Honestly, the PSF has shown more ethical backbone here than any other tech-centred org I know. Huge respect.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Sad to say I'm seeing as much racism and antisemitism on bluesky as I was seeing on Twitter before I left it. Might be time to just switch it all off.

I would guess aprox 95% of the tests that candidates have submitted to our take home exercise have been generated by LLMs. The telltale signs are pretty obvious. Its pointless to test that your implementation does what it does. You should be testing that implements the business logic.

When people tell you who they are - believe them. Reform are climate change deniers and they are a real threat to our future existence. If you know anyone who is considering voting for them, make it your personal project to help them understand what they are voting for.

Generating tests based on your implementation is like setting exam questions based on your answers.

I never appreciate how hard it is to bridge the gaps between Data Science, ML and Engineering. You often have folks from these three backgrounds fully aligned on the outcome, but wholly misaligned on the path there, and as a result - stalemate.

Every millennial knows exactly what this guy looks like.

In the words of a former colleague: "Every line of code is a business decision."

If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this: You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.

If you're having a discussion with someone, don't send your LLM bot into their mentions to argue in agreement with you. It reeks of bad faith, and earns an immediate block by me. Maybe it's just me, but this is not the kind of interaction I'm interested in having on here.

Most people think the cladding crisis is over. It's not. 6 years after Grenfell, we're still trapped in flammable buildings, paying the price while freeholders profit. This is what it actually costs to live in the "post-Grenfell" world: 🧵

I find this all so weird. Basically, what he's saying, is that programming is a skill and that if you have that skill you can utilise code generation tools, like LLMs, effectively. In other words, vibe coding isnt a thing. I won't go as far as to say its a grift, but it doesn't feel far off to me.

One thing I'll always appreciate about Rust: I can come back to a project two years later and it still compiles flawlessly. Meanwhile, return to a Node project after six months? Some random transitive dependency is broken. Python project? Good luck taking PTO.

Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability

Motherfucking wind farms…

Pairing with a couple of senior devs this morning who've been using Claude to do code reviews. We've been having fun looking for issues in non-existent code. We'll have more fun later addressing some of the issues I spotted straight away that Claude missed. LLMs aren't linters, folks.

@mfinkle.bsky.social I miss you buddy :elastic-heart:

I thought I understood lean thinking until I had to lead data scientists as well. Now, a couple of years working on nature, I get it—it works for science too. Turns out 'what's the minimum viable step?' and 'what's the minimum viable confidence level?' are the same question in different languages.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Speaking as a fan of the EM dash myself, I believe in going the distance—unlike those wimpy hyphens.

First time I've ever been denied boarding. Were I a betting man, I'd have put money on my "subversive politics" (I believe in human rights; controversial) being the cause. Turns out it was just Brexit—8 months remaining on your UK passport doesn't mean it hasn't expired for EU travel.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Sad that it has taken the hype of llm coding agents to incentive some folks to prioritise the same things that they could do compassion for their fellow human team-mates. Small steps, small codebases, fast tests, automation, clear code & docs; all help the bots as well as the team.

Our new paper shows that soil cation exchange can delay CO₂ removal from enhanced weathering by years to decades. Lag varies by soil, climate, and land use—longest in high-CEC regions like the Corn Belt. Big implications for MRV, credit timing, and deployment strategy. Timing matters! 🪨🌾 Link below.

I find the bsky community's scatter gun approach to block lists very odd. If this person thinks *I'm* a proponent of LLMs then they really need to work on their reading comprehension. I mean, I don't mind people blocking me, but I'd never trust this person to curate my feed. 🤷

This is absolutely ridiculous on multiple dimensions. First of all, why would you base your thesis on the claims of people with such an obvious conflict of interest? Do some journalism for God's sake. Second, unless you're a tiny startup, cutting the lower rung of Engineering makes no sense.

We're beginning to see this is engineering too. So far, anecdotally, it's contractors who begin a contract to find they are asked to clean up the AI slop left by junior engineers. If I were still a contractor I'd seriously consider an AI-slop break clause that lets me end the contract early. 😅

I've had three recruiter emails in the past 24h, clawing for my attention by talking about the dark side of remote hiring, clearly inspired by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com's latest. I can't help wonder if they feed the latest headlines into LLMs so they have fresh content to spam me. Blocked.

I'd like to propose a new term - Pandora's Silo. Refers to all the deamons you unintentionally unleash when you tear down the silo between two teams. "Mate, this reorg has really opened up Pandora's Silo."

“Almost 600 people are expected to die early in the heatwave roasting England and Wales… The surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, the scientists said, with temperatures boosted by 2C-4C by the pollution from fossil fuels.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is spot on. That said, LLMs *are* a step change in productivity, especially if your engineering rigour is up to scratch. This is why you shouldn't fear being replaced by an LLM, but rather by another engineer who uses LLMs effectively.

I assume this is a one way street.

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

In many ghettos and camps, Nazis would deliberately provide insufficient food and then create situations where prisoners had to compete for it. Just saying.

As an immigrant to the UK, who has chosen to make a life here, I can no longer be a member of the Labour Party. Despite everything @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social has done for us, I can't stand by the party any longer. I have cancelled my membership in the party, and joined the Greens instead.

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Exactly. Own it. Don't let them redefine it to meet their bigoted world view.

So here in France we have a 5G-enabled electricity meter called Linky, which naturally here in the land where people who live in heaven think they live in hell there were all kinds of protests — Linky gives you cancer, makes your kids autistic, kills your dog, sets your house on fire, and so on.

The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.” Never, at any time in history, has it worked out well for the Jews to answer a question like this honestly. 😐 This is sinister.

A reminder the @boardofdeputies.bsky.social claims to represent British Jews but actually only represents a subset. Many British Jews such as myself - appalled by the actions of the Israeli gov - were relieved to finally see some representation in the form of condemnation. Shameful backtracking.

How, at 40 years old, an I still having that dream where I show up for a math test without having studied at all?

Our toaster has a tendency to singe the edge of good sourdough, releasing a ploom of white smoke. Whenever this happens, I announce the arrival of a new pope. Never before has this joke been so topical. I better go make breakfast.

This is an obtuse retelling of history. The push came from the distributed systems world, as we used Master-Slave terms everywhere. Though Master Branch originates in analog audio (meaning original), virtually no one knew this, leading to the reasonable assumption its due to git being distributed.

Anxiety is nothing compared to what this generation will experience in a decade or two

First insight as a new dad. Time, truly is, a construct. It does not exist. What ever happened yesterday, might as well have been today. You can stretch and compress time as much as you want, either way, you're not getting proper sleep any time soon.

I’m old enough to remember when this cartoon was a joke and not national policy

All I can say is that, I promise to remember that the US administration is not the American people. Democracy is broken and very few governments actually represent the will of their people. Ukraine's government is probably one of the few that still does.