Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

Working as Tech Lead in London. Practitioner of #Agile & #XP Principles and Strong Proponent of #Patterns, #Cleancode & #ContinuousDelivery London, England Joined May 2015

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Ray @ray_ryray

2 weeks ago

- Git is in C - Vim is in C - Linux is in C - macOS is in C - MySQL is in C - CPython is in C - Windows is in C - Photoshop/GIMP in C You still want any other reason to learn c ?

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

a month ago

Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database theregister.com/2025/07/21/rep…

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Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor

2 years ago

Awesome thread 👇🏼🙂

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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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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

Only good tests can judge my code.

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

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

Ilya · イリア @ilyamiskov

2 years ago

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

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Graeme Smith @smithkabul

2 years ago

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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Michael Feathers @mfeathers

2 years ago

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.

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

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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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

The Equal Experts conference 2023 rocked! Literally! equalexperts.com/blog/ee-life/t… via @EqualExperts

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Sky News @SkyNews

2 years ago

"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

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

Excellent Gathering in this @EqualExperts Conference #conference

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Christian Hujer @[email protected] 💚 @christianhujer

2 years ago

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

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

2 years ago

At last macrumors.com/2023/04/24/goo…

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler

2 years ago

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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Dave Farley @davefarley77

2 years ago

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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TechCentral_ie Live @TechC_Live

2 years ago

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

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

3 years ago

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

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Iqbal Ahmed @propattern

3 years ago

Mafia asked “Paid for Protection” in areas they did not own. Meta and Twitter offers “Paid for Protection” in areas/platforms that they own. Those services & features should’ve been part of the platform.