Greg Skerman

Full stack Engineering Leader. Coach. Speaker. Workflow enthusiast. I have opinions about things.

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@LegendaryLFG @AlboMP He would have been grandfathered and not been impacted by the changes anyway?

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@marcelpociot How long are you here for this time?

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Laracon is back in Brisbane again this year, and one of my talks was selected 😱 . Hope to see everyone in November!

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Tickets for #LaraconAU 2026 are now on sale.

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📅 4-6 Nov
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The full programme, schedule, speakers, and talk details are now live at https://t.co/xMvrMQ1lGb

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@senatorbabet Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

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@simonhamp "AI is changing how we work" is a convenient coding for investors that hides the fact that companies over-hired and bloated themselves silly when money was cheap...

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@JackEllis Oh that's brilliant...

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@simonhamp Yeh but layoffs leading to stock-price-go-up leads to people drawing wrong conclusions. Who's got time to look into why when we have a stock-price-go-up-button.....

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@simonhamp This so much. I'm getting exhausted hearing these takes... as if coding (actual typing on keyboards) was ever the bottleneck, or the deciding factor.

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@jeffrey_way Big time. What's it all mean for a craft i've spent 20+ yrs learning? What happens when the seniors retire after we've hollowed out junior roles and nobody knows how the next layer of abstraction works? What will I, someone who's only been good at this computer thing do now?

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@allenholub Tribalism. People want their choices to be correct and to win. It’s obnoxious.

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@jeffrey_way Have seen it think this way but not do anything with the thinking.

“Oh hang on this might be entirely the wrong approach *has insight*

*continues with flawed approach*

I suspect it’s because the context is full of wrong things and pointing the next word machine in a direction

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Software requirements are typically written at the moment of peak ignorance

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@sifrious I knew I liked you Mary :)

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@allenholub That first sentence is the most important in the whole manifesto. And everyone seems to forget or ignore it.

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@allenholub Everything ends up being corrupted to estimable todo items :( We cannot have nice things it seems. :\

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@curriguy @allenholub There has never been a step change in human industry that hasn’t resulted in more jobs to be done by humans. Fewer humans may be hired doing today’s jobs. But we don’t yet know what future jobs are coming.

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@benjamincrozat @mateusjatenee @jeffrey_way Businesses, especially small private businesses have a responsibility to all their employees. To their families. “In it for themselves” is reductive af.

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@MidgetK @PovilasKorop I see this as different to suffixing with interface though. I know it’s an interface, the ide will hint it.

A resource is a type of class (though type hinting that you expect a resource will do a lot of the lifting here)