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Professor in Practice, University of Glasgow. Toots and opinions my own.
Websitehttps://perhammer.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/perhammer

"That Slack discussion that aligned the team on an architectural pattern? If it isn't discoverable to the agent, it's illegible in the same way it would be unknown to a new hire joining three months later."

Some of these multi-agent workflow writeups are basically reinventing engineering management from first principles - except with agents instead of humans.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

A bit of a long shot posting this here, but if anyone knows anyone in Ireland who might be interested in this career development course Ardán are urgently looking for more applicants for this course. They have postponed it due to not enough eligible applications and they have asked me to help signal boost: https://ardan.ie/funding/games/sparks-game-changers-by-ardan-code-coven-applications-open/

#ireland #irishgamedev #womeningames #transgamedev #gamedev

Sparks: Game Changers - by Ardán & Code Coven - Deadline Extended! | Ardán

Ardán

Sohira
Amona
Subwey
Goina
Rangwey
Cozza
Ootirsirkelzaff

—John Duncan, “Inner Circle”
published in FROM GLASGOW TO SATURN #33

https://glasgowtosaturn.com

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow

Lecturer in Mathematically Structured Programming (790646) at University of Strathclyde

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Mathematically Structured Programming (790646) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Jobs.ac.uk

For the training day, we've confirmed the following eight legendary trainers:

* @emilybache - Controlling legacy code with approval tests
* @lisihocke - Secure development lifecycle
* @ruby_gem - topic tbc
* @claresudbery - Using TDD to get better results from LLMs/AI
* Jon Jagger - TDD with Cyber-dojo
* Duncan McGregor & @natpryce - Extreme refactoring
* Tim Ottinger - Value stream mapping (@tottinge)

More details: https://socratesuk.org/training_day.html

SoCraTes UK - Training Day

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.

(Via @jonathankoren )

I'm speaking at TEDx Manchester this year!

I'm really looking forward to sharing my thoughts on coding, education, art and AI with the lovely people of Manchester.

Maybe see you there?

https://www.tedxmanchester.com/speakers-2026/

Speakers 2026

Speakers 2026

TEDxManchester

Hello, do I know, or can I reach, someone with a room to rent in Glasgow, UK from Apr to July?

I know off someone who's coming for an apprenticeship in art/fashion and who'd rather be hosted by a local if possible.

Boosts welcome and any hints appreciated too.

#Glasgow #Solidarity

nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it’s been everywhere for 15 years and I’ve always been fine with that. What’s dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone’s carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.

15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.

nvie.com

I built my wife a tool to survive her PhD and thought other researchers might want it too. Zotero's essential for citations, but she was struggling to know what to read next versus what she'd already read.

Paperstack is basically Goodreads for academic papers. Import from Zotero, sort by stack and tag, achieve calm.

https://paperstack.ac

#AcademicMastodon #Academia #PhD #Zotero