Thank you!

Thanks, really appreciate it! The reviewer/maintainer perspective is one I didn't get enough of for this piece. I would love to hear what patterns you're seeing.

Shipping faster, thinking less? The AI code verification trap As AI floods codebases with machine-generated output, the AI verification trap emerges to test the resolve of modern developers.

AI makes code cheap to write. Verifying it is now the hard, expensive, human part — and the "prompt and review" model risks burning out the very engineers we need to catch what AI gets wrong. My latest for @leaddev.com
leaddev.com/ai/shipping-...

If anyone in my network needs an exceptional UX person — and I mean genuinely the best I've ever worked with — please DM me.

Monarch butterfly population increases 64% Two new reports estimate a 64% increase in species population and a significant decrease in forest degradation in the butterfly's winter home

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

Kubernetes at the Edge • Charles Humble & Hannah Foxwell • GOTO 2026 YouTube video by GOTO Conferences

.@hannahfoxwell.net talks #Kubernetes at the Edge with @charleshumble.bsky.social – from farm drones to stroke care AI, sustainability, and why the tech industry must do better.
#EdgeComputing
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Computers made from living neurons?

#GOTOpodcas: @charleshumble.bsky.social speaks with Ewelina Kurtys about the emerging field of biological computing.

It’s a fascinating look at a possible next chapter.

Give it a listen 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of Learn how to manage agentic AI risk through systems thinking, contract testing, and sandboxes to ensure autonomous systems stay predictable.

Thanks, @charleshumble.bsky.social, for this great and open conversation. A real pleasure to discuss what @microcks.io is about and how it helps enterprises improve their API and cloud native application development.

👉 thenewstack.io/risk-mitigat...

18% of the Fridays this year have been Friday the 13ths which honestly seems very on brand for 2026

EU impotence extends to decarbonisation

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

NEW TECH PODCAST ALERT! Asynchronous & Unreliable

In 2026 I'll be hosting Asynchronous & Unreliable, a new podcast on the most interesting concepts driving modern tech including but not limited to AI - because ChatGPT and pals are not the only things going on in technology

Fascinating Aida - Cheap Flights YouTube video by Fascinating Aïda

I am booking flights on Norwegian. All together now...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVAS...

I’m on Mastodon when I remember. It has superior, mature third-party clients (e.g., Ivory) but I think it’s just too confusing for mainstream adoption. Bluesky feels more like Twitter when Twitter wasn’t a cesspit and most of the people I want to hear from are here.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts buff.ly/mnIBYBe

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.

The heart of the story is burnout, succession planning & building something better for solo maintainers.

thenewstack.io/commonhaus-o... [3/3]

I talked to founder Erin Schnabel + Marco Vermeulen (SDKMAN!), Andres Almiray (JReleaser) & Chris Riccomini (SlateDB) about what lightweight OSS governance actually looks like in practice. [2/3]

Who takes care of the people who take care of open source?

For @commonhaus.org's 2nd birthday, I revisited the foundation for @thenewstack.io. [1/3]

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.

Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.

I have nothing but good things to say about www.starfishaccounting.co.uk

In fairness though I’ve not read much of her oeuvre!

Orwell was doing the same sort of thing caustically in essays at
the same time, and he was explicitly theorising it (Politics and the English Language, 1946). Or someone like Wyndham would be another example.

The style point is interesting but is it Blyton or is it Hemingway and the American wire services reaching Britain? She may have been the vector for children/mainstream rather than the origin.

Abby Haddican:
Times New Resistance is like Times New Roman — the official font of the U.S. State Department. It autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For eg, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon. www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-re...

Thank you

Also Paul Thomas Anderson has very literal film titles.
“Is there any blood in it?” “There will blood.”
“Any battles?” “It’s one battle after another.”

H is for Hawk is a criminally underrated film (as well as a wonderful book).

Charles Hamilton? Over 5,000 stories under various pseudonyms, most notably as Frank Richards. Barbara Cartland (723+ novels) and John Creasey (560+ books).

I’m so happy to be designing for Monki Gras for the second year running.
I’m glad it’s not been my ‘difficult second conference’.

This really is a great picture: