Mark Henwood | Tech Project Leader / CTO
@mcbh.co.uk
Hands-on leader of Agile Product tech projects. Iterations and Automations. AWS, Terraform, Python, Rust. Also Solana fanboi
https://www.mcbh.co.uk
https://www.mcbh.co.uk
Well. Moving AWS SDKs from Python to Rust certainly hits different
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Well. Moving AWS SDKs from Python to Rust certainly hits different
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LLMs are trained on public sources of code examples. The vast majority of those examples are poorly-written. This is why LLMs are so good at generating poorly-written code.
So, when someone says they're *impressed* by LLM-generated code...
So, when someone says they're *impressed* by LLM-generated code...
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
LLMs are trained on public sources of code examples. The vast majority of those examples are poorly-written. This is why LLMs are so good at generating poorly-written code.
So, when someone says they're *impressed* by LLM-generated code...
So, when someone says they're *impressed* by LLM-generated code...
Today I wrote a Python offchain program to call my onchain #solana program and I know for some folks that’s not a lot but BLOODY HELL did I feel good about figuring it out and debugging it all by myself.
ProTip: discriminators can have custom lengths. IYKYK
ProTip: discriminators can have custom lengths. IYKYK
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Today I wrote a Python offchain program to call my onchain #solana program and I know for some folks that’s not a lot but BLOODY HELL did I feel good about figuring it out and debugging it all by myself.
ProTip: discriminators can have custom lengths. IYKYK
ProTip: discriminators can have custom lengths. IYKYK
A petition urging the UK government @ukparliament.parliament.uk to set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#stablecoins
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#stablecoins
Petition: Set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins
Publish a strategy for blockchain & stablecoins. We want this to:
1. Drive a pro-innovation stablecoin & tokenisation regulatory regime e.g. support interest bearing stablecoins & preserve role as who...
petition.parliament.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A petition urging the UK government @ukparliament.parliament.uk to set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#stablecoins
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#stablecoins
Here we have @thetimes.com, seemingly failing to recognise the most recognisable aspect of a bubble: that it expands
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Here we have @thetimes.com, seemingly failing to recognise the most recognisable aspect of a bubble: that it expands
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the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
How the release of the Tether Wallet SDK will supercharge the Blockchain revolution
www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch...
#blockchain
www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch...
#blockchain
Blockchain's Mosaic Moment | MCBH Cloud Software
A blog post relating the history of the internet to the future of Blockchain, drawing similarities between the explosion of web pages inspired by the release of the NCSA Mosaic browser with the potent...
www.mcbh.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How the release of the Tether Wallet SDK will supercharge the Blockchain revolution
www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch...
#blockchain
www.mcbh.co.uk/blog/blockch...
#blockchain
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If you have to use “cursor for x” or “uber for y” to describe your startup, it’s already over. It’s done. You’re done.
October 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you have to use “cursor for x” or “uber for y” to describe your startup, it’s already over. It’s done. You’re done.
Reposted by Mark Henwood | Tech Project Leader / CTO
I watch a lot of open source projects’ issues on GitHub.
On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”.
This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”
On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”.
This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I watch a lot of open source projects’ issues on GitHub.
On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”.
This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”
On a regular occurrence, maintainers are politely asking “could you please disclose if you used LLM to generate this PR”.
This is the polite and exhausting way to say “this looks like incomprehensible bullshit, why are you wasting our time?”
Nice to see people still talking absolute 💩 about the AWS outage, with great authority
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Nice to see people still talking absolute 💩 about the AWS outage, with great authority
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Pumped for Serverless Days Cardiff today 🥳
#serverless
#serverless
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Pumped for Serverless Days Cardiff today 🥳
#serverless
#serverless
Spending my Wednesday evening doing the Solana Anchor bootcamp tutorials. Too much fun 🤓
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Spending my Wednesday evening doing the Solana Anchor bootcamp tutorials. Too much fun 🤓
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Job adverts for "Developer" have fall by ~80% in recent years. But advertised "Junior Developer" vacancies are near the floor.
Weapons-grade short-termism.
Weapons-grade short-termism.
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Job adverts for "Developer" have fall by ~80% in recent years. But advertised "Junior Developer" vacancies are near the floor.
Weapons-grade short-termism.
Weapons-grade short-termism.
Reassuring to find out that we live among so many AWS experts
October 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Reassuring to find out that we live among so many AWS experts
With their new “Agent Skills” feature, @anthropic.com continue to investigate ways to enrich integration and enhancement processes for AI / GPTs.
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills
Discover how Anthropic builds AI agents with practical capabilities through modular skills, enabling them to handle complex real-world tasks more effectively and reliably.
www.anthropic.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
With their new “Agent Skills” feature, @anthropic.com continue to investigate ways to enrich integration and enhancement processes for AI / GPTs.
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Just one of the MANY possible ways in which the insane lemming race AI bubble is likely to burst. Well worth a read
An examination of AI pricing structures or an excuse to make some ridiculous graphs? You be the judge:
on.ft.com/3JfSUag
on.ft.com/3JfSUag
What GPU pricing can tell us about how the AI bubble will pop
[FREE TO READ] Rental health awareness
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just one of the MANY possible ways in which the insane lemming race AI bubble is likely to burst. Well worth a read
I feel that you’re going to wish you’d framed this, when the time comes
Oracle expects cloud infrastructure revenue to be $166 bln in FY30 reut.rs/43q8JSz
Oracle expects cloud infrastructure revenue to be $166 bln in FY30
Oracle said on Thursday it expects cloud infrastructure revenue to be $166 billion in fiscal 2030.
reut.rs
October 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I feel that you’re going to wish you’d framed this, when the time comes
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Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.
www.technologyreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
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I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.
This needs to be said louder.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.
This needs to be said louder.
October 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.
This needs to be said louder.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.
This needs to be said louder.
Surely not
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix
Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…
dlvr.it
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Surely not
Good grief I miss just settling in for an evening and installing a brand new Debian server from scratch
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Good grief I miss just settling in for an evening and installing a brand new Debian server from scratch
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The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again