Martin B
@martinb8.bsky.social
Helps people make software for people. Scottish. Loves music of various volume and intensity. Fitba. Got married to No. 2 in The Village. He/Him.
Opinions = personal and all that jazz.
Opinions = personal and all that jazz.
I’m going to suggest that if you work with software you don’t want to miss this…. meetu.ps/e/PGXcq/zjLG...
Simon and Dave always get the brain going and are never dull🍿
Simon and Dave always get the brain going and are never dull🍿
Dave Snowden & Simon Wardley - An AI Rant, Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
If you've ever been lucky enough to see Dave and Simon in conversation, you know that it's always highly informative and very entertaining. And it's especially exciting whe
meetu.ps
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I’m going to suggest that if you work with software you don’t want to miss this…. meetu.ps/e/PGXcq/zjLG...
Simon and Dave always get the brain going and are never dull🍿
Simon and Dave always get the brain going and are never dull🍿
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btw you know what was really important last night. The game was on the BBC and we could all watch it. Imagine if folk missed that - *that* - because it was behind a paywall. Devastating. A crime.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
btw you know what was really important last night. The game was on the BBC and we could all watch it. Imagine if folk missed that - *that* - because it was behind a paywall. Devastating. A crime.
Oh dear God.
Former prime minister Liz Truss has backed the use of Twitter/X as a replacement news outlet for the BBC
Former prime minister Liz Truss backs Twitter/X as BBC replacement
www.thenational.scot
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Oh dear God.
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I’m pretty unhappy with you too, @glasgowcc.bsky.social, given your unbelievably weak application of your powers to stop the torture of the city’s dogs and cats.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m pretty unhappy with you too, @glasgowcc.bsky.social, given your unbelievably weak application of your powers to stop the torture of the city’s dogs and cats.
Cats are terrified.
But you enjoy your fucking fireworks.
But you enjoy your fucking fireworks.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cats are terrified.
But you enjoy your fucking fireworks.
But you enjoy your fucking fireworks.
Les Savy Fav the night.
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Les Savy Fav the night.
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
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if someone took me aside and said hey rax that dumb flash tattoo you got for $50 when you were 19 is actually a nazi symbol. i would be at the shop getting it covered before they got the sentence all the way out. i would blow red lights the whole way there
October 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
if someone took me aside and said hey rax that dumb flash tattoo you got for $50 when you were 19 is actually a nazi symbol. i would be at the shop getting it covered before they got the sentence all the way out. i would blow red lights the whole way there
I was on verge of getting a Twin Peaks owl symbol tattooed few years back. Realised it was close to a runic symbol that had been picked up by far right.
Trust me, if I HAD got it, then found that out, it’d have been getting covered up ASAP. You have a nazi tattoo you remove any doubt and get rid.
Trust me, if I HAD got it, then found that out, it’d have been getting covered up ASAP. You have a nazi tattoo you remove any doubt and get rid.
If someone gets a Nazi tattoo, they are a Nazi and support those ideologies.
This isn’t a complicated issue that requires debate.
This isn’t a complicated issue that requires debate.
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I was on verge of getting a Twin Peaks owl symbol tattooed few years back. Realised it was close to a runic symbol that had been picked up by far right.
Trust me, if I HAD got it, then found that out, it’d have been getting covered up ASAP. You have a nazi tattoo you remove any doubt and get rid.
Trust me, if I HAD got it, then found that out, it’d have been getting covered up ASAP. You have a nazi tattoo you remove any doubt and get rid.
Pretty wild that in the space of about 12 months English politics is shaping up to be a head to head between Green and Reform, replacing the old assumed LabCon axis.
And Scotland being more about how many votes can SNP and Greens get combined shows you once again we’re a different landscape.
And Scotland being more about how many votes can SNP and Greens get combined shows you once again we’re a different landscape.
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Pretty wild that in the space of about 12 months English politics is shaping up to be a head to head between Green and Reform, replacing the old assumed LabCon axis.
And Scotland being more about how many votes can SNP and Greens get combined shows you once again we’re a different landscape.
And Scotland being more about how many votes can SNP and Greens get combined shows you once again we’re a different landscape.
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
Being an introvert at tech meet-ups suuuuuuuuucks. Sorry.
