Colin Vipurs

For obvious reasons, I too am jumping ship to bsky.app/profile/tddmon…. If you're interested in my yearly post, follow me over there.

@PV_Electronics looking to get a nixie kit- are you still trading?

@devagrawal09 Perl.

Technologies that were "right all along" 1. KnockoutJS 2. PHP 3. Erlang What else

any time a jr DMs me with a question I always ask them to re-ask in the team channel so that it's searchable for future ref, and for others to see - maybe others have the same prob or they have the answer and will get to it faster than I can I was told this is rude and makes them anxious. is that so wrong??????

@adil_hussain_84 I was given the senior title only 4 years in. I wasn’t senior, I was just the guy that stuck around. Next job I was back to not senior and had to work my way back up.

Every app developer out there is a senior app developer and yet most apps just don't work 🤷‍♂️

@adil_hussain_84 I can’t help but think that as an industry we’ve set folks up to fail by handing out the senior title too early. Reddit is awash with senior devs with 4 YOE being turned down for senior roles and complaining the folks with 10+ years are applying too.

Looking at some modern, clean Java today. As much as it is better than it used to be, it's still light years away from Kotlin. The ceremony around everything leaves too much code describing the "how", not the "what"

@BlaueDat @evolvable This is something we’re just about to implement using structurizr. Static site is generated as part of the build and hosted using GitLab pages.

@Hull_Trains @thetrainpal Thanks. I've screenshotted the email confirmation and in-app view of the ticket reservation. Do you think your onboard staff will be happy with that?

@tddmonkey @thetrainpal Hi Colin, I'm afraid you would need to contact TrainPal about this as they are a third party seller we do not have access to the purchase history. I'm sure they will be able to help you. ^JM

@Hull_Trains Hi! I'm scheduled to travel from London to Brough this morning, but the app I use ( @thetrainpal ) for barcodes isn't working - can you please advise?

@thetrainpal your app is currently not rendering barcode tickets. Trying on your website and get an error that apiproxy.ctrip.com is down. I am travelling shortly and need the barcode - can you please advise?

@AdamTornhill Does the code necessarily need to be human readable beyond a cursory glance that it's ok? I've been playing with generating relatively simple scripts but very much taking an approach of throwing it away every time I need an adjustment

Over the coming decade we're likely to face a hybrid model where code is written by both humans _and_ machines. Who has the overall mental model in that context, and how do we ensure our AI generates human readable code?

@KruglikMarcin @sandromancuso But wrt to loyalty of the company - most likely no - but those companies _are_ out there. Perhaps I've been lucky, but I have worked at several places that have rewarded my work accordingly. Could I be earned more if I hopped? Likely, but there is more to a job than just $$$

When I look at hiring people, mainly at higher positions, loyalty is a key criteria. I see a few long term employments with a few promotions during them as a very good sign. It provides an indication that the person was loyal, worked well and was recognised.

@KruglikMarcin @sandromancuso My fear from folks that haven't had tenure is around shiny-new-tech syndrome. It's all very nice introducing new tech, but did they ever stick around long enough to see how it _actually_ panned out - or did they bolt shortly after they got the glory?

@KruglikMarcin @sandromancuso I don't really see it as a matter of loyalty, I see it purely in terms of learning to make better decisions. It's entirely possible I'm biased, but at senior levels (principal and above), I don't want folks that change jobs every couple of years 1/2

If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶 If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶 If it's flaky and you know it, and you really wanna show it If it's flaky and you know it, fix your test 🎶🎶

@adil_hussain_84 If I’m writing functional interfaces I’ll go straight for the verbs in the class name. “SendNotifications”.

#Programming: What's a better alternative to naming a class with a "Manager" suffix? I find that sometimes just dropping the "Manager" suffix and pluralising what remains plain works. For example, "NotificationChannels" instead of "NotificationChannelManager" 🤷‍♂️

@LukasRychtecky @quii @DanielVaughan Somewhat agree. I personally like the decoupling and focus a MS architecture brings. Perhaps I've just seen far too many balls of mud where even the simplest of changes becomes all-time-consuming and has unintended side effects

@tddmonkey @quii @DanielVaughan Anyway I'm not saying that monolith and MS are same thing, I hope I didn't say that. I'm just saying that tackling a complexity is easier and more flexible with monolith rather than MS when starting something new.

Is there any reason for a young startup to go with microservices? I'm struggling to think of any; why take on that cost with so few people and code to work with.

@quii @LukasRychtecky @DanielVaughan Yes, I disagree. I think it's likely, but it doesn't have to be the case. If we're _designing_ a Monolith we should be able to _design_ microservices but in reality both of them end up being emergent. Start small and add as you need to - it's the adding thats the problem

@tddmonkey @LukasRychtecky @DanielVaughan Do you disagree with the statement that an inability to create a well-designed monolith would also translate to a poorly designed microservices architecture?