As a... – registering user I want to... – inherit a surname with a minimum of three characters, without spaces, hyphens, or accents so that... – it can be considered valid by the backend, which was built by John Smith

UPSTAIRS AT SHED IS BACK OPEN MONDAY!! We don't take table reservations - cruise up and order at the counter downstairs ▪︎each person on the table over 16 will have to scan in with NHS app ▪︎groups of up to six - or two households ▪︎eat, drink & be merry P+L+team XshedX

You don't need to generate ideas to have an impact as an engineering leader. bit.ly/3gl4gaK

Britain: One sunny day: Wow. This is a surprise. Everyone outside! Let’s barbecue everything! Two sunny days: This is the life. I love shorts. Let’s sunbathe in the park or run through a sprinkler. Three sunny days: Make it stop.

On a train to head into the office for the first time since March last year. Feels very strange. Trains are a lot quieter than I remember.

I've spoken to 2,000+ companies over the last 12 months about their plans for remote work going forward Here are a few things I've learned [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍

We've been chosen as one of the UK's Top 5 scale-ups of 2021 in TNW's 100 hottest young European scale-ups list 🔥🔥 Feel very honoured to be chosen and to be up there with Oddbox @Feast_it RingCentral Events (Formerly Hopin) @HungryPanda15 💛 thenextweb.com/news/europes-1… TNW

This one is especially moving. Poor little 6.5 solar mass dudelet

At Monzo, our CPO Mike Hudack often talks about the value of thinking like a growth team and steering through experiments. I’ve written about why thinking in experiments has the potential to change your company culture - and why it’s not always easy. mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/why-speedboa…

just preparing a workshop for tomorrow, and the wikipedia list of anti-patterns is a goldmine

"You should build the systems that differentiate you from your competition, and buy the ones that don't." Engineer ぎんぶち shows how we're using LaunchDarkly to feature-flag our work in progress and make sure we're shipping quickly and safely. incident.io/blog/feature-f…

We don’t talk about pregnancy loss because we're scared of getting it wrong. A compassionate leave policy that covers pregnancy loss is crucial, but to break down stigmas we need to talk openly about it too. Here's how to support someone through pregnancy loss and grief 💛(1/7)

This is deeply wrong. Conditioning people to expect to be treated like cogs in a machine is what's harmful. The best teams and organizations put their people and their needs first. Good professors put students & their needs first. There's already enough trauma in the world.

Serving brunch and lunch until 3pm ALL WEEKEND (SATURDAY & SUNDAY!!) and up to Weds 22nd Dec. Take shelter from the highstreet.. if anyone is still out there #rdguk?

We've gotten a LOT of DM's about our merch lately!❤️ Here's the deal 🤝 we'll trade a T-shirt and a pair of socks for a Tweet of our merch 🔥 and we'll throw in some stickers if you promise to get a dog on the pic🐶 Just slide into the DMs with your request and we'll ship it 🚢

Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.

A short thread of lessons I've learned from scaling software engineering orgs in the last few years:

We’ve just launched incident.io On-call and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Our goal was “so good, you’ll break things on purpose” and we’ve poured our hearts and souls into this one. I think it shows ❤️