Henry Coles
@pitest.bsky.social
Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
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Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from 2021 to 2023. You would expect her to have shares, worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated.
Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.
2/5
Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.
2/5
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from 2021 to 2023. You would expect her to have shares, worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated.
Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.
2/5
Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.
2/5
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Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
#opensource #opentowork | Andres Almiray
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland (...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
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Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford.
Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
Scottish Book Trust
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford.
Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
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With thanks to @michaelspicer.bsky.social for supporting our campaign.
The government MUST listen.
youtu.be/p1DXxDHXLU0?...
The government MUST listen.
youtu.be/p1DXxDHXLU0?...
Minister Stuart Piper-Aloysius defends slashing funding for kid’s therapy. @MrMichaelSpicer
YouTube video by Action Against ASGSF Changes
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
With thanks to @michaelspicer.bsky.social for supporting our campaign.
The government MUST listen.
youtu.be/p1DXxDHXLU0?...
The government MUST listen.
youtu.be/p1DXxDHXLU0?...
This year I will again be dressing as "adult in vintage Tesco skeleton costume".
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This year I will again be dressing as "adult in vintage Tesco skeleton costume".
So, are they going to replace his title with a weird symbol or something?
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
So, are they going to replace his title with a weird symbol or something?
I do hope gradle adds new ways to make things complicated in the next release.
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I do hope gradle adds new ways to make things complicated in the next release.
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I really appreciate that license! I often try to game it in my PRs by having 0 surviving issues on the first try. I just opened a big PR and managed to kill 187, but 7 still survive. I'm a little bit proud of myself now.
But I'm also happy that I get to ship without those 7 issues that I missed!
But I'm also happy that I get to ship without those 7 issues that I missed!
We provide free arcmutate licences to open source projects as a matter of principle, but a great side benefit is that we get sent good quality bug reports and feature suggestions.
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I really appreciate that license! I often try to game it in my PRs by having 0 surviving issues on the first try. I just opened a big PR and managed to kill 187, but 7 still survive. I'm a little bit proud of myself now.
But I'm also happy that I get to ship without those 7 issues that I missed!
But I'm also happy that I get to ship without those 7 issues that I missed!
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I can’t promise it’s good, but it is live!
good GOD it's been a long time 🫠
No promises on the quality of this episode! We're rusty as anything. Huge thanks to "Drake Scottford" for being our special guest this episode!
S2 e45 is live!
publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/s...
No promises on the quality of this episode! We're rusty as anything. Huge thanks to "Drake Scottford" for being our special guest this episode!
S2 e45 is live!
publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/s...
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I can’t promise it’s good, but it is live!
Ok, I think my cat is starting to understand the concept of daylight savings and clock changes after this latest explanation. Perhaps now I'll get some peace.
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ok, I think my cat is starting to understand the concept of daylight savings and clock changes after this latest explanation. Perhaps now I'll get some peace.
We provide free arcmutate licences to open source projects as a matter of principle, but a great side benefit is that we get sent good quality bug reports and feature suggestions.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We provide free arcmutate licences to open source projects as a matter of principle, but a great side benefit is that we get sent good quality bug reports and feature suggestions.
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He either did it.. or is the only man capable of figuring out who did
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
He either did it.. or is the only man capable of figuring out who did
For reasons only some secret inner part of my brain understand, I've spent the evening writing a markdown to pdf renderer.
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For reasons only some secret inner part of my brain understand, I've spent the evening writing a markdown to pdf renderer.
I'm slowly revising my opinion of LLM coding tools.
Currently reviewing code added to a small project by a non-developer using Claude.
I'd class it as "over enthusiastic intern" quality, which is actually better than I expected. I hadn't thought it would meaningfully complete the task.
1/n
Currently reviewing code added to a small project by a non-developer using Claude.
I'd class it as "over enthusiastic intern" quality, which is actually better than I expected. I hadn't thought it would meaningfully complete the task.
1/n
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm slowly revising my opinion of LLM coding tools.
Currently reviewing code added to a small project by a non-developer using Claude.
I'd class it as "over enthusiastic intern" quality, which is actually better than I expected. I hadn't thought it would meaningfully complete the task.
1/n
Currently reviewing code added to a small project by a non-developer using Claude.
I'd class it as "over enthusiastic intern" quality, which is actually better than I expected. I hadn't thought it would meaningfully complete the task.
1/n
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“You don’t look sick”.
Chronic illness is often invisible
Many disabilities are invisible
People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body
They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Chronic illness is often invisible
Many disabilities are invisible
People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body
They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion
Don’t judge a book by its cover
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“You don’t look sick”.
