Simon Peter Chappell

@KurtSchlichter @PeteHegseth Here comes the boom - P.O.D.

What song should be blasting as @PeteHegseth walks out to his confirmation hearing? If you suggest another, write it in below.

@yminsky Happy for you. System 76 are a little out of my price range at this time, but I love running Ubuntu on a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T420.

Alright, so, after searching for a while I ended up getting a System76 Lemur Pro as a Linux laptop, and I'm pretty happy with it.

This circle of 5000km radius is centered around Paris. Because of the projection (Mercator) it looks all funny and asymmetrical.

An old program tape with two clearly visible patches, on sections 250 and 260. The punch card's error, as manifested by the punches, was patched in just the same way a bike tire is patched. This is why we call it patching when we fix existing software.

If you hire "the best" and a year later they're "not meeting expectations", wouldn't you wonder, "What did we do to them?" #leadership

It's 2023, and I’m tired of debates about estimation and story points.

@steph_zunz Public nudity laws.

Men what is stopping you from looking like this?

All aspects of human health are eroded by deviating from healthy circadian behaviors. Conversely, early day sunlight, movement, bright light all day, and minimal light at night and sleep improve all disease outcomes and health metrics in the healthy. It’s non-negotiable.

"First make the change easy (warning: this might be hard), then make the easy change." - @KentBeck

@CharlesARhodus James, closely followed by all the others.

Do you have a favorite book of the Bible?

@scrumtuous Self-taught starting around 1981 with a Sinclair ZX81, then went to university 5 years later to get a degree because everyone said you needed one to be a programmer.

Are you a self-taught programmer? Why did you decide to go that router rather than pursue a Comp Sci degree?

This belongs here reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

💥 List of SQL commands! #SQL #DataScience

@KenPaulCarroll Been there, but I did not have a big brother. Blogged about it a while back. simonpeter.org/blog/posts/201…

I was 8 Dad advised me on handling a bully: -Lure him to where my brother could spring from behind -Then take the bully down and make him pay It worked =13 seconds of glory Until the bully got up and kicked the s**t out of us 😏 What lessons do you draw from this story?

Want to read more Scripture in the new year? Try reading through entire books in one sitting! Here is how long is takes to read each book.

The headline: SNOWMAGEDDON SNOWPOCALYPSE TRAVEL CHAOS ARCTIC HORROR ICE BLAST CANCEL EVERYTHING BRITAIN PERISHES The snow:

The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe

A spot of blogging happened today. simonpeter.org/blog/posts/202…

TDD is not: "Take your unit tests as they are and just write them first" TDD is: "Be first user of your code. Drive the implementation with tests. Focus on behavoir. Tests are examples of usage."

@cgosimon I groked that.

I still find the word "grok" to be useful. Despite the fact that fewer people grok grok with every passing year.