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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2025-01-31 at 18:20

I spend so much time fixing build and deployment pipelines that I’m considering rebranding myself as a Software Plumber.

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2025-01-26 at 12:37

Make England Great Again would be pronounced “meagre” and that feels very British :o).

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2025-01-22 at 08:55

Last night’s Software Crafters meet-up was a great example of why I prefer them to language focused meet-ups. Seeing someone choose Matlab to TDD an Advent of Code kata gave me an insight into a whole different paradigm and toolchain.

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2025-01-06 at 15:50

I had to turn down a job designing autocue machines for television presenters when I found out my job title was going to be Prompt Engineer…

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-23 at 21:03

It's impossible to decorate a Christmas tree using continuous integration because people keep wanting to put features on branches...

[#]ProgrammerPunvent

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-12 at 17:19

Mince Pi

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-11 at 20:54

Was the classic Elton John song “Step into Christmas()” inspired by that time he had to debug a holiday calculator because the festivities fell on a weekend...

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-05 at 19:26

Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since .Net Core was announced!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-core/

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-05 at 10:08

ACCU Cambridge is making a comeback! There is a social on Monday, then the first proper meet-up in January.

While ACCU still has a big influence from the C & C++ communities many of us also work with C#, Java, Python, etc. It’s more about the craft now.

https://www.meetup.com/ACCU-Cambridge

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-12-02 at 11:07

With #AdventOfRest I should easily make it to an entire year without a single contribution to my aging side projects 💪😏

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-27 at 18:36

Happy 10th anniversary Pinned Tweet :o)

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-22 at 15:45

Ideally my advent calendar would fit in the fridge but I suspect there wouldn’t be any room left for food o).

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-21 at 08:37

The last time my wife and I tried to plait my daughter’s hair concurrently it ended in dreadlock…

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-20 at 07:47

When Sherlock Holmes talks of a three-pipe problem does, he mean one that requires curl, grep, sort, and uniq?

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-19 at 07:35

Product Owner: Why do the acceptance tests only cover the happy paths?

Developer: They're called rose tinted specs.

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-18 at 16:27

Saw this scene in John Wick and immediately assumed @kevlin had started an error message delivery service! I bet he’s raking it in from the “move fast and break things” crowd…

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-18 at 08:16

Our daily stand-up consists of the Scrum Master asking every team member in turn what code they delivered yesterday, what code they are going to deliver today, and what blockers they have. It feels like we're practising Continuous Interrogation…

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-17 at 14:09

RIP Fred Brooks who passed away exactly two years ago today. I’d loved to know what he would have to say about the current AI “silver bullet”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-17 at 11:33

When it comes to misusing inheritance, programmers are like lawyers - where there's a will, there's a way...

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Written by Chris Oldwood on 2024-11-15 at 17:25

Not sure how I ended up on somebody’s slide at a C++ conference but if I’m not being singled out for bad puns it must be for a good reason, right… :o).

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