tjlingham

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by tjlingham 1y ago
Last I heard he was battling cancer. We've got plenty of new blood fuelling the public discourse. He's done enough. I'm inclined to give him a break and instead put the pressure on the rest of the community to get themselves
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by tjlingham 1y ago
I agree, but I do need to keep a chromium browser around for the odd times that: my webcam decides to flicker uncontrollably during a meeting, a website just happens to put JS that runs terribly on Firefox in the hot path and it slows to a
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An Engineer is smart. Engineers are dumb. So what about AI?(tomlingham.com)
1 points by tjlingham 1y ago|0 comments
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by tjlingham 1y ago
If you use the built in keyboard I imagine you have to continuously deal with the page resizing to avoid the keyboard, and potentially people not having easy access to an English keyboard. The custom keyboard makes all the tools you need a
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by tjlingham 3y ago
That's very easy to say until it's your partner, mother/father, or child on the other side of that assertion. If you're curious and have time, I'd suggest the following excellent exploration of the idea of extinguis
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by tjlingham 3y ago
It feels like that should be true, I get it. However Java Card is very real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
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Technical Debt is fake news(tomlingham.com)
2 points by tjlingham 4y ago|1 comments
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by tjlingham 4y ago
Thank you – I think of "model" as meaning the way I think about, reason, and communicate an idea. But I completely see how that usage is not idiomatic. I appreciate the feedback.
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by tjlingham 4y ago
Great question! I'll try my best to explain, though it's late and I may ramble – apologies in advance. (You said you understand this bit but I'll put it here too just incase someone else could benefit). By modelling "the
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by tjlingham 4y ago
Well, bugger. Thank you for the correction.
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by tjlingham 4y ago
This is one reason why I go all in on practices that are backed by data to correlate with business success (CI/CD, DevOps, etc.). Think the Accelerate book. Software development has the added difficulty of being quite a young industry
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by tjlingham 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. This is written from the perspective of a manager so I am likely asking a bit too much from the reader to make the connection. Thank you for the feedback! My experience tends to be that managers will rarely get h
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by tjlingham 4y ago
I would certainly be lying if I said the Phoenix Project hadn't helped me form some of my ideas around capacity and limits on WIP. Agreed, a great read.
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Why are you so busy?(tomlingham.com)
376 points by tjlingham 4y ago|123 comments
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by tjlingham 4y ago
There is something off about the weight. Muscle is only slightly more dense than water. So 20 pounds would be about 9 litres of tissue by volume. This looks like maybe 3 litres at the most including the enclosure and liquid it's submer
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AU-Canary: A pre-commit hook, so developers from Australia can be trusted again(github.com)
2 points by tjlingham 8y ago|0 comments