Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)

Fwiw, in fintech people tend to find it very obvious that you shouldn’t accidentally send 50000 EUR instead of 500 EUR, or let money disappear. We currently find the equivalent harder to articulate for other types of software eg products, data or services that might affect the safety of others.

we use sonnet for commit messages no, not the model. 14 lines, with rhyme scheme and meter. no more empty claude speak. evocative imagery. erudite aura.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

I joined a new keming dub. I’ve already leamed so much.

perfect, no notes

root beer float implies the existence of root beer int

My arty day in Madrid summarised: 1. Here are some pretty borders 2. Well I define all the borders 3. Your borders fuck up my ability to eat 4. Fuck all your borders

I must share the decoration in my hotel lobby right now:

Phenomenal work from my inpost courier

I match the tote!

Show me someone who’s stood at the tension between two or more disciplines for years and I’ll show you someone I trust

Leaving this here for future use

a message from the future

Incredible

Somehow they know when it’s going to rain

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

So I still have access to a bunch of client systems that they have forgotten about. I offered to give them a list of these systems for them as part of handover and they refused. 😅 Anyhoo who wants me to add LinkedIn posts in Swedish Chef speak? 😁

The AirBnB hosting change to limit what can be asked of the guests for cleaning is a great example I’m keeping on the discussion roster for the code or the software only being one part of the product.

The perfect website doesn't exi- owlsintowels.org

Ok those people trying to split a capsule into 3 using yoghurt - can I say both Nutella and peanut butter also work, are shelf stable and can be put on a cracker very easily, or put in a sandwich. Just don’t bring your adhd meds in peanut butter to an airport. You’ll have some explaining to do 😅

The invincible airplane

I see enough people have used those damn SmartArt things in PowerPoint with no link to what is being represented that now GenAI copies them.

3 months. Spent one whole day fiddling with some unlabelled button under the desk - armed police arrived. Took out their stock ordering system by making the fatal mistake of reading the screen and choosing “list suppliers”. Was basically the series White Gold but with crappy phones. 😁

It’s not as bad as a 36 person game of Zombie Fluxx, which was the alternative (to Werewolf) in my youth…

How to pay for parking.

I think this is like "do you want a biscuit that reminds you of being a kid" or "do you want a biscuit that kid you would have wanted" instead of the ones you actually ate. M&S are great at straddling that line eg double stuffed custard creams. Always grab them when in the uk.

Guess who has broken the one remaining biometric recording machine in Madeira’s immigration department 💀

Liquidambar leaf palette. This tree puts on such a stunning show in October. If you know of one growing near you maybe go and visit it -they look like a sycamore or maple that’s part of a Pride parade…intense leafy dopamine fireworks 🍁:

Have you ever had a headache that felt like this?