👋 hey Chris - let’s grab a coffee 👍

Chris Oldwood - Symmetry Investments | LinkedIn An experienced developer (30+ years), who has worked on front-office, back-office, and… · Experience: Symmetry Investments · Location: Huntingdon · 298 connections on LinkedIn. View Chris Oldwood’s p...

It's time I found a new contract, so...

If you’re looking for a backend dev (C#/C++), need a hand with build/test/deployment automation, or getting to grips with TDD/agile ways of working, etc. then I might be of use. London, Cambridgeshire, or remote.

www.linkedin.com/in/chrisoldw...

DORA Community of Practice The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.

Thursday the DORA.community will be discussing software delivery governance with @meekrosoft.com.

Join the community for meeting details and an invite to be part of the discussion.

#GRC #DORA #ContinuousCompliance #GBGB

Absolutely love how easy it is to get the apple password manager to "fill & save" a password, consigning the current password to the memory hole. 👹

Yes! Back for a couple of weeks to begin with? Are you guys around?

Sleep plan for flights to Oslo

En route to Oslo! 🛫

Release ridiculously often — Doc Norton & Associates The seventh behavior, “Release ridiculously often,” is usually met with nods from half of the crowd and raised eyebrows from the other half. The nodders want to know why it isn’t higher on the list…

You don’t need more time between releases.
You need less risk in each release.

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#ReleaseRidiculouslyOften

Over the summer I'm not planning to travel much, but if you want a remote presentation or workshop for your company, please get in touch.

a man is holding a red hose over his shoulder and smiling ALT: a man is holding a red hose over his shoulder and smiling

Trainspotting

Longitude: something French philosophers have 🙃

Thank you Dr. Liskov 🤩

If they’re not selling a cocktail shaker maker then what are they even doing?

The Copilot Delusion Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...

The Co-pilot Delusion:
deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

…and Parnas

So pumped for you and the team 🧑‍🚀

Nick Cave is indeed a Wild God

A beautiful, crazy and amazing story of science right under our collective feet. I'd heard when the signal got originally reported but got distracted.

It's a great example of what makes science simultaneously fun, important and beautiful.

Hey folks, quick/odd request.. if you *recently* read "Observability Engineering" and are up for a quick 15 min phone chat, within the next 6 hr, drop me a DM?

I am refactoring the chapter list (due @ noon Friday) and could use some fresh eyes on chapters to add/drop for 2nd edition. 🙏🥰

Thanks!

I'll be the controversial one: in this case, if NATS had never been given to the CNCF, I would argue they would be *less likely* to need to pull these shenanigans. They mortgaged their ability to build a lasting business and community to get access to more potential users.

Unfortunately both occupations come with a risk of severe neurodegenerative disease

Man Machine at the Greek Amphitheater in Berkeley- Kraftwerk were so ahead of their time 👾

Many a fine career was written in Perl 😅

What better start to the weekend than a long walk in the redwoods with this queen 🫅

Generationship | Ep. #34, Together with Nathen Harvey | Heavybit In episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience.

I joined @rachelchalmers.bsky.social for episode 34 of @heavybit.com's Generation Ship podcast.

We discussed how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and more.

www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

#AI #DORA #GBGB

You and @nivenj1.bsky.social could create a feed 👍

I'd be in favour of tariffs on NPM imports, though.

It’d be interesting to see some example pipelines written this way. Also: have you considered dagger as an option?

Kevlin speaking

@kevlin.bsky.social on agility and/or speed at #accuconf

It is a conundrum- when I was in Oslo I’d go to cheese shop and buy lots of foreign cheese and it wouldn’t be outrageously expensive… is it a blanket tariff?

Broom = “deep work”