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Conor McDermottroe

@mcdermottroe.com

I’m a software developer and competitive rifle shooter. See also: @irlconor@mastodon.social

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One of the teams I work with has had useful standups for more than five years. Here’s how they do it: www.mcdermottroe.com/a-stand-up-t...

(Many credits to @emauton.bsky.social for getting the team started with that process.)

09.01.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s not that I don’t trust the judgement of people who are super excited about LLMs. It’s more that many of the people whose judgement I already didn’t trust happen to be super excited about LLMs.

I’m looking forward to the end of this hype cycle. Hopefully something of value will remain.

28.05.2025 20:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:

1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem

* Hyperbole. I hope

05.03.2025 22:24 👍 445 🔁 94 💬 23 📌 16

The best type of Prompt Engineer is one that turns up to meetings on time.

11.02.2025 17:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pubs don’t like people pre-drinking at home.

13.01.2025 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can’t complain. Hope all is well with you and yours too.

07.12.2024 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doctor.

07.12.2024 17:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s right next to the forbidden gate.

30.11.2024 10:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got some of those too, localised to my constituency. Do not want.

19.11.2024 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0