Enjoying reading Sooner Safer Happier, however, weird to me that Nokia’s downfall is put down to Symbian OS build time, and not for example, Nokia’s inability to imagine a phone without a physical keypad.

Functional programming has a new champion. 😆

This chart I think describes well what happened to Nokia with Symbian. Rather than it’s build time being the problem, Symbian OS was already ten years old, at the end of it life (the blue line below) when new players (iOS, Android) entered the market (the red line below)

The Audible UK 🎧 recommendation algorithm is usually quite good but does throw in the odd wild card: You may also enjoy: Building Microservices Clean Code Domain Driven Design And… *Vegetable Gardening For Beginners*

Excited to share that I’ll be starting a new role as VP of R&D at i2 Group next week. Can’t wait to get started!

A distributed social network, what a great idea, the very thing that made the internet so revolutionary, feels like the right time, but is it enough? techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tum…

“We’ll be delivering that in phase 2” 🤣

Should Software Engineers be afraid of AI taking their jobs? TL;DR: Not as much as you might think. They should be more excited than afraid, actually. A short 🧵

4/ Developers Disruption: AI writes and debugs code. How developers need to use AI to win: • Make software faster • Debug code quickly • Write in languages they didn't know Winners will use AI to create faster product iterations to better resolve customer pains.

Engineering, it’s a people thing.

#ChatGPT-1000 🤣

"What should I measure when the CEO asks for engineering metrics?" is probably the most frequently recurring eng leadership question, and connects into a larger, somewhat nebulous topic: how should you measure engineering organizations? Some notes! lethain.com/measuring-engi…

My recipe for Continuous Delivery (a thread)... 1/14

Software engineering explained in 10 very serious charts. 1. CI/CD

What if we stopped saying "Technical Debt" and talked about the actual thing? Is it an escaped defect, infrastructure upgrade, shoddy code..? Builders don't have "structural debt", surgeons "surgical debt", or gardeners "botanical debt". #agile