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A new edition of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar came out this week. I'm biased, but I think it's pretty interesting. www.thoughtworks.com/radar

It's Monday... time for 'the saddest midwest emo songs'

Me (Richard Gall) wearing a dark green shirt in a radio studio standing against a sound desk.

I was on the radio last weekend — the show is now on soundcloud https:/soundcloud.com/slacksradio/garden-variety-w-rich-2?in=slacksradio%2Fsets%2Fmarch-2026

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Data doesn’t lie!

'Capybara' is a terrible name for a machine learning model. Capybaras are adorable, giant rodents, meant to swim in luxurious hot springs full of floating citrus fruits. That is nothing like a machine learning model.

Aware this is extremely niche, but thought @daisycutterzine.bsky.social might like

Rethink masculinity this spring

One of the most striking things about this area is how the Battle of Orgreave has been totally erased from the park and housing estates which now occupy the site. Not a single sign or information panel. There should be a walking trail along the lines of the Bosworth Battlefield Trail.

A screenshot of a Google card for a YouTube video from CTV News. The title is "cat keeps crossing the U.S.-Canada border" . The image has a fluffy gray and white cat in a green field with the CTV News logo in the corner

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS

Imagine you’re a Viking who was frozen and gets unfrozen in modern times and you go to Viking.com to try and find out what happened to your community and it’s just a website about cruises

It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.

Every single time you love someone should be the first and the last time. You should believe in it with your whole soul even if it breaks you in two (and it will), because the love is what we’re here for. The grief is just the toll we pay.

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

oh, I also wanted to say I'm in love with the final paragraph of your article

Now grappling with vibe coding 👀

Would be good to talk more about it though (maybe on the TW podcast?)

there was also discussion about whether disposable code needs governance, and how we set expectations around the lifecycle of what's disposable vs. what's durable. Consensus ultimately was that this it's too complex a topic for a single item on the Radar though!

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there was a bit of semantic debate around precisely what the term refers to that might be worth clarifying:

— sw a person creates for their own one-off use
— sw a person creates for their own ongoing use
— sw a person creates for other people to use

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Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire? The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works

This was an interesting peace on exactly this last year www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You need a body to do science! how else can you observe stuff?

you are not prepared for the soundtrack

Phone Time is allowed and important when you’re in a hotel thousands of miles from home

Apropos of @katewagner.wehwalt.net’s demonstrable enthusiasm for it, maybe I should try and read Phenomenology of Spirit before I reach 36

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

Just learned that “yookay” was coined by Raymond Williams

It’s Purim, my favorite holiday. Dress in drag, save your people, and remember that joy is necessary to resistance- is, in fact, resistance. Drown out the name of the oppressor with your booing and then hit the dance floor.

If we used universalised all these behaviours work would be extremely unpleasant

Want a better job and a pay rise? Eleven ways to progress at work – and avoid a ‘dry promotion’ Keep your boss happy, develop your ‘personal boardroom’, ask for honest feedback, don’t take the notes in every meeting and remember: no one gets promoted for inbox zero

Some of this is probably good advice but most of it is also really about handling organizational dysfunction. You can also work with other people to make work better (aka workplace organizing)! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I see people just not bothering to consider the details of outputs or the evidence they provide. Even the meaning of words themselves don't seem to matter. Ironic that it's the same world that was obsessed with being "data-driven" that's immediately gone all-in on "vibes only".

Ralph Wiggum as a "software engineer" How Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI right now - Venture Beat 😎Here's a cool little field report from a Y Combinator hackathon event where they put Ralph Wiggum to the ...

Learning about Ralph ghuntley.com/ralph/