I’m not following anyone in civil engineering, are they asking chatbots to design bridges yet?

I know it's a cliche, but I'm genuinely excited to announce that Steve Tooke and I opening up our first cohort for Slicing User Stories for Agile Teams. 💃 Places are limited on this first cohort, so grab yours now! maven.com/levain/slicing…

This reminds me: If you have been to one of my or Steve Tooke’s workshops before, we would love to have a short testimonial quote on our landing page. Please hit me up if you would like to do that for us!

Great case study of a team moving away from pull requests to using TDD and ensembling. I love to work like this, and you can mattwynne.net/hire-me if you'd like me to share that love with your team!

One of my favourite conferences is back - SoCraTes UK - #openspace + residential makes for such a great experience. Hang out with other folks interested in the craft of software and testing, make the conference you want. Very recommended. socratesuk.org

I am Casually Feminine. My scores are 50% masculine, 72% feminine. idrlabs.com/gender/result.… via IDRlabs

What are some common anti-patterns you see using user stories? I've written one up here that I like to call Epic Fail. tooky.uk/epic-fail

What #OpenSource projects are known for being 💖 to new contributors? Which would you recommend to someone who's new to open source and needs a supportive community to get started? (apart from Cucumber of course 😀)

Kids wanted to watch some of the coronation. The fawning BBC commentary makes it unwatchable. Imagine it’s the same on every channel.

The best use of chat GPT I’ve seen so far: wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app Can’t understand a company website? This will figure it out for you. Exasperated by the website? It’ll also take the piss out of it.

328,000 have now signed the petition to BLOCK Boris Johnson's HONOURS LIST Sign it here👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bloc…

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I often think code-and-fix is like playing the lottery. Lots of little investments, over a long time, very occasionally you get a big win. TDD is like scratch cards. Lots of small investments over and over, but you get a small win pretty regularly.

Is there value in a test that never fails?

ICYMI - The Cloudcast - DevOps Automated Governance bit.ly/cloudcast-759 Mike Long (@meekrosoft, CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processes.

Dear #WhiskySanta, please may you put Filey Bay Sherry Cask #4 from @MasterofMalt under my tree? I've been really good this year! masterofmalt.com/asksanta/whisk…

The noise the internet used to make connecting on a dialup would. Blow. Their. Minds.

Free as in speech, not as in beer.

Deutsche Bank invests in governance automation platform Kosli finextra.com/newsarticle/45…