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thirstybear

@thirstybear@agilodon.social

Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, mogfather, diver, biker. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts

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thirstybear, to random
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Anyone using the Apple MacBook Air M3 with Jetbrains tools? Good enough, or underpowered for that sort of thing?

thirstybear,
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@_chrismay Heh! Good point. I use Docker quite a bit 🙂

thirstybear,
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@mlevison Thanks. All good points.

thirstybear, to random
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Heading into the Digital Wasteland between Porstmouth and Clapham Junction with my resurrected mifi & an EE sim…. Will I have data? “Place bets now!”

jasongorman, to random
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Them: "We want to improve the productivity of our development teams"

Me: "You want to get more value for each £ you spend?"

Them: "Eh? No. We want to deliver more story points in each sprint!"

Me: "U-huh. Yeah, we have a training course for that."

thirstybear,
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@mathw @jasongorman Been there, done that… then had to sit down with the management and have a long talk after the team was singled out as an ‘exceptional example of what is possible’ 🤣

Moments Father GIF

thirstybear,
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@mathw @jasongorman Can't disagree. I despair when I hear anyone talk about “standardising story points across teams”.

thirstybear, (edited ) to random
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I’m looking at getting fibre to the home connected - it has finally arrived in the village where I live! - and one of the providers says they can “manage my wifi for me”.

Really? 🤨 So they can get into my router from outside my network, into my mesh nodes and monitor performance/change config remotely?

They say it’s “a service”. I say the Gigaspire Blast routers they are offering have been backdoored 🚩

Thoughts?

thirstybear,
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Mmm….seems the router manufacturers use this as a selling feature…

“Every GigaSpire BLAST system is managed by your service provider so they can fix issues before they occur and ensure a simple, amazing experience.”

(Right beside “Fully Secure”…oh the irony!)

https://www.blastwifi.com/blast-u6/

thirstybear,
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I can’t seem to get a straight answer out of the ISP, so I hunted around the router manufacturer site. Seems that yes, ISP support can connect into the router at will and tinker with settings.

“the Wi-Fi systems that you provide for your managed WiFi service can be managed remotely by your customer support team.”

IMO this is not a feature, it is a big, fat security #fail. I won’t be attaching one of these to my network any time soon.

https://aem-web-dev.calix.com/content/dam/calix-com/assets/solutions/roles/report/subscriber-experience-managed-wifi.pdf

thirstybear,
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Also I am getting the impression that this family of routers (Gigaspire Blast) don’t let mere paying customers change the advanced settings. It’s for ISPs who don’t trust their customers with settings like DNS resolvers, open ports, routing tables, subnets etc. “Nanny knows best” #fail

thirstybear,
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Finally the fog begins to clear, and I received a technical answer to my queries. There is an open standards protocol TR-069 that allows this kind of tinkering without needing full router access.

I’m still not entirely sure about how I feel about it, but

  1. AFAICS on initial quick look it’s not ssh access, and
  2. Embarrassingly, I have noticed that my current provider has TR-069 & TR-369 access into my current router, and has for years 😳

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069

Tallish_Tom, to random
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Asking any developers doiing #TDD with "classic" #Xunit approach and using an #ApprovalTest approach.

Do you find the different approaches affect your low-level design?

@emilybache

thirstybear,
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@Tallish_Tom @emilybache Suspect you know my answer 🙂

I find that just using approval testing I end up with a very confused, poor code structure.

If I just use TDD (that's classic XUnit, yes?), the code structure is great but I don't always end up with what was asked for.

But for something where someone has a strong vision of the end game, using TDD with a smattering of key acceptance tests is Just Right.

It’s almost like there's a pattern… 😉

GeePawHill, to random
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When you quote an older source (in a positive light), and that source uses the sexist language of its era, do you do anything about that, or do you just quote it literally?

Here's a literal quote:

"The expert must find his place within the social process; he can never be made a substitute for it. Technical experience must be made a part of all the available experience."

Would you maybe bracket "his" and "he" and replace them w/non-gendered language?

thirstybear,
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@RonJeffries @GeePawHill What Ron said. It’s a quote. They said/wrote it 🤷‍♂️

tottinge, to random
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Most people, if asked about agile today, would tell you that it is about tickets and ticket tracking.

Somehow, it all turned into solo ticket processing, and everyone is obsessing on how to make better tickets, where "better" means solo individuals can process them quickly without "wasting time" on conversations with other people.

Can any ideology ever survive being institutionalized?

thirstybear,
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@tottinge Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooo…..

As soon as an ideology gets commoditised, making a fast buck trumps principles (and often common sense too). And you cannot sell an abstract way of thinking.

Andylongshaw, to UKpolitics

As Tony Benn once said:

“The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

#ukpolitics https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/uk-accused-amnesty-destabilising-human-rights-globally-gaza-israel-russia-ethiopia-sudan-myanmar

thirstybear,
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@Andylongshaw Technically not Tony Benn; that quote's from Neal Ascherson, but agreed. This is a deliberate attempt to degrade basic rights.

thirstybear,
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@Andylongshaw I only know because I tracked down the exact same quote yesterday. I thought it was Bertrand Russell 🤷‍♂️🤣

jasongorman, to random
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It seems blindingly obvious to me that the UK government's Rwanda policy was never about refugees. It's designed to precipitate a legal stand-off over human rights. And it's not the human rights of asylum seekers that they have in their sights.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/council-of-europe-human-rights-watchdog-condemns-uk-rwanda-scheme

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman Isn’t there a quote along the lines of “How a government treats the weak and the powerless shows you how they would like to treat you if they could get away with it”? Can’t find it though. Sounds vaguely Bertrand Russell-ish?

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman Aha! Scottish journalist and writer Neal Ascherson writing in the Independent:

‘This is because of one of the Laws of Politics that I wrote long ago into my little black notebook: "The way a state treats its aliens is the way it would treat its own subjects if it dared".’

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-we-teach-children-morality-what-will-we-say-about-the-arms-trade-1325052.html

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman also summarised in The Grauniad:

“We should always watch how politicians treat refugees, Neal Ascherson once wrote, because that's how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/21/features11.g23

thirstybear, to random
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Cards on the table time. I don't like AI code generators one little bit.

https://blog.thirstybear.co.uk/2024/04/your-ai-code-generators-are-your-new.html

jasongorman, to random
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I'm wrestling with some deep philosophical questions. Go out for lunch? Or stay in for lunch?

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman And “What is an occasional table the rest of the time?”

jasongorman, to random
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If code's a liability, I can't help wondering if a true "productivity" tool might encourage teams to produce less of it.

thirstybear,
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@jasongorman But….but….if the developers write less code then productivity will go down! 😱

thirstybear, to random
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End of an era. Goodbye Z80. You were my first.

https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf

sleepyfox, to random
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"Everything old is new again"
https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/099df6192b57d94317aa423444dab1cc

thirstybear,
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@sleepyfox Far too close to the truth for comfort 🙂

vocumsineratio, to random

Do I really have the energy for another content free "debate" about mocking?

thirstybear,
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@vocumsineratio @sf105 No, but you know it’s inevitable 🤷‍♂️

One day, somewhere in a parallel universe, folks will realise the discussion is already settled, and we were right all along.

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