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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026

Nigel Farage is a sitting MP and the leader of a political party. Why does he have his own GB News show? Sign our petition to Ofcom ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PR maturity is another great metric - measuring how much a PR changes after submission. less change being 'good'. I guess at least it really codifies that PRs are quality theater?

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

whoa - because it considers all changes to code younger than 21 days 'rework' instead. a low %tage being 'good'.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

LinearB considers %tage of refactored code a quality metric - nice. LinearB only considers code refactored if it was changed when it was 21 days or older - huh?

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I have some time, I'll feed the gherkin scenarios for my app into this! mcp next? 😇

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Explaining “a large number of people has less than 2 legs per person on average” to my 6 year old. More difficult than I thought..

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thinking can only rearrange what you already know. Doing brings back new information.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PSA - Perfect System prompt: You are an Expert. Make no Mistakes.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The tragedy in this is what Tim Ottinger called “If you assign some work, you have to assign all work”. Sometimes-self-organising-teams don’t exist. If they are used to being told what ticket to work on, you get exactly those questions..

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Having to code on a personal Claude Pro subscription is cramping my style. Only a couple of weeks until the new job starts, which will hopefully have me back on an enterprise plan!

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The only reason I tolerate Xcode is because I feel like I need it for iOS development. Having the simulators etc is handy and I’m too lazy to check if I could cut it out of the toolchain. Otherwise I find it horrible as an IDE 🤢

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Listening to @lennysan.bsky.social’s podcast episode about Grok Bot - sounds amazing - shame it’s associated with Elmo - one of the worlds biggest evil idiots. Can’t believe someone with that much influence still talks about the platform formerly known as twitter and gives these people air time.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Got my ticket for #FastFlow Conference in October 🎉

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lego knows how to get my money… c’mon it’s not that hard to know your customers..

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m middle aged with kids, I need my games to have a ‘what the hell is going on and here is a quick reminder of the controls’ button.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Last day of the summer holidays today. I love the little tykes, but by god am I glad it’s over 🫠

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good start to the extended holiday.

Box of the Lego model 10356 - U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701-D with a small part of it finished held in front of it

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We call it 'metaCoP' - our Community of Practice of Community of Practice leaders. Helps with both visibility and coordination (in case of overlapping topics or emerging themes).

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lets be honest, those developers wouldn't be sitting on their hands. They would probably use that time to improve some pipelines or make some tests faster.. but for most companies that would still look like 'nothing', because who cares about that, right?

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If people (or companies) tell you who they are, believe them!

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Another one.. new outlook.. why is the 'accept/decline' meeting button the smallest, most difficult button to find on the entire meeting invite? Seriously, have you never talked to a user?? I know what's missing from the UX.. a little Where's Waldo.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If the only available instructions for your cooking appliance are a QR code to your YouTube and TicToc channels, I hate you.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Notice how he doesn't say 'don't plan or analyse'. You are allowed to look at a map before setting off somewhere. Just don't assume one look at the beginning of the journey is enough to help you navigate around traffic jams, road closures or bio breaks.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

but I doubt there will be wide adoption of those, as we already have mature languages that do the job.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think you'll see less 'we're a java house or a python house' or whatever.. more people will chose the language based on important characteristics, like memory or type safety, speed (of execution vs development) etc. will new 'token efficient' languages spawn? maybe..

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And that is still not quick enough, because this weeks ticket gets solved and locally the velocity might even look like it has increased.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The problems are still not visible enough. Where it previously took ~years to paint yourself into an unmaintainable corner and the same time again for that drag to register with and be correctly diagnosed (if ever) by the relevant people, you can now paint yourself into that corner in weeks.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I've never been a software engineer, so for me reviewing every line was never an option. I strongly believe in 'I am Ralph' - I drive the loops supported by as many deterministic signals as I can, while reviewing the inputs (feature files, scenarios, test names etc) and the outcomes (not output)

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

WELCOME TO THE MODERN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CHANNEL | Gojko Adzic We are extremely excited to welcome Gojko to the channel, and we are looking forward to presenting his first video in MSE colours tonight. At 7pm (UK). Join us in welcoming and celebrating Gojko 🎉💬

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

that was a large part of the conversation at CITCON. The question isn't new and should be asked of any improvement initative or tool change. But if you weren't able to tell/measure before AI, you won't be able to tell about AI. 'we're using lots of tokens' is not going to cut it..

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#citcon:ai Helsinki 2026 about to kick off! Thanks #ouro for hosting!

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I will keep an eye out! Helsinki reminds me of home, weirdly. Odd but fascinating mixture of architecture..

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Walking into Helsinki city centre in anticipation of CITCON:AI EU 26 #citcon

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You know what? It's Friday. I'm working tomorrow morning (Specification By Example - 2 places still available, BTW). Giving myself the afternoon off. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I guess the formula would stay the same, the result would just be much more meaningful/accurate with mutation coverage, instead of test coverage. This is one of those .. use mutation scores if available, otherwise drop through to test coverage. Would have to make it identifiable, too.. 🤔

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

After oodles of research & experimentation, I've got a pretty good handle on what kind of input tends to produce the best results in AI coding. The hard part was coming up with a catchy mnemonic. Introducing C.R.E.S.S principles for context engineering. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/c...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I swear.. Spec Driven Development was invented by people that watched an AI do "TDD" by writing all the tests first and then implementing them in one go.

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I feel like I've seen you post about this before but can't find it - what are the most common built-in refactorings you are using in JetBrains?

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Roland Eschenburg @reschex.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Crocker's Rukes.. being German.. Potato/Kartoffel.. 🤷

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