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@AbrahamMarin Like all things, air quality is relative and as long as we're able to afford it we should do what we can. Also a lot of these measures contribute to reducing climate crisis.

I'm all for removing pollutants but according to AQI data the air quality in London is consistently good so one must wonder what exactly it is that we are fighting... aqi.in/uk/dashboard/U….

@AbrahamMarin I do think it's gotten worse in my 35 year career, in the late 80s, early 90s software development was dull but polite. Interesting correlation with decreasing female representation. Coincidence?

Is it just me or there is an undesired amount of assholery in the world of software development?

How old are you? Me:

@allenholub Like all things, it depends on context. A monolith with internally organised structure that aligns to bounded contexts can be broken up into smaller services, if and when required.

Breaking a monolith up into a dozen or so services does not make it a microservice system, it just makes a mess—all the disadvantages of true microservices and none of the advantages. There is such a thing as bad architecture. Distributing a bad architecture just makes it worse.

@rupali_codes Clojure/Clojurescript, Java, Scala, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, COBOL, JCL, REXX, Basic, C#, Fortran, lots of others a tiny bit (GoLang, Haskell, Ruby, C++...)

Developers, which programming languages have you worked with?

@madzadev After Ubuntu, Emacs!

What's the first thing you install on a new machine? 👇👇

@krisajenkins No pigeon hole would hold you Kris!

@agile_geek ✔️ White. ❌ Easily labellled. 🤗

I'm recording two podcasts today. I've just swapped shirts to create the illusion that they're on separate days. This is where my programming career has got to. 😅

@robertalearns People working in silos and being very reticent to share details of what they're doing.

@andrewcairns This is why I only differentiate tests as developer centric on user centric. Then no one can make that argument.

Wrote an integration test, got 3 people educating me why unit tests shouldn't touch the database. How is your day going?

@IMAC2 Assuming all else is equal this is an easy call. Developers are paid to solve problems and provide value not to write clever code.

Who's a better developer? The one creating a page with fancy technologies. Who takes 1 week of work to update it after 2 years. Upgrades, dependencies hells, bundle configs... Or the one that makes it with HTM/JS and updates it in 1 hour after 2 years. Makes you think! 🤔

How to scale your technology... pick your constraints devcycle.co.uk/scaling-users/

@jasonbelldata Crowded House Heaven 17 R.E.M. INXS Scritti Polliti Throw in a more obscure one at the end! Too many well known bands starting with S!

@jasonbelldata Which shows that Twitter has gone too hell as I wasn't born in 1964 which is when Mary Poppins was released! 😂

"To succeed [with Agile] even on a small scale you need to understand agility, meaning you need practice agility without thought, without quoting a book or the Scrum Guide." -Brad Black

@AbrahamMarin Recent experience suggests you are correct!

The Agile movement told us that practices like pair programming or story-based planning improve delivery outcomes, but I think we got the cause-effect relationship wrong: practices aren't the cause, they're the expression of a team that already has the right mindset.

@namyakhann ... you can be miserable in comfort!

Complete the sentence: Money can’t buy you happiness but…

@ianmiell SQL

Without thinking too hard about it, what's the first declarative language that comes to mind?