Bob Salmon @BobTechThoughts
Ignorant code monkey. He / him. I like people, code and data. Mastodon: [email protected] randomtechthoughts.blog Joined April 2021-
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[Blog] Is this a bug, a missing feature, or neither? Trying to answer this, or at least find better questions, with the aid of cars and cheesecake. randomtechthoughts.blog/2024/02/09/is-…
[Blog] Changing things (tariffs in smart meters, which side of the road people drive on, software versions) can be disruptive and risky. Blue/green is an approach to reduce the disruption and risk. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/12/30/red…
[Blog] Modulo arithmetic crops up in time, music, and the limited amount of storage for numbers in computers and odometers. Programmers are wise to watch out for this before it bites. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/09/17/mod…
[Blog] Just as code can be high or low quality, so can tests. One flavour of low quality is tests that don't pin the code down to have only the desired behaviour. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/09/09/tes…
Trees can be a good way of storing information so that you can find it quickly. But if the tree gets unbalanced it heads towards being no better than a list. Fortunately there are ways to ensure that a tree remains balanced, such as 2-3-4 trees. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/08/06/bal…
Sometimes the things presented to programmers as requirements are actually solutions. These can lead to assumptions and hidden disagreement. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/06/17/bui…
The Ministry of Testing has kindly published something I wrote about reviewing requirements. I hope that testers and non-testers find it useful. ministryoftesting.com/articles/a6b37…
Laptops, like mammals, have a fight, flight or freeze response. To put my laptop into flight mode, I click on the right thing at the bottom of the screen. To get freeze, I just open enough browser tabs. To get fight, I try to get it to run my code.
One of the best/worst examples I've seen of a deceptive graph
One of the best/worst examples I've seen of a deceptive graph
There are only 2 kinds of data analysts: those who find errors in their work, and those who don't even bother to look.
There are only 2 kinds of data analysts: those who find errors in their work, and those who don't even bother to look.
When a hard stare isn't enough
Daughter: Would you like one of these vitamins? Me: I've already had my middle aged man vitamins, thanks. D: I wonder what would happen if someone who wasn't a middle aged man had one of those? M: Grow luxurious ear and nose hair and start liking 6 Music, I suppose.
Noctilucent clouds on two worlds...
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Proposed org metric: reflection ratio: (time spent on reflection) / (time spent on planning)
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Type Erasure ------------ When I look back upon my code It's always with a sense of shame I've always been the one to blame Now every data bug I see No matter where it seems to be Has one thing in common too It's a, it's a, it's a It's a string
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Functional & non-functional requirements. ☝️ one of the terms in that sentence is STUPID. Anyway, this week's video is out Wednesday at 7pm (UK). Tune in!
In Europe it's called a "lift", in the US it's called an "elevator". I guess we're just raised differently
@BobTechThoughts @graninas Exactly 👆🏼👆🏼
👨🏻💼 “You’ve spend quite a lot of time on this piece of code…” 👨💻 “I did.” 👨🏻💼 “But… it looks very simple… almost trivial.” 👨💻 “Exactly, thanks, that’s why it took so long.”
First day at my new job! 🔥 I'm excited and nervous to be starting, at the most senior position I've ever had before. Wish my luck folks ❤️
need to find a map tool where you can zoom in to the atomic level though
a very quick web map I made of this, because I will be using it as an example soon google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…
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@BobTechThoughts @ministryoftest I just found it funny that the Twitter algo decided to show me this based on MoT 🤣
I didn't approve this @ministryoftest marketing
Long live the Plumstead MOT sign.
@don_dapper @SwannyAl I did experiment with all sorts of things a few years ago when it was all the rage
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