In my (too) long software development career across academic, open source, and enterprise settings a thing that really stands out is how relatively little software quality matters or is a concern in the enterprise. This is unlikely to be news to anyone with similar experience.

Today's gender is exhausted.

A tweet to really enjoy for readers who remember Thatcher and Reagan. And to highlight how the UK is trapped in Back to the (Eighties) Future, while the US has moved in

Rees-Mogg is a threat to life. theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

My lovely wife is doing the "walk 100 miles" challenge for cancer research uk. If you're inclined to encourage her see fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/sarahs-wa…

One of the more frustrating things about the ORAN process is that it makes claims about trying to be more developer friendly, but is clinging adamantly to what to me are some of the most developer unfriendly modes of interaction I’ve ever had the displeasure to work with…

The core problem is that k8s allows us to treat containers as cattle, but images are still treated as pets. "Mom, I want this new image!" "Who's gonna take care of it?" "Me!" "You're gonna feed it and walk it and scan it for CVEs?" "Uh huh!" "Even when it's raining?" "Sure..."

If you’re appalled at what 2 people have done to a rectangle of glass, wait until you hear what our growth economy is doing to our ability to keep on living on this planet.

There are too many climate advocates with no expertise in social science claiming to know with certainty what will work best. They all tend to say “let’s keep doing more of what we’ve been doing for decades.” News flash: it hasn’t worked

A message has been posted (possibly under duress/by another person) to Elnaz Rekabi's Instagram stories in Persian: 'Dear and honourable compatriots of Iran, I am Elnaz Rekabi, with a history of twenty years as a member of the national mountaineering team.

@adrianbowyer I should have said most successful "disaster capitalist" PM the country ever had. That's what she was.

Every word of this, from economist, writer and journalist David McWilliams, via the The Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/1…

A "tough choice" is deciding whether to feed your children or heat your home. Austerity is not a tough choice. It is a political choice to wage class warfare on the most vulnerable. The right choice is taxing the rich, public ownership, and a redistribution of wealth & power.

I can neither understand nor accept that it isn’t #GeneralElectionN0W in the UK. Where are the barricades to mount and defend? If I put one up in my front garden will you join me?

Sad that Rishi Sunak has inherited economic chaos from himself