Josh McMillan

i hate that this is a thing i can do to myself now

I don't think I could go back to doing software development without LLMs any more, but I must say it's always somewhat disconcerting when your pair programming partner decides to become a pathological liar out of nowhere

@pugson 2 and a half hours it took me to install it, realise it had installed and then spend 5 minutes doing this. 2 and a half hours!

@pugson i’ll get back to you with a response when i’ve finished furiously downloading photoshop on this laptop

couldn't be ai without sparkles

@pugson tell me more about photo pea dot com

@jshmc wait you're not using photopea.com ???

@pugson ever since the industry moved away from corel draw i’ve been making ends meet however necessary

@jshmc wouldn't have pegged you as a gimp for photoshop

@pugson having just posted about needing a job i should make it clear that i am comfortable using figma, sketch, photoshop, fireworks, photopea and the gimp

@pugson i’ve finally given into the adobe hype train after years of using macromedia fireworks

@tomcartwrightuk @t_blom Looking forward to meeting up at Turbo Island for a picnic with our AI crumbles

Recording my first RecipeNinja promotional video 👨‍🍳

A 16,000 lumen laser projector with a short-throw lens is a very bright projector. Source: my eyes

@ashugeo @tuple I can’t believe you’ve done this

Today was my last at @tuple 💜 After 2.5 years, over 45 projects, 171,868 layers (!) and so many great memories, it's time for me to move on. I'm so fortunate to have worked alongside such incredibly talented and kind people. I couldn't be more grateful for the amazing ride. I'm also super excited about what's next 👀 Will share more soon!

I have a new favourite Slack emoji

@urbanautomaton Nice! Yeah I saw that Knapsack seems to have gone a bit "use the pro thing or else"; I'll give parallel_tests a whirl!

@jshmc idk if there's anything newer and fancier, but after some (non-trivial) up-front effort making sure none of the parallel_test processes were sharing DBs or other mutable state, parallel_tests did us well for a long time.

What's the cool way of parallelising tests in Rails these days? Knapsack or parallel_tests or something else?

@squinkybob @Poolsuite Nothing to do with me any more I'm afraid, so no idea!

@JackEllis Localstack S3?

How would you test this: We have a data export feature in our app. To run the export, a query runs in SingleStore and they handle the writing to S3. SingleStore is run on docker locally but how could we test the writing to S3 piece. The dream is to not manually test each time.

I will never understand people who make squash / cordial by putting the water in first and cordial second

@tuple (By which I mean I’m too lazy, because I sleep deeply every night and am only paged once every 2-3 months or so)

(My blog post about how to operate a high traffic product with one full-time backend / infrastructure person is still being written btw, for now I’m too busy keeping @tuple up)

Any @incident_io fans in? Worth the migration from @pagerduty and @Statuspage? We have an on-call rota of 4 people total. We’re not an enterprise.