Software developer working with Ruby, Swift, Go and Javascript.
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Oli Peate retweeted
7 bins. SCRAPPED ❌
Meat tax. SCRAPPED❌
A windfarm in every bedroom. SCRAPPED❌
Folding up second homes when you're not using them. SCRAPPED ❌
Every policy that Rishi Sunak scrapped, as told by Colin from Portsmouth.
I’m sold that startups / small businesses are the most fun for writing software.
A startup doesn’t mean you should write YOLO garbage. Quality matters – but you can create without endless meetings, novel-length requirement docs and cross-team dependencies.
Oli Peate retweeted
I’ve heard a couple of you are refactoring code without approval. Let’s be respectful to the business. Do not refactor unless we have business approval and we’ve moved a refactoring card into play on the board.
#NotMyAgile
Oli Peate retweeted
I wish folks would think about the tradeoffs & incentives of team coding workflows instead of arguing about who to copy. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thi…
(P.S. Not a fan of being used for argument from authority. I know too much to trust me.)
"Why you're not using PRs in your project?"
"Because we prefer to use CI/CD"
"But but..."
"Listen, @KentBeck invented CI, @davefarley77 invented CD. They both agree that PRs and feature branches are incompatible with CI/CD.
What do you know that they don't?"
Gave a talk today and IMMEDIATELY had the driest mouth. A desert appeared from no where. Couldn’t find the mute button mid-pres to sip (damn you Zoom!)
New (mild) nightmare unlocked
Oli Peate retweeted
Look, I get it, compiling nokogiri is a great joke and it will never get old. But at least update your mental models:
Pre-1.11, 94% of users had to compile, and it was a struggle.
Post-1.11, 96% are installing precompiled libraries, instantly, it just works.
ALT Download statistics from Rubygems.org showing before-and-after numbers for precompiled and generic nokogiri gems.
Oli Peate retweeted
In honor of the passing of the Heroku free plan, a story about Pivotal Web Services, aka "p-dubs," "prod," aka the Portal Money Maker Project. 1/x
Using private ActiveRecord models, as a precursor to engines, is a really elegant technique: kellysutton.com/2019/10/29/t… - thanks @KellySutton
Oli Peate retweeted
Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.
chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/
Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by @juliustens.
Next month I’m riding from London to Brighton 🚲 and fundraising for the British Heart Foundation ❤️. Donations welcome: justgiving.com/fundraising/o…
Oli Peate retweeted
Many aspects of software are subject to entropy. It takes extraordinary effort to do any of these after the fact:
• Simplify features
• Increase code quality
• Make designs more opinionated
• Reduce build & test duration
• Decrease resource consumption
Later ≈ Never
Oli Peate retweeted
Thinking of designing a new open source license for small personal projects that have the bad luck of becoming immensely popular.
The "You Break It, You Buy It" (YBIYBI) license would stipulate that whoever reports a bug is subsequently obligated to fix it.
Oli Peate retweeted
🎲 Using random data in regular RSpec unit and integration tests is just asking for intermittent CI failures. Don't do it! And yes, that includes using Faker in your factories.
