I wrote my first BASIC program in 1981 and have been paid to program since 1996. I have experience writing full stack software for the web and have written production code in Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, and a few more. And of course, I know HTML, CSS and SQL as well.
I have built and designed applications on various versions of Open Source software stacks based on Linux and databases like PostgreSQL. Since the end of the '00s I have used cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean to deliver these solutions.
I was an early adopter of what was later to be called agile methodologies and was a founder of Agila Sverige, Swedens first conference on this topic. As agile grew mainstream and the meaning of the term went diluted I choose to step away from agile as an industry, but I still work by the ideals of the early movement. This means test driven development, continuous delivery and deployment and an adherence to a well functioning workplace. If asked kindly I still give talks about methodology.
I have spoken at numerous conferences and have worked as a teacher in all of my areas of expertise. Teaching and speaking is a complementary activity for me as I like to speak from experience.
Working in JIRA I came across a new feature today, “Smart Replies”:
How absolutely ridiculous.
We use written communication in place of talking to each other. Using LLM’s to write those messages for you is the equivalent of having a robot by your side talking instead of you.
This new feature in JIRA is akin to that robot having a button that you can press so it says something. And by “encouraging your team to respond to work more often” we expect people to just push the “speak” button repeatedly. Somehow Atlassian labels this idiocy “collaboration”.
I’ve used the Starship prompt for a while now, and really like the extensive info it provides out of the box. However, I was missing the layout I had when I used the Tide prompt. So I did spend some time configuring and I’m fairly happy with the result.
Next step is to get it more Powerline‘y, but that will have to wait for another day.
The config is as follows:
I’ve created a Capacitor app that wraps the website I built a few years back - https://www.v-sanger.se. It is available in the nordic countries in Google Play. I will make it available for iOS - if I ever get a Mac.
It was an interesting endeavour creating an app - there are so many hoops to jump through to get an app published.