It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...

Complete nut jobs. But it's insane that people even feel they can stand behind such policies, it's pure neo nazi, National Front type crap

Amazon's Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/06/1918235/amazons-tax-bill-plunges-87-after-tax-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Why was Epstein so involved with Brexit and far-right European politics? What did he have to gain?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The general sense of the news reports from the United States is that the federal government has realised it has gone too far too soon in being filmed freely killing civilians in the streets. Public opinion is just not ready for that yet.

Every single time a Trumpist says “the rhetoric of the left is putting people in danger,” wave your middle finger in their face, because they are lying shitbirds without any principles.

Sad fact: The Saturday after Jo Cox was murdered, Tory defector to Refuk, Rosindell, was in Romford campaigning, despite all political parties agreeing not to campaign that weekend. #ukpolitics

heard someone describe the current trend as "day drinking january".

1/ In 2022, one year after Trump incited the seditious attack on the US Capitol, I posted a long thread of images on Twitter, because revisionist attempts to create a false narrative about that day were already well underway. Today, in 2025, I’m re-creating/re-posting that same thread here.👇

Proof is overrated. This is a brilliant talk by Rory Sutherland: [youtu.be/lhlS-Wds02M...] where he makes two essential points. First, it's a huge problem when "rational" people get veto power over creative, innovative, "irrational" people. 1/11

Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Centre in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. ... Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there. :P

Every sign tells a story

In the replies to this post I want to collect a few really difficult vibe-coding challenges. Feel free to participate by adding challenges and/or solutions of your own. Winners get fame, glory, experience points and emojis.

A new year cartoon for @theguardian.com books

This is a very good experience report with lots of practical information.

Another arbitrary stop order for offshore wind farms in the US: www.reuters.com/business/ene..., including wind farms that have been under construction for years. How can anyone want to invest in the US when they are subject to arbitrary and lawless decisions by an autocrat like this?

I saw the Stone Roses in Oslo in 1990. Mani was hanging out in the bar after the gig, we said hi and he signed my t-shirt. Really friendly guy, made a big impression on me. www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

To report 2.7% inflation for November, the Trump Admin excluded data on food, housing, electricity, clothing, medical care, and most other categories. In fact, only 3 of more than 20 price categories were included in the calculations, making the report meaningless. Actual inflation is much higher.

Another detailed Cloudflare public incident write-up means another blog post from me commenting on it: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/06/q...

The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research set up a wildlife camera near our summer house in the Arctic a couple of years ago. We just realised that it has captured images of lynxes! These are my favourite animals, it makes me so happy to know they are walking around on our land up there.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

A Certain Ratio film screening at the Walthamstow rock'n'roll book club tonight. And the whole band was there! Amazing night. youtu.be/VlUGid-PLBY?...

Did you see little green blobs during the big storm a couple weeks ago? Well, they may have been FAEs, or Fragmented Aurora-Like Emissions, and your photos are helpful to scientists!

RIP dear Bunny, our loyal friend and companion through 11 wonderful and eventful years. ❤️

My talk on "I want a good parallel language" is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eV... Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation... Thanks Arthur Gleckler and BALISP for hosting the talk!

Just spent half an hour trying to check in with @flysas.com . Complete amateur hour. Remind me to never fly with them again.

Farfar holdt en jødisk kvinne unna tyskerne ved å ha henne innlagt på Tønsberg sykehus i tre år under en fiktiv diagnose. Han overbeviste dem om at hun ville dø uten kontinuerlig medisinsk tilsyn, og de lot henne bli. Bare nevner det.

Looking forward to the Netflix serialisation of this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

@martinpeck.bsky.social Walked past this and thought of you! 😄

Goebbels Ends the Careers of Five Comedians Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime. NYTimes article. February 4 1939. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight. David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach. British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

Neat

It's quite hilarious: right wing American VC guy espousing free speech on Twitter, and accusing Bluesky of "smalltentism", then systematically deleting every comment on the post that he doesn't agree with. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

If SHRINK is so great, why don’t we do it?

 A lot of it is IP / legal hell. It *sorta* happened with Intel’s X86S proposal, but even that died after industry pushback in late 2024.

 Plus, a lot of the cool kids moved on to other ISAs (ARM, RISC-V).

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Northern lights tonight

So forget about storage and transmission for a sec, let's explore the idea that assets are worthless if used <50% of the time. -Snow plows -substantial fraction of the poles and wires (built to peak) -The Red River Floodway (Most days Winnipeg wouldn't flood anyway!) -Every gun and private car

Just fwiw the best way to exclude your open source code from being ingested for "AI" training is to load it up to the motherfucking brim with fucking 4-letter word comments #fuck /* fuck */

It’s the end of summer (Zoom in for the reveal…)

Your regular reminder what Elon Musk stands for.

🔴 Footage from a factory in China was found on the camera of a Russian “Gerbera” drone downed in Ukraine, likely recorded during device testing. This was reported by serviceman and radio technology expert and consultant Serhii Beskrestnov.

The tech industry has never ever had the courage to follow Primum non nocere. It's the fatal flaw (slash profitable feature) of the whole enterprise

One for the reading list.

The anti-AI sentiment on this platform is reaching new heights