LeadDev Staff+ is happening in 3 weeks, I hope I see you there! It always brings together a fantastic bunch of folks to talk about technical leadership on the IC track. I learn so much from this community and you can too! leaddev.com/staffplus-ne...

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

I was on EPSD's "Velocity's edge" podcast and had a great discussion with Nick Selby and Chris Swan about organisational scar tissue, decision records, writing things down, and "Murders & Acquisitions". open.spotify.com/episode/1HTS...

Communicate, communicate, communicate. Communicate three more times than you think you need to and you're a third of the way there. Change is social. Data, storytelling, incentive (it's a priority, the outcomes are better, the water is warm!). #BVSSH

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Y’all buckle up, I think we are in for a REALLY bad fall with these Salesloft Drift breaches… Pumpkin Spice “ransomware” is back on the menu.

The magnitude of Grimsby Town's win over MUFC, in numbers. (Figures from @priceoffootball.bsky.social)

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

I had never heard of this company but I immediately went to their site and now I want to be their best friends and buy everything based solely on the fact that the candle where you get to watch a tiny Manderley burn has marketing copy written by Mrs. Danvers

Some excellent news. "More than 16.1 GW of new renewable energy capacity spread across 323 projects was given permission to start building during the second quarter of this year - 195% rise on the same quarter last year." www.ft.com/content/926a...

@jonchadwick.bsky.social had some even starker data in 2020 about how it was overwhelmingly non-workers who delivered Brexit, but it almost looks too stark to believe!

Cloud native ≠ just containers & Kubernetes. 🎙️ On today’s #GOTOpodcast, Anne Currie & @sarahjwells.bsky.social dive into: 🚀 CI/CD as the real game-changer 🌱 Sustainability in cloud native ⚡️ How to spot (and fix) org slowdowns 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy

This is really very good. One of the clearest expositions of generational inequality and what drives it (largely housing costs ofc) - also helped challenge some of my assumptions and see things from the perspective of my parents' generation.

Derek advertising Crypto is perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DD...

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

how to seal a leaky bucket

amazing, SFnal, slightly dystopian* photos that show you how China is living in a different decade and with a very different attitude *especially the solar lake made out of the collapsed mine

This thread is a delight. Bird lovers attempt to fight about which shorebird is the best but mostly just end up being excited and happy. #birds

LDX3: How to Write Right Now The hard part of technical writing is not figuring out what order to put words in. Indeed, an LLM can do a medium job of that given a sound prompt. The hard part is thinking through the context that makes it useful to the people reading it.

Amazing designer, lovely human. Does incredible commissions. I can't recommend Gail's work hugely enough.

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

I would like to thank @marthasadie.bsky.social for sharing the single best article anyone has ever written about AI. tl;dr ELVIS can recognise donkeys from behind www.countypress.co.uk/news/2524403...

honda, yes, that honda, just launched and landed a reusable rocket. and it didn't even explode or nothing

It's The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) #SuggestedRead #devopsish www.honeycomb.io/blo...

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

This is a good post worth reading: moxie.org/2024/09/23/a... I would posit that one of the reasons SV companies fail at unlocking the siloed talent in their orgs is also the obsession with "technical" management, without understanding which technical aspects actually matter in management

In a SINGLE day in Oct. 2023, McCormick Place in Chicago was responsible for the deaths of 975 migrating birds. After a $1.2 million retrofit with dotted film, deaths have declined by 95% 🎁Gifting🎁 NYT Article www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c... #Birdsky

This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

⚠️I’ve written a two-footed studs-up challenge of an article about something I feel strongly about: the way we talk about risk is all wrong www.schroders.com/en-gb/uk/int...

It’s the time of year when you might find a baby bird and want to help. Most often (and slightly counterintuitively) it’s best to do nothing. Here’s a useful guide.

too cynical?

I'm excited about the new phase for the Team Topologies mission - here's how to get involved: teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-n... #TeamTopologies #FastFlow

🚨 Call for Papers: Software Architecture Gathering 2025! 🚨 We’re looking for speakers to join us at the #SAGconf in Berlin! Share your insights and expertise with the community. 💡 Submit your proposal by June 10th and be part of an exciting program! 👉 t1p.de/8zn1e #SAG2025 #iSAQB

I am so excited for @oreilly.bsky.social's Coding with AI online conference, taking place this Thursday 8 May: www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI/ You can register FOR FREE to attend this event and the speaker line-up is incredible. Join us to explore the future of AI-enabled development.

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

This is likely the weirdest and most interesting story you could read today. From @usha.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/d...

Looking to #StayAhead in 2025? Dive deep into the critical trends shaping #SoftwareArchitecture! 🎧 Don’t miss out – watch the #InfoQ #podcast now: bit.ly/3S9Heql ⏱️ #timestamps included for easy navigation! 💪 Knowledge is power! #TrendsReport

We are an astonishingly creative species sometimes. This is brilliant.

At the upcoming Software Architecture Superstream: Communicating Software Architecture -- the speaker lineup is incredible! Join us on April 29 at 11:00 AM ET for mapping, modeling, and effective communication skills. Get your architectural recommendations heard! Sign in (or sign up) bit.ly/4kf3Z9m

I don't think enough people are aware of how critical the swimsuit competition actual is during the Papal Conclave.

how do these stupid little guys all have personalities this is wild

My favorite definition is from Richard Rumelt, who says that a strategy is made up of three elements: 1) a diagnosis 2) guiding policy 3) coherent actions Both of his books are very good. He spends a lot of time snarking on CEOs who don't know what strategy means, which is fun.