David Winterbottom

@codeinthehole

Male software craftswoman — Head of Software Engineering at Kraken Technologies — @[email protected] — @codeinthehole.bsky.social

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David Winterbottom
@codeinthehole
Aug 15, 2018
On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.
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David Winterbottom
@codeinthehole
Oct 13, 2024
Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from @simonw) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass. codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-tdd-l… This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.
David Winterbottom
@codeinthehole
Oct 2, 2024
Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji. cc @NotionHQ
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David Winterbottom
@codeinthehole
Jun 28, 2024
Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place:
til.codeinthehole.com
TIL How to use 'llm' to act on visual selections in Vim — David Winterbottom
You can use Simon Willison’s excellent llm tool to query or edit Vim buffers by piping the contents of a visual selection to the llm. — can be read in 1 minute
David Winterbottom
@codeinthehole
May 16, 2024
Beware when using the 💋 emoji reaction to reference the KISS principle. Can be misinterpretted.