Gus Paul

.net developer turned product owner & DevOps evangelist in FinServ. I like tech, cricket, baseball, Lego, musical theatre, quizzes & railways

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@AJ_Fairclough Just out here now and the only way to see on the crossing outside Tesco is from the headlights of passing cars!

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@AJ_Fairclough @EdwardFoley the trees on Kingston Road outside Co-op/Tesco desperately need pollarding. The leaves are so thick now they block the streetlights so much walking from the station to Canon Hill Lane is almost in darkness.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@EBoyacs @MikeJ_A Point of the 100 was not to make a better competition, but to take power away from member owned counties

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@AJ_Fairclough @EdwardFoley Not sure this happened in October as now trees are back in leaf the street lights are still blocked.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@AJ_Fairclough @EdwardFoley Amazing thanks

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@railnigel here we are at Waterloo, a train with no crew, not even a destination, but sitting with the doors unlocked and open

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@TLRailUK one of the (two) contactless machines at Wimbledon Chase is not working.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@GergelyOrosz Add the perception at senior levels that it's a cost saving/efficiency play when the main benefit it's just about faster time to market - but at that extra cost. Can you make more revenue more quickly to offset the cost? Now you are back to hard problems like PMF, sales etc

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@TLRailUK lights are off again in the platform tunnel at Wimbledon Chase. The emergency battery lights are at least on this time

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@SW_Help the colleague doing the platform announcements on the up side at Wimbledon this morning is doing a great job amongst the disruption. Clear and repeated announcements about what train is going where.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@TLRailUK the lights in the tunnel at Wimbledon Chase are off which means it is currently pitch dark walking down the stairs in there!

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@ChimeWhistle I was on the Euston to Glasgow on Monday night..ran normally on time but I was fairly convinced the bogie under me had a flat!

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@IainDale In case you have never heard it, this BBC article has the actual recording of the phone call Regan made to Thatcher after the Grenada incident
https://t.co/uQLkuRJ2MO

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@StevenTDennis What a wonderful life your mother led and what a beautiful tribute you have written about her. Thank you for writing and sharing this with us. My condolences to you and your family

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@ScotRail hi..is it possible to reserve seats on the normal Scotrail service from Fort William to Glasgow? Is it likely to be busy on Jan 2nd?

[Santiago @svpino]

I can’t believe I have to be the one saying this:

An IDE for software development is better than a command line interface.

We fought this war and won it a long time ago.

Why is now every model provider releasing a CLI for AI coding?

What’s this madness about?

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Feature branching is a lie we tell ourselves.

It feels safer and more controlled, but in reality, it’s slowing you down, increasing risk, and making your integration problems someone else’s future nightmare.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@AdamSants_ That rare thing when you assume he could take a wicket with every ball. Warne and Ambrose still ahead for me though.

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Most teams don't have a tech problem. They have a learning problem. Fast feedback, short iterations, real users. That’s how software grows.

Stop polishing code in a vacuum. Ship. Learn. Improve. Repeat.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@TLRailUK Ok well it's not that obvious that work so far away would impact Wimbledon area. But thanks.

[Gus Paul @guspaul]

@TLRailUK hi can you tell me why there are no services on the Wimbledon loop today? Your planned engineering work page is not showing anything.