Alister Bulman

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 Open for Remote/Hybrid (London/UK) Senior Symfony/PHP roles.

Programming with #PHP, specialising in #Scaling, #StaticAnalysis and #CodeQuality

I do things with computers, mostly  & . Not a Serbian Thrash-Heavy Metal band. But they've got a good name :)
      

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This account is moving to https://hachyderm.io/@alister and you can follow me there.
Alister Bulman (@[email protected])

0 Posts, 183 Following, 0 Followers · Programming with #PHP, specialising in #Scaling, #StaticAnalysis and #CodeQuality I do things with computers, mostly :php: & :ubuntu:. Not a Serbian Thrash-Heavy Metal band. But they've got a good name :) :hacker_a: :hacker_l: :hacker_i: :hacker_s: :hacker_t: :hacker_e: :hacker_r:

Hachyderm.io

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

Benjojo's Optical Media Survey

An election reminder. If you can't vote for the candidate you want because they won't get enough support to win then vote against the one you don't want by voting for the candidate best placed to beat them. You don't have to like them personally, just want to take a step along the road.
#GE24 #GE2024 #VoteTactically
Don't worry, Facebook, we know that escaping/unescaping JSON is hard....
TIL: The first woman elected to the house of commons did not take her seat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz#First_D%C3%A1il
Constance Markievicz - Wikipedia

«Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods.»

The FTC is out here just clearly stating the facts.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/06/succor-borne-every-minute

Succor borne every minute

Earnest chats with objects are not so unusual. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the famed Detroit Tiger, used to stand on the pitching mound whispering to the baseball. Forky, the highly animate utensil from Toy Story 4, once posed deep questions about friendship to a ceramic mug. And many of us have made repeated queries of the Magic 8 Ball despite its limited set of randomly generated answers.

Federal Trade Commission
The plucky flap that could: #SpaceX #IFT4 #Starship
the #emfcamp swap shop has new policies

"With 15 times fewer defects, twice the development speed, and substantially more predictable issue resolution times, the business advantage of high quality code should be unmistakably clear."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases

Code quality remains an abstract concept that fails to get traction at the business level. Consequently, software companies keep trading code quality for time-to-market and new features. The resulting technical debt is estimated to waste up to 42% of developers' time. At the same time, there is a global shortage of software developers, meaning that developer productivity is key to software businesses. Our overall mission is to make code quality a business concern, not just a technical aspect. Our first goal is to understand how code quality impacts 1) the number of reported defects, 2) the time to resolve issues, and 3) the predictability of resolving issues on time. We analyze 39 proprietary production codebases from a variety of domains using the CodeScene tool based on a combination of source code analysis, version-control mining, and issue information from Jira. By analyzing activity in 30,737 files, we find that low quality code contains 15 times more defects than high quality code. Furthermore, resolving issues in low quality code takes on average 124% more time in development. Finally, we report that issue resolutions in low quality code involve higher uncertainty manifested as 9 times longer maximum cycle times. This study provides evidence that code quality cannot be dismissed as a technical concern. With 15 times fewer defects, twice the development speed, and substantially more predictable issue resolution times, the business advantage of high quality code should be unmistakably clear.

arXiv.org