Long hair: A thread. I get a lot of comments on my hair, and while it's something I am known for, what's less known is that my long hair is important to me culturally, too, and the older I get, the more it matters. 120 years ago today, the "haircut order" was issued. More...👇🏽

I wrote a blog post explaining how attention to quality can sometimes improve delivery speed for the task at hand. In other words, quality and productivity are not always a tradeoff haskellforall.com/2024/07/qualit…

Matt Teichman kenbot I remember watching kenbot's talk in person about Applied Category Theory in 2019. It was good stuff! youtube.com/watch?v=M3qQFB…

Congratulations to Mike Cannon-Brookes 👨🏼‍💻🧢🇦🇺, who just received government approval to build the world's largest renewable and storage project. Sun Cable is a preposterously large (24GW+) solar and wind farm plus an improbably long electricity cord. reneweconomy.com.au/sun-cable-plib…

Talking to a couple of friends who are in enterprise architecture about career paths. What drove us away from being hands-on developers was frustration with limitations to our impact, seeing organisations continuing to make bad decisions. 1/

I am looking for a new contract as a Backend Engineer starting October 1st. I have 10+ years of experience building scalable and robust systems. DM open.

Devs what title from other professions should we steal next? We already destroyed “engineer” and “architect” …I’m thinking I like “software doctor” or ooooh maybe “software surgeon”

I learned so much overseeing the same codebase for 12 years. Going from 10 person startup, to selling the company, to scaling out at the big co that bought us.

The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti antigonejournal.com/2022/03/roman-… Via Roman History

Everything you always wanted to ask about entropy but didn't know whom by John Baez arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

🚀 Looking for a new opportunity! 🚀 I am currently seeking a new contract as a Backend Engineer. If you're hiring or know of any opportunities, please feel free to send me a message. DM open. #scala #typelevel #catsEffect #hiring

My father, who is Yaqui, used to take me into the Sonoran desert in and around the reservation. The land was always a character in his stories, and what I learned from him about the land and its landmarks directly influenced DOOM's abstract-level design.

Apparently people you've blocked can see your tweets now. Good time to remind friends that while I'll probably keep lurking here, I mostly post on on Mastodon these days hachyderm.io/@kenbot

for me, one of the telltale signs for bad process is when the team drops it under pressure for example, if you skip a weekly team meeting when the team needs to be “heads down” then consider deleting the meeting good process makes a team more effective under pressure, not less

Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign bit flipped.

Thanks Scott Wlaschin! Surviving version of the talk is at youtube.com/watch?v=JWM4J2…

Btw, string diagrams are amazing for mapping out service request-response pipelines, especially if you have a bunch of complex middlewares. Requests, responses, and errors are lines; middlewares and handlers are boxes. Middlewares can contain other middlewares.

For three years Australia has proudly supported the brave people of Ukraine in their struggle to defend their sovereignty against the brutality of Russian aggression and in support of international law. Australia stands with Ukraine. 🇦🇺🇺🇦

Dmitrii Kovanikov Not sure if you’re familiar with “To Kill a Mockingtest” by kenbot The best writing on why mocks are bad: rea-group.com/about-us/news-…