Sam Lightfoot @samlighty
Software in London. Trying to make things go faster. lightfoot.dev UK Joined July 2009-
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@British_Airways What are we supposed to do when the phone lines are always busy and there’s no queue to wait in? I look forward to your response.
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@British_Airways our flight was cancelled 2 hours before departure and your phone lines have been busy since, with no choice to wait in a queue. How do we speak with someone?
@British_Airways We have rebooked with another airline as the only option was tomorrow. How can I contact reservations to indicate we still want to return, and also be told the cancellation reason?
@samlambert @glcst did the same. Still hurts.
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If you're interested in SSD internals and how to use them efficiently, our paper, “How to Write to SSDs,” has been accepted to VLDB and is currently on the Hacker News front page. vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1…
@eastdakota @threepointone Damn. I bet you can't afford it anymore.
@eastdakota @threepointone I am very curious on its old pricing. How much was a main dish?
An excellent take
During my time at @awscloud I tried to be an astute observer of how the Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineers carried themselves in new projects/teams and design reviews. This has made a lasting impact on how I operate as well as evaluate others. All of these "Very
@penberg @jorandirkgreef @samuellhuber +1 would love to see
@dreamli60679407 Amazing - a great blogging opportunity 🙏
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As a manager, it took me far too long to learn that meetings aren't actual work. I thought meetings drove output. Turns out, most meetings are about control, not collaboration. About signaling ambition versus pursuing it. If you can't pass these three tests, cancel the meeting:
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Someone really built this. A VS Code extension that turns your AI agents into pixel art characters working inside a virtual office.
@forked_franz @debasishg @claudeai Awesome - I will keep a close eye.
@forked_franz @debasishg @claudeai Yup - I’m thinking from a Cassandra perspective
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New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development. Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…
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