Daniel Bartley
dbrtly.bsky.social
Daniel Bartley
@dbrtly.bsky.social
Australian man. Stumbling around, bumping into things. Pottering along.
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Shrouds might not have pockets, but I'm afraid we do. Have a gift link on me. It's honestly well worth your time: www.economist.com/obituary/201...
Bill Millin
Bill Millin, piper at the D-Day landings, died on August 17th, aged 88
www.economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’ll start: pay rises for politicians that exceed inflation.
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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All in Python, with Typer and Rich!
October 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Fuck you youtube recommendation algorithm
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Universe, we’re relying on you to not give him a Nobel peace prize. Surely that would be in poor taste for multiple reasons.
October 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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How is this not bigger news in tech/security circles.

Jaguar Land Lover lost $250M (£200M) and counting thanks to a cyberattack that it still couldn’t mitigate. This is growing every week.

The cost of underinvesting in security is very real. 1+ month recovery is bonkers
September 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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New blessing just dropped today! 😭 🙏🏽

github.blog/changelog/20...
Pull request "Files changed" public preview now supports commenting on unchanged lines - GitHub Changelog
Comment on any line now available in the new "Files changed" page public preview!
github.blog
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free.

Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice.

Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Caught myself trying to do pinch-to-zoom on a real world book. Wtf
September 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Found uses for two of the cables in my enormous box of spares today. Winning. Keep the faith: it’ll happen one day.
September 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@briancasel.com do you perceive “standards” and “conventions” as synonyms in a context engineering scope? Personally, I find conventions more inclusive and less judgemental. More about sharing than right/wrong. I think the jargon “conventions” over “standards” might impact adoption of agent os.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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📝 "Remote Work Best Practices"

👤 Samantha Zeitlin

📖 Master remote work! Top tips for thriving outside the office.

🔗 https://szeitlin.github.io/posts/remote-work-best-practices/

#pyladies#python
August 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Surprise!!
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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in what can only be the most telegraphed heel turn: those who waxed lyrical about return to office, are now extolling the beautiful automated future of talking to chatbots in a call centre
August 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Brilliant!!
August 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
FFS
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Hard to phrase it better.

Simon has been a superb software engineer before LLMs (he created Django and many others.) He’s been using and experimenting with these tools, uses them better than most of us devs and remains a superb software engineer.

Some things don’t change
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
July 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Just while wondering about digital modals and feature buttons, why do pedestrians have to press a button to prove their need? Shouldn’t equitable street use mean drivers need to request to cross too?

I know that’s a silly question but the underlying privilege of car-centric design creates it. 1/2
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
<closes facebook messenger>
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Your regular reminder that the quality vs. speed "tradeoff" in software delivery is a fiction.
June 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@snarky.ca now that pylock is accepted, have you given thought to standardising the frontend implementation of Python build hooks? Current state has no universal implementation. Each tool does it’s own thing which limits portability and perhaps reproducibility.
June 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Universe? Can please we get a fictional drama where Brian Blessed and Matt Berry play a father-son duo doing frankly anything while bellowing at each other and being over-dramatic?
May 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM