It's time I found a new contract, so... If you’re looking for a backend dev (C#/C++), need a hand with build/test/deployment automation, or getting to grips with TDD/agile ways of working, etc. then I might be of use. London, Cambridgeshire, or remote. www.linkedin.com/in/chrisoldw...

Thursday the DORA.community will be discussing software delivery governance with @meekrosoft.com. Join the community for meeting details and an invite to be part of the discussion. #GRC #DORA #ContinuousCompliance #GBGB

Absolutely love how easy it is to get the apple password manager to "fill & save" a password, consigning the current password to the memory hole. 👹

En route to Oslo! 🛫

You don’t need more time between releases. You need less risk in each release. buff.ly/hhPyphD #ReleaseRidiculouslyOften

Over the summer I'm not planning to travel much, but if you want a remote presentation or workshop for your company, please get in touch.

If they’re not selling a cocktail shaker maker then what are they even doing?

The Co-pilot Delusion: deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

Nick Cave is indeed a Wild God

A beautiful, crazy and amazing story of science right under our collective feet. I'd heard when the signal got originally reported but got distracted. It's a great example of what makes science simultaneously fun, important and beautiful.

Hey folks, quick/odd request.. if you *recently* read "Observability Engineering" and are up for a quick 15 min phone chat, within the next 6 hr, drop me a DM? I am refactoring the chapter list (due @ noon Friday) and could use some fresh eyes on chapters to add/drop for 2nd edition. 🙏🥰 Thanks!

I'll be the controversial one: in this case, if NATS had never been given to the CNCF, I would argue they would be *less likely* to need to pull these shenanigans. They mortgaged their ability to build a lasting business and community to get access to more potential users.

Unfortunately both occupations come with a risk of severe neurodegenerative disease

Man Machine at the Greek Amphitheater in Berkeley- Kraftwerk were so ahead of their time 👾

What better start to the weekend than a long walk in the redwoods with this queen 🫅

I joined @rachelchalmers.bsky.social for episode 34 of @heavybit.com's Generation Ship podcast. We discussed how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and more. www.heavybit.com/library/podc... #AI #DORA #GBGB

I'd be in favour of tariffs on NPM imports, though.

@kevlin.bsky.social on agility and/or speed at #accuconf

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey. A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it! Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel: “Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷

This, I think, goes some way to explain why productivity gains reported by individual engineers using "AI" coding assistants evaporate at the level of what actually gets delivered at the team level. (See 2023/24 DORA reports). Faster cars != faster traffic.

A great documentary about the UK rave scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0xt...

“We refuse to accept a fascist America” Anti fascist protest in Oakland today

Right! Heading back to the states after 5 weeks on the road… anything happen while I was away?

lol. I had to sign up again to Facebook to join a group temporarily 🤮. Since I didn't send any friend requests I got flagged as a bot and suspended 🤓

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Google can't block cold email senders that I explicitly mark as spam. Is this a hard problem or just normal weak product?

Selling out Ukraine in *Munich* of all places is so on the nose you couldn't make it up.

Have google completely given up on their office products? It's infuriating how bad even simple tasks like exporting a slide produce such terrible results...

I absolutely love when folks share real tech culture stories from inside their companies, and this article by James Shore is exemplary: "The Best Product Engineering Org in the World" www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025...

I had to do this when I lived in China at certain times when the authorities were getting "grabby" with foreigners. I never thought I'd need to do this in the US...

The gemini meeting summaries are really years behind what other tools are giving. Is google even trying anymore?

I have some availability for consulting or contracting between now and April. Need help with Cloud Native, Kubernetes, DevOps, IaC? Let's chat. Please share for reach ❤️

We are hiring for a number of engineering positions in 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 We are a collaborative team who work with modern technology and a quality mindset. HMU if you know anyone who would love to build product at the intersection of dev tooling and cloud data!

The thing is - customers want moderation, they want editorial standards. Just look at the exodus from Twitter and the mass un-subscribing from the Washington Post. Media, both legacy and social, that bends the knee to trump while ignoring their customers will kill their businesses in the long term.

Jackpot 🎯

In the spirit: I love this project/hack site for layering Wikipedia articles on a map: www.matthewsiu.com/local-map

Founder mode:

Mission accomplished! Thanks @austin-bingham.bsky.social for the recipe...

God bless America. 😍

My condolences to friends and acquaintances on route to vegas for re:invent... sending thoughts and prayers 🙏

Right, since we are in the season, I’m on a mission to find Egg Nog. Is it any good? Do you just buy it by the gallon at the supermarket? I will find out…

Reinvent (and vegas in general) is so creepy it should only be a halloween thing

My sincere condolences to all those headed to reinvent 🙏

Can anyone recommend a good editor for writing markdown articles? Something about mscode doesn't jive with me...

I like how twitter/x is now referred to as "the other place" like it's some sort of dark hellscape from a fantasy novel.

A wise post on how not to measure software incidents

Hard agree, love this podcast

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