European leaders responded to the 28-point peace plan and unanimously reaffirmed their support for Ukraine. Any peace plan must be fair and sustainable — made with Ukraine and for Ukraine. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine🧵

The dynamics of ML driven pricing algorithms not surprisingly it’s not in our interests but how it works is pretty interesting www.wired.com/story/game-t...

I think Claude Code has achieved AGI

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph. One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What I don’t understand with the BBC license fee here is why it’s not just digitally enforced? Streaming providers manage it but the Beeb doesn’t? Come on.

Omg an IPO in Oslo! This does not happen in Norway very often like the last one was back in 2021! TV production tech firm raised 200mnok.

Just published a new article! 👇🏾 Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense? Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!

I realise a lot of musicians take back to the stage late in life because of their rights reversion on recorded music. But surely if you’re over 55 and had a really horrific lifestyle when you were young… isn’t it a bit risky to go on tour?

I got shortlisted for a new fund! I am this level of excited about working with these people.

Back to cutting and programming this week! Start projects never to finish them it is the engineering curse.

I turned down a contract renewal the other day. I had felt consistently undervalued had to suffer disrespectful language was arrogantly told how much else everyone else was paid (a lot more than me) ignored, spent weekends clearing up after other people’s mistakes. I had enough.

Ali B Cloud are now autoscaling GPU demand for model inference. Really sensible why haven’t the big American Cloud Co’s thought of this? They are swimming in the wrong direction. The Chinese will win this one in the long run.

I notice some of the big corps have upped their game the last few years worried about startups creeping in on their patch. I used Ebay for the first time in years this last week or so and omg the experience is so much better. Same with NatWest’s mobile banking. They have caught up.

The US government has switched off the flow of economic data! Yikes! Then we know it’s bad but we don’t know how bad!

Am cutting at the moment and omg I am so hungry. I might eat my notebook and part of my laptop.

😞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thashed through a whole heap of tooling integration errors yesterday. Was too tired to finish. Cascading problems. Joy of coding eh?

"Most elements you create during API design are wasted. If they’re not validated by stakeholders, they end up being replaced with new ideas. What if I tell you that API prototyping can be an incremental process?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Observability engineering.theblueground.com/a-software-e...

"We’re missing a great opportunity, as API practitioners. Why do we prefer to insist that APIs need to be something technical and complex, while everyone else seems to be going in the opposite direction?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

MCP is a standard. Not a revolutionary technology. Most of what MCP is was done in langchain before MCP. But MCP made a standardized interface.

Russian drones in polish airspace! Yikes! They are testing aren’t they?

We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.

Spent the last few days planning projects and procuring new machines. Now I will probably land a load of work and not be able to progress anything… Sod’s Law isn’t it? #softwareengineering

Ah the Polish blueberries are in season. I’m not sure what they are doing to them over there but thank god we get the benefit of their exports. Just ate my way through a whole punnet. 😋🫐

Product/Market Fit feels like a final puzzle piece snapping into pace; everything changes. If you’re wondering whether you have it, you don’t. It’s too obvious. More, with data:

How was the Cloudfare AI crawler blocking not bigger news last week?? Seems fairly significant given how big a market share they have?

You should start a company if you’re unreasonably compelled to do it. You haven’t stopped obsessing for a month. If you don’t, you’ll regret it forever. Otherwise, you won’t maintain the motivation when you run into the next few years of emotional devastation.

Am worried about the drought here. Will we have enough water? Will all the nature die?? It’s horrible.

It’s interesting how LLMs are wider than any human, but shallower than the best humans. (At many things; not, e.g. chess) It can’t do customer service as well as the best humans, but it can do it in 100 languages, which no human can. (1/5)

So Bulgarians go to gaol for spying for Russia and not Nigel Farage?? Seriously??

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Nowhere near enough media coverage about the interconnection between the destruction of content moderation, the proliferation of LLM "generative AI" bullshit engines, the death of consensus reality/knowledge making, misinformation and disinformation, & the aims of Western authoritarians and fascists

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“In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use; however, as the cost of using the resource drops, if the price is highly elastic, this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.” Wikipedia

Dog in bluebells today the owner is finally moving around.. similar to the undead 🧟

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Liz truss does truth social.. Oh please god no.

Can someone invent an anaesthetic which knocks you out for a whole week until the worst bits of the illness have passed?

This really is pretty scary www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...

More people are interested in Coachella than blue origin today I think.

Welp got a horrible infected cut from the accident last week. Still have to go get the arm scanned for a broken bone but too sick to leave the house at the moment. Virus + antibiotics 🥲 the flu was bad enough. Can’t wait for this part of my life to be over.

This weekend I have a cold, infected wounds, a possible broken arm still and I can’t sleep I’m so sodding uncomfortable… and then there is the pile of work to do.. some weeks days months just honestly truly suck.

Bank of England report for the AI and financial risk nerds amongst us. Worrying trends. www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-st...

Fell and damaged my arm today pretty badly. Can still type but my god it hurts. Hope it’s not a small fracture so tedious if it is.

Found this handy tool for data vis today for business folks 👀 app.datawrapper.de

Most businesses get to a certain point with P/M fit and need to focus on distribution in order to scale. Great read. www.founderstribune.org/p/product-to...