firstprimate

Father, husband, software developer, games, drums, golf. From Joburg to Van, via Durbs and T.O.

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“An injury to one is an injury to all”

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2026-01-28 20:19:01 UTC

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Oh I do not disagree. I was being ironic.

2026-01-28 18:22:08 UTC

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Their argument is literally “They came for the Palestinians and I did nothing because I am not Palestinian“

2026-01-27 19:41:25 UTC

The new CTO, started today, has decided that I am not necessary for his plans to introduce AI into the software development cycle.
I guess that’s me on the job market.
- 35+ years experience
- Ops: AWS certified, bare metal, VMs, containers, IaC. No k8s.
- SWE: DDD, TDD, architecture, design, OOP, backend or frontend
- Typescript, Python, PHP, Go, Java
- Django, FastAPI, MySQL, Postgres, Ansible, Terraform and others
- In my last role I reduced delivery from 6-8 weeks to a weekly cadence with fewer bugs by introducing acceptance tests using Playwright, units tests with TDD, the Ports and Adaptors pattern to isolate and test business logic, a Kanban board to improve flow, and humanity into the daily standup. I mentored junior developers, started a weekly book club, and ran workshops to elevate the quality of the entire team.
- I am currently reading Frictionless (Forsgren, Noda) and The Real World of Technology (Franklin)
#AI #fedihire #softwaredev

2026-01-26 14:44:26 UTC

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Great thread, thanks.
Tomorrow our new CTO starts and his pitch was that his experiments with AI have increased his productivity and he can do the same for our team.
My expectation is that we’ll get more and bigger PRs that get approved with less attention leading to increased escaped defects, a general decrease in understanding of the code and increased thrashing.
I appreciate your very eloquently explanation of that in terms of work queues.

2025-10-21 14:57:57 UTC

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Israel being the reason western civilization collapses is karma on so many levels.
#gaza #holocaust #Colonialism #brutality

2025-10-08 19:48:55 UTC

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Maybe we’re all misinterpreting Trump’s remark about Carney being nasty…
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6930190
#cdnpoli

2025-08-28 18:21:08 UTC

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The West: Colonisation was bad and we apologize.
Also The West: So what shall we do with Gaza?
Also The West: We don’t understand why our governments keep restricting our civil liberties.
#genocide #WesternValues #HowTheWestWasWon #Colonialism #facism

2025-08-26 14:16:30 UTC

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Or get rid of Israel. That solves more problems in one go.
#gaza #genocide #syria #lebanon #Colonialism #JewishSupremacy #aipac #facism

2025-08-19 21:46:49 UTC

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There might have been a short period, say 1970s to 2000, when the Colonial North briefly espoused a philosophy of equality for all. That idea is now firmly dead and buried.
Where we go from here will involve violence. It will definitely start from those states, but how it ends is unclear.
#genocide #Colonialism #Facism

2025-08-18 00:48:07 UTC

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Inshallah

2025-07-30 21:18:11 UTC

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Did they threaten to withhold votes for bombs unless Trump sends aid? Because that is what I would expect the Democrats to do.

2025-07-30 17:41:13 UTC

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Based on….?

2025-07-26 02:13:24 UTC

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That’s Greta standing up on principle and you contrasting her with a still from a movie? Is this an attempt to say that Israel is not real? Help me here.

2025-07-25 19:35:21 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/915/544/707/031/320/original/c420b39806399d23.jpeg

2025-07-25 14:23:43 UTC

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2025-07-22 04:29:24 UTC

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He has failed at both for the last 30 years, but you do you.

2025-07-21 19:14:56 UTC

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🤞

2025-07-19 17:18:50 UTC

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This you?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/881/033/396/013/380/original/30fb1ac2ade45dc2.png

2025-07-19 00:30:07 UTC

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You spelled Palestine wrong. Twice.

2025-07-19 00:25:51 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/877/046/123/157/448/original/8376b5473ad27b91.png

2025-07-16 15:15:24 UTC

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“Most Moral Concentration Camp”
Israel tortures language almost as much as it tortures #palestine
#gaza #genocide

2025-07-11 03:40:01 UTC

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Could he give Carney a call? #cdnpoli

2025-07-11 03:31:01 UTC

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They’re smart, but they lack empathy.

2025-07-11 01:57:55 UTC

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Even more embarrassing is that Canada was first domino to fall.

2025-07-09 15:42:29 UTC

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This video? https://youtu.be/MQ1TAOibLss

2025-06-29 21:33:31 UTC

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Canada will be offering Israel advice based on years of running residential schools for indigenous children.
#cdnpoli #genocide

2025-06-29 21:28:00 UTC

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Canada SUPPORTS this. We provide military and political support. We think this should continue until Palestinians become Zionists. Or until they’re all dead. Either is suitable.
#cdnpoli #gaza

2025-06-28 17:59:44 UTC

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Trump is a feature, not a bug.

2025-06-28 17:58:13 UTC

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For me the burning eyes is because of clarity. This is what the West has always been: violent, exploitative, brutal. Bar a 30 years or so period after the second time they started a world war, when they tried to sell us that they were no longer that person, this has been their contribution to humanity.
Now, with the clarity of instant and widespread communications, we get to see the hidden details of their history. They brag about their history of exploring the planet, their culture, and their humanity to hide that it really means colonizing, genocide, and brutality. In this moment we are getting to see the mask come off. In small ways and large they are starting to care less about the mask and more about maintaining their brutal and exploitative hegemony.

2025-06-20 19:50:09 UTC

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The EU has traditionally had a problem with defining who is human. Still an unresolved issue.

2025-06-18 04:10:38 UTC

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None dare call it apartheid…

2025-05-30 17:22:28 UTC

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The western world has decided it is.

2025-04-05 17:11:28 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/286/464/125/337/700/original/3fb36700809da752.mp4

2025-04-05 15:47:24 UTC

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Colonialism is genocide. Always.
#palestine

2025-03-24 18:57:39 UTC

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I am just pointing out the stupidity of if we let them come for the Palestinians they won’t come for us.

2025-03-22 16:37:47 UTC

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To be fair there would not have been a European ReArm initiative if it wasn’t for Trump.

2025-03-19 14:25:15 UTC

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My MP is not on the list. What an unsurprising disappointment.
https://carlaqualtrough.libparl.ca/