I think it's time to do this. My account will remain active, but I really won't be posting much or possibly at all anymore. My posts get fuck all engagement now anyway. See you over at the blue place.

One of the devs at the client i'm working at said in the standup today "I haven't tested this change thoroughly so the QA will need to do in depth testing", and everybody just nodded their heads.

I was on the West Coast Mainline yesterday. 2 1/2 hours to get from London to Crewe, average speed just over 60MPH, and people will say we don't need #HS2.

I don't know that much about Kemi Badenoch, so I started reading about Kemi Badenoch, and honestly this is one of the most ridiculous political origin stories i've ever heard

James Cleverley's week in full

Genuinely can't believe this. He was one of the most loved Sheffield United players of the last few years.

Client i'm working at has decided to go from Kanban to Scrum with 6 week sprints.

Have any #dotnet or #fsharp people moved over to the other place? Let me know so i can add you!

Only just come across this today. A free, OSS, Offline cross platform version of Airdrop, and it works really well! github.com/localsend/loca…

F# Online will be moving to Bluesky (as well as Mastodon, YouTube), and will no longer amplify content posted here. Here's an F# starter pack on Bluesky go.bsky.app/SZQgDn8

Just got the bad news that my client is cutting budgets and all contracts are not being renewed, so I'll be available to start work in the New Year I'm a Senior Contract .NET C#/F# Engineer with 15 years experience, comfortable working across AWS and Azure. RT's appreciated!

the htmx.org / CEO of JVM Bytecode (same thing) hype bubble has burst

Are there any rules at your Software Company that slow down delivery? I'm thinking of things like No deploy Fridays, Changes must be manually tested, Changes must go via a change Advisory board, that sort of thing? Interested to see what whacky org constraints devs live with