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@OlsterB @anon_opin I like being able to extend my stay from a cafe 20 minutes walk away.

@anon_opin I still use the ones that take coins, or at a push, contactless card. Yea I'm an analog Luddite, fuck 'apps for everything'

The UK government should nationalise all parking and vehicle charging apps and combine them into 2 of each. Bloody annoying to stand in yet another car park in the rain entering credit card details yet AGAIN.

@howardarw @anon_opin "I want to overstay in parking spaces for free"

@anon_opin I think apps should be scrapped altogether, and all pay car parks be windscreen ticket, wardens roaming round and NO ANPR. I've stopped taking my car anywhere near town due to the parking cowboys.

@Futurepilot1972 @anon_opin Not always. Same with EV charging apps. Downloading the app is 10% of the friction. 90% of the friction would go away if the apps auto filled CC details properly. Or used GPay.

@anon_opin Do they not take PayPal of Google/apple pay?

@javarevisited I have literally replaced UUIDs with auto-incrementing IDs in the last week.

Tech Lead tells you: "Let’s use UUID everywhere instead of auto-increment IDs." Will you agree?

@exceexx @jwflame @modernheroestv No, those systems know from the number. EVs predating the green flash still don't get fined or charged. The green flash is about showing the public that there are EVs on the road - so they realise they're mainstream.

@jwflame @modernheroestv theyre for cameras i believe, so you dont get fined for parking in ev parking spaces or dont get billed for the congestion charge etc etc

What are we saying about adding these green stickers to your number plates instead of having proper ones made up? 😅

@mattpocockuk Why are you raising a PR containing issues an AI reviewer can catch? Shift left.

Want to put something in CLAUDE.md? Stick it in CODE_STANDARDS.md instead. Then pass it to a reviewer agent that runs on every PR. Save tokens during implementation, spend them during review.

For two years, while we’ve been rabble rousing, Birmingham’s @flatpack festival have been working on a fully costed alternative to Glenbrook Property’s desire to bulldoze what was the UK’s oldest working cinema. The 116yr old Electric on Station St. Here are those plans:

@Zombielicorice @wonderparlour We had tea and cake in a British-tea-room inspired cafe in a Tokyo department store. No perv element to it whatsoever. Perfectionist patisserie, loose leaf tea, and waitresses dressed that way because they believe that's how it's done in England.

Maid cafes are such a funny disconnect between Americans and normie japanese people. Americans are like, "oh fun, girls in old timey outfits serving tea, how cute" but when you bring it up to normie japanese, "oh no, this place for pervert and sex work. Why go? They steal your money and people think you weird". (I know not all places are like that, but this is the typical response I get)

I reached out to many overseas travel agencies that cater to visitors to Japan, asking whether they would consider including our café as part of their Japan sightseeing itineraries. Unfortunately, every single agency gave essentially the same response: “Why would anyone come all the way to Japan just to visit a British-style maid café? At the very least, you should be serving Japanese tea. Hahaha…” So please, especially if you’re from the UK or another country abroad, come visit our café.

@stevenray_04 @TheHoopHerald I think you could conceivably walk from one side of the country to the other without encountering any doors.

@TheHoopHerald you will absolutely find more than 10 people 6’8” or above if you knock on every other (assuming “every other” means every 3-4) door in the United States and asked, “is anybody in this domicile 6’8” or above?” You’d probably find 200 or more.

You could walk from one side of the country to the other and knock on every door looking for people that are 6’8 You might see 10 people Total The man on the RIGHT is 6’8 🫣

@valigo Any way you do it, you need a human in the loop to check things are correct. But making a AI agent write and run its own tests, gives you a stronger chance of good results. As with human TDD, it forces the writer to create testable architectures, and to see faults early.

