/meet-a-mentor I've been lucky enough to mentor several aspiring engineers there. Group is lead by @bcrecworks (also great Java recruiter)
