Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

My brain, instantly: "At least those are probably reusable"
Me: "SHUT UP"

If I had to go through a landing like that I'm pretty sure I'd need more than one barf bag.

Now I'm just complaining about air travel in general

"Sorry, my carry-on is all the way back there, can I get both of you to sit down so I don't lose my place in the deplaning line?"

"It was a long flight, I'm stretching my legs!"
"YOUR ASS IS DIRECTLY IN MY FACE"

One of them is standing up in the aisle

Steven Carlson, Alec Harrison, Sarah F. Wimberley & Eric Reichwaldt present on Dev-Ops this July at Nebraska.Code().

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I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski

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Eldert Grootenboer, Lee Markum, Duane Newman & Rob Richardson discuss Microsoft technologies this July at Nebraska.Code().

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I... need to see a full treatment of this desperately. The only thing that would make this better is if the third member of the crew was The Powerful Katrinka.

Christine DiDonato will have a Keynote - 'Stop Chasing Growth and Start Leading It' - at Nebraska.Code() this July.

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croissant au jambon

Doodles on a yellow spiral notebook. Doodles include a ham, a croissant, some angular shapes and spirals, and a grass-roofed hut with chicken's legs

Meeting doodles from yesterday.

Doesn't the I stand for "interactive"????

You have no idea how old that statement makes me feel.

My most recent talk has 156 slides, which I gave all last year, and it fits comfortably under an hour. Fifty minutes, if I rush it. But when I build the talk right, it doesn't seem fast. It's the magic of style and structure and delivery.

Do what works for your style. Which implies doing it enough to develop your style, instead of being told what it is from someone else. Including me.

I just did a 10m talk on me and it had something like 28 slides in it.

Most of the time people who are like "less slides!" are doing bullet-point lists for things that are not list-based information, too. That, or they're people who are convinced they are Master Storytellers when they Are Not.

Whoever told you that is a prescriptivist idiot who probably has too much stuff on one slide. Slides are free. Slides offer a chance for a change in the audience's visual field, which brings their attention back. Slides should support each statement you're making, as you're making it.

A stick figure human looking at a laptop showing their email, which is filled with emails about JIRA tickets. The open email is about a login button and the text reads "As a user, I want to click button and has log in to app." The person is sighing, with a sweatdrop on their head.

I have started working on slides for the new talk (on Boredom-Driven Development).

This is the first one I drew - slide 5 (of currently 187, which is Too Much Slides and I need to do another editing pass).

An astronaut fetches Sister Mary Clarence from heaven to help fight whatever american catholics are doing "Project Hail Mary" "in space no nun can hear you scream"

Sister Act 3 (2026)

This is such important framing that often gets missed in this conversation.

Crafters don't care just because they enjoy the process; they care because *the process matters* to the outcome.

Models trained on publicly harvested data should be legislated into the open, and forced into the public domain.

Organisations are free to monetise their operation, but extractavist behaviour should be punished at all costs.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0041
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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

It's going to be roughly equivalent to sixty minutes of me on stage chewing through sheets of drywall.

So stay tuned for more details.

I'm unloading all the barrels on this one: the history of software development, the embrace/extend/extinguish of Agile, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and the childishness of an industry that wants to wield technologies that can lay countries low like they're neutral and unbiased tools.

Started work on a new talk today. This one is probably my most sweeping and powerful attack on typical modern development methodology so far. Management murdered and buried Agile, but I'm here to pick up its sword and howl like a pack of demons that coding *doesn't have to be this way*.

5 quick tips for giving better presentations I have been speaking publicly at developer conferences for over a decade and in that time I've seen plenty of other people giving talks. Everyone gives talks...

I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations!

None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end.

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Do you have any more tips to share?