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merrvk

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merrvk··on A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Absolutely spot on.The time main output is unnecessary busywork that is purely designed to pad out CV’s
merrvk··on A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
These lot cause more harm than good in larger organisations (imo)

I’m suprised that so many orgs invest so much in teams that provide no product value, rather than letting the product teams learn for themselves

merrvk··on Fastpotify
Tried using Spotify web client on Safari the other day. Performance was absolutely terrible.

For comparison I was using Apple Music via safari before.

I’m just surprised that such a big company can produce such an awful web experience, guess everyone is just using the native app, but for some that’s not possible

merrvk··on Flutter 3.47
Need to let this project die and invest the manpower + experience into something useful.
merrvk··on Lovable raises $400M Series C
It’s quite embarrassing how bad it is. Fair play to the founders making bank on the ai hype though
merrvk··on Claude Cookbook
They could have done at least one pass on the UI. Can't even get simple table spacing right
merrvk··on Expanding Project Glasswing
Got to say, Anthropic have hell of a marketing team.
merrvk··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
They are far far better at marketing than OpenAI
merrvk··on Orchestrating AI code review at scale
PR reviews were never the bottleneck
merrvk··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Who advises on these acquisitions?

Or are they just using a dartboard?

merrvk··on Stop Sloppypasta
I had a guy doing this to reply to PR review comments, copying in the comment to the LLM and pasting the response back.
merrvk··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
5 times the already subsidised rate is still a discount.
merrvk··on MacBook Neo
Bye bye electron
merrvk··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
Seems excessive
merrvk··on Most technical problems are people problems
People need visas and that’s all they care about
merrvk··on WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
Before it’s been released I would consider it sensitive for many reasons.
merrvk··on WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
Why are government organisations which handle sensitive information using Wordpress?
merrvk··on Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
They maintain a public repo.
merrvk··on Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
That maintainer seems clueless
merrvk··on Claude Code on the web
Nice its in the app, trying it out, seems damn buggy at the moment.
merrvk··on macOS Tahoe
Wow, didn't realise there was more than one tab
merrvk··on Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
Amazing, congratulations to all involved. Great day for the nation.
merrvk··on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
You could say this about any Google technology.
merrvk··on Crossrail Project Update
I use the core section 3 days a week for work. It’s brilliant, quite the feat of engineering. The scale of the stations is like nothing else on the TFL network.
merrvk··on Crossrail Project Update
It is strange, especially as it’s designed to have automated reversing at Paddington so the driver can change ends.
merrvk··on Sitting and standing at work (2015)
I barely stand still for more than a few minutes when using a standing desk. Especially on long calls, I will move about far more than when sitting. Though after reading this, I’m asking myself should I be sitting more?
merrvk··on Riding London’s unexpectedly fantastic Elizabeth line
We used to until Dr Beeching
merrvk··on Flutter 3
Home is so buggy on my iPhone, it's strange that it's part of the showcase.
merrvk··on Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
This will help open a lot of doors for us. Very interesting project.
merrvk··on Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday
Bet you’re fun at parties
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