"Agile has come to mean do half of Scrum wrong and use Jira" - Andy Hunt #agile #scrum #jira #softwaredevelopment

Stunning 22° Moon Halo tonight 🌕

year += 1

He's making a table.
He's sorting it twice.
SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE behaviour='nice';
SQL clause is coming to town...

My health and fitness journey: Part 3 - Matt Shaw A deep dive into the science behind a year-long transformation.

Finally got around to writing the last part of my health and fitness blog; bringing the theory and a year of data together to understand not just what worked, but why it did. #Health #Fitness #WeightLoss

A meme of Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction with the text "Say AI again! I double dare you! Say AI one more goddamn time!"

What's your personal bounding box? The smallest possible rectangle you could draw on a map that contains the furthest points north, south, east and west you've ever been to. Mine:

N: Helsinki, Finland
S: Canary Islands, Spain
E: Oludeniz, Turkey
W: Tampa, USA

🇫🇷❤️🎉

9 month fitness progress report:
- Weight: 94.4kg to 74.0kg (-20.4kg)
- Body fat: 38.3% to 23.3% (-15%)
- BMI: 31.9 to 25.0 (-6.9)

How it started: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/08...

How it's going: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/09...

GitHub - matthew-shaw/wiremock-openapi: WireMock OpenAPI WireMock OpenAPI. Contribute to matthew-shaw/wiremock-openapi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's one with WireMock for comparison: github.com/matthew-shaw...

Did some noodling with Prism to generate a stub / mock server from an OpenAPI spec along with pytest integration tests, pretty neat! github.com/matthew-shaw... #python #pytest #openapi #testing

Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency.

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After a bit of a stall in progress, I renewed my regimen and have finally lost 3 stone in total (19.2 kg) 🎉😊💪🏻

How it started: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/08...

How it's going: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/09...

There are three hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once message delivery
1. Message ordering
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery
2. Exactly-once message delivery

This is great: endof10.org
- Save money
- More privacy
- Reduce e-waste

got something to say have you? better out than in, not in your case mate.

Ed Balls

The "H" in Kubernetes stands for Happiness...

How it started: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/08...

How it's going: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/09...

Fourth weight loss goal hit: down 18 kg in 32 weeks. My fifth goal takes me into my healthy weight range, then the final one to my target weight. I should get to 3 stone total loss (19.1 kg) in the next couple of weeks.

Gartner: An enterprise-grade cult.

GitHub - matthew-shaw/govuk-webpack: GOV.UK Frontend Webpack Demo GOV.UK Frontend Webpack Demo. Contribute to matthew-shaw/govuk-webpack development by creating an account on GitHub.

Example of how to use Webpack with GOV.UK Frontend: github.com/matthew-shaw...

Is there a Metacritic-style review aggregator, but for cars? If not, who wants to build one? 🙋🏻

Seems like the best answer is Mailpit if anyone's interested: github.com/axllent/mail...

Can anyone recommend a simple SMTP server I can run in a Docker container, without spending hours faffing with config? Just something I can run in a local compose env, not in prod.

6 month fitness progress report:
- Weight: 94.4kg to 79.6kg (-14.8kg)
- Body fat: 38.3% to 27.3% (-11%)
- BMI: 31.9 to 26.9 (-5)
- Resting heart rate: 66bpm to 56bpm (-10bpm)

How it started: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/08...
How it's going: matthew-shaw.github.io/blog/2024/09...

"In our search for measures of delivery performance that meet these criteria, we settled on four: delivery lead time, deployment frequency, time to restore service, and change fail rate."

"Second, our measure should focus on outcomes not output: it shouldn’t reward people for putting in large amounts of busywork that doesn’t actually help achieve organizational goals."