Stuart McColl

@marksandspencer I’m having a problem redeeming a gift card - I keep receiving an ‘incorrect PIN’ message, despite it being correct. Would you be able to help?

Websites that make it difficult or impossible to decline cookies are the worst. The tracking assistant layer here makes it impossible to scroll to the ‘Let me choose’ button. Let me choose @RoyalMail!

@mleiphamellis Hi Matt, unfortunately not - I think I originally wrote this pre-Big Sur. Hope you manage to get it working 🤞!

Simple #TypeScript tip I wish someone had told me long ago: If you get a giant, scary error message, scroll to the end. The end of the message is typically the relevant part.

"Half of all government spending on computers is dedicated to keeping old systems going" What should UK Gov & Devolved governments do about it? If you have views, let us know on policyhub@bcs.uk bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Microsoft Teams ringtone slowed down by 800%

"But why can't we just start building something, with a view to evolving and refactoring it later?" You can, but there are cost/time/technical debt/risk/etc trade-offs. Up front and evolutionary design are not mutually exclusive ... teams need a balance of both.

Steven's book is being serialised on Substack - you can read along at …rdcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com. (3/3)

a red flag now, and an obvious one, was considered best practice by an industry leader not so long ago. Blindly adopting the best practices of others doesn't guarantee success - not every best practice will stand the test of time, and some are there to be challenged. (2/3)

Reading @stevesi's Hardcore Software (which is fascinating) and hit upon a comment about IBM measuring developer productivity in lines of code produced. It's a reminder of how young our industry is - that something we'd consider... (1/3)

We're hiring a Senior Software Developer on the Digital Service Design Team @HeritageFundUK. Join a fully remote team building user-centred digital services using technology including Ruby-on-Rails, Cloud Foundry and Salesforce. forms.hlf.org.uk/applications/H…

@DeanGoddette Apologies for not seeing this sooner! I found whenever I saw that error that the the string I was signing didn’t match the request in some way; I think once or twice in my case I was missing a header.

@OpenUniversity Hi - I received the result on Monday (it was due to be released on Tuesday).

@itstuartmccoll Hi Stuart, normally you will receive an email 3 working days after you module result offering you your classification. You should be able to view this via your student home page. Which day this week did you receive your module result? ^Sophie

@OpenUniversity Hi, any idea on when degree offers/results will be out for Computing/IT (code Q62)? I’ve had my final module result back this week, but no degree result yet?

The year is 1985, and you've got lunch with Frank at noon. Celebrating the first version of @Windows, "unique software designed for the serious PC user."

Been reading @RealGeneKim's The Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project recently. They're both DevOps related fiction books about a large enterprise that sells car parts. Phoenix is the view from within IT (DevOps). Unicorn is about the devs. Some of the ideas I liked from Unicorn:

The producers of The Social Dilemma brought some serious and valid concerns about the impact of social media platforms to a broad Netflix audience. BUT… 🧵

This is a perfect example of why we are stuck in this place. This experiment is seeking to answer a question that misses the point entirely. And it muddies the waters on getting at the real issues. This person probably thinks they're helping.