blairharper

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by blairharper 13d ago
The very first thing I do on a Greenfield project or when taking on an existing codebase is implement strict LoC rules in CI/linters. Anything over 800 lines gets a line freeze. Anything over 600 lines is considered for a refactor when
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by blairharper 4mo ago
> use of AI has indeed lowered the story point cost It should not have. At least not significantly. Points should represent complexity, risk and overall effort (review burden, testing burden, dependencies, etc.), and so AI should increas
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by blairharper 5mo ago
> I don’t want APIs, I want agents to use the same CLI tooling I already use that is locally available. I do not want agents using the same elevated auth I have via my CLI tooling. One hallucination with your gh cli and the blast radi
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by blairharper 5mo ago
The real cult is the engineers who refuse to shift their perception of what "good" or "quality" means in a world where humans, for the most part, won't be reading or writing code anymore. I get it, existential threa
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by blairharper 4y ago
Welfare should rightly fund "survival" and "levelling the playing field" resources, but charity can offer more than that - it can offer quality of life and a sense of community/belonging. It's nice to be around
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by blairharper 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you appreciated my writing. False modesty wasn’t my intention, I’ll do better to explain myself next time. I didn’t mean to address any view of my own competence, more that I was able to build a succes
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by blairharper 6y ago
The London tube system is one of the oldest underground networks in the world. There’s no air conditioning, in fact it’s gotten so hot down there that the network has heated up the soil and clay around the tunnels. Heat management is a big
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London and the Anxiety Threshold(medium.com)
15 points by blairharper 6y ago|7 comments