I'm almost 40 and if there was one life lesson i could impart on my 20 year old self, it'd be nothing to do with my career/work/profession. It would be that so many parts of your body are one-way/irreparable. So maybe do less poor-form lifting and curb the kebabs.

I'm half way through moving an estate of CommonJS apps to ESM because package maintainers are going ESM only, just to emphasise how stupid this is - I've been advocating Node.js for over 10 years and i'm now seriously weighing up moving our entire estate off this insane ecosystem

Definitely at an age where one of the main exciting parts of my life is casually eating things growing in the garden 🤣

I like coming to the office, I feel a lot of convos I have in my role are easier face2face. I regret coming in however when I end up sat around people who bring mechanical keyboards in for their macs! Hard to think when all I hear are furious typewriters.

Perfect calorie controlled diet, no alcohol, run 5k 3x a week, lift weights 3x a week, 2 stone (14kg) down in 4 months, maintained most muscle mass. It's been hard work. Me: super proud. Two separate people: ozempic? 🤣

For crying out loud Google's even shoving Gemini into my text messages now.

Me: taking it easy for a day due to a knee injury after literally months of nailing it. Samsung: move or you're going to get fat and die

The Istio Locality Routing load balancer saves us a load of £ really. You can see here where i flipped it on for a service and our project level % of traffic in the same zone jumped up nearly. We keep ~ 85% of our traffic within the same locality without too much effort.

funny copilot autocomplete today