Nat Pryce

@jonathoda For images, flipping between one and the other makes the eye notice the differences – it's good at focusing on movement. Maybe the same would work for tables if changes are per cell. Probably not much help for large-scale changes to the structure of the table.

Seen any way to viz diffs other than the standard side-by-side and interleaved forms? I've tried both for structures and tables but it sucks.

@krajzeg Those clouds! ❤️

So, this Solitomb title screen came out pretty nicely! 😎 (sound on and volume up to enjoy the drop and the awesome #pico8 music by Gruber 🎶) Next stop - putting the actual main menu in there! #gamedev #indiedev

@davefarley77 a challenge being that the second two steps change the first.

3 steps to building software: • having an idea of the problem we’d like to solve • building software to solve it • then checking that software does what we think it should. User Stories focuses on the first step, but the next 2 steps become much easier if we get them right.

@davefarley77 Correction... he was talking *about* 1949. I don't know when the quote is from.

@davefarley77 ... I can remember the exact instant when I realised that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." – Maurice Wilkes, 1949 2/2

Give me some of your favourite software engineering quotes 💬

Thanks for all the kind words & shares of my radio doc, Becoming German. I'm thrilled it was pick of the week in the Sunday Times, Observer & Radio Times. It's being repeated today on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm and is now on BBC Sounds. Danke meine Freunde. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I'll be at @extremetuesday club on Tuesday 16th July. We're hosting it at #FordDigital... An Open Space evening meetup, covering all things in and around #agile software development, leaning towards #extremeprogramming... Sign up for free here: meetup.com/extreme-tuesda…

Digital and IT services are now core to keeping a government running smoothly, like transport and other infrastructure. Personally I would bring *more* IT in-house. A large team with lots of experience of digital service would allow better management of outsourced projects, imo.

One thing a new UK government needs to do is sort out the various disastrous IT projects. Here's the goods transit system having a risky big bang upgrade on a Monday

Hey systems research folks! My team at @neo4j will be hiring for postdoc positions on some very cool next-gen database runtime stuff. If you're PhD-ish and want to build kick-ass systems, ping me.

reminder that there's still alpha in Rob Pike's 1989 article on recursively composable window systems based on concurrent processes communicating with synchronous channels

@CreeCoder Two's complement binary representation of signed integers. First used in 1949, still used in all modern computers.

Is there anything like this in Tech?

An experiment for devs to try. I started keeping a "dev diary" while working on @breezbook . It was prompted by a statement by Stuart Ervine when I asked how others keep broader context of decisions behind code that are not visible in code, tests or comments. I wanted to start simple, so it's just one long markdown file. My partner on breez, Metehan Altuntekin, suggested that a tool like Obsidian or similar might be more appropriate. But I'm happy I stayed with a simple text file. I can edit it in my code editor, while I'm coding, without breaking flow. It's a good sounding board when I'm working on my own. I can write down my doubts and concerns, and just the act of getting them down helps me think them through better. And I can feed it to an LLM and ask questions, like: remind me why I decided on @inngest for messaging? Or why might the location_id field on service be optional instead of mandatory. I consider this a worthwhile experiment to try on dev teams. Yes, ADRs, but consider this as an alternative or complement. And Stuart Ervine, if you have any experience reports to share, I'd be all ears. The dev diary is here btw - github.com/cozemble/breez…

@ivanrmoore @eferro @KentBeck Or slap.pm/bowdlerised if you cannot use the sweary version

@ivanrmoore @eferro @KentBeck slap.pm

"Alternative to estimates: do the most important thing until either it ships or it is no longer the most important thing." @KentBeck

@MattStopa @_mostlyunknown @ThePrimeagen @thedevdad_ You need a backend web framework that does both routing and reverse routing. If the framework only does routing, managing links is tedious and error-prone. If the framework also does reverse routing, HATEOAS is straightforward.

@_mostlyunknown @ThePrimeagen @thedevdad_ I tried to write an app with it. It got so hard to manage because you have links littered all over the place and it becomes a lot to manage. For small stuff it's fine though

serious question - is htmx a meme or should it be considered as a candidate for a production technology? I am in a discussion on which FE library to migrate to and have anxiety over these 2024 ever-shifting technologies as a 10 year commitment

@gypsydave5 it's computers. Computers make my code suck.

Oh, you switched to FP because OO is garbage and is making your code suck. And now you're telling me that FP is garbage and is making your code suck. My dude. Wherever you go, there you are.

@Hush_Kit They fly over Teddington pretty regularly.

Last time you saw a flying Chinook?

@AaronGooldX But also it is true

@AaronGooldX My best jokes are slow burners 😀

JavaScript is the only language that takes Curry-Howard correspondence and logical implication seriously.