"I believe I'm the only person to have won both of the Campbells, which, I think, gives me unique license to comment on Ng's remarks, which have been met with a mixed reception from the field." The latest column from Cory Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK: locusmag.com/2019/11/cory-d…

Here's my @DevSecCon slides, with formatting appropriately butchered by Slideshare \o/ slideshare.net/oholiab/a-kern… #devseccon #ebpf

The #LeadDevBerlin 2019 videos are out! Here's the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=… - such a HUGE THANKYOU to the @whiteoctevents and #LeadDevBerlin team for looking after me and all the speakers and attendees. Such a brilliant event! Highlights to follow :-)

TLDR: - Understand what is a leading or lagging metric is for the system you are working with - Don't try to influence lagging metrics or you will break another part of your system - Most helpdesks need to measure customer satisfaction as their key focus

This blog post highlights one of the things I'm most interested in about the affordable housing project I've been working on. There's a real opportunity to explore new collaborative ownership and management models for public sector software.

It points to a much wider question: what's the point in having devolved policy making if there isn't software that's able to support the effective implementation of that policy.

The Heathrow judgment is not “undemocratic judicial activism”. Politicians need to get better at understanding the difference between judgments with political consequences, and judgments with political motives. My latest for Institute for Government. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/court-app…

We built Local Welcome over the last 12 months by facing into our riskiest assumptions. It's been one massive learning curve for me. This is my talk from #sdingov telling that story... myddelton.co.uk/blog/building-…

#coronavirus is pretty scary for all the self employed & SME's in the creative industries (AND BEYOND) I thought I'd try & compile all the help that was coming my way, for those without such a big network. Please share bit.ly/2UeUCew Chloe Meineck Sammy Payne 🧚‍♀️ @danhett

Heard man reports that the govt. strategy for the #Cummings scandal now is to repeatedly insist that 'people want us to move on' I can't speak for all people, but Boris Johnson, Cummings, and the rest of your sock puppet cabinet, here's why I absolutely won't be 'moving on' /1

Sharing is caring, and I want to share with you one of the tricks we use at NASA to address risk. We all have risks / challenges in our lives. (Don't be scared by the matrix)

Who came up with the split email & password design pattern? It is the dumbest fucking thing in the world. Put them on the same page, and if they’re on the same page don’t HIDE one until there’s an email address.

I have broken the laws that we agreed to previously and which you were probably hoping we wouldn't Forgive me it was only in a specific and limited way x.com/AdamJSchwarz/s…

Excellent thread on how the voluntary becomes mandatory, how the temporal digital infrastructure becomes permanent, how surveillance gets normalised. Purpose limitation by design is essential to avoid this creep. If purpose can't be limited, maybe systems should not be built

Drew DeVault describes how CI services are being relentlessly attacked by Bitcoin miners: drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cry…. Also I have to agree with his conclusion.

It's a bit of a weird case to talk about, because they're such deeply unsympathetic idiots. But you can't inflict this kind of lifelong damnation on people for being idiots, especially when - even according to the police - nobody's been hurt.

The Ladder of Ownership, a thread 👇 Lvl1: Judging Lvl2: Gossiping Lvl3: Giving feedback Lvl4: Giving deep feedback Lvl5: Collaborating Lvl6: Driving Lvl7: Owning Read on for an example in action.

I think I now know what I sounded like to my parents when I started out in computing 40 years ago. "eight Bored Apes, seven Mutant Apes, generated by exposing a Bored Ape to 'mutant serum', and a single Clonex NFT were stolen"

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