Andrew Speed

“microsoft agent mode: better than random”

Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

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new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

🐣 Early bird tickets are out for #NIDC2025! Today's the day. Grab yours at early bird prices.

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🐣 7 days to go until the early bird release for #NIDC2025 at 10AM on Monday. Will the Furbys be back @lukemcneice.bsky.social? 🙏

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My email signature has been this quote from Dune for quite some time:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Painted meme showing two muscular arms clasping hands in a handshake against a dark background. Text overlays identify the left arm as "Software engineers" and the right arm as "Chefs" with "Making spaghetti" displayed above their handshake, suggesting a humorous comparison between coding and cooking.

This afternoon I choose violence.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

This is what a scientist looks like!
#internationalwomensday #standupforscience

‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI Keir Starmer plans to ‘unleash’ technology with massive investment and deployment, despite public fears

Labour announces scheme to destroy creative industries, waste water and electricity, increase CO2 emissions, embed systems run by foreign libertarians into our hospitals and schools and gamble all our money on an economic bubble that is about to collapse.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some incredible reporting here on horrendous conditions experienced by outsourced workers

It's that time of year where I post this one

One of my core pale horses of the AI apocalypse has been "OpenAI raises prices" and, baby, it's here! $200 a month for "unlimited access" to their models.

www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/

One of the more disturbing things about this is how unsurprised I am.

YouTube video by David McCan ACF Pro: Nulled by WordPress.org

Automattic -the creator of WordPress, a company raising $950M in VC funding- took a paid WordPress plugin built & owned by another dev and re-published it, making it free.

If you have a business selling a paid WP plugin: Automattic can null it, anytime.

A new low.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHK...

For some reason the X-Men animated series theme fits perfectly with the Garfield and Friends intro.

As one who is utterly exhausted with Star Wars and has less than zero interest in watching Star Wars things these days, trust me on this:

Make an exception for Andor.

You will not regret it.

Goodnight

A hand-drawn autumnal scene with a parked motorbike, rabbits, and a pudu with the words "Steam Autumn Sale Nov 27 - Dec 4 at 10am Pacific" written across it.

Hello to the Bluesky community!

We're trundling on in with an announcement; the Steam Autumn Sale starts next Wednesday, November 27th with deals on games of all types - from games that are blue, to games that are about skies, and everything in between.

"... who used their idle waiting time to improve the system for everyone."

Thank you for calling out that it should be done in idle time! It's very easy to be working on something, see some issue or inefficiency, and get tempted to fixing it there and then because "It'll only take 5 minutes" 😅

The Betterment Metric - Angie Jones A simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

angiejones.tech/the-betterme...