Chris James

This reminds me of George Costanza rationalising that "manure" is actually a pleasant word, if you break it down. Ma - ma, mother, lovely Nure - "newer", newer is good! So if you just break down words and phrases, they can mean anything you like

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

What's fun about dunking on Scrum is almost every day on LinkedIn a self-described (but possibly "certified") scrum master will display a real lack of mastery of scrum. Scrum is just quite shit anyway, but if you're gonna do it, at least understand it.

New chapter for Learn Go with Tests: Revisiting time, with testing/synctest quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang #tdd

I have somewhat neglected learn go with tests over the past year. It had collected about 50 odd issues and 20 PRs, which, with help from my robot friend (kept on a short leash I promise), I have mostly addressed. First release in a while! github.com/quii/learn-g... #golang #tdd

The RFP process assumes requirements can be stabilised upfront. They can't. We learned this lesson already. Sound familiar? It's the same assumption behind Spec-Driven Development. Part 2 of my series on build vs buy quii.dev/We_learned_t...

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

Why "Build vs Buy" is the wrong question quii.dev/Why_%22Build...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Let's see how far I get writing learn rust with tests quii.github.io/learn-rust-w... #rust

My archery app, fits on a floppy about.fastarchery.co.uk/blog/fits-on...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Testing the app again fastarchery.co.uk/share/c05e3c...

Learn Go with Tests, in Vietnamese! #golang sons-organization-15.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit...

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Long shot: Anyone who does #archery want to help me? I have been building a scoring app for the past 2 years. It's a PWA, you can try it for free right here about.fastarchery.co.uk . I am currently doing a closed test on google play store and need volunteers, please reach out if you can help

"Perhaps the real unlock of AI isn't this "10x" thing, it's that engineers finally have time to deeply understand what they're building, and why." This post by @quii.dev resonates a lot with me quii.dev/The_weight_o... / worth a read.

quii.dev/The_weight_o...

An abstraction having a property of being indeterministic cannot be an abstraction. If an abstraction is flaky (different from leaky) it pulls you back into the details to understand if it abstracted the thing in the way it should've abstracted.

The first two hours this morning

Testing the app fastarchery.co.uk/share/a49558...

obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin

One of my best work achievements this year was convincing book club to read a book about a struggling manufacturing plant in the 80s We discovered how the lessons they learned translate to software development. Everyone in tech should read The Goal

YAGNI is too often a plague infecting otherwise good software design. It's a knee-jerk reaction to "I don't have a clue, so I'll ensure that I don't need to have a clue."

It's Mental Math Monday! What goes on in your head when you're mentally calculating 45% of 40?

Another test

Testing

Very mature software engineering

research.swtch.com/diffcover

“Teslas aren’t woke” insists UK Tesla rep and urges us to stand up for Elon Musk youtu.be/kuY_ywICSZs?...

Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency". "Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile." www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...

www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

Have to do a presentation about engineering culture in a few weeks. Thought I'd spend a bit of time making some very business-serious slide images

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland". JFC

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is.... quite dystopian asm.org/Under-Review

Learn Go with Tests: Working without mocks quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang #tdd (not new, but I re-read it, thought I did a good job!)

I am tempted to adopt this formula across the widest possible range of topics "Regardless of whether one thinks that's a realistic option - which I do not - should we not have the courage to ask these questions?" - Suella Braverman What might we call these? A 'Braverman conjecture"?

funniest possible end game event has entered the field of play

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/