Derek Graham
@deejaygraham.bsky.social
Solutions Architect | Literally works *in* The Cloud | Ensembler | Co-organizer @NEBytes | Infrequent Sketchnoter | micro:bit hacker | STEAM Ambassador | He/Him
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Derek Graham
@deejaygraham.bsky.social
· Nov 29
SInce it's almost snow time here, a micro:bit snowglobe #microbit
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Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."
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Van Halen wouldn't have fallen for it!
"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...
"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...
LLMs, Context Windows & Brown M&Ms
An interesting piece of research was published recently that found that the effective maximum context size of Large Language Models is orders of magnitude smaller than the advertised maximum contex…
codemanship.wordpress.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Van Halen wouldn't have fallen for it!
"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...
"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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TDD should be more widely used - I recently recorded a conversation with @davefarley77.bsky.social and as ever we found lots to discuss about TDD. We don't always completely agree either: youtu.be/6yb7jKpxTjM?...
Should Test-Driven Development (TDD) Be Used MORE In Software Engineering?
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering
youtu.be
August 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
TDD should be more widely used - I recently recorded a conversation with @davefarley77.bsky.social and as ever we found lots to discuss about TDD. We don't always completely agree either: youtu.be/6yb7jKpxTjM?...
Indiana was the name of the dog not the Dr :) Surely they should cycle through Fluffy, Spike, Killer, Rex, Lassie, Fido, Mr Chuckles …
Y’all rebooting Indiana Jones? When the other 49 Joneses are RIGHT THERE waiting for their moment in the spotlight? Wisconsin Jones, Kentucky Jones, Virginia Jones and all the rest? This is a franchise that has LEGS, and you know it.
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Indiana was the name of the dog not the Dr :) Surely they should cycle through Fluffy, Spike, Killer, Rex, Lassie, Fido, Mr Chuckles …
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Today is the anniversary of Alan Turing’s suicide, in 1954.
Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII.
Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.
Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII.
Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.
June 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today is the anniversary of Alan Turing’s suicide, in 1954.
Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII.
Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.
Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII.
Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.
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How can an *Equality* and *Human Rights* Commissioner say with a straight face trans people have to accept reduced rights, whether perceived or actual?
June 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
How can an *Equality* and *Human Rights* Commissioner say with a straight face trans people have to accept reduced rights, whether perceived or actual?
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Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up?
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
May 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up?
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
#Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname
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how do they rise up
happy glorious twenty-fifth of May, let us all wear the lilac in memory of Sir Terry
happy glorious twenty-fifth of May, let us all wear the lilac in memory of Sir Terry
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
how do they rise up
happy glorious twenty-fifth of May, let us all wear the lilac in memory of Sir Terry
happy glorious twenty-fifth of May, let us all wear the lilac in memory of Sir Terry
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The future is already here!
'Agentic' means making the suffix of your bash script '.ai' instead of '.sh', and piping through a non-deterministic LLM rather than sed.
You've got this.
'Agentic' means making the suffix of your bash script '.ai' instead of '.sh', and piping through a non-deterministic LLM rather than sed.
You've got this.
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The future is already here!
'Agentic' means making the suffix of your bash script '.ai' instead of '.sh', and piping through a non-deterministic LLM rather than sed.
You've got this.
'Agentic' means making the suffix of your bash script '.ai' instead of '.sh', and piping through a non-deterministic LLM rather than sed.
You've got this.
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New vibe coding setup
May 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New vibe coding setup
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I'm running my Keeping It Simple masterclass a few times at conferences over the next few months:
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Keeping It Simple – Codecampburger_menu-btnclose icon
Codecamp - Your IT Conference in Romania - Bringing you fantastic insights from the best minds in the IT industry, the people who changed the game in software development
codecamp.ro
April 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I'm running my Keeping It Simple masterclass a few times at conferences over the next few months:
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May
codecamp.ro/masterclasse...
SDD, London, 12 May
sddconf.com/agenda
GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September
gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
Unexpected (aren't they all?) @kevlin.bsky.social while trying to submit a meter reading
April 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Unexpected (aren't they all?) @kevlin.bsky.social while trying to submit a meter reading
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Complexity Theory predicts that organisational outcomes are more likely to be determined not by individuals, but by the interactions between individuals & groups of individuals.
Any approach to improving effectiveness that focuses on individual performance is likely to fail.
Any approach to improving effectiveness that focuses on individual performance is likely to fail.
April 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Complexity Theory predicts that organisational outcomes are more likely to be determined not by individuals, but by the interactions between individuals & groups of individuals.
Any approach to improving effectiveness that focuses on individual performance is likely to fail.
Any approach to improving effectiveness that focuses on individual performance is likely to fail.
Debugging an ancient odbc problem today with a younger dev and describing the windows .ini file format feels like teaching ancient Mesopotamian languages to The Jetsons
March 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Debugging an ancient odbc problem today with a younger dev and describing the windows .ini file format feels like teaching ancient Mesopotamian languages to The Jetsons
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The great Aimee Mann and also me and also a full band presenting the STEELIEST of Dans
My Old School - Paul F Tompkins & Aimee Mann
YouTube video by Varietopia with Paul F. Tompkins
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The great Aimee Mann and also me and also a full band presenting the STEELIEST of Dans
I keep getting the spooky feeling that the generative AI is testing us more than we are testing it
March 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I keep getting the spooky feeling that the generative AI is testing us more than we are testing it
Fantastic day as usual @dddnorth.bsky.social 2025. #dddNorth
February 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fantastic day as usual @dddnorth.bsky.social 2025. #dddNorth
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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!