Today’s theme for Celebrate Your Name Week is “Fun facts about your name”. Simon comes from the Hebrew “Shimon”, meaning “to listen”. Jobling means “descendant of Job”; an old English surname with northern roots. TIL my name actually has some meaning. What’s a fun fact about yours? #CYNW

Political opinion warning ⚠️ This morning's result for the Green Party in Gorton & Denton should be a wake up call for everyone, not just the government.  There are other options to the typical "safe votes". #poltics #GreenParty

Engineering leaders: Are your metrics driving insight… or behaviour you didn’t intend? New episode of Managing Engineers is out now. We talk DORA, SPACE, Monte Carlo and the dark side of dashboards. Tell us your strongest opinions. open.spotify.com/episode/2dXT...

Why is Slack discontinuing support for Safari/MacOS in May? It's such a popular default browser for so many people, I'd love to know the real business justification behind it. Most the time, I use the native app but that's not an option for everyone.

Are there any local companies providing apprenticeship schemes in their tech teams around the Midlands? I’m researching options for young people in the area as some friends’ kids with loads of potential are looking for jobs. #apprenticeship #techtalent

Discord rolls out age verification, someone finds a work around. age-verifier.kibty.town Whilst I completely agree that age verification is important for social media platforms, I do love how every time a solution is rolled out, someone manages to hack it. Kids will always outwit the adults.

AI copy is getting so easy to spot. Too many em dashes, not enough (Oxford) commas or semi-colons. Pro tip: if you really want to prove you’re human, go full chaos with a double ⸺ or triple ⸻ dash. Or even add a bit of personality with the wavy dash 〜 which is closer to theamdash.com #mdash

It's been a while since I made any video content for my PETALS project after the (intense) Christmas advent series. But I want to know what people would find useful.  Would it be deep-dives into some common team health topics?  How to use our PETALS app? Some hot topics from across the industry?

How do you like to start your week on the front foot? Most people struggle to get going on Monday mornings, coffee just doesn't cut it and the sheer scale of what you have to do is just demoralising. But I like to mix my Mondays up with…

Trying something different for 6nationscalendar.com this year with some simple word-based images for other social media platforms. What do you think? #6nations #design

How have I kept a weekly podcast going for over 20 years? The key is building a passionate community who enjoy contributing towards it. We all love the music we feature so it doesn't even matter if nobody listens. (1/3)

6 Nations 2026 kicks off this Thursday evening between France and Ireland. Add it to your calendar along with all the other fixtures so you don't miss all the fun and excitement. No emails required (like the official website) 6nationscalendar.com/2026/france-... #6nations #rugby #sportscalendars

As a father to two neurodivergent kids and probably on a spectrum myself, I’m really looking forward to an event I’m coordinating with my wife and cousin for supporting Neurodiversity in the workplace. #neurodiversity #miltonkeynes

I often find I have a wave of ideas to share in Slack channels but hate bombarding them with all my noise. I've started making better use of the "scheduled posts" instead, spreading messages or threads out on the most suitable days.

All the 6 Nations fun starts next Friday so I've updated 6nationscalendar.com/2026 with all the fixtures for your personal calendar without having to give away your email address. Just hit the ADD TO CALENDAR button (If you're feeling super kind, send me a drink to enjoy during the games). 🍺

@ramsreviewpod.bsky.social Love what you do on your pod and here. Fancy talking about some sort of collab on SuperRams.com?

We’re back from our festive break. Testing isn’t dead. QA isn’t a checkbox. Quality is everyone’s problem. Episode 2.4 of Managing Engineers is out. From QA to Quality Engineering. If you’ve ever shipped something and thought “that’ll be fine”… it wasn’t. 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts.

Currently overused emoji reaction to messages is 🫡 What's yours?

"Top down, bottom up" sounds so rude from management sometimes. #officehumour

Any @derbycounty.bsky.social fans heading to Pride Park for today’s #FACup tie against LUFC? It’s one of my rare trips with family so looking forward to some excitement. #COYR 🐏

What animals can see inside of you? Cats can. (Kudos to Adam Buxton for sharing that beauty)

Migrate Micro posts Full database backup Renew Siteground for 1 month Export Micro category of posts Full site backup Deploy somewhere else for backup?

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TIL the year is not always required in a copyright notice - so do you really need it when updating your footer or credits for 2026? www.copyright.gov/title17/92ch...

"This Is For Everyone" 🌐✨ Just watched this incredible video of Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the London Olympics 2012, and it hit me right in the feels! 🤯 His message, “This Is For Everyone,” resonates more than ever in our digital age. Berners-Lee, the father of the web, empha…

Just rewatched @timbl.bsky.social’s #London2012 Olympic moment after reading about it in his book. “This Is For Everyone” feels even more important today, a reminder that the web should unite us, break down barriers and help us build a more inclusive digital future. youtu.be/UMNFehJIi0E?...

Just watched It's A Wonderful Life for probably the 15th time. Never tire of the traditional Christmas message that the struggle against rapacious capitalism is eternal and the solution is working together with your friends and family and not being the atomised worker only helping themselves.

Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser! On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb. Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ #InternetHistory

T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, except a geek still obsessing over his little side project. What a year we’ve had though - and big love to everyone who’s been part of this movement in 2025. youtube.com/shorts/8Tdea...

My year in Cursor shows it’s mostly on side projects during the summer, tailing off in the autumn when I started using ChatGPT Codex instead. It’s definitely the year I started putting agents to work for me though.

Teams don’t just work in straight lines. Some thrive in tight-knit groups. Others spark when they mix with new folks. It’s worth stepping back and noticing where the energy really flows. #petalsadvent #hackathon #teamforming youtube.com/shorts/yAklr...

Gratitude isn’t just about big shout-outs. Sometimes it’s a quiet thank you for something that genuinely mattered from the heart.. Make time this Christmas to say thank you to one of your team mates. #PETALSadvent www.youtube.com/shorts/YnHCH...

It's Day 18 of PETALS Advent 🪟 Today, we’re talking about the gift of feedback and how you can create the space for your team to use the 1+1 framework. Watch today’s short … youtube.com/shorts/WSN-L... #PETALSAdvent #TeamHealth #Feedback

Which sweet are you in the Christmas selection tub? Today, we were spoilt in the office with a great choice and it made me think how it can bring some fun to your team conversations. Go on, share yours with us and your team. www.youtube.com/shorts/Y7v6_... #PETALSadvent #chocolates #christmas

Day 15 of PETALS advent 🎄 Hackathon time means: – quick team forming – messy ideas – zero time for perfection So how do you actually get aligned before you divide and conquer? #petalsadvent #hackathons #temporaryteams youtube.com/shorts/GkqAo...

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Day 11 of PETALS advent touches on the topic, plus how Christmas Jumper Day can shine a spotlight on different global cultures. Watch the full clip… youtube.com/shorts/JLVOQ... #PETALSadvent #teamhealth #DieHard #ChristmasJumperDay

Today is Human Rights Day so, for PETALS Advent Day 10, I'm reflecting on the importance of dignity, fairness and voices in the workplace. youtube.com/shorts/18M6k... #PETALSadvent #HumanRightsDay

Day 9 of PETALS advent 🎄 Christmas absences are real. Thoughtful planning and shared expectations keep things calm. Today’s prompt digs into it. youtube.com/shorts/ws7KT... #PETALSAdvent #TeamCulture #Leadership

Sickness bugs are doing the rounds, and it hits teams hard. Today’s prompt is about empathy, balance and supporting each other without burning out or spreading germs. A tiny reflection that goes a long way during December. youtube.com/shorts/fMN0b... #PETALSadvent #teamhealth #wellbeing

Video podcasting after 20 years

People forget that video podcasts were a thing at the dawn of podcasting; when iTunes supported the video enclosures and we got shows like Diggnation without any paywalls or ads. Podcasting 2.0 re-enables this for a modern stack but the big players wont support it. blog.fountain.fm/p/video-podc...

Day 5 of the PETALS advent and we're talking low participation. Sometimes it’s the quiet signals that matter most. Watch today’s Youtube Short for a quick reflection. #PETALS #teamhealth

Day 2 of my @petals.team advent is all about Secret Santa vibes🧑‍🎄 youtube.com/shorts/E_0b4...

Kicking off PETALS Advent with some festive vibes and team health tips. Today we’re talking Christmas songs and team moods… Mariah, Wham, Slade, The Pogues, the lot. Follow along for the next 23 days. 🎄✨ youtube.com/shorts/UKbha... #petals #teamhealth #adventseries

From Monday, I'll be sharing daily advent video posts on how you can use #PETALS through the festive season. Expect real stories, cheeky anecdotes and some tenuous links to seasonal topics to mix it up. Follow along on: www.youtube.com/@PETALSteam www.instagram.com/petals.team

IFTTT + TickTick + Buffer I'm now using an #IFTTT recipe to schedule posts in my #Bluesky #Buffer queue when a #Ticktick task in my Micro list is marked as completed. This will hopefully make it easier to streamline posts to my socials from a single convenient place where I plan other work.

83% on Duolingo French Not a bad morning of French lessons in Duolingo, tried a bit more of the interactive “AI” conversations today as well. Fancy challenging me? www.duolingo.com/profile/SiJo...

It’s been a big year for the PETALS.team, generally powered by many late nights, belief in our little project and all bootstrapped. If we gave your team an upwards trend, why not get us a drink for our end-of-year do? buymeacoffee.com/petals.team 🎉🍻

Does anyone else eat kiwi fruit with the skin on? 🥝 It’s much more convenient and actually good for your digestive system. I only learned about it recently after someone did it in the office and got a confused reaction but it is a thing.

How bad is shadow work in your engineering team? We all experience it at some point; that “quick” job that someone asked for that’s not on your todo list that ends up taking a few hours (not including context switching). So how do you record it? open.substack.com/pub/zaidesan... #shadowWork