The most popular programming languages since 1965 to 2022 [🎞️ DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

Four years ago today a doctor in Wuhan reported a mystery pneumonia, whose origin was an unknown virus. Today, transmission of that virus is as high as it has ever been since that point. Millions of people a day. This is total, utter and astounding failure

The correct formulation should be “is it right that refugees fleeing conflict and persecution, and have often arrived in Britain with nothing, and whose claims for asylum have been accepted by the government, should get access to housing benefits?”

Excellent post by @kate_sills challenging the use of MD5 in the US legal and forensic community "because it's only broken for encryption". Do we use it here in the UK? (via HN) katelynsills.com/law/the-curiou…

writing about story maps vs use cases vs stories alone

Thrilled to announce that as of Monday I will no longer be independent. I am joining the wonderful Assent as a Sr Staff Software Dev - back to the coal face (and working towards less actual coal)! #SustainabilityFTW

“I’m sorry….” “No. No, you’re not. You’re Siri. Not sorry, story, sari, surely, history, mystery, misery, yes really, or, FFS, Israel.” “I’m sorry, I can’t find any information on that right now.”

you literally could do your own research and educate yourself in the time you took to respond with such a reply

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Adam Dymitruk Agile and XP have been more useful to me than half a decade of people just going "nu-huh!" - even despite the cargo culting and big enterprise corruption of many of the useful things. Applicability is utility.

I got phished. Not a training phish a REAL #phishing site⚠️ I am a security expert but I still fell for it🫡 ⛔️You shouldn't blame users everyone can get tricked. Here is what happened....🧵⤵️

So, let me get this straight. You just got out of college, and you think every system needs to be distributed? That's your big revelation? Let's think about that for a second. Distributed systems are complex, they're expensive, and they're a headache to maintain. You ever heard

Behaviour-Driven Development by Liz Keogh is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $20.00; get it for $8.00 with this coupon: leanpub.com/sh/jPuQcPtb Liz Keogh

Why can’t I get takeout, Deliveroo? …What’s that you say? All the riders on strike? Good on them! (We use Deliveroo because it lets us tip but seriously just pay them properly already.) #GoRoos

I still think about Liz Keogh's talk from YOW! London where she talked about using "Sadlines" instead of "deadlines". Not just because it's more accurate, but because I actually want to achieve them more. It's plays to our want to please, versus our want to rebel.

Recently, I found myself going through blog posts about BDD that are around 15~20 years old. A time machine of how the whole concept evolved. Truly recommend the reading: dannorth.net/introducing-bd… lizkeogh.com/2009/11/06/tra… #bolhadev cc Sibelius Seraphini @tastapod Liz Keogh

I absolutely love this: missiontalita.com - changing GTA V to save the prostitutes of Los Santos instead of abusing and killing them. (Trailer NSFW, TW, contains mention of SA.) #missiontalita #GTAV

unless they use "there," "they're" and "their" interchangeably

Watching Battlestar Galactica. Lee Adama says, “Zarek played me just right.” Every Siri device hears it, reacts, starts playing county and western at us. The robot uprising has begun.