Phil Wiffen
@philwiffen.bsky.social
Software Engineering Manager at a large British Co-operative.
@octopus.energy I’m getting very frustrated with poor quality issues and basic functionality of my octopus-installed @enphaseenergy.bsky.social battery system. Is there anything you can do to lean on them to improve? It’s a premium priced product and I should be able to use it when I want!
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@octopus.energy I’m getting very frustrated with poor quality issues and basic functionality of my octopus-installed @enphaseenergy.bsky.social battery system. Is there anything you can do to lean on them to improve? It’s a premium priced product and I should be able to use it when I want!
ITVX is absolute rubbish 🚮 . Just let BBC iPlayer show all the England Women’s ⚽️ games please.
July 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
ITVX is absolute rubbish 🚮 . Just let BBC iPlayer show all the England Women’s ⚽️ games please.
Me: When I discharge my home battery, the EV charger charges my car, instead of the power going to the grid. Can you help?
Octopus: I’m sorry your EV charger drains your battery on Intelligent Go, please talk to your battery installer
Me: These are two verrrrry different things 😬
Octopus: I’m sorry your EV charger drains your battery on Intelligent Go, please talk to your battery installer
Me: These are two verrrrry different things 😬
July 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Me: When I discharge my home battery, the EV charger charges my car, instead of the power going to the grid. Can you help?
Octopus: I’m sorry your EV charger drains your battery on Intelligent Go, please talk to your battery installer
Me: These are two verrrrry different things 😬
Octopus: I’m sorry your EV charger drains your battery on Intelligent Go, please talk to your battery installer
Me: These are two verrrrry different things 😬
It wasn’t too far, so we kinda had to. Chichen Itza, 🇲🇽
(This whole trip has had me understanding and appreciating how very lucky we are. This time last year, when I was still looking for a job, this kind of thing was completely out of reach, and unimaginable)
(This whole trip has had me understanding and appreciating how very lucky we are. This time last year, when I was still looking for a job, this kind of thing was completely out of reach, and unimaginable)
June 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It wasn’t too far, so we kinda had to. Chichen Itza, 🇲🇽
(This whole trip has had me understanding and appreciating how very lucky we are. This time last year, when I was still looking for a job, this kind of thing was completely out of reach, and unimaginable)
(This whole trip has had me understanding and appreciating how very lucky we are. This time last year, when I was still looking for a job, this kind of thing was completely out of reach, and unimaginable)
Spent an hour yesterday evening listening to a bunch of Coldplay songs played on string instruments by Chaos Collective by candlelight. ‘Twas very, very good.
Venue was Fitzwilliam College Auditorium in Cambridge 🕯️
Venue was Fitzwilliam College Auditorium in Cambridge 🕯️
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Spent an hour yesterday evening listening to a bunch of Coldplay songs played on string instruments by Chaos Collective by candlelight. ‘Twas very, very good.
Venue was Fitzwilliam College Auditorium in Cambridge 🕯️
Venue was Fitzwilliam College Auditorium in Cambridge 🕯️
Reposted by Phil Wiffen
This entire thread!! 👏🏽👏🏽
Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
February 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This entire thread!! 👏🏽👏🏽
Cor this BrewDog Rocky Road marshmallow stout is exceptional 😍 (the King Crush to the right is nice too)
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Cor this BrewDog Rocky Road marshmallow stout is exceptional 😍 (the King Crush to the right is nice too)
Reposted by Phil Wiffen
We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
January 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
Today I learned that the Norfolk Broads are man-made: www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/post/peat-di...
Peat digging and climate change - how the Norfolk Broads were formed | Visit Norfolk
The Norfolk Broads may look natural, and they are rightly regarded as the best example of a lowland wetland system in Britain, but they are actually a
www.visitnorfolk.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Today I learned that the Norfolk Broads are man-made: www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/post/peat-di...
This makes me both hopeful, and deeply sad
Hopefully the vast majority of countries sign a treaty without the others 🚮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hopefully the vast majority of countries sign a treaty without the others 🚮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Global plastic talks collapse as oil states rebel
Two years of negotiations to reduce global plastic production have collapsed amid a split between countries.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 7:14 PM
This makes me both hopeful, and deeply sad
Hopefully the vast majority of countries sign a treaty without the others 🚮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hopefully the vast majority of countries sign a treaty without the others 🚮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I hope I get better at Canva, fast. I just spent over an hour crafting an image to accompany a scheduled LinkedIn post, which isn't much more fancy than bullet points in png format 😬
November 30, 2023 at 5:22 PM
I hope I get better at Canva, fast. I just spent over an hour crafting an image to accompany a scheduled LinkedIn post, which isn't much more fancy than bullet points in png format 😬