October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Being an introvert at tech meet-ups suuuuuuuuucks. Sorry.
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Also if the ultimate test of "are you a good dev" isn't how fast you work, why should the ultimate test of "is this a tool that helps people do good dev" be "it makes you faster"......?
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Also if the ultimate test of "are you a good dev" isn't how fast you work, why should the ultimate test of "is this a tool that helps people do good dev" be "it makes you faster"......?
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I have a prediction that the most popular DevEx measures will be pretty useless in the AI era because they start with code writing as the only thing that matters and everything pushed out by that but key to AI usage -- evaluation, self regulation, creativity -- is pretty much ignored
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I have a prediction that the most popular DevEx measures will be pretty useless in the AI era because they start with code writing as the only thing that matters and everything pushed out by that but key to AI usage -- evaluation, self regulation, creativity -- is pretty much ignored
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Hiya, *people who already know how to code* using AI to make things by generating the code does not mean no one needs to know how to code anymore, that's no how this works
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Hiya, *people who already know how to code* using AI to make things by generating the code does not mean no one needs to know how to code anymore, that's no how this works
I do like Refused, but I have mixed feelings about a band on-stage talking about capitalism and class war when they’re charging £50 a ticket and £35 for a T-shirt 😕
The Shape of Punk to Come right enough.
The Shape of Punk to Come right enough.
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I do like Refused, but I have mixed feelings about a band on-stage talking about capitalism and class war when they’re charging £50 a ticket and £35 for a T-shirt 😕
The Shape of Punk to Come right enough.
The Shape of Punk to Come right enough.
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Rare that I'll repost anything from the Times regarding trans people. But this rare moment of truth somehow slipped through.
Not only do trans people live in fear now, but as many as can are leaving the UK to find a safer home.
Imagine this was being done to you?
Not only do trans people live in fear now, but as many as can are leaving the UK to find a safer home.
Imagine this was being done to you?
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Rare that I'll repost anything from the Times regarding trans people. But this rare moment of truth somehow slipped through.
Not only do trans people live in fear now, but as many as can are leaving the UK to find a safer home.
Imagine this was being done to you?
Not only do trans people live in fear now, but as many as can are leaving the UK to find a safer home.
Imagine this was being done to you?
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The UK Government wants to introduce a digital ID.
A thing on your phone that says you're allowed to work here.
A digital ID would be easier to fake than a paper one, because an image on your phone can't have stuff like holograms etc.
Unless...
A thing on your phone that says you're allowed to work here.
A digital ID would be easier to fake than a paper one, because an image on your phone can't have stuff like holograms etc.
Unless...
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The UK Government wants to introduce a digital ID.
A thing on your phone that says you're allowed to work here.
A digital ID would be easier to fake than a paper one, because an image on your phone can't have stuff like holograms etc.
Unless...
A thing on your phone that says you're allowed to work here.
A digital ID would be easier to fake than a paper one, because an image on your phone can't have stuff like holograms etc.
Unless...
I know the story today is ID cards… but nothing sums up Keir Starmer better than the story that he’s not attending the COP30 climate summit ‘cos he’s worried Nigel Farage will slag him off about it.
This is Labour’s Biden moment. He needs to go NOW to have any chance of avoiding what’s coming.
This is Labour’s Biden moment. He needs to go NOW to have any chance of avoiding what’s coming.
September 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I know the story today is ID cards… but nothing sums up Keir Starmer better than the story that he’s not attending the COP30 climate summit ‘cos he’s worried Nigel Farage will slag him off about it.
This is Labour’s Biden moment. He needs to go NOW to have any chance of avoiding what’s coming.
This is Labour’s Biden moment. He needs to go NOW to have any chance of avoiding what’s coming.
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The best thing about vinyl revival is albums are back to 35-45mins. 60-70 minute CD albums had too much filler.
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The best thing about vinyl revival is albums are back to 35-45mins. 60-70 minute CD albums had too much filler.
If you’re someone who cares about other people - which is kind of the whole point of socialism - why the hell would you vote for Labour right now?
September 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you’re someone who cares about other people - which is kind of the whole point of socialism - why the hell would you vote for Labour right now?
Not all teams are created equal.
September 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Not all teams are created equal.
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can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried
YouTube video by The Verge
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about