I'm not saying that healthcare data exchange standards are a worry but also this:

Amazon's help LLM "Q" can be useful but sometimes it hallucinates features that sound reasonable but don't exist, like "add instance to existing cluster" on a headless cluster. The replies *did* have a solution that worked. 1/2 #aws #devops #llm #ai

Follow this account, it's hilarious! Also 10 minutes walk from my front door. ♥️ And I've been drunk in that building but before it was MERL. 😉

Tried connections for the first time because of @josemonkey.com Quite fun, happy to have got it. Connections Puzzle #788 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Once in a while I'm reminded of a senior manager who, when faced with a looming deadline, wanted to cut out all the QA. When we pointed out that there would be bugs in prod as a result, he asked dead-seriously: "Can you code without putting bugs in?"

Built in app LLMs seem to have a cycle: 1. There's a meeting summary "wow, that's amazing!" 2. Ah, but there's important detail missing 3. QA <> Kuwait 😂 4. Spent 30 minutes laughing at it 5. Leave it switched off From actual Slack experience this morning.

I just published a blog post about the OpenCLI initiative. I think it's time we had a way to standardize CLI automation! Feedback, suggestions, and thoughts are more than welcome. patriksvensson.se/posts/2025/0...

Friends have been to see Linkin Park so I thought I'd give Hybrid Theory a listen again after many years and it's all killer. Such a fantastic album - and a debut too.

The more I read the NHS Plan, the more excited I get. There's a lot of good stuff in there.

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)

Missed opportunity for #AWS to have a sense of humour.

My favourite #computing silly facts are: 🍴 A nibble is half a byte (4 bits) 🫖 HTTP status code 418 is "I'm a teapot" 🕊️ RFC1149 is standard for internet using birds ⚙️ Turboencabulator is an entirely fictious machine ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G... #computerscience

I ❤️ maps. I 💛 tube maps. I 💙 making tube maps to explain project order and inter-dependencies to non-technical peeps. I usually use Google drawings but have just found Shannon Taylor's wonderful metromapmaker.com 💚 this.

It's quite hard to find best practise articles about CQRS without Event Sourcing.

If you want me to renew my home insurance then send me your best quote. Don't make me phone someone. Don't make me argue about cover levels. I don't want to barter over the phone. It's 2025. Send me the best you have or I'm off.

I'm only a year younger than Chris and so much in this blog post struck a chord. The 80s were crap for me too. IRA bombs up the road, When The Wind Blows shown in school and an odd sense that - even living in North London - everything important was happening in the USA.

A few months ago I participated in a thing with a bunch of awesome folks: youtu.be/2qhD_Bj9Xqo?... #indiedev #gamedev #streaming

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

I use AWS at work so tend to choose not-AWS for personal projects to keep a second perspective. I'm looking to change up some low-level CMS stuff I use with friends and to my surprise AWS free tier is really rather good. It might just do all I need! aws.amazon.com/free/

I get job offers a lot. I usually say "no thank you" as I ♥️ my job. Last night a non-automated offer (or very specifically targeted automation) landed from a USA company. The answer would always have been "no" (the salary was vast tbf) but for now it's "hell no". ♥️ Americhums but it's not for me.

This is quite exciting - using CUDA from inside Python! This might be nudge I need to recode some of my old algorithms. thenewstack.io/nvidia-final...

Powerful, gripping and entertaining locknote from @rendle.dev Absolutely bloody love this. More locknotes need to be like this - adding the humanity back into tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2p...

Today I've used a little bit of ChatGPT to help make me sound less of an angry twat in an email. I am still an angry twat but the recipient doesn't need to know that. I'm not going to use the ChatGPT words but it was helpful to have a second opinion rather than trouble a colleague!

Looking forward to moving past the time when CEOs with a thin understanding of AI have their flawed pronouncements about AI amplified. It's compound stupidity. Either I find myself thinking "no, it doesn't do that" or "no, that's not a limitation".

One way that big tech has roundly failed is user authentication. Passwords, passkeys, OTP, to your email, your phone, sign in with Google or Facebook or your fridge. Apply, Google, Microsoft, you should have got your shit together decades ago and now look where we are. Shame on you.

look at this absolute unit

I used to enjoy researching AI. Finding new cool stuff was easy. Now the internet is awash with opinions, marketing BS and nonsense. The good stuff is drowning.

