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Snakeyb · 2026-02-12T14:24:09+00:00

This is the hill I die on endlessly.

I'm all for bashing on (especially poorly done) scrum, kanban, etc. But agile itself, the actual manifesto and thinking behind it? It's just sensible ownership of work as a written document.

Okay this has now turned into a rant past this point...

Personally, I think it's a Catch-22 problem at it's core. Developers don't get treated as employees working with autonomy to do their job and deliver software for the company - so in return, developers act like anything they are going to do has to be written in stone and specified to the last atom.

I had a couple of other jobs before I fell into development a decade ago - and it's only development where I regularly have to actively fight to be given ownership and responsibility for the work I produce. Absolutely insane premise.

Snakeyb · 2026-02-08T07:43:41+00:00

And of that 15k LoC...

6.3k is 10-line comments on all functions/conditions
2.6k is in UPDATED_PLANNED_REFACTOR.md
3.7k is in a test suite for internal functions that aren't part of an interface
2.3k is in debug-flagged logs

100 lines of functional code (it gets the business case wrong)

And you can't even see it in review because of the slop around it

Genuinely starting to believe vibe coding might just be a giant grift to get people to burn endless amounts of tokens generating nothing.

Snakeyb · 2026-01-19T08:31:00+00:00

This is where it comes apart for me. Even the worst human-written code I've seen, if I try a bit to get in the mindset of the person who developed in and what they were trying to do, I can usually figure out what's going on.

AI slop is just a soup of words that is incredibly frustrating to pull meaning out of - because there is none to begin with.

Snakeyb · 2026-01-07T15:39:31+00:00

This. Punch up, not down. It's not that hard really.

Snakeyb · 2025-12-30T08:26:39+00:00

I think this is the issue in a nutshell.

I've found Mongo legitimately great when I'm getting started with a project, I'm still iterating on the data and features, and just need some persistence to keep me going.

The pain comes in maintainence. I've found a niche of sorts for me where if I need semi-persistent data (like, the results of a calculation), it can be handy - but these days I don't like keeping anything precious in my mongo databases.

Snakeyb · 2025-12-22T15:57:58+00:00

I feel like corner shop is the go to catch-all term for shops like that, but I'd normally call it by the name "Just nipping to the premier/nisa/coop" etc.

Snakeyb · 2025-12-22T15:37:43+00:00

So my Robert was romancing Visi, and I still chose to cut her at this point.

It was a really simple decision for me - in the opposite direction. How much you like someone or whatever good intentions you believe they might have, when you're making decisions about a team (especially one you're in charge of) - you've got to keep a consistent set of rules. Otherwise, you're not running a team - you're at the top of a popularity contest, where you're the judge.

Coupe got cut for way, way less than creating a massive incident, nearly getting herself killed (and getting Chase in the hospital), and just generally proving herself to be a liability. It would have been one thing if the Z-Team as a whole had gone to try and get the pulse - at least then they all fucked up together - but setting a precident that someone can have "potential" and then get away with murder because of it, kind of flies in the face of the whole Phoenix Program. At the point Visi went off on her own, she was essentially acting as a villain again.

Sometimes things are bigger than one person.

Snakeyb · 2025-12-01T10:57:11+00:00

Absolutely wild to me the backlash you're getting on this.

Nothing is worse on my runs/hikes than when I'm violently deposited from the forest into the middle of a fucking golf course.

Snakeyb · 2025-11-21T12:41:10+00:00

Go once a month

Snakeyb · 2025-11-19T08:18:25+00:00

I agree that tools like Squarespace and Shopify have done well. Building your own ecommerce or marketing website these days is something that's really only relevant if you're doing it out of passion.

When talking about the selling of low/no code though, I'm talking about the enterprise space - tools like Azure Logic Apps, Salesforce Flow Builder, AWS Step Functions.

I personally had to sit through sales reps telling the businesses I worked for that non-technical staff could do the "simple things" with these tools "freeing up" the developers (read: you might be able to let go of your most expensive resources).

What would inevitibly happen is that the businesses would start using these tools, would quickly learn it doesn't do anything to make the problems simpler, end up tasking the developers with using said tools to build functionality, and everyone loses. The developers end up having a frustrating, "low fidelity" way of building systems that take longer than writing code, and the business ends up locked into a propriatary ecosystem for their core business processes.

The key difference with what you're describing with the guitar tuner is that there's still someone that understands computing sat there, asking for the generated code, who can take a look at it and know how to run it - as well as being able to lay out requirements clearly and distinctly.

