Marcus Williams

@[email protected] - Agile coach, recovering developer and part time tinkerer. Co-founder of the awesome Cambridge Agile Exchange (@Cam_Agile_xchg)

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Repeat after me: "It's not about the tickets."

[Brenan Keller @brenankeller]

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site"

[Wisen Tanasa @ceilfors]

Instant and delayed rewards from writing tests may disappear when we write tests last.

This means we'll be less likely to write tests.

What are these disappearing rewards? Short thread.

[Marcus Williams @sprky]

Love these AI generated subway maps

[Drake Facts @NewsIn6ix]

In addition to AI, one of my other passions is public transit. My favorite youtuber is @RM_Transit

Here are AI generated Subway Maps in the style of famous artists.

1. Vincent van Gogh

[Marcus Williams @sprky]

How have I not heard #klangphonics before. What to do when someone complains about loud music https://t.co/IMgPXa1V3a

[Marcus Williams @sprky]

@CambridgeFibre when are you going to be available in Histon & Impington? Fed up of VM.

[jessica card @jessicard]

i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity

[Matt Wynne ✊🏿 bsky.app/profile/mattwynne.net @mattwynne]

Unpopular opinion: Pull requests are a terrible idea in almost all contexts.

Focus on finishing things as a team instead of keeping everybody busy. Do code reviews in real-time through pairing or ensembling instead of blocking the flow of work waiting for a pull request review.

[Ben Coates @bencoates1]

In Paris, a new “Everything Is Fine” gif is born https://t.co/LbYYHW72hV

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? https://t.co/XKfSuyZYkx

[Marcus Williams @sprky]

Sounded as awesome as it looks https://t.co/ZfJYss4Moz

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Bastl Instruments VURT // Číslizvuk // Modular Synth (Czechoslovakia, 1977) https://t.co/E9nbjUGnxU

[Luís Soares @lsoares]

finishing Jira tickets is not the goal

[Marcus Williams @sprky]

Often wondered about using ADRs for all decisions. Blast radius tip is a great idea.

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Yeeesssss!! Lowkey obsessed with decision records/ADRs right now. If I were starting a new company (which I *am not,* and *will never*) I would be using these from day one.

And not just for technical decisions, either. For any decision with a blast radius of >1 group.

[Christian Hujer 🇪🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇱☼𓃬 @christianhujer]

"Hotfix" is just a euphemism for "our regular process is so slow that we can't use it in a situation where we would actually need it most urgently."

[Inspirado-LLC @inspirado_llc]

One of the oddest agile software development dysfunctions I see so often: same old big upfront solutioning with a delusion of certainty, and then squeezing that solution through Scrum with no feedback, no working product increments, and no retrospection. Like … what’s the point?

[James Shore @[email protected] @jamesshore]

A team is not a group of people who share a Jira instance.

[Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng]

There's a comparison between writing maintainable code and playing pool/billiards.

If you're bad at shooting pool like I am, you make the easiest shot you can, hit a ball into a pocket, and the cue ball rolls wherever it rolls on the table. 1/7

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Committing at least once a day, reduces the blast radius of your changes: if it's good you can build on it more quickly; if it fails you find out and fix it more quickly.

[Cambridge Agile Xchg @Cam_Agile_xchg]

Huge thanks to our wonderful CAE community for all your support over the years. There won't be any meetups scheduled for the forseeable...
...but we're still here! Find us on Slack or contact the CAE crew @sprky @simolaw @Labyrinthsprite