Stephen Janaway
@stephenjanaway.bsky.social
Technology leader, conference speaker, general software type person. VP Engineering at Bloom & Wild. All views expressed are mine.
Thanks for having me Lean Agile Scotland @leanagilescot.bsky.social #LAScot. It was great to get the opportunity to tell folk about how our approach to production support has changed over the years at Bloom & Wild 💪💐
The weather is always this good in Edinburgh, right? 😉
The weather is always this good in Edinburgh, right? 😉
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thanks for having me Lean Agile Scotland @leanagilescot.bsky.social #LAScot. It was great to get the opportunity to tell folk about how our approach to production support has changed over the years at Bloom & Wild 💪💐
The weather is always this good in Edinburgh, right? 😉
The weather is always this good in Edinburgh, right? 😉
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Published: A Tester's Growth-Path to Test Automation
At one client, the topic of how a growth path for Testers in Test Automation would look in their QA Community of Practice. That triggered me to ask that question in the wild. Here's the result.
thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
At one client, the topic of how a growth path for Testers in Test Automation would look in their QA Community of Practice. That triggered me to ask that question in the wild. Here's the result.
thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
A Tester's Growth-Path to Test Automation
thinkinglabs.io
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Published: A Tester's Growth-Path to Test Automation
At one client, the topic of how a growth path for Testers in Test Automation would look in their QA Community of Practice. That triggered me to ask that question in the wild. Here's the result.
thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
At one client, the topic of how a growth path for Testers in Test Automation would look in their QA Community of Practice. That triggered me to ask that question in the wild. Here's the result.
thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
I'm very much looking forward to heading back to Edinburgh next week to Lean Agile Scotland. Come along and hear about how we've scaled our approach to production support and maybe also learn a little about flowers 😉🌹
September 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I'm very much looking forward to heading back to Edinburgh next week to Lean Agile Scotland. Come along and hear about how we've scaled our approach to production support and maybe also learn a little about flowers 😉🌹
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This week's Posts from Awesome folks is here hellotacit.beehiiv.com/p/posts-from...
Posts from Awesome Folks #159
A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading
hellotacit.beehiiv.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This week's Posts from Awesome folks is here hellotacit.beehiiv.com/p/posts-from...
And so the mammoth train journey to the southwest tip of England begins again. Very excited to be heading down to Agile On the Beach ⛱️
July 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And so the mammoth train journey to the southwest tip of England begins again. Very excited to be heading down to Agile On the Beach ⛱️
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Co-signed in blood
Feature branching is a lie we tell ourselves.
It feels safer and more controlled, but in reality, it’s slowing you down, increasing risk, and making your integration problems someone else’s future nightmare.
It feels safer and more controlled, but in reality, it’s slowing you down, increasing risk, and making your integration problems someone else’s future nightmare.
June 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Co-signed in blood
Time to do the sponsor thing at Brighton Ruby. Which is always fun. Come and meet us at Bloom&Wild in the bar area 🌻🌻
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Time to do the sponsor thing at Brighton Ruby. Which is always fun. Come and meet us at Bloom&Wild in the bar area 🌻🌻
LDX3. I'm sure this'll be fun
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
LDX3. I'm sure this'll be fun
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This lines up with Atlassian's remote work research in www.atlassian.com/blog/distrib...
> Our research shows that these intentional team gatherings lead to a 27% increase in feelings of connection, especially among new graduates and new hires, and that this boost lasts for 4-5 months.
> Our research shows that these intentional team gatherings lead to a 27% increase in feelings of connection, especially among new graduates and new hires, and that this boost lasts for 4-5 months.
May 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This lines up with Atlassian's remote work research in www.atlassian.com/blog/distrib...
> Our research shows that these intentional team gatherings lead to a 27% increase in feelings of connection, especially among new graduates and new hires, and that this boost lasts for 4-5 months.
> Our research shows that these intentional team gatherings lead to a 27% increase in feelings of connection, especially among new graduates and new hires, and that this boost lasts for 4-5 months.
An interesting (and balanced) thread on remote working tradeoffs
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
May 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
An interesting (and balanced) thread on remote working tradeoffs
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This labour of love is now live!
Learn to start, grow and supercharge communities of practice with:
★ Expert-led videos, discussions, tasks and downloads
★ Practical, hands-on activities to support your learning
★ Tutor support
★ A certificate of completion
Start learning at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
Learn to start, grow and supercharge communities of practice with:
★ Expert-led videos, discussions, tasks and downloads
★ Practical, hands-on activities to support your learning
★ Tutor support
★ A certificate of completion
Start learning at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
May 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This labour of love is now live!
