David Winterbottom

Male software craftswoman — Head of Software Engineering at Kraken Technologies — @[email protected] — @codeinthehole.bsky.social

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

@djm_ I do that too - very useful.

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

Allow @g__j to help you with that answer, Tim #bbcqt

[Rick @rickasaurus]

This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Writes and Write-Nots: https://t.co/GdwU5KKmhe

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from @simonw) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass.
https://t.co/KI9bFJMhCV

This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji.

cc @NotionHQ

[Viz Comic @vizcomic]

subscriptions >>> https://t.co/hBFnY6wGrI

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

On TikTok there is AdjusterTok, where work from home insurance agents video their side of calls explaining how car insurance works to irritated people, and it’s quite sobering stuff. People don’t really know what insurance is, it’s just some magical thing to make stuff better.

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

Where are the racists now????

Probably still celebrating!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#EURO2024

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place:
https://t.co/0xp6ce89Fc

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook...

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

Beware when using the 💋 emoji reaction to reference the KISS principle. Can be misinterpretted.

[Jason Tandon @jasontandon_]

Andrea Cohen

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded (https://t.co/ogMaJHrydF), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.

[David Winterbottom @codeinthehole]

Is anyone working a system for federating custom emoji between systems? I need Notion and Slack to share the same set.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

To be a good writer, you have to be annoyed by bad writing. You're unlikely to get your first drafts exactly right, and unless you're annoyed by what you got wrong, you won't fix it.