James Westby

Engineering Manager @JetstackHQ. Also books/cats/curling/cooking/beer. He/him

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@will_owen9 It was amazing! The crowd was also more knowledgeable and into the game than pretty much any crowd I've been in before. A great sign for the future

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@SquidgeRugby I was just thinking she had been a little quiet, then she was given a little space and did that

[Bolu Babalola @BeeBabs]

That adage of getting out of a room if you're the smartest person in it....I think it's not really as simple as that. People are smart in different ways, it's about being in rooms with a diversity of skills and intelligence in complementary spheres. You haul each other up

[James Westby @jdwestby]

For instance the "gzip: stdout: broken pipe" errors here: https://t.co/k9dafhBLmx They are coming from just running "zcat <file> | head" on a bunch of compressed files.

[James Westby @jdwestby]

Seeing programs reporting SIGPIPE errors on github actions when stdout is closed. Doing the same with the same versions locally doesn't show the same errors (presumably they catch and handle the signal?). Any ideas what the difference may be?

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@popey Roasting the cauliflower first

[Hisham Ziauddeen @HZiauddeen]

🧵 A New Year's Eve tale:

June 1990
"Hello, could you tell me when the next train to Birmingham is?"
"One moment, ah yes, it's at 1:40."
"Brilliant!"
"People aren't usually this excited about Birmingham."
"I've got a date with Sam, I can't believe it!"
"Have fun young man."
1/12

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@RichardJMurphy Sounds great!

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@RichardJMurphy *Very interesting

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@RichardJMurphy Betty interesting. I enjoyed Joy of Tax and learned a lot. There sounds like some overlap in topics here, what do you see as the key differences?

[James Westby @jdwestby]

This one: https://t.co/2R2xLOxhFa @BlackFerns

[James Westby @jdwestby]

That kick pass was outrageous!

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@WellsLucasSanto How about a Turing test where the test is how accurate the robot is as a judge in a series of Turing tests?

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@pylonfan @forestandwye I think it is telling that her reason for complaining is that “it’s not fair that the rest of us have to park further away”

[James Westby @jdwestby]

Can anyone recommend courses or resources to help with improving communication skills in technical and/or business contexts?

[James Westby @jdwestby]

@maelvls You did great though 😁

[James Westby @jdwestby]

After interviewing many developers over the last few months I wrote up some interview tips for developers. (Not specifically on answering technical questions, but on preparation and best using the interview time to present yourself) https://t.co/d7TwUyDGU2

[Andrew Davies @andrewdaviesuk]

@pylonfan Funnily enough, a report in New Zealand gave me the most information I've seen so far:-

https://t.co/avvkphMkb0

[windytan @windyoona]

New blog post: Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player https://t.co/tobKMTOaGE