Barely noticeable. Much ado about nothing.

No. Blue Swedes can be ‘hooked on a feeling’ blue turnips can’t.

An ad for bbwjobs.com but the letter spacing is extremely tight, so the second b look like an l and o instead.

keming. not even once.

When engineering teams deliver urgent work through heroics, management doesn't see the cost.

They see a new baseline.

What was achieved through exhaustion becomes tomorrow's expectation.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

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Waiting list page improvements

How do you best communicate to patients on NHS waiting lists what the average wait time is? 🤔⏱️

The NHS App team have done some design and research on this, and have written up a great (detailed!) design history post: design-history.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/secondary-ca...

Silly, or dark pattern to force you to keep them on?

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business?
Is it making you angry?

Sign Surfers Against Sewage Petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

📝 A priority of consituencies for my idle hands daverupert.com/2026/02/comp...

Reform UK Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say 8h ago

Disgusting and reprehensible though this is, because of the "unique way political neutrality works" in the UK, it is useful for someone to say the quiet part out loud because then it becomes a real thing to be deflected, rather than a hypothetical political imaginary to be lightly conjured

I can’t comment on the training, but we used to use them for testing at a place I used to work, and they were excellent.

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Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so)

The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%)

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The duration of the Level 2 bricklaying apprenticeship endorsed by the UK government is 24 months. It's equivalent to a GCSE.

A Level 3 (equivalent to A-Level) bricklaying apprenticeship required for senior roles is a further 18 months.

But sure, you can train a software developer in 12 weeks.

Better Outcomes Consultancy, Coaching, Workshops and Facilitation for Lean Products and Services.

I wrote a blog around my recent hands-on experiences with various AI Tools and where I’ve found them to be.

It’s not a deep dive, just a code / design based mini-exploration.

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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Get Palantir out of the NHS

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Language models & "AI-assisted" coding are feasible without these things. I'm pro that.

I'm not "anti-AI". I'm anti:

* Shipping code at LGTM-speed
* Replacing user research & feedback with hallucinations
* Abdicating thinking
* BDUF in .md files
* Burning the planet for - in most cases - lower productivity & worse reliability
* Stealing IP on an industrial scale
* Technofeudalism

Become uncontainable

Please tell me they use the kung-fu fighting riff as the sound track!

Green party leader branded the strikes a breach of international law. The conservatives party said it was important to understand the full facts before rushing to judgment.

On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.

Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.

Big bird sitting in a meeting room with Serious People™. The caption reads "Me at work for the first time in two weeks trying to remember what it is I do."

Who's ready for tomorrow?

Tech leaders have pivoted from trying to 10x their dev teams to asking "But what if it *didn't* have to work?"

How I Work What I’ve learned about authority, capability, and the conditions for meaningful change

Some reflections on the difference between seeing systemic problems and being responsible for fixing them, and how authority, boundaries, and neurodivergence shape what makes meaningful change possible.

💯 all of this! This is a brilliant read. Thanks.

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.

It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛

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On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...

In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...