Chris James bsky.app/profile/quii.dev
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Engineering manager and tippy-tapper. he/him. Wrote learn go with tests https://t.co/yPxqMJtEMF…
London/Kent
Joined April 2008
Hi X, it's been a while, and I'm only here to test the social sharing on my app https://t.co/68fduZJEh7
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Shot on December 4, 2025 - at Northfleet School for Girls, Hall Road - recurve, senior
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trying to tell myself i'm cultured because i listen to radio 3 in the car but then this happens
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“The NHS has too many managers” latest
What? Waiting times reduced from a year to 7 weeks by employing an administrator.
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increasingly inclined to agree w/this https://t.co/5cbaqvLUZt htmx is 30kb brotli compressed & unminified, which is ~ 30ms over slow 4G on the first load, then cached forever is the ~15ms one time (again on 4G!) worth the additional pain of debugging & reduced visibility?
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Uber eats, just eat. All of them just shit. Works on the happy path, if not? Actively hostile websites that make it hard to get actual help
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Software developers would benefit from studying manufacturing and learning about constraint theory for this reason.
Many software development teams I worked with do not seem to see any value in picking one high priority issue, working on it together, in real time, until the solution to that issue gets shipped to production, and only then picking the next issue to work on.👇
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Just want to put in your ear that according to the latest DORA report, only 18% of respondents can do what Flickr was doing in 2009: deploy 10 times a day. I know we'll quibble on it being a good metric. But we've been steadily moving the goal posts backwards from the jump.
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Disappointing, but not entirely unsurprising. The focus and direction of many engineering org cultures is on anti-flow, anti-iterative techniques - introducing rather than removing blockers, increasing batch size and therefore risk. This reduces trust and the cycle continues...
Just want to put in your ear that according to the latest DORA report, only 18% of respondents can do what Flickr was doing in 2009: deploy 10 times a day. I know we'll quibble on it being a good metric. But we've been steadily moving the goal posts backwards from the jump.
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People talk about right and wrong answers, but almost no-one talks about how people's approach to correctness change as they mature But psychologists have studied this extensively. The Perry Model is the Midwit meme applied to right and wrong Perry (1968) explained why some
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“Senior team members should make it clear they make mistakes and they don’t attempt to hide them. When they make them they own them. This helps the other team members learn that we all make mistakes and they are part of the process.” ― @WoodyZuill
https://t.co/A0CBQGOYyC
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Wonderful write-up on iterators in #golang
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A description of range over function types, a new feature in Go 1.23.
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