@alvinashcraft That is very cool. That is very cool indeed.

@RichardJMurphy This is all they have left. The economy is in tatters. Services have been run ragged after over a decade of neglect. All the Tories have left is an attempt to portray anyone who they see as "different" as a legitimate target to direct hatred towards.

The next round of attack from the fascists has been opened by Braverman. This is the state of the UK in 2023. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/04/03/the-next-round-of-attack-from-the-fascists-has-been-opened-by-braverman-this-is-the-state-of-the-uk-in-2023/.

@shantini I'm sitting here, with the popcorn ready, for someone to start explaining what mansplaining is. We all know it's coming.

The #NHS is often picked on by politicos here in the UK. Here's my tale of dialling 111.

Couple of nights I've had pain in my mouth; I sometimes get neuralgia so I thought it was that.

It wasn't.

I'm out of bed at midnight, painkillers just aren't working. About 2AM, I rang 111 to see about an emergency dental appointment. 2 minutes to speak to an operator, then a call back from a dental specialist nurse 20 minutes later. They think it's an abscess (spoiler alert, it wasn't). Book me in for an emergency appointment at 10.30 this morning.

Visited the dentist, had an x-ray and he informs me that the tooth has cracked under the gumline so it can't be repaired. 40 minutes later, I'm in the car back home having had the tooth removed.

This is just the latest example of exemplary service I've had with the #NHS. Always there for you, and almost always amazing. Do the world a favour, and be nice to your local #NHS team. They're there when we need it, and they don't break the bank.

@ladeak It depends what you mean by fulfil here. It's possible to use just the models from an OpenAPI contract, and to completely ignore the entirety of the underlying contract - some teams think this is fulfilling the contract (I don't).

If this is a contract that you own, the easiest way to ensure you fulfil the contract is to Swagger gen the API. That gives you conformant code by default. You can use SwaggerHub or the open source swagger gen to do this (SH uses the swagger gen under the covers).

Hearing that Jeff Beck has died felt like an absolute gut punch. It is impossible to overstate his genius and consummate musicianship. He was the guitarist's guitarist, and it is fair to say that his sound was unique. No one else sounded like Beck; his control of whammy, volume, and tone alone gave him a distinctive sound that no one has been able to match. RIP Jeff.

@RichardJMurphy Interesting article. While being nurse-centric, it does address the fallacies behind the approach that the government takes in what it laughingly refers to as negotiations. They'll pay a train company to mitigate lost revenue from strikes, but they won't award the pay rises that would remove the strikes.

Bad Batch series 2. Don't mind if I do.

@jesseliberty I also recommend ProWritingAid. SudoWrite is extremely useful too.

@malwaretech It's not unhinged. English is completely batshit crazy. Consider the sentence "I ploughed a furrow in Loughborough then I was placed on furlough so I went to live on a lough". Phonetically, that's furrow, luffburu, furlow, and lock.

How does #sudowrite do this? Well, it is an AI tool that takes the content I have already written, and suggest improvements for me. For instance, it takes a phrase, and using the describe function, it comes up with alternatives using taste, touch, sight, and sound. My prose is already a lot punchier. I broke that block and wrote 300 words of original content in a little over half an hour.

I like to write and it has long been a goal of mine to write my first novel. I have been trying to write this for a very long time and, like so many, when I start to commit my words "to paper", that little voice in my head is whispering, "who are you kidding? This stuff is rubbish". By chance, last week, I saw a conversation about a tool called #sudowrite (https://www.sudowrite.com/) and it is giving me the confidence to get past my inner critic.

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

The debate about whether #ChatGPT will replace developers has been fascinating to watch. Until it is able to dig into what users really want, it will never replace developers. Users are notoriously bad at telling you their real requirements. They will tell you what they think they want, using imprecise language. Building software requires a constant conversation refining and honing user needs.

Consider, also, that you might say, "I want this to be sorted." Okay, which particular sorting algorithm do you want to use? Until you can describe your requirements down to that level, it's going to be difficult to get the system you want. There's a name for people who can do that; #developers.

RT @DrJoGrady
I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TWEET TO PLEASE RT IT.

Tomorrow nurses strike. They will be put through hell by the media, politicians and the establishment.

Ahead of the action please share this tweet if you back the nurses and find it sickening that they are being vilified.

@jonskeet It was one of the NDC London events - you were doing a live code challenge IIRC, pitting C# up against some less powerful language.

I once had the unfortunate claim to fame that I was presenting at the same time as @jonskeet, at the same venue. I had the grand total of four attendees (one was the sound guy, and the other was one of the event organisers), while it was standing room only at Jon's. So anyway, hello Jon. It's good to see you here on Mastodon.

@jesseliberty You've done something different with your hair I see.

I run a project that's a fair old size, teams wise. I have about 250 developers and testers, scattered around the world. This will be growing by another 100 or so next year. My developers and testers have managed to do great things in breaking down silos between teams.

I was very sad, this morning, to find that we have a group of client architects who have never spoken to each other. They have relied on me to understand how the system will hang together, and feed into the teams.