Learn to start, grow and supercharge communities of practice with:
★ Expert-led videos, discussions, tasks and downloads
★ Practical, hands-on activities to support your learning
★ Tutor support
★ A certificate of completion
Start learning at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
Learn to start, grow and supercharge communities of practice with:
★ Expert-led videos, discussions, tasks and downloads
★ Practical, hands-on activities to support your learning
★ Tutor support
★ A certificate of completion
Start learning at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
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Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard - but this report took a shot
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard - but this report took a shot
And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
A single person with a serious AI habit may chew through enough electricity each day to keep a microwave running for more than three hours. And the actual toll may even be worse, as so many companies keep details about their AI models secret.…
dlvr.it
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard - but this report took a shot
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When eating your own dog food goes wrong
Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing
May 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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If you want to encourage people to use AI, measure their productivity on LOC.
As a measure, it's proven to be destructive (more code is more maintenance work, not more value).
But hey, if your goal is AI use at any cost, that's a problem for the future.
As a measure, it's proven to be destructive (more code is more maintenance work, not more value).
But hey, if your goal is AI use at any cost, that's a problem for the future.
May 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you want to encourage people to use AI, measure their productivity on LOC.
As a measure, it's proven to be destructive (more code is more maintenance work, not more value).
But hey, if your goal is AI use at any cost, that's a problem for the future.
As a measure, it's proven to be destructive (more code is more maintenance work, not more value).
But hey, if your goal is AI use at any cost, that's a problem for the future.
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Useful summary of Domain-driven design (DDD) key points and learning from the past 20 years - from Eberhard Wolff
#DDD #TeamTopologies
speakerdeck.com/ewolff/20-ye...
#DDD #TeamTopologies
speakerdeck.com/ewolff/20-ye...
20 Years of Domain-Driven Design: What I’ve Learned About DDD
Eric Evans’ Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has shaped software development practices for over 20 years, providing a rich toolkit for tackling complex domain…
speakerdeck.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Useful summary of Domain-driven design (DDD) key points and learning from the past 20 years - from Eberhard Wolff
#DDD #TeamTopologies
speakerdeck.com/ewolff/20-ye...
#DDD #TeamTopologies
speakerdeck.com/ewolff/20-ye...
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Things I actually believe about AI and the future of tech employment:
1. There will still be junior, senior, and mid-career engineers. Will there be as many? Dunno. But all levels will continue to exist.
2. We will use (AI-assisted) formal methods long before engs get widely good at writing specs
1. There will still be junior, senior, and mid-career engineers. Will there be as many? Dunno. But all levels will continue to exist.
2. We will use (AI-assisted) formal methods long before engs get widely good at writing specs
May 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Things I actually believe about AI and the future of tech employment:
1. There will still be junior, senior, and mid-career engineers. Will there be as many? Dunno. But all levels will continue to exist.
2. We will use (AI-assisted) formal methods long before engs get widely good at writing specs
1. There will still be junior, senior, and mid-career engineers. Will there be as many? Dunno. But all levels will continue to exist.
2. We will use (AI-assisted) formal methods long before engs get widely good at writing specs
Not having as much fun in 2025. This may be why lethain.com/career-advic...
Career advice in 2025.
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering...
lethain.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Not having as much fun in 2025. This may be why lethain.com/career-advic...
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Observability engineering teams can be powerful force multipliers, while writing and owning relatively little code themselves.
Turning observability from cost --> investment has an external component (UX, revenue) and an internal component (DX, productivity).
www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-muc...
Turning observability from cost --> investment has an external component (UX, revenue) and an internal component (DX, productivity).
www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-muc...
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In this update to her 2018 post, Charity Majors explains how much teams should spend when it comes to observability costs.
www.honeycomb.io
May 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Observability engineering teams can be powerful force multipliers, while writing and owning relatively little code themselves.
Turning observability from cost --> investment has an external component (UX, revenue) and an internal component (DX, productivity).
www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-muc...
Turning observability from cost --> investment has an external component (UX, revenue) and an internal component (DX, productivity).
www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-muc...
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Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)
In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot hallucinated a policy limitation that doesn't actually exist.…
dlvr.it
April 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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April 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Thread worth reading alert
AI is increasingly handling code generation, significantly lowering the cognitive load previously spent on syntax and boilerplate. But let's be clear: this doesn't mean fewer engineers are needed. It might mean a shift away from roles focused purely on coding.
Why? Because ....
Why? Because ....
April 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thread worth reading alert
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- Level Collapse from @matthewphilip.bsky.social
- Myths and legends about Big Tech from Kai Hansen
- AI and developer obsolescence from @sebrose.bsky.social
- You've built it, now you support it from @stephenjanaway.bsky.social
- Myths and legends about Big Tech from Kai Hansen
- AI and developer obsolescence from @sebrose.bsky.social
- You've built it, now you support it from @stephenjanaway.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
- Level Collapse from @matthewphilip.bsky.social
- Myths and legends about Big Tech from Kai Hansen
- AI and developer obsolescence from @sebrose.bsky.social
- You've built it, now you support it from @stephenjanaway.bsky.social
- Myths and legends about Big Tech from Kai Hansen
- AI and developer obsolescence from @sebrose.bsky.social
- You've built it, now you support it from @stephenjanaway.bsky.social