David Whitney
@davidwhitney.co.uk
Director of Architecture @ fintech
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
🔗https://davidwhitney.co.uk/now - Other Socials
@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
🔗https://davidwhitney.co.uk/now - Other Socials
@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
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David Whitney
@davidwhitney.co.uk
· Nov 12
davidwhitney.co.uk
Hi, I'm David - you might be here because I:
- Wrote a couple of kids books about programming
- Spoke to you at an event or conference
- Had a fabulous time with you and a cocktail
- Have offered you some software consulting
- Taught you something
Available at davidwhitney.co.uk/now 🖤
- Wrote a couple of kids books about programming
- Spoke to you at an event or conference
- Had a fabulous time with you and a cocktail
- Have offered you some software consulting
- Taught you something
Available at davidwhitney.co.uk/now 🖤
Reconciling that "solving programming" is a good outcome for "tech", at the same time it being at it's core extractavist technology that levels the last tool of social mobility we had that swings the power back to the billionaire class has been one of the most disorienting moments of my career.
February 18, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Reconciling that "solving programming" is a good outcome for "tech", at the same time it being at it's core extractavist technology that levels the last tool of social mobility we had that swings the power back to the billionaire class has been one of the most disorienting moments of my career.
Maybe the next movement we need is something akin to "Reliable Computing".
The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.
The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.
February 18, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Maybe the next movement we need is something akin to "Reliable Computing".
The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.
The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.
And I'm outside in the dark
Staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had
And all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy
And the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark
Wondering how I got so old
youtu.be/gA5pg7DRLf4
Staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had
And all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy
And the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark
Wondering how I got so old
youtu.be/gA5pg7DRLf4
Endsong
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 10:06 PM
And I'm outside in the dark
Staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had
And all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy
And the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark
Wondering how I got so old
youtu.be/gA5pg7DRLf4
Staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had
And all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy
And the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark
Wondering how I got so old
youtu.be/gA5pg7DRLf4
Ok, so I wrote a very long and kinda personal thing about existential dread and the end of programming, and I'm not really sure I want to endure the discourse, but if you want to read it, it's here - gist.github.com/davidwhitney...
It's like 6,000 words long, sorry.
It's like 6,000 words long, sorry.
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Ok, so I wrote a very long and kinda personal thing about existential dread and the end of programming, and I'm not really sure I want to endure the discourse, but if you want to read it, it's here - gist.github.com/davidwhitney...
It's like 6,000 words long, sorry.
It's like 6,000 words long, sorry.
This looks fun and relatable to my actual life - though I'll probably never get over the cultural squish of 2000s alternative subculture into "emo / elder emo" because whilst we all existed in the same spaces, metal, goth, alt, emo were all distinct and often unrelated things with shared spaces.
I Write Games Not Tragedies - a narrative-rhythm game about British emo/goth subcultures from the early 2000s, with original music - has launched on itchio today.
(Support it on itchio)
(Support it on itchio)
February 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM
This looks fun and relatable to my actual life - though I'll probably never get over the cultural squish of 2000s alternative subculture into "emo / elder emo" because whilst we all existed in the same spaces, metal, goth, alt, emo were all distinct and often unrelated things with shared spaces.
Reposted by David Whitney
Can you learn AND offload? Yes. We do it all the time across our days. You just cannot do every single thing at once, and have to think about the structural support for different (sometimes competing) goals.
Self-regulation isn't new, but it is a vital skill for developers now.
Self-regulation isn't new, but it is a vital skill for developers now.
February 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Can you learn AND offload? Yes. We do it all the time across our days. You just cannot do every single thing at once, and have to think about the structural support for different (sometimes competing) goals.
Self-regulation isn't new, but it is a vital skill for developers now.
Self-regulation isn't new, but it is a vital skill for developers now.
Reposted by David Whitney
This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
Reposted by David Whitney
honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 AM
honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.
