Tim Mackinnon

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@shanselman enjoyed your recent .net containers talk (https://t.co/KFsx5RvRDg) but wondering why you didn’t try running pants.exe with NoOS like in Docker hello-world (https://t.co/Cw6HK8dMvl) that would have seemed the next step down from the wasm example right?

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

Excited to be going to #esug2024 - #smalltalk is alive and innovating 44 years on …

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

I hadn’t used @gitlab in a while - but wow it really does offer a compelling end to end experience that made me smile. Every time I thought “it would be nice if it had X”, blimey, X was there to try. It’s nice to smile

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

Maybe it’s me, but its not obvious that if I build a Docker image in a gitlab pipeline and store in its registry (amazingly simple to do) that to run it locally, I need to docker login to that registry and then pull it, to then see it to run it. Took me ages to think this way,

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@shanselman Indeed - many interesting projects in multiple languages, there’s something for everyone which is inspiring. Zombie clients in wasm or a microvm controlled by the server are particularly audacious and make me grin (see CodeParadise or Catalyst)

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@felipesere @tastapod Possibly https://t.co/MEFRVQDE5j is worth a look for getting to code as code… I always find it fascinating . Whereas IaC as presented in common usage is a step backwards.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@shanselman It’s a great podcast often with unexpected and impactful topics, thanks for doing it!

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@richajam Yeah… shocking isn’t it. Hopefully people read the full article Dan has dumped me in otherwise I’m doomed.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@tastapod That’s awesome! And guess what? I’m still patiently doing it, but I have also learned to pair with that “productivity manager” and their “boss” too!

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@kelseyhightower It does seem like the dev’s Apple hired in a hurry couldn’t be bothered to learn the simplicity of the Smalltalk , Objective-C was trying to emulate and they went in the opposite direction with complexity. There aren’t enough simple languages like Go, Smalltalk, Lisp - shame.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@joewalnes @tastapod @boicy @ICooper @d_stepanovic @natpryce @sf105 @lunivore @johnsnolan @ivanrmoore @rachelcdavies @PapaChrisMatts I am honoured that we got to be a part of so many interesting stories and meet so many special people … but even cooler, the baton was passed on and the journeys continue (and many of watch in the sidelines catching our second wind)

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@tastapod @TotherAlistair @boicy @ICooper @d_stepanovic @natpryce @joewalnes @sf105 @lunivore @johnsnolan @ivanrmoore @rachelcdavies @PapaChrisMatts It really makes me smile to hear these stories, XTC was supposed to be slightly tongue in cheek - a place to spit out “silly ideas”… but “many a true word said in jest “ and a community to explore different ideas.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@tastapod @boicy @ICooper @d_stepanovic @natpryce @joewalnes @sf105 @lunivore @johnsnolan @ivanrmoore @rachelcdavies @PapaChrisMatts We wanted to share ideas with fellow developers and have a bit of fun… the rest is a long standing history.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@tastapod @boicy @ICooper @d_stepanovic @natpryce @joewalnes @sf105 @lunivore @johnsnolan @ivanrmoore @rachelcdavies @PapaChrisMatts However XTC actually pre-dates Connextra - the first meetings were in a pub near London where Oli Bye, myself and Paul Simmons (working for a small company called Dashboards) agreed to meet Steve and describe our experiments with XP.

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@tastapod @boicy @ICooper @d_stepanovic @natpryce @joewalnes @sf105 @lunivore @johnsnolan @ivanrmoore @rachelcdavies @PapaChrisMatts As a touch of humour, Oli and I conjured up a name, XTC (eXtreme Tue Club) and we made a little logo from some nearby newspapers (it’s in my attic somewhere)

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@christianhujer I’ll go out on a limb and say there is nothing wrong with story points (I like the original ideal days ) - but agree advanced teams move away from them. But there aren’t many such teams… & will add I t’s not a lot about estimation, but more building design, trust & cadence

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

@engineers_feed I love how the interspersed ads all seem irrelevant as I read this

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

This affects the newer gen2 devices like
the 1PM, the Dimmer2 and Shelly2.5 sensibly let you set a password that the app remembers … so easy to override device schedules in a hurry

[Tim Mackinnon @iterex]

Don’t you love it when the reply from a company is “the developers say this is expected product behaviour - it was decided by the R&D managers”. @ShellyCloud - not remembering light switch passwords more than 5 hours is ridiculous!