As 2024 ends, my time at the Ministry of Justice also concludes. Over seven years, I've worked with amazing people and learned a lot. I'm proud of our progress and excited to take on new challenges in 2025 as I lead the SRE effort for the GOV.UK project at GDS. #sre

Okay, this feels like progress!

“These represent the first ever models trained exclusively on open data, meaning data that are either non-copyrighted or are published under a permissible license."

huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...

Dusting off my best work

I get the scepticism around AI tooling in #SRE, but Meta’s approach to incident response is interesting: 42% accuracy in identifying root causes. That’s pretty good for large-scale systems.

Wouldn’t it be cool if it went further?
https://tinyurl.com/fh4tpx8c

Screwdrivers are going to make hammers obsolete. Silly right? That's what most tech discussions turn into.

Bluesky or Mastodon, that is the question.

Still getting over the fact that a lunatic can stand up in front of a crowd and scream about migrants eating cats and dogs and it gets him elected. Maybe I'll never get over it.

“Education isn't something you finish.”

~ Issac Asimov

"The easy path today makes a hard path tomorrow. The hard path today makes an easier path tomorrow."

A Tiny Thought worth reading in the Farnam Street blog.
fs.blog/brain-food/o...

“The master (of chess) does not search for combinations. He creates the conditions that make it possible”. Ivan Chernev, 1957

Exploring Blue Sky feels like a breath of fresh air—a reminder of the excitement I had when I joined Twitter years ago.

No platform is perfect, but it feels cleaner and more focused. It’s early days, but I’m genuinely enjoying this space's vibe and potential.