Uni alumni network sent a survey to update your details and put your current job title in. I went with chief problem solver because realistically what is my job??? I do lots of things across the stack. Silicon Valley use the title Forward deployed engineer but I’m not a fan of that title.

The other place has a how to succeed with AI trend. I’m going to share mine (for work with or without AI): Be curious Be learning obsessed Be customer obsessed Be unashamedly passionate Ask stupid Questions Be amazed by the talented people you meet Be kind and friendly Never be afraid to say no

So everyone is implementing swarms now in their coding tools. Who knew if you improved the harness you could get such gains 😅

Seen a job advert for openclaw it has begun

I’ve not felt as empowered as I have by the magic token predictors since I learnt to code as a teenager and I’d pull all-nighters writing code.

Well I vastly under estimated my tax bill. Admittedly it's only 2nd full year doing it.

Doing the only thing modern society knows how… Memeing our way to the apocalypse

Here’s my career advice Read as widely as you can, never be afraid to try something, trust the process and be fascinating by the problem. Everything else will or won’t happen but you’ll hopefully live an enjoyable professional life. Also know your worth and whether you’re valued too it.

One of these countries is scarier than the other

I’m sorry what

The talk you should watch before your week ends youtu.be/0ANECpNdt-4?...

"Ooh, January 1. Better get going on those taxes, Neddy."

What's going to be your song for 2026?

We're here because we're here because we're here youtu.be/Wgh8Gfs2S7M?... DFTBA

Filling in the blanks and gaps

this is fine

This Reddit comment sums up my entire thoughts on the rumoured budget

Wrote some stuff about Agentic diagrams and the types of stuff I’m drawing at the moment. Not sure if it’s useful but I felt I’d write something instead of have the conversation several times www.myyearindata.com/posts/agenti...

It wasn’t turtles but doom loops all the way down

Revees rumoured pension contribution tax grab is exactly why this country is so unserious about reforms need. We can’t touch the triple lock and boomers unfair asset accumulation. No we must punish the young and in work.

Right how does one get access to the gated public preview of Databricks ZeroBus todo some content on it. I want to talk enterprise integration patterns, this holistic “decision platform” databricks are going for by bringing in transactional workloads.

If I was to nickname months based upon stuff going on this year. I’d go with (Ornery) October, (Not happening) November Hoping I can avoid (Disastrous) December add (JFC) January for something more cheery.

Automates LinkedIn posts. Still checks in when they go live every time. Not sure I’ve done that quite right

Chicken pox fml

Okay I haven’t slept yet but Claude skills are a really simple powerful tool. What I’ve been building into my GitHub copilot workflows for weeks now but as an embedded feature that is better.

October really is the month of data breaches

This is good youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?...

How did I end up with a 4.3k subscriber newsletter without writing a single issue? No idea but first edition drops Monday and I’m stoked. Databricks.news if you havent seen it!

Why I love the R community so much still. While python library devs are trying to out agentic orchestration framework each other. R users are making ggplot color palattes for Bluey! ekholme.github.io/blueycolors/

I’m not going to but I have the chance todo the funniest revenge arc

I'm absolutely cursed. It explains why I've progressively felt worse all week and why Charlotte last week was so unwell.

Anonyed is an understatement for my morning 😞

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

Interesting. The panatone palette is probably the best thing. No more arguing over whether a kit is Black and Amber or not.

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I passed 6 AI cybersecurity certs from the leading cybersecurity org. I know they weren’t the hardest exams in the world but the commitment required to sit 6 in a month or have wasted my money is something I’m going to pay myself on the back for!

Guerrilla marketing feels like it fits all my skillsets perfectly 😂

Pays for $200 tier of Google. Still can’t use the deep think model 80% of the time

Rather unrelated to the article, but if companies in the US are no longer required to report cyber security breaches they should still report them if only in the interest of transparency and transparency creating trust. app.ft.com/content/6c34....

Gale Beer, an historic Yorkshire brew almost lost to the mists of time. Thomas Soden picks some bog myrtle and makes some, and speaks to those committed to keeping its tradition alive. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

I’m cooking tea tonight and they’ve let me lose with the butter

This month can get in the bin

No pointing scoring or comment. Just data then and still relevant days now www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Saw this comment and honestly if anything 10 years feels too long on this current trajectory.

I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.

That juxtaposed melancholic feeling of “the kids are at school.”

Well I’m glad they implemented guardrails

If you are still on X, you are facilitating this guy

LLM Hallucinations strike a lawyer live In court…. youtu.be/pObd9mjPNek?...