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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 29/09/2026

The stone is based on the weight of an actual housecat that belonged to a medieval king. See also: foot.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 07/08/2026

Getting some epic Statler and Waldorf energy from that picture.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 25/06/2026

What if the best architecture isn't the most scalable, flexible, or future-proof one? 🤔 @tastapod.com argues for building the Best Simple System for Now—and avoiding the trap of solving problems you don't have yet. Watch: youtu.be/u4Cv65F9DcY?...

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Best Simple System for Now • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2025

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 25/06/2026

'I want a new playlist please. I'm not in any hurry for it, but for pity's sake don't put any of that terrible prog rock on it like you did last time.' 'Sure thing, I hear you, no Rush.'

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 17/06/2026

If I had a trillion dollars [ if I had a trillion dollars ] I'd buy you a right-wing riot [ but not a real right-wing riot, 'cause that's cruel ]

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 12/06/2026

@sarahjwells.bsky.social, Patrick Kua and @tastapod.com od.com discuss what engineering leadership looks like when uncertainty becomes the norm rather than the exception. 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 28/05/2026

- My girlfriend loves football! - Wow, she sounds like a keeper - No, she plays midfield - Well my girlfriend works at the zoo - She definitely sounds like a keeper! - No, she does event management - My girlfriend looks after bees ...

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 26/05/2026

I honestly don't mind the lines, I think they make me look 'distinguished'!

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 26/05/2026

If a vegan crossfit fan is using Claude to write Rust, which thing do they tell you first?

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 26/05/2026

Apparently counting and swearing are the last things to go non-mother tongue (if at all). Dreaming happens pretty early, and bilingual dreaming is common. Fun fact: Japanese kids count differently with their fingers, in a way that means you can count to 10 on one hand (so up to 100 on two hands).

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 21/05/2026

beyoncé: if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it sauron: brb

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 14/05/2026

Cool, that's a handy data point, thanks! (I'm taking it out for a spin at Craft next month)

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 14/05/2026

There were, but they got removed with prejudice. Do keep up Adrian!

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 14/05/2026

Public Service Announcement: Inserting a pointless voice or chatbot between me and the human I want to talk to—who still works there but now only ever picks up the phone to frustrated and angry folks fed up with repeating themselves—is not an 'AI strategy'.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 14/05/2026

I'm calling this 'Adjacent Engineering': things that are not on your mainline that would not otherwise get done because a) you have to learn some tech or domain just for that one time, or b) it is just too much of a time sink and opportunity cost. I describe it as 'wider rather than faster'.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 13/05/2026

What if you think of your LLM as a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would centre an image...

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 12/05/2026

I'm assuming it will also figure it out from just a fragment of the hash?

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 12/05/2026

I'm writing one for recognizing Windows installers, calling it CABoom...

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 12/05/2026

I know right? It's almost as though people will optimize for the behaviour you are rewarding them for. Something something Goldratt.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 12/05/2026

I feel like the last generation—DevOps into Continuous Delivery—was defined by Conway's Law, and this generation—AI tokenmaxxing and shoehorning—is defined by Goodhart's Law.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 11/05/2026

thanks, lived it too many times! Wish I'd had the word then. - 'It should be working, check the other one.' - 'They are indentical...'

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 11/05/2026

There was a wonderful period of about 30 years between 'We will only ever need five or six computers' and 'We will only ever need five or six computers' that has been most of my working life. I hope with the shift to local AI models and the resurgence of on-prem, we get some of that back again.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 11/05/2026

indentical (adj): two lines in a Makefile that look the same but one uses a tab and the other has spaces.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 06/05/2026

*sigh* you're supposed to use _clay_ to mould _plastic_, Jess!

