While I’m at it, the topic isn’t “data sharing”, it’s “data access”. The words matter. Here we go: #NHS #digitalRecords 1/

I really enjoyed giving this talk - had a lot of great conversations about it already, come find me if you want to talk learning/teaching (or hire my graduates!!) #RustLab2024

Heavy is the head that wears the clown nose

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Anyone know how to get GitHub to recognize a repo as English Language? Pydantic AI is not appearing on GH trending for "Spoken Language: English", but is for "Spoken Language: Any".

Found an excuse to brain-dump everything I've learnt about alternatives to OKRs, from my deep dive into the Deming literature over the past year. Caveat 1: I'm not sure this works in practice; need to find real world cases. Caveat 2: I've not tested this myself.

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me. I've spent the last 7 years as chief software architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product. I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

One event that occurred while I was finalising my thesis was the Conservative party in the UK attempting to criminalise smell. The bill suggested jailing homeless people for smelling “excessively”, regardless of their circumstances. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. Let's find the nuggets of gold under all the 💩. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/fou…

As we get closer to Christmas, I’m re-upping this because it’s one of my favourite memories and I’ll never forget all the kindness and love around it—especially during such a difficult time. Wishing everyone a few days off and time with loved ones ❤️🎄

Really enjoying the HTMX book - this might be what gets me to do some front-end web dev! hypermedia.systems

I love how people think those little cheese knives are for serving cheese, like awwww that’s cute no those are for *defending* your cheese, trust no one

emily613.substack.com/p/on-complicat… is a fascinating insight into some of the complexities of the translation process - Wilson’s version looks to be great!

Hello hive mind. Does anyone in health policy world know if anyone’s done any costings or cost-benefit work around upgrading community IT infrastructure?

Next NHS Hack Day will be in Cardiff on 1st/2nd March.... Come and join us!

was talking a friend through a catastrophizing episode where he was like “I have no evidence that I’ll ever be capable of anything” and I said “well if you look at a 1yo there’s no evidence they will ever walk or talk”. All growth is about doing tomorrow what you can’t do today

1/ Today the Prime Minister published my AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK and committed to implement all its recommendations. A quick thread on why this is important, what we need to do now - and how you can help

…no Apple, not quite!

ELIZA lives again boingboing.net/2025/01/20/cod…

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