I see a lot of "I never used to write tests but not I just tell LLM to generate a full suit". But isn't this wrong? Thinking from first principles, if tests are definitive proof that your code works then you should put a lot of manual effort into designing good test suit, and then just let LLM oneshot the actual code to satisfy the tests. Why the common practice is the other way around? Is seems that in theory TDD should thrive in agentic-first coding, but it not. Why?

@keanerthanever1 @JohnSimpsonNews UK life expectancy at 82 for males is 90.

‘Don’t worry you old cunt you haven’t got long left’, @keanerthanever1 tweets to me. He calls someone else ‘you scrounging obese low iq mess’ and a third person ‘another lying spineless cunt’. Elon Musk’s X doesn’t seem to mind…

@olzare @trikcode For example github.com/dprgarner/esli… I'm not currently in a team that does this, though.

@ukslim @trikcode Can you share a lint rule to enforce US-spelling?

Honest question. People who English is not their first language… how do they code?? Do Germans code in German? Do Arabs code in Arabic??

@ShutterShimmy @anon_opin This claim was made recently (I think it was on Inside The Factory), and I do believe it. But I would also be very surprised if my ancient dishwasher has a turbidity sensor.

@anon_opin scrape plates, don't rinse. Most dishwashers have turbidity sensors that can be fooled if plates are rinsed and don't come out as well. Scrape, don't rinse

I don't understand people who rinse plates before putting them in the dishwasher. The whole point of a dishwasher is that it washes the plates for you.

@olzare @trikcode You have to standardise and set lint rules, make a decision even if that decision is unpopular. In Java it's common for British dev teams to adopt American spellings "Advisor" over "Adviser", -ize over -ise, to match the standard libraries.

@trikcode I once worked in a German codebase. Variables and comments were all in German. It was chaos. But UK+US in one code case is even worse. “Color vs colour” x 100 times in the codebase.

@VictoriaCoren This was in our daughter's nappy-change playlist. Along with Rabbit, Bring Me Sunshine, Right Said Fred, and Hands Up by Ottawan.

I'm not saying we're elderly parents, but today when I told my 2-year-old not to drop her food on the floor, she sang "Don't drop your food on the floor, Mrs Worthington..."

@Timoldland @GregScottTV I think you're forgetting ballet dancers, before performing.

@GregScottTV Don't eat them then. Nobody needs Maltesers. If people ate less chocolate there would be less fat people costing billions to the NHS. Prioritise healthy foods.

Dear Sainsbury’s. You ARE joking, right?

@johncrickett How come none of those tests involved firing it up and click the button?

On Sunday, I used AI to build an app. In a couple of hours, it generated 23,000 lines of code with full documentation and 836 passing tests. The code is amazing. The app is fully functional, well written, well structured, and has great test coverage. At least that's what the agent told me after reviewing the project structure, completeness, and code quality. So I fired it up and clicked the button. Nothing. Turns out all tests passing and the agent grading its own work as brilliant doesn't mean it actually works. Now I'm debugging, filling gaps, and showing the agent what it missed. AI can get you most of the way there, fast. But that last bit? That still needs a human who knows what they're doing. Let's not pretend otherwise.

@moi_uk24 @Seancockram But that's a British car, and in the UK only 28% of electricity was from fossil fuels in the last year, and all coal power stations have closed. And EVs are disproportionately charged at night, when there is excess energy from renewables.

One thing I like about buying a 26 year old car is giving the finger to EVs ..I truly believe driving an old car that still does 50mpg is so much better for the planet than EVs that all there parts and batteries from all over the globe and I believe no economic answer to recycle

@jjfrgyy @anon_opin And the clones are noticeably worse quality. Lego is a success because it's committed to quality.

@anon_opin It was always relatively expensive. I remember there were much cheaper clone products

The fact that Lego went from being the most amazing, creative, cheap toy brand to the most expensive, uncreative but insanely popular junk needs to be studied.

@SKNAX81 @anon_opin

@anon_opin Do they even sell buckets of lego anymore? Building predetermined objects isn't lego to me