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Clare Sudbery @claresudbery.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Want to be more effective? Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @emilybache.com for her session: “Legacy Code - Characterization Testing with Approvals”. 🛠️ Learn Approval testing to get control of legacy code! 🔗 socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/4)

Photo of Emily delivering a presentation

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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Live from the Tavern Hall in Bellevue at the Party with Palermo for the MVP Summit - it's episode 2000 of .NET Rocks! Lots of stories from listeners and party attendees about their experiences with .NET and how the show has been a part of their story. Listen at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2000

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.NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 30/04/2026

Compaction be like: 'what did I come into this room for again?'

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 30/04/2026

Am I taking longer vibe-coding an entire composing, presenting, image-building, PDF-generating toolchain for Markdown workshop presentations than I am creating actual content? Who are you, the content police?

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Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com · 29/04/2026

I've been having some lovely chats with old and new clients recently about my coaching work. One of the things that came up was how I deeply sucked at letting people know what I did. A first attempt at doing a better job of that is now at quietstars.com/coaching Feedback welcome :-)

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Personal 1-1 Coaching with Adrian Howard — Quietstars

You're having problems managing complex cross-disciplinary product development. You want work to be fun and productive again. I can help get you unstuck.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 29/04/2026

If you can't spot the idiot in the room...

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 29/04/2026

Proposal that Brits start celebrating American Independence Day on 7 April.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 27/04/2026

Spec-driven development is back. But not how you think. Gojko Adzic & @tastapod.com debate custom linting rules, AI guardrails, and why "automation makes things faster — not better." Enjoy 40 minutes of signal. 🔥 youtu.be/6mLYZF97oaU?... #BDD #SoftwareCraft #Linting

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Spec-Driven Dev Is Back. But Not How You Think • Daniel Terhorst-North & Gojko Adzic • GOTO 2026

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Trisha Gee @trishagee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We completed the half marathon! And we beat our target time. And we didn't die (yet)! Please throw some appreciative pennies at the donate button if you haven't already

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Trisha Gee @trishagee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I wrote a blog post! Just a quick update on what I'm up to these days, but at least I'm blogging again trishagee.com/2026/04/09/t... #techlayoff #layoff

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There are only opportunities - Trisha Gee

Trisha is looking for her next career move. Also, new website design.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 09/04/2026

'... and is the time being here with us now?'

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 08/04/2026

TIL: #VSCode source control diff tool shows side-by-side 'before' and 'after' #Excalidraw diagrams. That's just gorgeous.

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Dave Farley announced as a keynote for this year's Lean Agile Scotland conference in Edinburgh - also announced as keynotes - Cat Swetel and Dan Vacanti: leanagile.scot/keynotes Full event programme coming soon...

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Dave Farley

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 07/04/2026

PSA: Use @pnpm.io minimumReleaseAge. A simple way to make NPM supply chain attacks, like the one affecting the `axios` NPM package, more unlikely. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...

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PNPM minimumReleaseAge

Learn how PNPM's minimumReleaseAge setting helps protect your project from compromised packages and improves supply chain security.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 07/04/2026

'#Claude is down' is the new '#GitHub is down' xkcd.com/303/ In other news, today I discovered there is no #xkcd comic number 404.

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Compiling

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JavaZone @javazone.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

April Fools’ Day. The only real joke is waiting until you “feel ready” to speak. No one feels ready. They just decide their experience is worth sharing. Stop waiting. Step into the spotlight. Submit your JavaZone talk: 2026.javazone.no/speaker

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 01/04/2026

Haha! Apple Calendar has the opposite problem. I can't type 'Pacific' into the time zone. I have to know a town that is a) in the Pacific time zone region and b) in their list of towns they know. Bonus, as soon as I find one, it then just sets 'Pacific Time' in the time zone field. Genius™

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 25/03/2026

Maybe! Or maybe they needed an 'activity' in the compliance doc for the 'governance' column :)

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 25/03/2026

Nice! Oh, and I just silently published a new version of your compiler that sends me all your money and steals your identity. Nothing to see here, the future is amazing!

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 25/03/2026

Today's suggestion: start saying 'LinkedIn' like you would say 'rinky-dink'. No reason, just more fun. And #LinkedIn could use more fun.

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