Defaulting git clone to shallow (depth=1)
Before adding this to my shell config, I would manually add –depth=1 to all my git clones. ...
How likely would you be to block a company from asking you to rate everything they do?
I’m tired of getting emails from companies asking me to rate their products and services It feels like you can’t even buy a coffee these days without being asked if you would recommend the coffee shop to a friend or colleague. ...
Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success
Many organisations - while branding themselves as “Agile” - continue to make the mistake of estimating project velocity based on time than effort. ...
Introduction to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
This is a high level intro to LLMs that I’m writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress. This is a work in progress and a living document. Language models, or LLMs, are a type of artificial intelligence that can generate text based on a given prompt. They work by learning patterns in large amounts of text data and using those patterns to generate new text. LLMs can be used for a variety of tasks, such as generating chatbots, answering questions, and creating art. ...
Open Budgeting - Subscriptions & Licences
Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency
Deployment / Delivery Frequency I often end up needing to advocate for more frequent delivery/deployments with clients. There’s the usual benefits commonly discussed such as improved feedback, reduced risk, well understood processes, maintainable dependencies etc… however what’s often missed entirely is how it relates to the health and sustainability of the team. ...
Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two
Github Not-So-Reusable Actions
Github Actions is a “BYOBE” (Bring Your Own Bloody Everything) offering that provides basic CI with surprisingly convoluted configuration to Github. The product as a whole is an exercise in frustration, one of the worst parts is the lack of reusability and the complexity required to achieve it. Github’s concept of reusable workflows on Github Actions is clearly a cobbled together afterthought. ...
YAML Anchors and Aliases
The YAML Spec defined a simple way to reuse values in YAML documents by means of Anchors and Aliases. ...
Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part One
As of 2022, I’ve been using zsh as my primary shell for 14 years. Over that time I’ve experimented with and accumulated a lot of configuration, scripts, hacks, plugins and themes. I’ve settled on a configuration that I’m mostly happy with, over this series I’m going to share my current setup. ...