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So after Labour have won and the Tories in opposition make leaving the European Convention on Human Rights a central plank of their...

So after Labour have won and the Tories in opposition make leaving the European Convention on Human Rights a central plank of their platform, I trust we are going to sincerely discuss the ramifications of doing that, and properly air that discussion, rather than pretending it will be consequence free like we did with Brexit. Yes?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the tickets in your backlog have lots of inter dependencies, you don't have a backlog,...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the tickets in your backlog have lots of inter dependencies, you don't have a backlog, you have a project plan.

Coming to the opinion that a pull request is the worst possible way to read code.

Coming to the opinion that a pull request is the worst possible way to read code.

TIL that since Java 11 you have had the ability to execute Java programs as shell...

TIL that since Java 11 you have had the ability to execute Java programs as shell scripts:

https://gist.github.com/richardjwild/5f6d2d77158105a370c63af00b14a28f

I take comfort from the thought that no matter how I screw up today, it's unlikely to be as bad as crashing a ship into a bridge and...

I take comfort from the thought that no matter how I screw up today, it's unlikely to be as bad as crashing a ship into a bridge and making it collapse

One thing I don't think we discuss enough about functional programming is the exciting possibilities that are unlocked when functions...

One thing I don't think we discuss enough about functional programming is the exciting possibilities that are unlocked when functions are first class objects for making our code completely incomprehensible.

Shout out to all of you whose builds suddenly failed today because you put leap year bugs in your code (test code, I hope, not production!)...

Shout out to all of you whose builds suddenly failed today because you put leap year bugs in your code (test code, I hope, not production!) 🙌

Unfinished refactorings make the code worse, not better.

Unfinished refactorings make the code worse, not better.

I'm quite happy supporting my shit in production, it's supporting the shit made by some maniac who left the project three years ago...

I'm quite happy supporting my shit in production, it's supporting the shit made by some maniac who left the project three years ago I don't like.

Java streams are cool and all until one doesn't work and you have to debug it.

Java streams are cool and all until one doesn't work and you have to debug it.

I think the cure for this is to experience a variety of programming languages which express code in different ways. Find out for yourself...

I think the cure for this is to experience a variety of programming languages which express code in different ways. Find out for yourself what is good and bad about them.

Developers frequently mistake "readability" for what they are accustomed to reading.I don't mean to argue against the...

Developers frequently mistake "readability" for what they are accustomed to reading.

I don't mean to argue against the principle of least astonishment, but we should still avoid advancing subjective perceptions as objective facts.

Hey there, I am this guy: https://twitter.com/richardjwildSetting up here on Mastodon because I have a feeling that Elon Musk is going to...

Hey there, I am this guy: https://twitter.com/richardjwild

Setting up here on Mastodon because I have a feeling that Elon Musk is going to kill Twitter one way or another.