NEWS! Children in Need celebrates raising less than half the amount Michelle Mone still owes the government for faulty PPE

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"Tax tapas" 🎯

AI is everywhere, but what does it mean for Salesforce developers? Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs. Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boss PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

All the weather from sunshine to hail on #exmoor today #trailrunning

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Product management: you have two weeks to get me 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13 cows.

On shared mental models: developers sandbag estimates when they do not understand what's being asked. A lot of product management effort is spent on managing those sandbagged estimates, rather than on creating the clarity that will obviate the need for them.

Very good! Reminds me of an article about Duolingo being too easy. If you slice the work too thinly, it can lose almost all worth "This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"

Trail run fun on Exmoor. When Aurora is really enjoying herself, she's too fast for the camera! #trailrunning #exmoor

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Mitch Spano and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #DF25. We will explore upcoming features, like Apex cursors, improvements to testing on the platform, agentic tooling, and solutions for scaling your compute. reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df...

Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s

lucky dog

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

This is really good. It's important for people to take coding with agentic AI seriously. Not with breathless excitement, nor blinkered skepticism. But as a tool with strengths, weaknesses, and skills in use

I saved this from Tumblr just yesterday bc I needed it.

There's no room for my tail, the bikes are going to have to go

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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I love this picture of Aurora carefully watching my son while he tests the new brake pads on his bike. She's such a gift of a dog for a young boy

Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform DO IT www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

This only happens to you once

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is quite balanced on AI;DR. Not all AI docs are bad, but I've certainly received some in the shape of coherent thought, but with no structured thought behind them. And this needs to become unacceptable behaviour

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

Said nobody anywhere, ever

Something I've found really fruitful for me as an architectural principle is understanding that you can simplify a complication, but you have to adapt to complexity. Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable

An Infusiast

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The Peripheral.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

I wrote about coding with AI! Many people have, but I've tried to think above the levels of specific tools, and more about the strategic approaches and consequences of it. www.aidanharding.com/2025/09/codi...

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

9m high tide for our evening trail run around Westward Ho! and Appledore. Beautiful conditions! #trailrunning #northdevon