Repost for visibility in case anyone has some IIS advice w/ BetterStack that's up to date.
@davidwhitney.co.uk do you have any experience of forwarding logs from IIS to something like BetterStack?
Having an absolute nightmare with various dying daemons, things that don't understand log rotation and so on?
What do people on the Windows-IIS stack do to drain logs to a third-party?
Having an absolute nightmare with various dying daemons, things that don't understand log rotation and so on?
What do people on the Windows-IIS stack do to drain logs to a third-party?
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Repost for visibility in case anyone has some IIS advice w/ BetterStack that's up to date.
Layla has been working on this fun immersive sim style project for the last couple years - we all know how long things take to gestate so really excited to see this coming along 💪🏻
What have we been up to in the past 8 months of development... watch and find out!
#indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #madewithunity #MadeWithSynty #unitygamedev #unity3d #unitygames #devlog #TheThirdTourist
youtu.be/qNvZ5fsdKYg
#indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #madewithunity #MadeWithSynty #unitygamedev #unity3d #unitygames #devlog #TheThirdTourist
youtu.be/qNvZ5fsdKYg
The Third Tourist Devlog - where we're at!
YouTube video by November North Games
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Layla has been working on this fun immersive sim style project for the last couple years - we all know how long things take to gestate so really excited to see this coming along 💪🏻
I'm pretty sure the disruption to come for this space is the proliferation of local models that while not frontier are mostly as good.
They're power efficient, effectively free at the point of use, and constrained by default. Much more interesting to me than "let random remote server farm work"
They're power efficient, effectively free at the point of use, and constrained by default. Much more interesting to me than "let random remote server farm work"
Claude Code is down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break. Anthropic is working on implementing a fix, after a major outage has impacted Claude AI models www.theverge.com/news/873093/...
Claude Code is down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break
Anthropic is working on implementing a fix to bring Claude Code back online.
www.theverge.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
I'm pretty sure the disruption to come for this space is the proliferation of local models that while not frontier are mostly as good.
They're power efficient, effectively free at the point of use, and constrained by default. Much more interesting to me than "let random remote server farm work"
They're power efficient, effectively free at the point of use, and constrained by default. Much more interesting to me than "let random remote server farm work"
LLM code gen is allergic to software design.
It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs.
You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention.
It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs.
You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention.
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
LLM code gen is allergic to software design.
It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs.
You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention.
It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs.
You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention.
Spiritbox robbed yet again at the Grammys.
Every year we get closer to some mainstream award show finally understanding heavy music but today is not the one.
Every year we get closer to some mainstream award show finally understanding heavy music but today is not the one.
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Spiritbox robbed yet again at the Grammys.
Every year we get closer to some mainstream award show finally understanding heavy music but today is not the one.
Every year we get closer to some mainstream award show finally understanding heavy music but today is not the one.
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++
notepad-plus-plus.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Is there a worse login experience than the SendGrid + Twilio merger for people that had accounts on both previously.
Horrendous amount of resets / confirms, I think I'm on my 5th confirmation code? Gives Microsoft login a run for its money.
Horrendous amount of resets / confirms, I think I'm on my 5th confirmation code? Gives Microsoft login a run for its money.
January 27, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Is there a worse login experience than the SendGrid + Twilio merger for people that had accounts on both previously.
Horrendous amount of resets / confirms, I think I'm on my 5th confirmation code? Gives Microsoft login a run for its money.
Horrendous amount of resets / confirms, I think I'm on my 5th confirmation code? Gives Microsoft login a run for its money.
Absurdist humour: Import a Korean Trifold for a pocket sized Windows RDP client ;)
January 26, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Absurdist humour: Import a Korean Trifold for a pocket sized Windows RDP client ;)
Working on a fun idea and sharing it to guilt me into finishing it.
A modelling tool / deck builder hybrid game to try visualise how complexity creeps into systems.
A modelling tool / deck builder hybrid game to try visualise how complexity creeps into systems.
