Thomas James

Recovering Enterprise Developer. Oracle free for over 12 months. Just a geek.

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

I am jack’s sense of nostalgia

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

Haven’t seen one of these on a plane in a long while

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

New Slack UX: “because we thought people used teams for its UX” :(

[Suhail @Suhail]

A small team that knows how to work together should be fiercely protected. Even adding a single semi-misaligned person can drag the team into endless delay and steep deceleration.

[David Neal 🥓🥑 @reverentgeek]

Don't miss my FUNEMPLOYMENT sale!! 😬 Please share!!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

I think the last time I saw CISC and RISC on slide together was uni 20 years ago. Been a while since we’ve thought about the difference. #dddbrisbane

[Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney]

Just a reminder that all bug prioritisation schemes in practice degenerate to three scheduling categories: do it now, do it later, never do it.

If you have a numbered system with many priority levels, what you actually have is a bureaucratic system of denial.

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

@zaymonantonio 💯 to all of the above

[@peterhannam1.bsky.social @p_hannam]

Perhaps it was inevitable...but now the spot market for electricity for eastern Australian has been suspended by @AEMO_Energy . (H/T @dylanjmcconnell )

[Shane Martin @Shane___Martin]

Fastest way to kill your business?
Taking on the wrong clients.

Here are 15 client red flags you must learn to spot:

👇

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Paths Open vs. Closed

Black Lines = paths closed
Green Lines = paths open

We spend too much time focusing on what might have been (black) and not enough time focusing on what may be (green).

Never underestimate the density of opportunity that lies ahead.

(h/t @waitbutwhy)

[Mark Ogge @MarkOgge]

Worried about the cost of living and rising electricity bills?

See why AEMO's Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) report released today shows PM's plan to keep coal power stations running "as long as they possibly can" guarantees more unreliable and expensive power🧵#auspol

[zaymon 🪬 @zaymonoid]

Me showing programmer friends the Clojure REPL

[Thomas James @thomasvjames]

> The first step before modifying an aspect of a system is to understand it. Observe it in full. Note how it interconnects with other aspects, including ones that might not be linked to you personally. Learn how it works, and then propose your change.

https://t.co/mrlXbw1E0U

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Software engineering: 50% understanding requirements, 40% complexity management, 9% debugging, 1% solving "interesting" algorithmic problems.

You'll enjoy software engineering a whole lot more if you instead think of the first 99% as the interesting part.

[Gilad Peleg @GiladPeleg]

Your managerial investment priorities:
Retention > Onboarding > Hiring
This is in contrast to popular wisdom that hiring is the most important thing you should work on

[Omer van Kloeten @omervk]

The question I found most impactful to ask when I get a document to review is

What kind of feedback would you like me to give?

[marquelawyers @marquelawyers]

Pretty good