Chris James

Only started just under 2 years ago. Mostly just target archery AGB. Bowmen of Darenteford! Probably a bit far away to have a little competition :)

Congratulations on meeting the weird niche of software developer and archer on Bluesky. I don’t think our community is very big 😂

I’ve tried field but prefer target

Another test

Target archery!

Testing

Very mature software engineering

research.swtch.com/diffcover

YouTube video by Rosie Holt “Tesla’s aren’t woke!” Tesla UK rep speaks out.

“Teslas aren’t woke” insists UK Tesla rep and urges us to stand up for Elon Musk youtu.be/kuY_ywICSZs?...

Cutting Middle Management Is Costing Your Capacity for Change Over the last year, the tech industry has seen a wave of layoffs targeting middle management. Executives at companies like Meta, Shopify, and Amazon have framed this as a push toward efficiency.

Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".

"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."

www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...

Wyoming woman's hilarious pronoun protest goes viral: 'Thank you, Madam Chairman' Chairman Tim French, who voted against using preferred pronouns, appeared annoyed when his own pronouns weren't respected recently.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

Have to do a presentation about engineering culture in a few weeks. Thought I'd spend a bit of time making some very business-serious slide images

From your friendly, wealth-creating geniuses. Please don't tax them, otherwise they wont be able to bring so much prosperity to society.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".

JFC

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is.... quite dystopian asm.org/Under-Review

Learn Go with Tests: Working without mocks

quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit...

#golang #tdd

(not new, but I re-read it, thought I did a good job!)

I am tempted to adopt this formula across the widest possible range of topics

"Regardless of whether one thinks that's a realistic option - which I do not - should we not have the courage to ask these questions?" - Suella Braverman

What might we call these?
A 'Braverman conjecture"?

funniest possible end game event has entered the field of play

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

Incidentally, this is a good advert for picking #golang

- Standard lib gets you very far, you tend to need far few dependencies compared to other languages
- Extremely simple and constrained
- Testing built in
- Backward compatibility promise

On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as ...

berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Great post, a lot of wisdom. How much of the discourse in tech is about writing things that barely last a year. How many systems have you made that have ran for 5+ years?

“Learn Go with tests” is a high watermark for both TDD resources and programming language introductions. Even if you have no interest in Go this is a fantastic introduction to TDD in action

Thank you @quii.dev

That's so cool, if only my Portuguese vocabulary was beyond 5 words 🤣

Mocking | Learn Go with tests

I have added a short, possibly silly example usage of a custom iterator to the end of the mocking chapter in Learn Go with Tests.

quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang

I'm sure there are wiser heads than mine who know why:

How come there is no way to go from iter.Seq2 to iterate.Seq built into the standard library for #golang? (or is there and im not finding it?)

Do you really have to write something like this?

Evolution journal editors resign en masse Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.

"In 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors."

very innovative, very cool

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.