Curate an unread books collection: establishing varied options for what to read next #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/curate-...

🇳🇴 so hear me out, what if Smash were sweet, salty, crunchy… 🌶️and spicy🌶️?!

Get an unread-books bookcase: the joy of accommodating ‘too many’ books #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...

Awkward silence inspires the existence of comfortable silence

Accumulate unread books: why your wish list doesn’t belong in a database #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...

I’m in this picture and I like it 😀

What has more potential to improve software quality, in enterprise software development? Better code quality, or better data quality? 🤔

Document trade-offs and compromises – Northern Europe’s crimes against Italian cuisine #documentation #cooking hilton.org.uk/blog/documen...

Minimum viable inventory management: using Apple Notes to manage supermarket orders #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...

Startup idea: solve the problem of accidentally taking a job at a company that uses 20 year-old software tools, instead of modern alternatives. For example, create a job-board that lets you filter on usage of the most-loved and most-hated B2B software products.

Startup idea: solve the problem of pet-feeding drama, when putting the clocks back suddenly makes meals one hour 'late'. For example, program automatic pet feeders to gradually phase out daylight savings time over the course of several weeks.

🇳🇱 Coolhaven, Rotterdam

Why do product managers so often fail to sustain interesting conversations in online (and sometimes offline) communities, compared to, say, developers? Correct answers only, please 😅 #product

Domestic inventory management tooling: the ultimate nerd shopping list #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...

🇳🇱 Linker Rottekade, Rotterdam

Deconstructed inventory management: the basis for a home information management project #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...

What’s a software product that got significantly better at its core value proposition, over time, while avoiding complexity and bloat caused by adding ways to serve a larger market?

Startup idea: solve the problem of Excel thinking everything’s a date. Make a spreadsheet that’s completely normal, except that dates are only ever in an ISO 8601 date format, and anything else is never interpreted as a date.

Domestic inventory management: optimising supermarket home delivery #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...

If only there were a software product development discipline that focused on maximising meaningful impact 😅

Dear readers, I would like you to know that: 1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list 2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow 3. I’m not sorry 😅

Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve? Well, I can venture a guess! www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...

Startup idea: Rate My OKRs / Roast My OKRs 🔥 #product

Startup idea: solve the (taboo) problem of source attribution in legal contracts. For example, use stylometry and similar natural language analysis to trace the source of specific contract clauses 😈 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylome...

Feature intelligence: a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility #product hilton.org.uk/blog/feature...

💡 Saturday tip: I have just used a dental soft pick to clean the compacted fluff from my phone’s charging socket, with damaging the connectors. Now it reliably starts charging when I plug it in ⚡️

Own a car, but are tired of paying tax on fuel? Reclassify it as an aircraft and get your fuel tax free. https://wewinganycar.com/

Laughing here in the back at @maritvandijk.bsky.social and @peterhilton.bsky.social talk at #JFall 😂!!! Indeed essential programming jokes collected by these two!

Slides for our ‘Essential programming jokes’ #JFall presentation just now: hilton.org.uk/presentation...

New HTTP API error response status - Tonny Garić at #JFall

Looking forward to doing not one, but two talks at @nljug.bsky.social #JFall this week, one of which is a new talk (😱!) with cospeaker @hilton.org.uk. Will I see you there?

Programming joke cycles: joke variation templates’ different purposes #programming #humour hilton.org.uk/blog/program...

People in companies are allowed to benefit from and enjoy hanging out together, even after a project no longer needs it. I suppose it can be called a ‘book club’ or something if it needs legitimacy 💡

What’s the third binary number *called* (0, 1, 10, …)? How do you pronounce it? Is it ‘three’, because we name the natural numbers as concepts, separate from their representations in base-10 or base-2? Is it ‘ten’, because number names assume base-10, and there is no number ‘three’ in base-2?

Curate a product feedback database: where so-called product ‘feature requests’ belong #product #management hilton.org.uk/blog/product...

‘Pizza is how you get a hard-working, motivated, excited person to shut down for the entire afternoon.’ - Samir Talwar functional.computer/blog/pizza #workshops

Startup idea: solve the problem of young professionals who live with their parents while saving to buy a house, and who buy ‘too many’ books. Rent out 40-foot containers kitted out as cosy libraries: wall-to-wall book cases, wood panelling, armchair, reading light, rug. Book storage to escape to.

🚲 Bus stop islands are normal in the Netherlands, but new enough in London for a recorded announcement: ‘For your safety, please cross the cycle lane with caution’ #cyclingInfrastructure

Actually thinking about typography, when choosing how to render code: tonsky.me/blog/syntax-... by @tonsky.me

The search-only capitulation Convenience and laziness win. In the absence of librarians to apply topic taxonomies, Web 2.0 invented crowdsourced tags. Messy ad hoc tags help you more than well-designed categories that you don’t have.

I am awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for my work on #curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10...

Secret macOS file drag and drop: useful but hard-to-discover Mac interactions #usability hilton.org.uk/blog/macos-f...

Probably the best thing I’ve ever read about tech recruitment, and happens to be only incidentally about AI (because it’s a data problem) interviewing.io/blog/why-ai-...

Have you had enough of all the endless chit-chat about AI? Yeah. I hear you. So I ain’t sayin’ nuffink other than, I’m running a two-day workshop in Amsterdam on November 17th and 18th, getting the most out of LLM-augmented coding tools and having FUN with it. Let’s not talk about it. Let’s DO It.

I once met and hired @vijaykiran.com – a wonderful person – within 48 hours

‘What makes Product Managers hetrogenous’ – Allan Kelly’s write-up of our discussion last week, based on his recent articles #product https://www.allankelly.net/archives/10515/what-makes-product-managers-hetrogenous/

Post-agile software development: topics from Agile Cambridge 2025 #agile hilton.org.uk/blog/post-ag...

Startup idea: solve the problem of huge unfixed bug backlogs. Build a bug tracker that analyses each new bug report, based on past bug-fixing behaviour, and predicts the likelihood that you will ever fix the bug. It typically recommends that you don’t bother creating the bug report.

Two of the Extreme Programming (XP) testing practices: 1. ‘All code must pass all unit tests before it can be released.’ 2. ‘When a bug is found tests are created.’ 💡 If you create those tests before other code changes, before the next release, the first rule makes XP a zero-bug policy.

I'm in Dordrecht for @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode conf tomorrow, and they left a little gift pack of speaker goodies in my hotel room including this, and I think it's absolutely delightful. ❤️