Jason Gorman
@jasongorman.bsky.social
Trains and mentors software developers in... well... software development, come to think of it. If you're serious about your investment in your dev teams, visit https://www.codemanship.co.uk
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This is the way.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the way.
True story. Most people, if they can't understand it, will assume it must be stupid.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
True story. Most people, if they can't understand it, will assume it must be stupid.
And after they went to all that trouble to ask ChatGPT to translate it from the original Russian!
Trump says Ukraine ungrateful as officials meet to discuss peace plan
www.channel4.com/news/trump-s...
www.channel4.com/news/trump-s...
Trump says Ukraine ungrateful as officials meet to discuss peace plan
Security advisers from the US, Europe and Ukraine gathered today in Geneva to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, nearly four years after Russia's full scale invasion.
www.channel4.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And after they went to all that trouble to ask ChatGPT to translate it from the original Russian!
They have all these YouTube travel vlogs where they fly first class to St Barts to stay in a luxury resort and promote a mobile provider.
But I'll take the channels who film a day out in Matlock and review home-made pies on a park bench any day.
But I'll take the channels who film a day out in Matlock and review home-made pies on a park bench any day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
They have all these YouTube travel vlogs where they fly first class to St Barts to stay in a luxury resort and promote a mobile provider.
But I'll take the channels who film a day out in Matlock and review home-made pies on a park bench any day.
But I'll take the channels who film a day out in Matlock and review home-made pies on a park bench any day.
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Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.
A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.
A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.
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The story of early Lee And Herring vehicle Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World - one of the best radio comedy series of all time, and the fact that it isn't better remembered and more celebrated is a mystery worthy of investigation by Lionel Nimrod himself
timworthington.org/2019/04/25/c...
timworthington.org/2019/04/25/c...
Come With Me Now, Into The Swirling Mists Of Human Inadequacy…
The just about explicable story of Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s first ever comedy show – Lionel Nimrod’s Inexplicable World.
timworthington.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The story of early Lee And Herring vehicle Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World - one of the best radio comedy series of all time, and the fact that it isn't better remembered and more celebrated is a mystery worthy of investigation by Lionel Nimrod himself
timworthington.org/2019/04/25/c...
timworthington.org/2019/04/25/c...
My brother's berating me again for not signing up to a Meta platform.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My brother's berating me again for not signing up to a Meta platform.
When I'm reading posts about software development, I have to keep reminding myself that the best devs are usually well aware of their limitations, and the worst often aren't.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
When I'm reading posts about software development, I have to keep reminding myself that the best devs are usually well aware of their limitations, and the worst often aren't.
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
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Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷
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The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
This is the reality. On code that *matters*, I see dev teams using tools like Claude Code and Cursor sparingly, and keeping them on a very tight leash. Inline completion here and there, and "How do I...? one-shots. "Agentic" - or what I call "firehose" - mode doesn't get used much, if at all.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is the reality. On code that *matters*, I see dev teams using tools like Claude Code and Cursor sparingly, and keeping them on a very tight leash. Inline completion here and there, and "How do I...? one-shots. "Agentic" - or what I call "firehose" - mode doesn't get used much, if at all.
Seeing a lot of demonstrations of "Test-Driven Development" using "AI" coding assistants that have the model generate a bunch of failing tests in one go.
From much experience using them, I know that's too big a leap for most coding assistants.
Break it down, one failing test at a time.
From much experience using them, I know that's too big a leap for most coding assistants.
Break it down, one failing test at a time.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Seeing a lot of demonstrations of "Test-Driven Development" using "AI" coding assistants that have the model generate a bunch of failing tests in one go.
From much experience using them, I know that's too big a leap for most coding assistants.
Break it down, one failing test at a time.
From much experience using them, I know that's too big a leap for most coding assistants.
Break it down, one failing test at a time.
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Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
I wrote a blog post about how very, very important naming is in modular software design which you will completely agree with even though you're not going to read it.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
What’s In A Name?
The idea of “separation of concerns” originated from a need to make it possible for programmers to reason about a piece of code without the need to understand what’s going on insi…
codemanship.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I wrote a blog post about how very, very important naming is in modular software design which you will completely agree with even though you're not going to read it.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
WASHINGTON—In an effort to bring an end to what he described as an anti-American trend in filmmaking, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing a 100% tax on the profits of movi...
theonion.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
What do books and potatoes have in common?
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What do books and potatoes have in common?
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
If movies are to be believed, our intelligence services spent all their money developing their own bespoke operating systems, and that's why a global billionaire-funded fascist conspiracy completely passed them by.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If movies are to be believed, our intelligence services spent all their money developing their own bespoke operating systems, and that's why a global billionaire-funded fascist conspiracy completely passed them by.
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"We are recruiting for an LLM white hat security researcher. Must have a degree in medieval literature"
😁
😁
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"We are recruiting for an LLM white hat security researcher. Must have a degree in medieval literature"
😁
😁
The year is 2025, and people are saying "Hey, what if we specified the whole thing in detail up-front?" again.
Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.
Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The year is 2025, and people are saying "Hey, what if we specified the whole thing in detail up-front?" again.
Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.
Tell me you haven't actually tried that without telling me you haven't actually tried that.
If you've done a lot of practical demonstrations of development techniques like e.g., refactoring or CI or TDD, you will likely have experienced someone saying "No, I can't see that working" after they've literally just watched you do it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you've done a lot of practical demonstrations of development techniques like e.g., refactoring or CI or TDD, you will likely have experienced someone saying "No, I can't see that working" after they've literally just watched you do it.
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If I was an employer of software developers, I'd be hiring now while I can have my pick.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If I was an employer of software developers, I'd be hiring now while I can have my pick.