The list of projects I want to start grows inversely proportional to the spare time I have.

It's time to rebuild my neural network algorithms to make better use of modern hardware. I need graph (nodes/edges) visualisation that supports tens of thousands of nodes, I need stream IO and I need it to work real time. Thinking Rust's Bevy engine might do just the job.

Fines for non-attendance are a Draconian symbol of an antiquated system that's not fit for purpose. If school was a place where kids wanted to be then you wouldn't have to fine parents for truancy. They don't want to go because it's just childcare for working parents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These are wonderful, light hearted and intriguing micro investigations that often leave me astounded at his ingenuity. Definitely give a follow on whichever platform you're on. "Guys, that was it".

IMO productivity is a function of employee engagement, not whether you can see them. Productivity nationally is down because the nation is depressed. Someone who spent their life exploiting minimum wage workers can't see that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First cycle ride of 2025 today, 23km from Ding to Pang and back. It's a lovely route I've done a lot in the past, a 1/2 off road, 1/2 on it. It *felt* really hard and slow but Strava tells me it's the second fastest I've ever done certain bits. Surprising, given I nearly shat a lung a one point.

This is "achievement unlocked" like the time I corrected Jon Skeet on S-O.

Looking forward to @rendle.dev and @dylanbeatt.ie this PM, I get to join live for once as the all-hands has been moved! Yay! Also gives me a good soft deadline for the remaining architecture design work so I can code while I listen in. Tech, Bugs, Rock and Roll: www.youtube.com/@TechBugsRoc...

With both corporate and academic hats on, the UK gov AI plan isn't bad. Lots of pitfalls in AI but as plans go, it's pretty solid. Fair play. Cautiously pleasantly surprised as expectations were low! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Quick #PSA Reminder! Game Development is streamed Live on Twitch by a bunch of awesome folks that you can hang out with & ask questions to. Heres the updated starter pack with some of my favorites: go.bsky.app/HnmUcCc Be sure to click through and find their streams! 🥳 #gamedev #twitch #indiedev

My daily scan of of the CVE feed always makes me feel sorry for WordPress admins. Most days there is a critical vulnerability. Anything that affects our stack or our suppliers' stacks I have to track, remedy and report on. I get a few a *year* and usually auto-patching deals with it.

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments. The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc. Jump back into it.

Really excited to get to the end of my work day to go deep into this paper by @paulboniol.bsky.social et al. When I was building plastic self organising maps for anomaly detection (for radar) in 2000 few were working on it and processing/storage was limited! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.20512

I'm going to try and follow my day's successes getting .NET Core CLI app to build in AWS CodePipeline and run serverless on AWS ECS with some C# in Unity for my game Clomper. I've got a nasty bug for which the only solution is a refactor of something I've not needed to touch in a while.

A blog on the faff required to use #AWS CodePipeline to release a pair of .NET containers on Elastic Container Service. brainwipe.github.io/2024-12-11-d...

One more day of work in 2024 and that day will be filled with writing copious notes about where I am at with all the new AWS stuff I've learnt because I will have forgotten it by the time I get back. Done enough to understand, not enough for it to stick.

TFW you've exhausted all the swear words you know at #AWS #CodePipeline and you then see this. 😊 Do I keep going and possibly break something or do the next bit Monday? 🤔

AWS #devops be like:

Now that I have my guitars out of the loft and within reach, I can noodle about and am delighted to find @rendle.dev wonderful FretBadger via Tech, Bugs and Rock and Roll podcast. Now I can work on those fret shapes that always alluded me! Thank you, Rendle! www.fretbadger.com

Once again: I must not get into arguments on the internet about programming languages with people who have only bothered learning one. They will never, ever see them as a tool.

I'm a programmer but for a bit I'm doing devops. Devops feels like coding in the 90s. So many magic strings and you can't rename anything without changing 6 files. Some of those files are JSON. Some are YML. Everything is so loosely coupled in the name of configurability that there's no certainty!