As I, a programmer, walked out the door in my trench coat, black mask and tshirt portraying a city being sucked into the swirling void, I signaled my pocket supercomputer to begin piping music directly to my ears and realized: I am a cyberpunk protagonist. Shit.

The blue check spam problem on here is out of control. I’m closing my DMs, but there are lots of other platforms where you can reach me that don’t take money from spammers.

@unclebobmartin I don’t think Trust No Programmers But Me is workable either though. I trust some programmers, especially the ones I’ve personally worked with & know the integrity of. I purposefully build my community, because community is what serves us.

@unclebobmartin Maybe code quality doesn’t matter after all🤷(though the empty timelines suggest otherwise) But if you don’t trust or respect programmers, I don’t see why they should trust that your advice would be good for them to follow.

@TaliaRinger there are so many books to read, though

@unclebobmartin Engineers were asked to accomplish something that it wasn't clear was possible, and they succeeded by doing exactly what we know produces good software we can be proud of.

@unclebobmartin Out of curiosity, what sources would you trust?

@unclebobmartin I barely cared about Elon Musk before this: I'd even tried to buy a Tesla roof. But programmers gossip like Rachel Lynde, and my allegiance will always be to my fellow programmers over billionaires.

@unclebobmartin I know people who worked there at the time it was purchased. "Lines of code written" was used to judge productivity, which made people who write e2e tests look great & people who wrote in elegant languages get fired. I also know people who have worked at Tesla & SpaceX.

@unclebobmartin This is the kind of justification that fascinates me. Code quality matters…until someone you support doesn’t do it. It is very common: humans tend to choose policies based on what leaders we like support rather than the other way around.

@unclebobmartin I totally agree. If Musk were one of them, Twitter might not have lost 30 billion dollars in valuation. It might still be able to pay its bills.

@BorisKosoric So when you say he is an "expert in reliable software development", that is based on ... vibes? Personally I prefer data & evidence, but you do you I guess. (My bio is a reference to Donna Haraway's poem The Cyborg Manifesto, if you're missing the reference.)

@hankgreen If there is a byline, it should be the person who chose the story from the computer-generated output. They are responsible for what they publish. If there is no human in the loop, that isn't publishing: that's just spam.

@tottinge One of the nice thing in Javascript is how the quick-start boilerplates all come with testing already set up. It means it's no harder to set up a project to TDD than it is to just set up a project. This may be why we see more tests in public repos people use: no reason not to.

@BorisKosoric Interesting. Where did you work with his code?

@BorisKosoric That is still an odd way to frame a conversation. He is largely unfamiliar with my area of expertise, reliable software development. I don't know very much about raising money to support ambitious projects. I am sure we could both learn from each other.

Realized today that the testing pyramid describes the number of units under test at each layer of abstraction. Behaviour is fractal & emergent, so so is documentation & verification.