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Paul Grenyer

@pjgrenyer

Software Engineer. Leader. Writer. Speaker.

 Norwich, UK
paulgrenyer.com/
Joined April 2009
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I’ve built OmniLog: one private, OpenTelemetry-native place for logs, metrics and traces. Search incidents, chart metrics, follow requests and create monitors without jumping between tools. Want to try it? paulgrenyer.com/omnilog #OpenTelemetry
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Back to @CppLondon after 20+ years away from C++! I gave my Zero to Deployed talk, caught up with old friends and heard @phil_nash_conf on testing AI-generated code. paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202… #Cpp #SoftwareEngineering
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I wonder where you got the idea for this one from…..
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I was looking forward to attending a talk on the works of Barbara Liskov, but now I can’t go. Someone else is allowed to take my place, but only so long as they behave exactly like me…
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Is Brooks's Law still relevant? After reading The Mythical Man-Month, I'm not convinced it holds up in modern, modular software development. My review: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202… #SoftwareEngineering #BookReview
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I'm in London twice! 28 Oct: Speaking at C++ London meetup.com/cpplondon/events/… 4 Nov: Speed AMAs at ACCU London meetup.com/acculondon/events… See where I'll be next: paulgrenyer.com/where #SoftwareEngineering #ACCU
Test, Deploy and Ship, Wed, Oct 28, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Test, Deploy and Ship, Wed, Oct 28, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

For something a bit different, this month we welcome Paul Grenyer, who'll talk to us about deploying and shipping on AWS Lambda. We also have Phil Nash talking about Testin

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Not knowing what to do when your AI tokens run out, is like not knowing what to do when the dishwasher is full and you have dishes left over.
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19 years married! ❤️ Charlotte and I celebrated with a night away in Norwich, where we live! We stayed at the Maids Head Hotel, explored The Shoebox Experience and visited Norwich Castle. A fantastic weekend! paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202…
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We've known about premature optimisation for over 50 years. Yet we're still making the same mistakes. Knuth and Jackson had it right. So why aren't we listening? paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202… #SoftwareEngineering
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I'm stepping in at short notice to speak at C++ London on 28 October! I'll be talking about building and deploying AWS Lambdas with Terraform and GitHub Actions. paulgrenyer.com/where/cpp-lo… #AWS #CppLondon
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I've been blogging for years, but never understood the difference between essays, papers, white papers and articles. So I asked ChatGPT! Here's what I learned: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202… #Blogging #Writing
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MEMORIAM - Nothing More To Say (Official Lyric Video) youtu.be/4HxWWxQA7oI?is=J35o… via @YouTube
MEMORIAM - Nothing More To Say (Official Lyric Video)

MEMORIAM - Nothing More To Say (Official Lyric Video)

First single from the upcoming MEMORIAM album "Endgame". Out on Jan...

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Chris Oldwood@chrisoldwoodOct 7
Currently working on a competitor to Microsoft’s AI tool that also allows you to let agents add feature after feature without any consideration for the effects on the underlying design. Working title is Go Pile It…
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Back-to-back anniversaries 🤘 29 years ago, "The Final Chapter" was released 💿 Who else is glad that the FINAL chapter turned out not to be final after all? 👽
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Early-Bird Pre-Order has just started. Check out: reaper-entertainment.com/bra…
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Early-Bird Pre-Order has just started. Check out: reaper-entertainment.com/bra…
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I’ve argued for 20+ years that code comments should explain why, never what—and be a last resort. Then I examined the comments AI added to my code. The result surprised me. paulgrenyer.blogspot.com/202… #AI #CleanCode
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I’ve been reading Donald Knuth’s Structured Programming with go to Statements for some blog research. His views on optimisation are fascinating. The goto debate, though, feels a bit like discussing lead in petrol. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35663… #Programming
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