Believe it or not, Trump's insane proclamation that he will keep tariffs in place until there are no more Mercedes on Fifth Avenue gave me a moment of clarity. I think I finally understand Trump's economic philosophy now. And we are absolutely screwed.

Me at 10yo: I want to be the best at everything Me at 25yo: I want to be the best at one thing Me at 35yo: I just want to be not shit at something, just anything please

Using the phrase “virtue signaling” is “I’m a sociopath” signaling.

In the last three decades we have irrevocably moved software into the very foundations of our civilization. We programmers now bear an awe inducing responsibility. Civilization is now ours to improve or destroy. What code of ethics ought we embrace?

The difference between monoliths and services is not architectural it is a difference in deployment strategy. The decoupling of components is independent of deployment. A monolith deployment can be just as decoupled as a [micro]service deployment.

The architecture of a system is the way you subdivide it into parts and manage the dependencies between those parts. Any system thus defined can be deployed as services, processes, or in a singe executable. Deployment impacts scaling, fault tolerance, and throughput.

My Rules for Success (thread) I. How you do anything is how you do everything. Ownership is key. cont.

We are now further away from Ant Rap than Ant Rap was from the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Johnson-Cummings affair was always likely to end badly. Johnson is a "Bullingdon radical": you smash the pub for fun, then write a cheque to fix the damage. Cummings is a revolutionary who wants to burn the pub down. Their alliance has done lasting harm to UK politics. THREAD

C. B C. CB C B B ’. m B m be B N

Looking forward to at least one Orpheus reference today Mark Watson, still here but very much also Bluesky !

If it goes over 1,000 RTs I'll have it framed and hung on the toilet door.

We’re so buzzing about that penalty we’re going to give one person who retweets this a copy of Issue Two and a crate of cider. Winner announced this time next week. If you don’t fancy your chances, buy it here now: onestreaminbristol.bigcartel.com/product/osib-i…

Scots, Mancunians, Londoners, Bristolians: "I want that, too. Gimme it."

COMPETITION! Retweet for a chance to win 2x tickets to any show on this poster! Winners picked 15/01/18

*Thread on why Remain can’t understand Leave* Ok after another frustrating day in Brexitland the penny has finally dropped for me /1

I once thought I was abducted by aliens I could not understand anything they said and nothing made sense Then I realised I was in a mike walker team meeting

ICYMI, we've joined the fight to preserve Bristol's music scene and attended a great discussion with @ThangamMP, Kerry McCarthy, Mark Davyd, Musicians' Union and Save Bristol Nightlife on Friday. Read all about it here ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-…