Lee Jarvis

Preparing for the apocalypse.. and just, you know, terrible computers

I had planned on writing my own blog post summary of the conference, but Frederick pretty much nailed it. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Technical Debt by Sroop was my favourite.

Molly does well to summarise a broken on-call system and what her company are doing to combating it.

A few of my favourite Ruby codebases to peruse

After years of hard work, UK split tickets are now available on Loco2.

Stripe’s new open-source library brings type checking to Ruby. I expect this sort of functionality to be met with a very mixed response, but I’ll certainly give it a try.

In which I start playing with SwiftUI.

At the request of my eyeballs, you can now switch to a dark version of the website.

Emma Hunsinger on the artistic and romantic suffering she underwent while learning to draw horses. Prepare your feels.

If you follow tech news you’ll no doubt have noticed Apple’s yearly World Wide Developer Conference announcements making the rounds this past week. Here are some of my highlights.

This isn’t a “hello, world!” post

Recommended reading for both software developers and managers/stakeholders. Martin Fowler explains why high quality software is cheaper to produce and visualises the impact of internal code quality.

Hardware, Software, Underwear.