Senior Software Engineer @KainosSoftware, formerly @HeritageFundUK, @HMLandRegistry. Computer Science graduate @OpenUniversity. Views own, etc.
Plymouth, England
Joined September 2015
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Websites that make it difficult or impossible to decline cookies are the worst. The tracking assistant layer here makes it impossible to scroll to the ‘Let me choose’ button. Let me choose @RoyalMail!
ALT iOS screenshot of Royal Mail tracking website in Safari, with cookie modal displayed.
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Simple #TypeScript tip I wish someone had told me long ago:
If you get a giant, scary error message, scroll to the end. The end of the message is typically the relevant part.
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"Half of all government spending on computers is dedicated to keeping old systems going"
What should UK Gov & Devolved governments do about it?
If you have views, let us know on [email protected]
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
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"But why can't we just start building something, with a view to evolving and refactoring it later?"
You can, but there are cost/time/technical debt/risk/etc trade-offs. Up front and evolutionary design are not mutually exclusive ... teams need a balance of both.
Reading @stevesi's Hardcore Software (which is fascinating) and hit upon a comment about IBM measuring developer productivity in lines of code produced. It's a reminder of how young our industry is - that something we'd consider... (1/3)
a red flag now, and an obvious one, was considered best practice by an industry leader not so long ago. Blindly adopting the best practices of others doesn't guarantee success - not every best practice will stand the test of time, and some are there to be challenged. (2/3)
Steven's book is being serialised on Substack - you can read along at hardcoresoftware.learningbys…. (3/3)
We're hiring a Senior Software Developer on the Digital Service Design Team @HeritageFundUK. Join a fully remote team building user-centred digital services using technology including Ruby-on-Rails, Cloud Foundry and Salesforce. forms.hlf.org.uk/application…
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The year is 1985, and you've got lunch with Frank at noon.
Celebrating the first version of @Windows, "unique software designed for the serious PC user."
ALT A photo of the first version of Mirosoft Windows, a graphical user interface for its MS-DOS operating system. On screen, pop-ups of Notepad, Calendar, and Cardfile.
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Been reading @RealGeneKim's The Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project recently. They're both DevOps related fiction books about a large enterprise that sells car parts.
Phoenix is the view from within IT (DevOps).
Unicorn is about the devs.
Some of the ideas I liked from Unicorn:
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This is a perfect example of why we are stuck in this place. This experiment is seeking to answer a question that misses the point entirely. And it muddies the waters on getting at the real issues. This person probably thinks they're helping.
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Just stumbled on the 'scroll through' feature of Safari reading lists in macOS. How long has that existed? Tried to capture a GIF but incidentally it doesn't play well at all when sitting behind another window. I wonder if that means it also doesn’t work with assistive tech 🤔?
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#hacktoberfest2020 is almost here! 🎉Please consider contributing to documentation!
@docsmsft is open source and improves daily because of the contributions from our communities. 😀
Learn how you can contribute👉 docs.microsoft.com/en-us/con…
Hacktoberfest is just a few weeks away. If you are looking to contribute this year check out this discussion on DEV.
"Hacktoberfest 2020 — Who's looking for contributors?" by @ThePracticalDev #DEVCommunity dev.to/devteam/whos-looking-…
This is your recommended watch/listen for the day - ‘Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy’ (Yaël Eisenstat | TED2020 ) ted.com/talks/yael_eisenstat… via @TEDTalks
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This is it - you've made it! Huge congratulations and welcome to the #OUfamily. We're so proud to have you with us. 💙
This week is dedicated to celebrating you and all of your achievements, so let's get it started! Who's celebrating with us? 🎉
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