Josh McMillan

Software engineering enthusiast

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

I don't think I could go back to doing software development without LLMs any more, but I must say it's always somewhat disconcerting when your pair programming partner decides to become a pathological liar out of nowhere

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@pugson 2 and a half hours it took me to install it, realise it had installed and then spend 5 minutes doing this. 2 and a half hours!

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@pugson i’ll get back to you with a response when i’ve finished furiously downloading photoshop on this laptop

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@pugson tell me more about photo pea dot com

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@pugson ever since the industry moved away from corel draw i’ve been making ends meet however necessary

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@pugson having just posted about needing a job i should make it clear that i am comfortable using figma, sketch, photoshop, fireworks, photopea and the gimp

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@pugson i’ve finally given into the adobe hype train after years of using macromedia fireworks

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@tomcartwrightuk @t_blom Looking forward to meeting up at Turbo Island for a picnic with our AI crumbles

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

A 16,000 lumen laser projector with a short-throw lens is a very bright projector. Source: my eyes

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@ashugeo @tuple I can’t believe you’ve done this

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I have a new favourite Slack emoji

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@urbanautomaton Nice! Yeah I saw that Knapsack seems to have gone a bit "use the pro thing or else"; I'll give parallel_tests a whirl!

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What's the cool way of parallelising tests in Rails these days? Knapsack or parallel_tests or something else?

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@squinkybob @Poolsuite Nothing to do with me any more I'm afraid, so no idea!

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@JackEllis Localstack S3?

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

I will never understand people who make squash / cordial by putting the water in first and cordial second

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

@tuple (By which I mean I’m too lazy, because I sleep deeply every night and am only paged once every 2-3 months or so)

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

Any @incident_io fans in? Worth the migration from @pagerduty and @Statuspage? We have an on-call rota of 4 people total. We’re not an enterprise.

[Josh McMillan @jshmc]

(My blog post about how to operate a high traffic product with one full-time backend / infrastructure person is still being written btw, for now I’m too busy keeping @tuple up)