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, change agents, incentive (it's a priority, the outcomes are better, the water is warm!).

Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves These always make me smile

Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.

Cloudflare is down... I use UptimeRobot to monitor sites. UptimeRobot is also hosted on Cloudflare. It is VERY BROKEN right now. DownDetector is another useful tool for checking site availability. Also hosted on Cloudflare. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe... yep, hosted on Cloudflare. GOLLY THIS IS FUN!

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Stop what you are doing and give this 3 minutes; and watch it all the way through.

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery? Of course. Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church. Here she is:

Around this time of year and around Richmond town centre, the usually wide and deep River Thames shrinks to the width of a modest stream. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bir...

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Chatting today with fellow QCon organizer @danielbryantuk.com, we discussed how we prepare for talks, and I have *thoughts*, in the form of a 5-part blog series: Part 1: Preparing Yourself (medium.com/@randyshoup/...) * Sleep * Practice * Timing * Clothes * Psyching yourself up

Starting a 2025 Q4 thread of not-evil* jobs in tech or using tech skills, which I'll reply to add to as I find new cool things over time *or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes

Updating my LEGO White House

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Interesting thread on solar energy

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

🎧 The audio version of my @gotocon.com podcast with Alice Bartlett, a tech director at ft.com, on technical leadership, navigating messy code, and AI. www.buzzsprout.com/1714721/epis... #tech #engineering

Definitely not the first blog post inspired by a @monkchips.com comment, and won't be the last. Monkchips is the sand in my oyster that makes beautiful pearls. 🦪😆💕 (Still mean to circle back to the question of what it means to have good technical taste...) www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...

This is really interesting

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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.