@ColinPear

Author of Confidence Engineering. NServiceBus Champion, C# Dev, DevOps, SOA and Distributed Systems Architect, and @ParticularSW Evangelist.

 Austin, TX
confidenceengineering.com/
Joined May 2011
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Resilience in negotiation isn’t just about managing what’s thrown at you. It’s about thriving, pivoting, and even using disruption to gain an edge. Are you using below-the-surface Labels to uncover your counterparts' real core values and needs? That’s Tactical Empathy in action.
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Today in college football: #1 Georgia - LOST #2 Notre Dame- LOST #5 Indiana - LOST #6 Alabama - LOST #7 Texas - LOST
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Tawanda Nyahuye👨‍💻@towernterOct 15
Me clicking Yes to all to claude code without reading anything
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Tired of looking at the Cursor dashboard to see how much usage your enterprise plan has left? Our friends at @ClearMeasure built a (free!) VSX tool to put the information right in your editor. Pretty cool! clearmeasure.com/cursor-usag…

Cursor Usage Is A User Lever, So We Put It in the Status Bar - Clear Measure

Cursor's in-app usage view is several screens away from the actual usage in our enterprise accounts, so we kept a browser tab open to track it.

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Derek Comartin
@codeopinionOct 6
"design patterns don't matter because AI writes code" is like saying "architectural blueprints don't matter because power tools cut wood faster." Ex: architectural (distributed, messaging) patterns like say a claim check or cache aside, do you need them? Depends on the context. But you can't say you do or don't unless you know what they are and the trade-offs. Otherwise you're just offloading decisions.
Can Vardar
@icanvardarOct 6
do you remember software design patterns we don't give a fuck about them anymore
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Eric Fleming@efleming18Oct 6
Not too simple, not too complex. On Oct 7 at .NET Day Online we're talking modular monoliths. Free and online: ardalis.com/dotnetday26 0830 ET / 1430 CET/CEST TOMORROW #dotnet #jetbrains #softwarearchitecture
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"Architecture and high quality code will 10x decrease your token costs." That is the most important quote I've heard to date.
Kyle Nunery
@knuneryOct 1
Replying to @ColinPear
Absolutely! Our primary jobs might end up being “token optimizers”. Architecture and high quality code will 10x decrease your token costs. I think token costs, dependency on one token vendor, and potential IP theft are the important topics at the moment r.
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When do we start calling it SI instead of AI?
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@twtayaanSep 30
Microsoft just gave Windows its own built-in way to run Linux containers. WSL Containers is now generally available, letting you build and run Linux containers directly from Windows with wslc. It brings isolated containers, faster Windows-to-Linux file access and a new networking model. And Compose support is already coming next. Linux containers on Windows just became a first-party Microsoft feature. Full announcement: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
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Just listened to a great discussion on the @azuredevopsshow with @MarkMichaelis. He answers the question of the importance of coding knowledge in the AI world. It was in a way oddly comforting to hear this talk as a software professional. youtu.be/wSMCv4iBNv0?is=OoEZ…

Mark Michaelis: Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow - Episode 421

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/Today I'm joined by Ma...

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Udi Dahan@UdiDahanJun 2
Now, with AI, we have even MORE of this happening. Folks, seriously, this hasn't ever gone well. #UseWhatWorks usewhatworks.org/

Use What Works - Choose proven solutions over building from scratch

A manifesto for choosing proven solutions over bespoke frameworks. #UseWhatWorks

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Extinguished Engineer
@ExtinguishedEngMay 28
Another team build a customized framework that does everything (see Inner Platform Effect.) Today I have to meet with them and they will pressure us to start using their platform instead of just writing our own code like our forefathers before us. 1/
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Software leadership and engineering teams are searching for confidence without even knowing it.

Confidence is a System Property

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The Fear of Shipping Software Is a Design Flaw. If shipping is something you only do in the off hours of the "slowest traffic" day of the week then you need to figure out why that is. Why is that your reality? Fear of shipping is a flaw. Don't normalize it. Most companies don't even realize they are afraid. That should change. confidenceengineering.com/bl…

The Fear of Shipping Is a Design Flaw

There is a particular kind of anxiety that appears in software organizations just before a production deployment. The release window has been scheduled carefully. QA has completed its validation. The...

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In this video, @dvdstelt takes a different look at microservices and discusses why technology choice doesn’t change coupling or autonomy at all, and how we need to take a step back and stop sharing data between services particular.net/videos/autono…

Autonomous microservices don't share data

🔗Transcription 00:05 Dennis van der Stelt So welcome. Let's talk about autonomous services that don't share any data. And I added period because I strongly believe they shouldn't. But what kind of…

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Ummm, say what! Whoa.
Diogo Almeida
@CompleteSkepticSep 15
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free) • Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
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Pear Web@PearWebAug 20
Wow, JavaScript stands the test of time! I wrote these games in plain vanilla JS about27 years ago and they still work perfectly. I even did the graphics. pearweb.com/javascript/games…
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How "big" your user stories or work items are is of little consequence. What does matter is your historical throughput and cycle time for completing them. If you have that you can determine the probability of completing them within a certain amount of time.
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Want to know what production messaging looks like? ✅ Multiple endpoints ✅ Distributed workflows ✅ Cloud-native architecture ✅ Observability ✅ Failure handling ✅ Different messaging patterns The Loan Broker Showcase demonstrates how real distributed systems are built, not toy examples. #dotnet #messaging docs.particular.net/samples/…

Loan Broker Showcases • NServiceBus

Showcases demonstrating how to build distributed systems on AWS and Azure with NServiceBus.

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Can we go back to just writting html, css, and Javascript for static websites; instead of trying to build out some ReactJS CMS that the engineer will use to update content?
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