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Iqbal Ahmed

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Working as Tech Lead in London. Practitioner of #Agile & #XP Principles and Strong Proponent of #Patterns, #Cleancode & #ContinuousDelivery

The ability to learn is itself a learnable skill. - Dan Terhorst-North


Awesome thread 👇🏼🙂

Something TERRIBLE happened to the streets in #LegoCity and we need to talk about it! 🧐 Why did @LEGO_Group decide to WIDEN the streets? 🚙 What does it teach us about real #autobesity? 🛣️ And how can we change it? A thread🧵:

fietsprofessor's tweet image. Something TERRIBLE happened to the streets in #LegoCity and we need to talk about it!

🧐 Why did @LEGO_Group decide to WIDEN the streets?
🚙 What does it teach us about real #autobesity?
🛣️ And how can we change it?

A thread🧵:
fietsprofessor's tweet image. Something TERRIBLE happened to the streets in #LegoCity and we need to talk about it!

🧐 Why did @LEGO_Group decide to WIDEN the streets?
🚙 What does it teach us about real #autobesity?
🛣️ And how can we change it?

A thread🧵:


Dave Farley nicely explains the issue with #Horizon system which affected Post Offices across the UK. Bad code will destroy careers, reputations, teams, companies and even lives. youtu.be/h3UIdGRBGlY?si…

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Only good tests can judge my code.


People will click on it thinking it is the close button.

My only concern is that this extremely short name creates an imbalance when it's put next to some other names.

ilyamiskov's tweet image. My only concern is that this extremely short name creates an imbalance when it's put next to some other names.


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With little fanfare, the respected academics @UCDP have updated their data on Afghanistan. The bloodiest conflict in the world is now officially over. "For the first time since 2004, the conflict did not reach the intensity level of war." ucdp.uu.se/country/700

smithkabul's tweet image. With little fanfare, the respected academics @UCDP have updated their data on Afghanistan. The bloodiest conflict in the world is now officially over. "For the first time since 2004, the conflict did not reach the intensity level of war." ucdp.uu.se/country/700

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Today, we're releasing "Patterns of Systems Renewal", a white paper introducing a set of patterns and activities that support the process of rapidly understanding a system and making it workable over time. bit.ly/3XKlNyj Feedback welcome as we elaborate this topic.


This is akin to a margin call against home owners. This is carefully designed by this government to make more people to lose their homes and become renters. Buy to let companies will scoop cheap houses for themselves at the peak of the crash. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…


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"The water companies and Water UK are owning up - they're admitting that there is a ginormous problem" James Richardson, creator of the Top of the Poops website which maps data on sewage pollution, says "the scale of this problem is absolutely enormous". trib.al/iFW4aCe


Excellent Gathering in this @EqualExperts Conference #conference


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I never regretted having written a test. I only ever regretted not having written a test. #TDD


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No surprise that Kent Beck's article "Thinking about Code Review" has an excessively good value:words ratio. His point about incentives of pull-requests is spot-on, and I really like this quadrant. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thinking-abo…

martinfowler's tweet image. No surprise that Kent Beck's article "Thinking about Code Review" has an excessively good value:words ratio. His point about incentives of pull-requests is spot-on, and I really like this quadrant.

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thinking-abo…

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What is the most important thing that I have learned in my career as a software developer? Here's a #Thread 1/18


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Dr Nikolas Pontikos @npontikos on the genetics of eye disease - #TechRadio techcentral.ie/dr-nikolas-pon…


UK to invest £900m in supercomputer in bid to build own #BritGPT theguardian.com/technology/202…


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