The always brilliant Private Eye.

Help shape #Øredev2026 👇 If we introduce a new track, what should it be? Let’s build the program together 💙 👉 Let us know in a comment or DM!

Somewhere between Christmas and Easter I buy Cadbury Creme Egg, eat it, and then feel slightly sick. I have no idea why I do this. I don’t like them. I don’t think I ever did.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The energy transition is happening, faster than many realize. This week, I look at how clean energy is surging, where we can get it wrong, why silence on climate is spreading, and what we can do. Read the full edition for the data, the stories, and practical ways to keep the conversation going:

The excitement around ‘Moltbook’ is weird. It's basically the old fallacy of writing “I’m alive” on a piece of paper, photocopying it, and then saying ’OMG look what the photocopier says!”

Human brains run on ~12-20 watts and sandwiches, while AI needs gigawatts. Could biology hold AI's future? I spoke with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys from FinalSpark about building computers from human stem cells, neural encoding, and the ethics of conscious systems.

. @charleshumble.bsky.social & Dr. Ewelina Kurtys discuss biological computing: living neurons that could cut AI costs by being 1M times more energy efficient than current systems.

My wife and I went to see the wonderful “H is for Hawk” at the cinema this week. Fabulous acting particularly from Claire Foy, and a brilliant soundtrack from Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (which kind of does the job of the inner monologue in the book). Loved it.

AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert @kinlane.bsky.social. By @charleshumble.bsky.social, thanks to @naftiko.bsky.social

From bored of peace to the board of peace ft.trib.al/exehe5A | opinion

AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert @kinlane.bsky.social. By @charleshumble.bsky.social, thanks to @naftiko.bsky.social

Climate change, nature loss, and inactivity could cut sports industry revenues 14 per cent by 2030 The global sports economy may be booming, but climate change and nature loss threaten to wipe billions of dollars off its projected value over the coming decades.

@monkchips.com just trying to submit a talk to Monki Gras and can’t get Papercall to work. It says “ There were errors with your submission!” But if there are it isn’t telling me what they are! If you’re not already full I’d love to pitch a talk-two new ideas, one of which I have no idea how to do

For my first sponsored article of 2026 I sat down with Kin Lane from @naftiko.bsky.social to talk about business capabilities and how language shapes our mental models. Kin is such a deep thinker and I found the conversation really interesting. #AI #APIs #AgenticAI #DomainDrivenDesign

For my first published article of 2026 I sat down with Kin Lane of @naftiko.bsky.social to talk about business capabilities and how language shapes our mental models. Kin is such a deep thinker and I found the conversation really interesting. #APIs #AgenticAI #DomainDrivenDesign

AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert Kin Lane. By @charleshumble.bsky.social, thanks to @naftiko.bsky.social

I am enjoying this. h/t @ruthmalan.bsky.social on mastodon: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Any GenAI experts willing to answer what feels like quite a basic question for me with regards to Grok's ability to generate deepfake and non-consensual sexualised images? DM me?

Apple's new UI guideline that recommends putting icons next to every single menu item is truly awful. So bad, in fact that MacOS Tahoe is the fist MacOS I've ever uninstalled. I'm back on Sequoia. Sequoia has lots of bad design choices but Tahoe really is legitimately terrible.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

My latest @gotocon.com n podcast with Michael Nygard is live! We discussed building resilient systems, Conway's Law, and why celebrating firefighters over fire preventers hurts engineering culture. 🔗. www.buzzsprout.com/1714721/epis...

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Ouch!

Perspective on the news about the Trump administration seeking to break up the NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research from the ground at the AGU meeting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

"Using the latest Global Carbon Budget data, it finds that decoupling is now the norm across advanced economies, with 46% of global GDP in countries that have expanded their economies while cutting emissions." https://bit.ly/4q830JY

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Phenomenal photos. Photojournalists are amazing people.

🎥 All Øredev talks are LIVE! A month ago we shared 3 unforgettable days with 115 speakers! With 127 talks & 8 sessions running at once, no one could catch everything… Good thing our camera crew did! YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/c/oredevConference Rewatch your favourites & discover new ones

My Øredev talk is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJG...

The audio version of my podcast with Laura Tacho is out. She's brilliant and well worth your time.

"Typing isn't the bottleneck" - yet we're using AI to code faster. @nathenharvey.bsky.social (Google DORA) tells @charleshumble.bsky.social what 5,000 developers reveal about AI adoption. Spoiler: it's not about speed.

Fun chat with Nathen Harvey for @gotocon.com Turns out using AI to write code faster often makes software delivery worse—because typing was never the bottleneck. AI amplifies what you already have: great systems get faster, broken systems just hurt more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IKB...

I wrote about why so many AI pilots fail and talked to eng leaders who've actually rolled out gen AI at scale. Success comes down to fundamentals: 1. clear communication 2. fixing your data permissions 3. measuring impact not adoption Full article on LeadDev leaddev.com/technical-di...

It is 2025 and iOS 26 still cannot add an MP3 to your music library. Am I the only person who finds this baffling? My music-writing partner and I send MP3s back and forth to each other all the time in between studio sessions but the process to get them on our phones is ludicrously cumbersome.

🎙️ The “Google trap.” The onboarding gap. The reluctant manager. On today’s #GOTOpodcast, Meri Williams joins @charleshumble.bsky.social to share honest lessons on scaling teams, avoiding bad big-tech habits & building diverse products that work. 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Assessments of government action on climate change—and public desire for climate action—should always explicitly consider how much cajoling and lobbying and pressure from oil and gas there is to do nothing. This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Kubernetes optimization can’t be an afterthought or rely on “superhero configurations.” It must be automated, continuous, effortless and always safe.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Not an energy post, but FT has a very funny "page not found" message: answers to why the page wasn't found based on economic concepts. And you don't need a subscription to read it. www.ft.com/content/1095...

"Organizations that design systems are constrained to produce designs which copy their communication structures"- but most people miss the word "communication." Michael Nygard breaks down what Conway's Law really means for technical leaders with @charleshumble.bsky.social

This talk by Stephen Midgley from AI for the rest of us is deeply moving and well worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckqw...

I wanted to write a response to the Gates climate memo but it turns out @weatherwest.bsky.social has done a much, much better job of it.

On a clear disc you can seek for ever.

The cloud service @awscloud.bsky.social has used an updated methodology for the latest version of its sustainability, recalculating historical data back to January 2022. By @charleshumble.bsky.social

AWS' Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now has Scope 3 emissions data going back to January 2022. This was customers' #1 requested feature, I'm told. Still waiting on per-service breakdowns beyond EC2/S3/CloudFront though. My latest for @thenewstack.io: thenewstack.io/aws-adds-sco...