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Unofficial tweets from the engineering team at Smart Communications. Opinions are our own, company Twitter is @CCMInnovators

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Thoughts on software development from the engineering team behind @CCMInnovators

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@joemckendrick on DevOps, with quotes from our Director of Development https://t.co/Ql17GVVAau

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We're hiring! Looking for a #java developer. Remote obvs. during Covid, flexible afterwards (but must be UK based) https://t.co/aYMfewplhu

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We're hiring! Looking for a #javascript developer. Remote obvs. during Covid, flexible afterwards (but must be UK based) https://t.co/hZ9FRaS1Ya

[Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem]

I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3.

I'm still in awe.

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Interesting piece that makes a good case for stopping worrying about having teams do front-to-back pieces of functionality, but puts more emphasis on clearly understanding "product" boundaries

[Thoughtworks @thoughtworks]

Check out our new Insights blog post: Gone are the days of vertically sliced stories https://t.co/n0djcCW9CO

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Mind blowing talk. Clearly some developers are either next-level talented, or just have far too much spare time https://t.co/Vk5CpJurhB

Thanks @dylanbeattie and @NDC_Conferences

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Nothing to do with our jobs but we just love cool tech https://t.co/YBZa5K1Qws

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Tip: In @ChromeDevTools, hold shift while hovering over a request and it will highlight the initiator in green and dependencies in red.

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Very useful tool one of our team found to keep pairing while we're all remote https://t.co/F9XizQsfxk and currently free due to the pandemic - thanks @Genuitec

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A basic but useful site to test any tricky regex:
https://t.co/K29XI47eoE
Something we all hope never to need, but too often do

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We've been looking at ways of unit testing python AWS lambdas.
Here's an article - https://t.co/L8tM2GpQRP that describes using the python unittest framework to run the test and moto to mock out AWS services, see - https://t.co/jov9lUBTID

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Things that interest us: An insight into building Google Photos:

https://t.co/B54j8YHuOV

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We found this article interesting in the current climate. The use of a basic computer and open source software to help in an area where resources are currently stretched and in high demand https://t.co/XtnWGUXYdD

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Good Tutorial to learn AWS ECS Auto Scaling

https://t.co/At40MeY20O

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Useful Chrome plugin https://t.co/2zVlwltsU0 Good for anyone who keeps 1000's of tabs open (not pointing fingers at any of our team...)

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Love to see that https://t.co/s0PbmGXH28 @skillsmatter has been resurrected - go check out their library if you haven't before

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We were disappointed that Lead Dev London is cancelled, although it's obviously the right decision.

Now delighted to see the organisers have made a quick pivot to an online event - bravo, really looking forward to https://t.co/whixbRjbJh
@Geek_Manager @WhiteOctEvents

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"Let’s plan for a future where we’re all as stupid as we are today" https://t.co/P3HRRUpNVe

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Wonderful book excerpt on the origin of public key cryptography https://t.co/GcEWU4QKOA

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"It's harder to read code than write it" https://t.co/chs8HYBel4 versus "reading healthy code should be easy as reading a book" https://t.co/SY6AgHoXzz - two sides of the same coin