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Chris James @quii.dev · 02/09/2026

What's fun about dunking on Scrum is almost every day on LinkedIn a self-described (but possibly "certified") scrum master will display a real lack of mastery of scrum. Scrum is just quite shit anyway, but if you're gonna do it, at least understand it.

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Chris James @quii.dev · 17/08/2026

New chapter for Learn Go with Tests: Revisiting time, with testing/synctest quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang #tdd

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Revisiting time, with testing/synctest | Learn Go with tests

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Chris James @quii.dev · 14/08/2026

Absolutely absurd, frightened the life out of me!

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Chris James @quii.dev · 14/08/2026

I have somewhat neglected learn go with tests over the past year. It had collected about 50 odd issues and 20 PRs, which, with help from my robot friend (kept on a short leash I promise), I have mostly addressed. First release in a while! github.com/quii/learn-g... #golang #tdd

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Release A big batch of fixes and improvements · quii/learn-go-with-tests

Also a big batch of direct fixes and new content this round: Fixed cross-chapter links breaking the generated EPUB (import issues on Calibre/Kindle) Fixed a crash in the blogrenderer package from ...

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Chris James @quii.dev · 11/08/2026

The RFP process assumes requirements can be stabilised upfront. They can't. We learned this lesson already. Sound familiar? It's the same assumption behind Spec-Driven Development. Part 2 of my series on build vs buy quii.dev/We_learned_t...

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Chris James - We learned this lesson already

Chris James, London - Software Engineer

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Chris James @quii.dev · 22/05/2026

We’ll see how far I get 😅

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Chris James @quii.dev · 22/05/2026

Let's see how far I get writing learn rust with tests quii.github.io/learn-rust-w... #rust

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Introduction - Learn Rust with Tests

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I can only marvel at the logic that concludes that organisations who want greater predictability from software development should wait as long as possible to test their assumptions.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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Chris James @quii.dev · 06/04/2026

They tell me the brightest and best work at Amazon, and it makes disgusting amounts of money because they deserve to. Is this the best they can do?

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Chris James @quii.dev · 06/04/2026

Software has always been buggy shit, but when you see stuff like this, you cant help but think this is the result of some mandated vibe coding shite (cant wait to use my pens on NYE 2199, when I am the ripe age of 216)

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Chris James @quii.dev · 27/03/2026

Out right now but I’ll check your PR later - thanks!

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Chris James @quii.dev · 20/03/2026

Learn Go with Tests, in Vietnamese! #golang sons-organization-15.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit...

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Học Go qua Tests | Learn Go With Tests

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Chris James @quii.dev · 13/03/2026

Long shot: Anyone who does #archery want to help me? I have been building a scoring app for the past 2 years. It's a PWA, you can try it for free right here about.fastarchery.co.uk . I am currently doing a closed test on google play store and need volunteers, please reach out if you can help

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Fast - Archery Scoring App

Score your ends, track your handicap and classifications. Works offline at the range. Free archery scoring app.

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Lukasz @lukasz.dev · 12/03/2026

"Perhaps the real unlock of AI isn't this "10x" thing, it's that engineers finally have time to deeply understand what they're building, and why." This post by @quii.dev resonates a lot with me quii.dev/The_weight_o... / worth a read.

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Chris James - The weight of AI on engineers

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Dragan Stepanović @dstepanovic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

An abstraction having a property of being indeterministic cannot be an abstraction. If an abstraction is flaky (different from leaky) it pulls you back into the details to understand if it abstracted the thing in the way it should've abstracted.

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Mark Reel @markreel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The first two hours this morning

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them. When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it. Wanna boost your dev productivity? * Write code that's easier to understand * Get better at understanding code

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin

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Chris James @quii.dev · 13/12/2025

One of my best work achievements this year was convincing book club to read a book about a struggling manufacturing plant in the 80s We discovered how the lessons they learned translate to software development. Everyone in tech should read The Goal

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Chris James @quii.dev · 08/10/2025

If only the radical left had been more respectful, they deserve this. 🙇‍♂️

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Vaughn Vernon @vaughnvernon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

YAGNI is too often a plague infecting otherwise good software design. It's a knee-jerk reaction to "I don't have a clue, so I'll ensure that I don't need to have a clue."

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's Mental Math Monday! What goes on in your head when you're mentally calculating 45% of 40?

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Chris James @quii.dev · 09/05/2025

Only started just under 2 years ago. Mostly just target archery AGB. Bowmen of Darenteford! Probably a bit far away to have a little competition :)

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Chris James @quii.dev · 09/05/2025

Congratulations on meeting the weird niche of software developer and archer on Bluesky. I don’t think our community is very big 😂

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Chris James @quii.dev · 09/05/2025

I’ve tried field but prefer target

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Chris James @quii.dev · 29/04/2025

Very mature software engineering

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“Teslas aren’t woke” insists UK Tesla rep and urges us to stand up for Elon Musk youtu.be/kuY_ywICSZs?...

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“Tesla’s aren’t woke!” Tesla UK rep speaks out.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 06/03/2025

Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency". "Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile." www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...

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Cutting Middle Management Is Costing Your Capacity for Change

Over the last year, the tech industry has seen a wave of layoffs targeting middle management. Executives at companies like Meta, Shopify, and Amazon have framed this as a push toward efficiency.

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Chris James @quii.dev · 17/02/2025

Have to do a presentation about engineering culture in a few weeks. Thought I'd spend a bit of time making some very business-serious slide images

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Chris James @quii.dev · 17/02/2025

From your friendly, wealth-creating geniuses. Please don't tax them, otherwise they wont be able to bring so much prosperity to society.

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Chris James @quii.dev · 11/02/2025

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland". JFC

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Chris James @quii.dev · 04/02/2025

This is.... quite dystopian asm.org/Under-Review

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Under Review | ASM.org

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Chris James @quii.dev · 04/02/2025

Learn Go with Tests: Working without mocks quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit... #golang #tdd (not new, but I re-read it, thought I did a good job!)

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Working without mocks | Learn Go with tests

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am tempted to adopt this formula across the widest possible range of topics "Regardless of whether one thinks that's a realistic option - which I do not - should we not have the courage to ask these questions?" - Suella Braverman What might we call these? A 'Braverman conjecture"?

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