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Day 356 of non-stop #GeorgiaProtests! 🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Day 356 of non-stop #GeorgiaProtests! 🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸
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I get frustrated by the press release culture around time savings from AI tools. I couldn't resist responding to a recent one about Microsoft Copilot in the NHS. There's still a missing step of being able to reimagine the future of work with technology benholliday.com/2025/10/23/4...
43 minutes per staff member per day
Looking at the latest NHS framing of time savings from investment in AI, and the continued need to better reimagine how we work with technology.
benholliday.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I get frustrated by the press release culture around time savings from AI tools. I couldn't resist responding to a recent one about Microsoft Copilot in the NHS. There's still a missing step of being able to reimagine the future of work with technology benholliday.com/2025/10/23/4...
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The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
The Seven Deadly Sins of “Go Faster”
Things that will make your dev team take longer to deliver worse software:1. Adding more people to the team2. Making them work longer hours3. Cutting down on work that “slows them down”…
codemanship.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
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Bad news from Georgia where Georgian Dream is banning the opposition and charging its main leaders with plotting a coup.
Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy
An oligarchic party outlaws the opposition and turns towards Russia
economist.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Bad news from Georgia where Georgian Dream is banning the opposition and charging its main leaders with plotting a coup.
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Incredible thread from Steve. Please read.
I decided to spend this remembrance day educating myself about the sacrifices we're supposed to be remembering.
I now live on the atlantic coast of France, so decided to learn something about of the second world war here.
As a result, I've been down the most amazing rabbit hole of discovery...
I now live on the atlantic coast of France, so decided to learn something about of the second world war here.
As a result, I've been down the most amazing rabbit hole of discovery...
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Incredible thread from Steve. Please read.
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I'll tell you something. I have a private theory that this kind of division (which is clear as day to ppl in tech and like, baffling to ppl outside of it) is a version of the "I will help you survive but not thrive" phenomenon but worked out re: tech belonging
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'll tell you something. I have a private theory that this kind of division (which is clear as day to ppl in tech and like, baffling to ppl outside of it) is a version of the "I will help you survive but not thrive" phenomenon but worked out re: tech belonging
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Blind (and much of mainstream media!): the AWS outage is the result of “mass layoffs, outsourced talent.”
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Blind (and much of mainstream media!): the AWS outage is the result of “mass layoffs, outsourced talent.”
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
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Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final payout
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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I keep being amused by some devs claiming that multi-region support for a service should be easy to add. Then turns out they're unaware of what active-active arch is.
Multi-region support is not all that complex from afar, but it gets complicated with the details.
Multi-region support is not all that complex from afar, but it gets complicated with the details.
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I keep being amused by some devs claiming that multi-region support for a service should be easy to add. Then turns out they're unaware of what active-active arch is.
Multi-region support is not all that complex from afar, but it gets complicated with the details.
Multi-region support is not all that complex from afar, but it gets complicated with the details.
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I was deadly nerdsniped:
Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?” stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?” stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?”
[On LinkedIn, Nick Kimber asked: Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)? I’m writing something on test and learn…
stream.syscoi.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I was deadly nerdsniped:
Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?” stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?” stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events
Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao
buttondown.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Are there any live proposals to get DSIT (and/or CLG?) to create a Civic Tech Fund? An initiative to support the UK’s civic tech movement (pro-social platforms like Library of Things, Olio, Park Run, etc) and shared infrastructure for community organising. 1/n
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Are there any live proposals to get DSIT (and/or CLG?) to create a Civic Tech Fund? An initiative to support the UK’s civic tech movement (pro-social platforms like Library of Things, Olio, Park Run, etc) and shared infrastructure for community organising. 1/n
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Some people are saying the potential overbuild because of AI might not be a bad thing because, like the dotcom era, it could leave behind infrastructure we’ll benefit from for a long time.
1/6
1/6
October 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Some people are saying the potential overbuild because of AI might not be a bad thing because, like the dotcom era, it could leave behind infrastructure we’ll benefit from for a long time.
1/6
1/6
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Refactoring is a key skill for good software design and it's also something you can get better at through practice. Check out my newly-published video training course which has lots of examples and exercises you can try courses.cd.training/courses/refa...
Refactoring Made Simple: Improve Code Design Safely
Learn refactoring, clean code, and software testing with Emily Bache. Explore tutorials and full courses on refactoring legacy code, coding best practices, and software engineering training for develo...
courses.cd.training
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Refactoring is a key skill for good software design and it's also something you can get better at through practice. Check out my newly-published video training course which has lots of examples and exercises you can try courses.cd.training/courses/refa...
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Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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On Monday Oct 6:
Next in the #PapersInSystems Discussion Series:
Critically Engaging with Models, by @rebeccawb.bsky.social
and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social
When: October 6th, 2025, 1–2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada)
Paper: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog...
More info/Sign-up: ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Critically Engaging with Models, by @rebeccawb.bsky.social
and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social
When: October 6th, 2025, 1–2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada)
Paper: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog...
More info/Sign-up: ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Rebecca’s Web – Critically Engaging With Models
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock On the Web
wirfs-brock.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
On Monday Oct 6:
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“[With WhatsApp] gold is in the ingredients, but Signal is the gold standard. Privacy is our sole focus. We do one thing and we do it very, very well, which is provide the world’s largest actually private communications platform”
Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same
Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same
Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’
The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
english.elpais.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
“[With WhatsApp] gold is in the ingredients, but Signal is the gold standard. Privacy is our sole focus. We do one thing and we do it very, very well, which is provide the world’s largest actually private communications platform”
Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same
Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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Lots to love if this holds for CA crops:
-utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat
-less water use, probably less dust
-more options for siting close to existing transmission
-on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air
-utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat
-less water use, probably less dust
-more options for siting close to existing transmission
-on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
techxplore.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Lots to love if this holds for CA crops:
-utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat
-less water use, probably less dust
-more options for siting close to existing transmission
-on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air
-utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat
-less water use, probably less dust
-more options for siting close to existing transmission
-on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air