Thanks Matthew, we appreciate it.

Lets genuinely hope this is resolved soon, because our family has tough choices to make regarding our future which are currently impossible.

While in opposition, I can totally understand the limits on what you can do.

But now you have the greatest majority Labour could have ever dreamt of having... And nothing material has changed for us.

So what was the point of voting for Labour?

As discussed multiple times before - lenders are still refusing to lend, the work on our building hasn't started... It's stuck in planning and has been for years now... And we're in a lengthy costly FTT process with our freeholder because of their incompetence and potentially criminal conduct.

Hey Matthew,
Thanks for replying, really.
But unfortunately I can't accept that everything is being done, given that nothing material has changed for the leaseholders who still can't sell or remortgage, still pay extortionate insurance rates, and live in fear of losing everything to a fire one day.

When politicians claim to have solved a problem, it's your job as a journalist to actually check whether the victims agree with that statement.

We don't. Nothing material has changed for us. We're still paying extortionate service charges and insurance costs linked directly to the cladding scandal.

When @mrjamesob.bsky.social refers to the cladding scandal as being in the past, as he did today, he harms the thousands of leaseholders like my family and I, still locked in an unsellable home 8 years later.

It isn't solved. Despite all the promises made to us by @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

I had a similar experience with my son about six months ago.
He was a gasp at the jellyfish. 😊

My new favourite term is Slop Creep.

Every engineer working with AI knows exactly what I'm talking about when I say it.

It's great.

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

I've used it to help with documentation... It's just OK.

As mentioned the transcription is touch and go, especially if your teammates have non-US/UK accents.

For example, transcribing *me* was OK, but transcribing my Indonesian teammates was super broken.

In my native tongue, the word naval, means villain.
Just saying.

Fuck yeah.

Green morning everyone.

Haha that's not quite what I mean.

You can think of it as mobbing - a pair of engineers working with the agents, so that you get the real time feedback of a pair in the same way as before, just augmented by AI.

Where do the XP folks hang out these days?

I feel like all the online communities I had in the 2010s have gone stale.

I think the DORA metrics have played a significant role in this - the gap between High Performance and Elite is just easier to close with XP because it removes the drag caused by async work.

Teams now have a science backed way of demonstrating that pairing can be higher performance than solo.

I'm really excited by these signals.

I've been on three XP teams - one that I inherited, which is how I learned the practice - and two that I've built.

All three have been the most effective teams I've ever been on.

I'm now building a fourth and can't wait to see how far we can push XP with AI.

Sounds amazing 😍 can't wait to read it.

Tired: Claude

Wired: Marvin

I forsee a spike in VP titles.

I've started a new role and writing Golang for the first time in my career.

I don't get it.

Maybe it's because I've gotten used to the rich type systems of Rust and Kotlin, but Go feels like I'm back to basic OO again.

What am I missing?

Ooh, very exciting!
The first edition is one of the best summaries I've read on the topic, and top of my recommendation list to budding engineers.

How does the second edition differ? What are the key areas you've revisited?

I walk in on my wife and 10 month old having a dance party without me, to the tunes of Lady Gaga.

My wife: "this was *his* choice, BTW"

" And how did he express this choice, exactly?" I enquired.

She looks me dead in the eyes: "he said ga ga".

Fair.

My team at NatureMetrics is hiring a product-minded Full Stack Engineer (London/nearby) who cares about nature.

We're turning complex biodiversity data into something people can actually understand and act on - your code could directly help save ecosystems. 🌿

Go + K8s a big plus.

I love how Gen Z's Sarah Connor is Nancy Wheeler.

A map of England, Scotland and Wales, showing the alignment of “the three norths”, which has moved through England over the last couple of years and is about to go into the North Sea. The movement is shown by a blue line.

This is cool. The three norths (True, Grid, Magnetic) met in Dorset in November 2022, worked their way northwards in tandem, and are now about to leave England and go hand in hand into the North Sea.

www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-n...

Kate Finlayson is South African, from Cape Town I believe.

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

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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-...
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As someone who worked in Ad Tech I can tell you that with high likelihood Ads are the culprit.

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.