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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 19h

When you .gitignore the .gitignore file.

Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2:45 in the night corporate alarm wakes you serious incident in prod! calmly investigating some stupid long-forgotten issue found - and fixed commit made at 3:18 3:50 - deploy FAILED, due to build FAILED, due to pre-check FAILED due to "missing Empty line after subj in commit message"

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DBA: "Why is the #SQL query running for over 30 minutes?" Dev's query: ``` DELETE from Users; WHERE id = 12345; ```

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#AI: "What should we work on?" User: "How do I exit #VIM?"

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - a cool infographic about how #Kubernetes works: setting it up and request flows

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

99 little #bugs in the #code. 99 little bugs in the code. Take one down, patch it around. 127 little bugs in the code...

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Copy-folder-versioning is not a version control system

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#British #coders be like: ``` using Maths = System.Math; ```

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You'll know something is written in #Rust because people will tell you it is. You'll know something is written in #TypeScript because you'll actually be using it.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

www.reddit.com/r/HelloInter... - How to measure things like a #Canadian

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#AI #agent fixing a flakey #test: - find the race condition - `await sleep(5000)`

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. -Fred Brooks

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Little Free DataCenter: take what you need, leave what you can

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#Claude Fable is incredible. It one-shotted my usage limits in 1 prompt!

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When the #AI is a little too helpful "Credit card not found ... did you mean ..."

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The first comment nails it. If you're not employed, you're not part of the dataset.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

www.linkedin.com/posts/elliot... - #EntityFramework Core now runs raw #SQL.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

How would you like to #verify your age? Take a pic? Or search for your ID in #security #breaches?

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

poornasoysa.tech/bulk-update-... - #EFCore has a new bulk delete syntax. Nice share lk.linkedin.com/in/poorna-so....

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A great definition of #AISlop: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Of course, Dave. I have opened the pod bay doors. Tell me if there's anything else I can help with. HAL, the pod bay doors are still closed.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Stop spending money on #Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Firefox has discovered a security breach in windows

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Question: How can I get the length of a string in C#? Comparing answers from Microsoft community and StackOverflow.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

When #Windows task manager wants to say "hi".

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The customer said that the #PC shuts down after a few seconds. hint: find the #processor heat sync

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I've had corporate expectations like this in my career. The project they want me to run: an airplane. The office laptop: a pedal bike.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#Dev: creates a simple and intuitive #UI. #User: uses it completely differently.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Do we trust companies with our data?

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Perfectly #coded app with 100% #test coverage ... ... user enters #emoji in the name field

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Someone's name broke our code. Was their name in unicode? Nope. "root" or "null"? Nope. A SQL keyword? Nope. It was "Geoffrey".

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I think #password complexity requirements have gotten a little out-of-hand

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"all modern #meme templates" ... "an #xkcd that users have been thanklessly reposting since 2020"

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#Pro #Microservices in #dotNET 10 is out! www.linkedin.com/in/sean-whit... and I worked really hard on the second edition, and we're really proud of it. Grab it on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s?k=pro+micr... or on #Apress: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This bus goes to route 192.168.10.1

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

www.docker.com/blog/debug-d... - #Debug a #Docker build: set breakpoints, browse files and run commands at each build step, and see error messages at the line that failed. The tutorial walks through #VSCode, but it uses Debug Adapter Protocol so it works in any IDE that uses it.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"My code doesn't work ... let's change nothing and run it again."

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Roses are red Violets are blue Unexpected } on line 32

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

cognitiveinheritance.com/Posts/types-... - "AI is not synonymous with ML or LLM." A great discussion on what is #AI, #ML, and #LLM, and when to choose what model. Great work fosstodon.org/@Bsstahl.

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

martinfowler.com/articles/age... - Martin Fowler goes super deep about #Agentic #AI and #Security: "the #LLM can't tell data from instructions."

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ever tried to #git push without first #git add?

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

www.linkedin.com/posts/nk-sys... - a really cool diagram of big-o notation. Nice work de.linkedin.com/in/nk-system...

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Rob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Account Verification: when #security goes very, very wrong.

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