GOV.UK is a teenager! I hope there shall be plenty of cake to celebrate a happy 13th birthday.

Does widespread browser implementation of the Sec-Fetch-Site HTTP header mean we can protect against CSRF attacks without needing those hidden form tokens? It looks like the answer may be a cautious "yes"! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/15/csrf-in-go/

Inside you there are two wolves. One of them knows SQL. This is the WHERE-wolf.

I'll see you at #FastFlowConf tomorrow. No talk, just attending as a punter. Come and say hello!

I love the idea of a conference on renewable energy having panels 😀

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

One rubber duck can speed you up, but two ducks slow you down, because they start talking to each other and distract you. This is known as the ‘inefficiency pair-o-ducks’.

For those of you at GOTO Copenhagen, I'll be speaking at 14.15 in room 2 about what we can and should be learning from recent security incidents.

So cool! Running `brew services start caddy` with this in my Caddyfile: dannorth.localhost { reverse_proxy localhost:1313 } Suddenly I have an https version of dannorth.net running on my Mac, and I don't have to remember which port it is running on. (Caddyfile is in `$(brew --prefix)/etc`)

Inside every crossword solver there are two vowels.

So exhausting..

Tahoe day 4: Crashy Tahoe is crashy. So far, during normal use: - Calendar - Keynote (twice) - Mail (but I was editing a signature) - Safari (!) - Finder (!!) When Calendar came back, it still had the half-written new event in the open dialog, so extra credit for trying.

Tahoe day 4: now my Keynote decks have UUIDs too!

In which your intrepid hero decides that he has written entirely the wrong talk and that a complete overhaul is the only way forward.

Tahoe day 3. Mail -> Show Contact Card for sender -> shows a system UUID, exactly what I was after. Bonus: Clicking on 'Open with Contacts' opens... a completely different contact!

Beware of geeks bearing grifts.

I’ve put together a free guide on how to get started with BDD in practice, and how it can help you write better specifications, better code, and ultimately better software. If you’re curious, you can grab a copy here ➡️ www.subscribepage.com/implement-bdd 4/4

Note that the K is not silent. Keep the apostrophe. Otherwise it’s only partly spelt.

Well into my 50s, still can't spell 'separate' or 'desperate' first time. Thank you squiggles for saving me again and again.

What are OKLCH #colors? jakub.kr/components/o... #frontend

www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/... Help Great Britain's Deaf Women's football team reach the Deaflympics! They don't receive government funding so although they have qualified, they rely on donations to fund their travel to Japan in November. They are currently £50k short. Please share!

Thank you @tastapod.com for this gem of a talk. This is something that will help a lot of us throughout our developer journeys. Have a nice day 🙂

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Sent out the latest edition of my newsletter, aka everything I've written on my blog in the past 7 days copied-and-pasted into an email https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-5-key-characteristics-pricing

me: my team is all remote. team member: we prefer ‘aloof’.

Thank you, Juxtaposition Gods of the Algorithm.

So close! @helenjoscott.com and I are £37 away from making our target for @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social UK! We'll be running the London Landmarks Half Marathon in April. Please donate! www.justgiving.com/team/trisha-...

"Kids Web Services is an online age verification service operated by a subsidiary of Epic Games." And these are the jokers I'm supposed to give my private information to in order to prove to BlueSky that I'm an adult? Why not have a government API with a yes/no query like a proper country?

Having just unearthed the Homebuyers Survey from when we moved house, with its 'A Few Structural Terms', I now want a 19th century romance set in Sarking Felt, between Ridge Tile, a farm worker, and Chimney Flaunching, the headmaster's daughter at Tile Battens, the local school, with its cat, Gully.

To be fair, England letting Spain do all the hard work and then claiming victory at the end on a technicality is pretty much how we built an empire.

It has been a long time coming, but I am proud to finally announce Goalwards®, my new business agility consulting venture. Welcome aboard! goalwards.co www.linkedin.com/posts/goalwa...

Happy Monday

I'm running the online version of my "From Keyboard to Keynote" workshop next month! Two half-days full of tips, practical advice, & hands-on exercises about creating and delivering awesome technical presentations. dylanbeattie.net/kb2kn Early bird tickets only £225. You should join. It'll be ace.

I swear 99% of child healthcare is 'Are you absolutely sure you don't need a poo?'

Two decades of wisdom from tech veterans @tastapod.com‬ (BDD creator) & @kevlin.bsky.social‬ - lessons to save you years of mistakes. GOTO Copenhagen 2024. youtu.be/vMWsp_ieheU?...

Well then, nights are drawing in…

Venn diagram

‘Sociotechnical’ is this season’s ‘cognitive’.

Today’s typo: ‘Our business strategy is guided by ORKs.’

TIL a woodchuck is just another name for a groundhog. So now I want to know how much ground would a groundhog hog if a groundhog could chuck wood?

The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki

There are two Volvos inside you. Bloody autocorrect.

Now I can’t get this generalized version of Make out of my head; I feel like I might have to vibe code a prototype.

So my #Microsoft365 landing page, instead of being a layout of recent documents and folders, is now a Google search box circa 2005 with M365 Copilot that I never asked for. What if I just want a new document and not vibe like a solopreneur? There is no way to turn this nonsense off.

WhatsApp web: 'Why don't you just go ahead and install the desktop app?' Also WhatsApp:

It's a rare fellow panelist who can start by referencing Trumpet Winsock and end by joking about running Kubernetes on a smartwatch, but @tailscale.com CEO Avery Pennarun was just that kind of nerd. Great way to wrap up my panel lineup here!

My story, "Spring Flight", has been published with The Fabulist: fabulistmagazine.com/spring-flight/ #FlashFiction #Fantasy #Folklore

I'm featured in the latest episode of @tuple.app's #distributed podcast talking about remote work, loneliness, legacy system modernization and why relationships matter. tuple.app/distributed/...

The ‘T’ in ‘MCP’ is for Thinking any of this through.