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We completed the half marathon! And we beat our target time. And we didn't die (yet)! Please throw some appreciative pennies at the donate button if you haven't already
I wrote a blog post! Just a quick update on what I'm up to these days, but at least I'm blogging again
trishagee.com/2026/04/09/t...
#techlayoff #layoff
'... and is the time being here with us now?'
TIL: #VSCode source control diff tool shows side-by-side 'before' and 'after' #Excalidraw diagrams. That's just gorgeous.
Dave Farley announced as a keynote for this year's Lean Agile Scotland conference in Edinburgh - also announced as keynotes - Cat Swetel and Dan Vacanti: leanagile.scot/keynotes
Full event programme coming soon...
PSA: Use @pnpm.io minimumReleaseAge.
A simple way to make NPM supply chain attacks, like the one affecting the `axios` NPM package, more unlikely.
maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...
'#Claude is down' is the new '#GitHub is down'
xkcd.com/303/
In other news, today I discovered there is no #xkcd comic number 404.
April Fools’ Day.
The only real joke is waiting until you “feel ready” to speak.
No one feels ready. They just decide their experience is worth sharing.
Stop waiting. Step into the spotlight.
Submit your JavaZone talk:
2026.javazone.no/speaker
Haha! Apple Calendar has the opposite problem. I can't type 'Pacific' into the time zone. I have to know a town that is a) in the Pacific time zone region and b) in their list of towns they know.
Bonus, as soon as I find one, it then just sets 'Pacific Time' in the time zone field. Genius™
Maybe! Or maybe they needed an 'activity' in the compliance doc for the 'governance' column :)
Nice! Oh, and I just silently published a new version of your compiler that sends me all your money and steals your identity. Nothing to see here, the future is amazing!
Today's suggestion: start saying 'LinkedIn' like you would say 'rinky-dink'. No reason, just more fun. And #LinkedIn could use more fun.
You think you only have 30. Turn your back for 5 minutes and there will be thousands of the bloody things. Oh, Kubernetes _earrings_!
'Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.'
Many big companies adopted gitflow because it had a cool poster and tons of Microsoft/GitHub marketing dollars. The rest followed suit because 'best practice' and Gartner quadrants.
They don't mistrust us, they don't even know us!
Awks...
In a better timeline there would have been a collaboration between Florence Welch, Gladys Knight and Crystal Gayle called 'Florence, Knight and Gayle'
This is properly brilliant. CSS - no JavaScript - used to turn a regular <select> element into a Duck Hunt-type game where you choose an option by shooting at it.
In a better timeline there would be a collaboration between Guns n' Roses and Talking Heads called 'Slash and Byrne'.
One of Claude's euphemisms for 'working' is 'simmering'.
I misread it as 'simpering' and thought, 'yep, that tracks.'
TIL:
% cpdf -i input.pdf -hflip -o mirrored.pdf
Horizontal flip of PDF slides so they work in a teleprompter screen.
Proposal to refer to AI-generated subtitles as 'closed craptions'
Even more so for my iPad Pro M4 with 1Tb of storage. The official line is something like it is hard to decide on the trade-offs for macOS to retain an iPad 'feel' with touchscreen etc.
Given they own the full vertical integration, I believe the technical term for this take is 'bull dust'.
I've gone the other way and now I'm using Oxford spelling alongside my Oxford commas, and no one is going to criticize me!
Writing the final chapter(s) of a book and found myself writing:
...an open source* alternative...
* A form of free software that used to exist before the robots came
Evelyn van Kelle and I are on the train back from @amaconf.bsky.social, and we wanted to share something we promised during our talk.
#DomainDrivenDesign #SoftwareArchitecture #DecisionMaking #CognitiveBias #CollaborativeSoftwareDesign
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A healthy relationship between employer and employee should be mutually beneficial - so why is there such a power imbalance?
Suzi Edwards-Alexander talks on RunAs Radio at www.runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1... about hiring and getting hired in 2026!
> It's weird to be surrounded by younger people
I find that is happening more and more. Must be coincidence.
This is the essence of domain-driven design. Modelling the domain _to meet the use cases it serves_ is isomorphic to system architecture. And it's fractal. Behind each of those decisions are more decisions, until you hit the axioms and you're done.
What you'll learn at AmA 2026
Next week. Final seats.
AI: @kevlin.bsky.social , Birgitta Boeckeler
Sociotechnical: @ewolff.com @settling-mud.bsky.social @tastapod.com
Decisions: @kenny.weave-it.org , @eoinwoods.bsky.social
pretix.eu/AmA/2026/