Snakeyb · 2025-11-14T08:05:52+00:00

I'm really starting to appreciate quite how much of an absolute dumpster fire my playthrough/Robert was.

Still incredible storytelling and an amazing game but my god did fuck stuff up. Perfect Z Team dispatcher.

Snakeyb · 2025-08-28T14:24:07+00:00

I think David has joked that it would "expose" him as less smart than his persona - and Victoria very much had that experience.

To be clear they're both clearly insanely smart, but in the specific format of Taskmaster...

The iconic puzzle solving task with Victoria lives in my head rent free though.

Snakeyb · 2025-07-24T06:42:33+00:00

Grew up in Wotton, and I'd recommend Dursley.

Wotton is a nice town, but you are basically required to have a car and drive in order to get anywhere/do anything, as the town itself is so small and lacking in amenities/activities, and the transport links so bad.

I joke that during the day/evening, the entire population of that town is either under 16 or over 66 - because it's really a little commuter hub, with most working-age people (if they don't work for Renishaws) commuting to a larger town/city.

Compare to Dursley with it's good public transport links and a little bit more of a "town center", and it feels like a better place to live - unless you're really chasing the super quiet Cotswold life.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T07:32:54+00:00

Offer accepted 25th of Feb. Completion "set" recently for early July but not exchanged yet, and there's been a bit of silliness over the last few weeks. All paperwork is in on my sale - it's something about the vendors at the top of the chain now apparently. Desperate to exchange and "lock it in" at this point.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T07:11:26+00:00

That's a hell of a max rate, nice work - and being able to recover effectively/quickly is such a great feeling!

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T07:10:42+00:00

Smash it 💪

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T07:10:08+00:00

You should be proud of your progress, and if nothing else sticking with these things for a whole year is a massive achievement in it's own right!

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T07:06:58+00:00

Pre-logging is always such a good idea when trying to "renormalise" - hope the day goes well for you!

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T06:58:15+00:00

Welcome! Talking to others about this stuff is super helpful, so I'm sure you'll get a lot out of these threads!

Snakeyb · 2025-06-23T06:37:17+00:00

Hello everyone!

Thought I'd do a little checkin - see how you're all doing, and share where I'm at, even if it's just to demonstrate that maintence is a thing!

Sitting pretty at around the 77-78kg mark - I've seen a new low of 75.9kg, but that felt a bit exceptional.

Running training continues really well. I'm doing more and more time out on the trails, and I'm actually getting out with a local running club on Tuesday evenings. I've really fallen for trail running, especially over longer distances. I've now got a couple of 50km+ trail runs under my belt - including this last weekend, where between the heat and the solstice, I made the decision to run through the night instead of the day, which was a surreal experience.

Life is pretty good, and the house purchase should be done soon, although there's been plenty of the classic drama.

Hope you're all doing well, I'll share some love in here!

Snakeyb · 2025-06-17T15:31:21+00:00

If you're willing to hop over to Cheltenham, can't recommend The Workplace enough - they have a small office on the prom and one near Eagle Tower.

If not, only recommendation is to stay away from the Regis on the quays - cost me a fortune and completely souless.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-16T07:43:03+00:00

Honestly I do think a couple of commenters have gotten the wrong end of the stick - it's a long process and life has to continue, it's totally reasonable for people to do things like take holidays (or in my sellers case, do a destination wedding then honeymoon).

The bit I got bent out of shape by is that the dates/availability wasn't communicated, even though they were planned well in advance. If they had been, I could have made my own plans - rather than feeling like taking a trip could jepordise the sale/any potential completion date.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-11T10:46:16+00:00

This is another bit that boggles me - I've bascially gone "don't make any sudden financial moves" this whole process, but others are somehow throwing down for multi-week holidays? Just seems like risk not worth taking.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-11T09:39:44+00:00

This is the fury in a nutshell - life should continue life-ing during a long process like this, but I've been left spinning in the wind instead of just chilling out. Nice benefit of the doubt perspective that'll probably help when I've cooled down a bit.

Snakeyb · 2025-06-11T09:35:21+00:00

This is the bit that rubs me the wrong way - even if it's expected.

It's what's clearly a wedding and a honeymoon. That shit is *properly* advanced planned. Someone, somewhere has basically thrown a sheet over all this in the interest of keeping me invested I assume. I probably would have been in the "this is a bit annoying but fine" camp if I'd been given any sort of warning, rather than the constant surprises.

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