Do you sign up as a target to achieve it, or achieve it then sign up to get the badge?

I’m unexpectedly go-karting. Wish me luck.

Writing and posting content when it's this warm is like writing and posting when drunk. You wake up the next day and wonder what the heck you were thinking.

I want to be comfortable, and downstairs where it's cooler, but the sofa is making me really warm.

If it’s warmer outside than in your house: - don’t open loft hatch - don’t open windows - don’t use portable air con - do pull air from basement / crawl space - do close light coloured curtains/blinds - do block outside of windows - do use cheap personal fans

Cat only uses cat flap when I’m not in direct line of sight. Otherwise she’ll sit by the door waiting indefinitely.

I’ve moved four sleeping bumble bees off pavements this morning. Four!

Good. He deserves at least that for facing an eleven hour US immigration interview.

Bluesky: Hey, stop what you're doing, we have this cool new feature called Group Chats Me: Sounds cool, let me see how it works Bluesky: We're sorry, you cannot access this screen at this time.

I've always found that putting my mug on my phone during office hours both reduced my use of the phone, and ensures I drink enough tea.

I'm wondering if these Apple AI updates are going to make Safari more appealing as a default browser.

Multi-stream delivery often looks like a structural change. In practice, it behaves more like a delivery maturity test. harrybailey.com/framework/mu...

Change is hard, and prioritising change over billability is harder.

Help with horizontal navigation UX/design please. Anybody know of a horizontal navigation with subnav on hover that doesn't look rubbish, or jumpy, or unusable?

Toothcomb is a fact checking tool capable of real time analysis of speeches and broadcasts. Very clever. toothcomb.codebox.net#c4cbe6a9-285...

Google search appears to be taking the weekend off.

So who polices the single sex spaces? Oh, the people who can accurately tell the birth sex of a person simply by their appearance. That select group who both care deeply about the safely of women, but are willing to scare the crap out of any woman they believe is misusing a single sex space. 👌

I've just realised you can drag a pdf file's favicon from Firefox (Chrome too?) to put that file into other apps 🤯 I was going off to find it in the file system before adding it previously.

Anybody know anybody at Strava? There’s a bug in the streak share image renderer. You can see it here on the right side where the streak has a double top part.

For the vast majority of users—basically anybody who assumes somebody else is building the safeguards in—this is an awful idea.

I might have convinced my body that running is ok.

Isn’t the primary benefit of markdown over html readability and structure in a single state?

About to go on a call to chat about workstreams/squads/pods... we might even touch on the very well documented Spotify model 😬

If you estimate client work and you charge them less when work is done quickly, but don't charge them more when it takes longer, it was never an estimate at all.

You would think BBC processes and AI review would catch spelling errors like this before I spot them.

Took me until today to understand that the world cup train and bus pricing situation in New York is actually about them removing the standard subsidies rather than raising the prices.

I store information in different places depending on client, context, data type. It can sometimes mean checking multiple services to find what I need. So I built a Claude skill called 'Where is it'. It searches tasks, Notion, Google Drive and more and returns direct links to the locations. Handy.

Not much clear info out there on Claude skill key/secret/token storage. Essentially: - Block Claude from .env files in settings - Add .env file with details to the skill - Use a script to read .env not the skill - Limit api access to what's needed by the script Don't share / commit your .env files.

The home page of Claude has this odd question mark. To be honest there's a strange comma there too. It's like somebody is amazed by something Claude has just offered to do.

Top tip: If you're going to maintain a status page for a product, make it show the realtime status of said product.

I was talking to a developer recently who pair codes with more experienced devs as a way of learning and practicing. They said since AI is being used heavily it’s essentially ruined the learning aspect. Everything has become “how do we solve this? Let’s ask AI. Ok looks reasonable. Commit”

Apple verified my age simply by how long I’ve had an Apple ID. I’d don’t know whether to be proud and grateful it took just one click, or embarrassed.

This is worth a read if you’re interested in security, AI, Mythos etc. Very complex potential edge case exploits surfaced clearly and in detail.

Yesterday, when Dan Hett asked 500 Camp Digital audience members what the best programming language was people shouted things like Python and javascript and Node. I shouted CSS. Nobody got the joke except me. But I made myself laugh, and sometimes that's enough.

Ikea embraced AI without mass redundancies and made £1 Billion doing it. It shows alternatives to the classic 'AI replaces low skilled humans' thinking. medium.com/a-ideal/what...

The Bus Number How many of your developers can be hit by a bus before everything falls apart?

@dasbarrett.bsky.social “the sandwich guy” was all I got when I asked about you before today. But now I know a bit more. Great talk.

Bought PlayStation store vouchers. Proceeded to pay for game by card. Brain not braining.

If you estimate by the hour, and charge by the hour, and already stuggle to protect margins, then implementing whizz bang AI abilities is only going to multiply that fun. Strong trusted processes first, then value pricing on anything not productised/reproducable.

📜 Show me an agency website and I shall show you a layout bug 🔍

I’ve now watched this about 10 times, and I still spot new moves each time. Enjoy.

Some ways AI can be used where risk appetite means it can’t ‘just’ implement the logic directly. Instead focus on generating… 1. test cases from the requirements 2. edge cases and failure cases 3. a proposed implementation 4. a traceability map from requirement to test to code

After my visit to DTX conference today, I’m even more convinced of this.

I ran 5k this morning at a 6:03/km pace. I feel pretty chuffed. Took me about 30 minutes. At the London Marathon, the winner Sawe had to do 2 hours of 2:49/km. So more than double my pace for four times as long 🤯 More training needed.

“AI Safety Consultant” and “AI Risk Consultant” might be good pivots for out of work pragmatic developers right now.

“The pattern is clear. Cursor markets safety. The reality is a documented track record of agents violating those safeguards, sometimes catastrophically, sometimes with the company itself acknowledging the failures.”

Where have you been all my life tab notes?

Re: London Marathon 2027 entry. Can anybody help my tired brain confirm... £49.99 upfront... 'lose it' if you don't get picked. 2x chances. £79.99 if picked... only 1x chance. Is that right?

Here is what AI could pull together about how BBC News is prioritised. There are humans in the loop.