January 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Working on a fun idea and sharing it to guilt me into finishing it.
A modelling tool / deck builder hybrid game to try visualise how complexity creeps into systems.
A modelling tool / deck builder hybrid game to try visualise how complexity creeps into systems.
Reposted by David Whitney
I worked on a bunch of improvements to #MLforKids over Christmas.
Last night, I went back and wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness post about the thinking that went into one of them (addressing error reports from resource constrained browsers)
Last night, I went back and wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness post about the thinking that went into one of them (addressing error reports from resource constrained browsers)
Improving support for older computers and mobile devices on Machine Learning for Kids
In this post, I want to share some changes I've been making to how I train models in Machine Learning for Kids.
The problem
Many of the machine learning models that students create on the site are t...
dalelane.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM
I worked on a bunch of improvements to #MLforKids over Christmas.
Last night, I went back and wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness post about the thinking that went into one of them (addressing error reports from resource constrained browsers)
Last night, I went back and wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness post about the thinking that went into one of them (addressing error reports from resource constrained browsers)
Reposted by David Whitney
On 9 January 2026 mine and my family's lives changed forever.
I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY
If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...
I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY
If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 AM
On 9 January 2026 mine and my family's lives changed forever.
I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY
If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...
I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY
If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...
Took a long break over the holiday period.
Upcoming appearances:
NDC Conferences London
NDC Conferences Toronto
CityJS Conferences London
NDC Conferences Sydney
DevSum Stockholm 2026
All in the first half of the year with some new material on finding the humanity behind the software we write.
Upcoming appearances:
NDC Conferences London
NDC Conferences Toronto
CityJS Conferences London
NDC Conferences Sydney
DevSum Stockholm 2026
All in the first half of the year with some new material on finding the humanity behind the software we write.
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
January 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Took a long break over the holiday period.
Upcoming appearances:
NDC Conferences London
NDC Conferences Toronto
CityJS Conferences London
NDC Conferences Sydney
DevSum Stockholm 2026
All in the first half of the year with some new material on finding the humanity behind the software we write.
Upcoming appearances:
NDC Conferences London
NDC Conferences Toronto
CityJS Conferences London
NDC Conferences Sydney
DevSum Stockholm 2026
All in the first half of the year with some new material on finding the humanity behind the software we write.
Reposted by David Whitney
I return to the stage with @davidwhitney.co.uk to continue our discussion on the AI Bubble and the ethical issues of GenAI.
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I return to the stage with @davidwhitney.co.uk to continue our discussion on the AI Bubble and the ethical issues of GenAI.
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
Last day of my month long holiday firebreak today.
Haven't really touched a computer other than for games in that time and... I could go another month 😂
Finishing off my Cyberpunk replay where I play it like a stealth game / imsim and it's the game that keeps on giving 🖤
Haven't really touched a computer other than for games in that time and... I could go another month 😂
Finishing off my Cyberpunk replay where I play it like a stealth game / imsim and it's the game that keeps on giving 🖤
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Last day of my month long holiday firebreak today.
Haven't really touched a computer other than for games in that time and... I could go another month 😂
Finishing off my Cyberpunk replay where I play it like a stealth game / imsim and it's the game that keeps on giving 🖤
Haven't really touched a computer other than for games in that time and... I could go another month 😂
Finishing off my Cyberpunk replay where I play it like a stealth game / imsim and it's the game that keeps on giving 🖤
Reposted by David Whitney
It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.
NOTUS:
Dem House Rep Steven Horsford:
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.”
www.notus.org/democrats/me...
Dem House Rep Steven Horsford:
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.”
www.notus.org/democrats/me...
Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.
www.notus.org
September 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.
Reposted by David Whitney
You thought you lived in the United States of America but you actually live in a Judge Dredd comic book.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
You thought you lived in the United States of America but you actually live in a Judge Dredd comic book.
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 AM