Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

This. mullvad.net/en/blog/mull...

"Are you enjoying using Excel, can you leave an app store review?". No, spitefully, no. I have never, and will never enjoy using Excel. To the product owner - it's not you, it's my deep loathing of data provided to me in Excel.

The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...

Honestly this kind of "oh no, not AI" grandstanding is more tedious and just as compromised as bad uses of AI. www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...

.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team! Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...

Put 👏🏻 Model Binding 👏🏻 In 👏🏻 The 👏🏻 DOM 👏🏻

I know they'll give the Grammy to Deftones because the grammies mostly only respect heritage, but it should go to Spiritbox.

This is the summary DHH earnt for himself.

www.otelbin.io learn something new every day.

This is poor management characteristics in basically all technology roles tbh.

Gen-Z's have finally found their Avocado toast moment. Old fucks will narritivise the hustle porn they never lived until they die. We managed to make a society where legitimately how flukey one generation was managed to overshadow generations of people working.

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

Excellent and accurate thread. Hipster hosting just ain't realistic for things that have to work at global scale, despite what people want to believe.

Had a really great time with The Outer Worlds 2 this weekend. The reviews seem to be all over the place - which I think is perhaps reflective of how much your builds do seem to matter. Setting is still a touch indistinct, but ~15 hours in is hitting its stride.

I've been struggling through being really really ill at #HelloStavanger, so I've not been able to see many talks, but this looks right up my alley.

Next ban ghosts.

Like dogs, there are only good shots.

The problem is a social contract isn't... a contract at all. Social contracts all trend towards promoting a power imbalance because people with it will choose not to be bound.

Unfortunately we're at the bit where critique of technology is where critique of journalism has been for the past decade and a half. There is no "the technology industry", just like there isn't "the media". There is wealth, and those that would use it to weaponise good things against you.

And what did we learn about single region deployments? Anyone? No, didn't think so.

SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF

It'll never happen because they probably only have the nerve to be cool one time, but Tron 4 should be soundtracked by Perturbator. You know it'd be great. Or Perturbator + Health + The Algorithm.

Cute speaker souvenir from @dotnetnorth.bsky.social

Oh and that's an affiliate link, any and all proceeds will go straight to "entertainment at the metal bar", so LGFU ;)

Exited to be speaking at Build Stuff in Vilnius. It's always my last conf of the year, has great vibes and is always a great excuse for a party (the metal bar over the road from the venue is excellent). Come! 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events?sca_ref=9646...

Trying to get back from Bosnia in time to make the Architects show at the O2 is proving challenging thanks to narrow transfers and Ryanair 😭 Might be about to get a cab to Munich.

🎨 Meditations on Code As Art This month, explore the artistic side of programming! Discover how developers imprint themselves on their work through history, from elegant patterns to deliberate artistic expression. 🗣️ @davidwhitney.co.uk 📍 Betfred, Manchester 🕕 Tue 14th Oct 18:00

Keynote by @davidwhitney.co.uk at #INIT2025, great as usual!

Excited to be keynoting Init 2025 ( initconf.org ) on Banja Luka in Bosnia & Herzegovina this morning! A new country for me, excited to see it and meet everyone!

What is the most hallmark of holidays and why is it....

A story in three parts. The comment in question: "Church burning party! Me first!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I wish we could re-invent comments to be the way we instrument code. I love the idea, despite it breaking from regular form. It might even rescue their utility. var id = 123; someAccount.IsLoggedIn = true; //? User {id} authenticated Imagine if that replaced endless otel and logging.

Switching between a Mac and Windows a lot at the moment and one of the most useful things I've done is rebind the PowerToys Command Pallet to Win + Space - gives me a more or less identical launcher experience across the different operating systems.

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Nothing quite like losing about a quarter of your body weight after recording a video months ago to drive home the difference 😂

Really enjoyed recording this very wide ranging conversation with @icooper.bsky.social and @hanneslowette.net

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

Smith: "I want to note our appreciation for the reporting of The Guardian. Its reports were based in part on sources outside Microsoft that had information we could not access in light of our customer privacy commitments" bsky.app/profile/jool...

Microsoft president Brad Smith: "I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD)." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Thrilled to be back at NDC London 2026 in January with a new talk - Meditations on Code as Art. Tracing the through-line from digital graffiti and the Apollo 11 launch computer to the creative urge to see yourself reflected in your work. On sale now. ndclondon.com/agenda/medit...

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

This is what you get for kissing the ring. Hard to feel much sympathy for big tech in 2025, but this is people's lives.

Love when Trent goes full The Fragile. youtu.be/8rebzJGhnog?...

I just… what the fuck is even happening

So I'm gonna be doing a new and ultra weird talk next year - and I'm doing a bit of a test run at DotNetNorth next month. www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/... It's gonna be weird, come out.

Great change.

"I’m not saying TCS are bad" Though for the avoidance of doubt, TCS are fucking terrible.

Think about it: code reviews are exploratory testing. We might think it strange to still be 100% reliant on manual exploratory testing months into the lifespan of a product or system.

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.