Chronic illness is often invisible
Many disabilities are invisible
People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body
They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Chronic illness is often invisible
Many disabilities are invisible
People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body
They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Boards of Canada's Olson (1989) playing on the last functioning PDP-1 computer from 1959.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Boards of Canada's Olson (1989) playing on the last functioning PDP-1 computer from 1959.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 10009:
Beware of people who give writing advice for a living, rather than writing books for a living. And beware of people telling you about *the publishing business* who don't currently work in the publishing business.
Beware of people who give writing advice for a living, rather than writing books for a living. And beware of people telling you about *the publishing business* who don't currently work in the publishing business.
October 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 10009:
Beware of people who give writing advice for a living, rather than writing books for a living. And beware of people telling you about *the publishing business* who don't currently work in the publishing business.
Beware of people who give writing advice for a living, rather than writing books for a living. And beware of people telling you about *the publishing business* who don't currently work in the publishing business.
Had a busy evening hacking on my text to speech library. Voice models are now available as maven dependencies, so "python style" runtime downloading is no longer mandatory
Might call it v1.0.0 and stop breaking the api once I've updated the homograph dictionary
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java #tts
Might call it v1.0.0 and stop breaking the api once I've updated the homograph dictionary
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java #tts
GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java
Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Had a busy evening hacking on my text to speech library. Voice models are now available as maven dependencies, so "python style" runtime downloading is no longer mandatory
Might call it v1.0.0 and stop breaking the api once I've updated the homograph dictionary
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java #tts
Might call it v1.0.0 and stop breaking the api once I've updated the homograph dictionary
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java #tts
Currently fixing a bug that's been hiding in plain sight for about 14 years.
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Currently fixing a bug that's been hiding in plain sight for about 14 years.
Waiting to hear back to confirm, but the arcmutate spring plugin may have just uncovered a large number of bugs in one of our customer's codebases due to the misuse of security/validation annotations.
#java #areyousureyourcodeisworking
#java #areyousureyourcodeisworking
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Waiting to hear back to confirm, but the arcmutate spring plugin may have just uncovered a large number of bugs in one of our customer's codebases due to the misuse of security/validation annotations.
#java #areyousureyourcodeisworking
#java #areyousureyourcodeisworking
Tried to use onbuy.com to buy something of non trivial value. Wouldn't use them again.
Order cancelled by seller after 2 weeks because "out of stock" with no way to leave a review for the seller.
No money lost, but clearly a platform that's happy to have its customers messed around.
Order cancelled by seller after 2 weeks because "out of stock" with no way to leave a review for the seller.
No money lost, but clearly a platform that's happy to have its customers messed around.
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Tried to use onbuy.com to buy something of non trivial value. Wouldn't use them again.
Order cancelled by seller after 2 weeks because "out of stock" with no way to leave a review for the seller.
No money lost, but clearly a platform that's happy to have its customers messed around.
Order cancelled by seller after 2 weeks because "out of stock" with no way to leave a review for the seller.
No money lost, but clearly a platform that's happy to have its customers messed around.
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It's #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek this week in Scotland (next week England). @barringtonstoke.bsky.social publish incredible, dyslexia-friendly, accessible books for all and I'm delighted to be on their list.
For 20% discount use code DAW20 here 👉 collins.co.uk/pages/barrin... (ends 12/10)
#KidLitUk
For 20% discount use code DAW20 here 👉 collins.co.uk/pages/barrin... (ends 12/10)
#KidLitUk
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek this week in Scotland (next week England). @barringtonstoke.bsky.social publish incredible, dyslexia-friendly, accessible books for all and I'm delighted to be on their list.
For 20% discount use code DAW20 here 👉 collins.co.uk/pages/barrin... (ends 12/10)
#KidLitUk
For 20% discount use code DAW20 here 👉 collins.co.uk/pages/barrin... (ends 12/10)
#KidLitUk
I was up early this morning making inadvisable last minute changes, but at 9am I hit send on my structural edit.
I am now celebrating by going to work.
#ukkidlit
I am now celebrating by going to work.
#ukkidlit
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I was up early this morning making inadvisable last minute changes, but at 9am I hit send on my structural edit.
I am now celebrating by going to work.
#ukkidlit
I am now celebrating by going to work.
#ukkidlit
There's still a bit of work to do, but I've just pushed out a release of my text to speech library with a new phonemizer and initial support for non-english languages.
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java
GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java
Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's still a bit of work to do, but I've just pushed out a release of my text to speech library with a new phonemizer and initial support for non-english languages.
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java
github.com/hcoles/voices
#java
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So to recap:
🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader
🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY
💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period
💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader
11/14
🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader
🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY
💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period
💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader
11/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So to recap:
🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader
🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY
💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period
💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader
11/14
🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader
🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY
💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period
💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader
11/14