I am always amazed by any developer who thinks that saying a technology is "industry standard" supports their argument. The industry standard is failure. Why do you all want to keep failing?

Want to work on one of the most visited sites in the UK, gov.uk? We’re looking for mid+senior devs to join the team in Government Digital Services. GDS is an inclusive, supportive and rewarding place to work. civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Cyclists who kill could face life sentence 4 out of 1600 pedestrian deaths were caused by cyclists last year. That is 0.125%. “Take the beam out of your own eye before you complain about the speck of dust in mine” bbc.com/news/articles/…

Labour's defeats in Runcorn and elsewhere are the direct result of policies like the cuts to the winter fuel allowance and disability support. The Labour leadership must urgently change course - and start governing with real Labour values. My interview today on LBC.

What is the max time someone should be the Driver before switching? ‘There are no hard and fast rules here. Every team will probably find something that works best for them and might be different from other teams...’ ― Woody Zuill, Kevin Meadows trello.com/c/RCmW40X7/136…

🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. Copyright Office SIDES WITH CONTENT CREATORS, concluding in its latest report that the fair use exception likely does not apply to commercial AI training. From the report's conclusion: "Various uses of copyrighted works in AI training are likely to be

This is a shameful policy. Aping Farage will not do any good for the Labour party or the UK. I hadn't realised I had given my vote to a xenophobic party. I feel betrayed.

For anyone interested, I pushed the code from the "47 refactorings in 45 minutes" talk by Duncan McGregor and myself at #KotlinConf to this branch github.com/dmcg/gilded-ro… (including references and mini-plugins). And here is the live stream video youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9fq-…

My latest SE Radio interview is out: observability in the toolchain, with Brian Demers. We discussed how information about build times, compiler warnings, test executions, etc., can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve DX. se-radio.net/2025/07/se-rad…

Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce, co-authors of Java to Kotlin: Refactoring Guidebook, speak with host Giovanni Asproni about their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases from to Kotlin. IEEE Software IEEE ComputerSociety se-radio.net/2025/08/se-rad…

My latest SE Radio interview is out. Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce Joined me to share their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases to Kotlin. Full of insights on Java, Kotlin, software design and the use of AI for refactoring se-radio.net/2025/08/se-rad…

Can We Fix Software Engineering Estimation? | Kevlin Henney & Kent Beck 🌻 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/aTpnGG6e0yY

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Yes he is - and he’s a brilliant Mayor at that.

Extrapolating quantum factoring johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/2…

Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. To learn why it's significant, read here: buff.ly/uJXM7HR

How much #energy will be consumed by #LLM prompts and answers each year? We did the math, and the estimate is approximately equal to the output of two nuclear reactors. That’s not including the energy required to train the models. buff.ly/CPhWwnh

My latest SE Radio episode is out. This time is with Florian Gilcher (@[email protected]) on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems. Among other things, we discuss Ferrocene, an open-source qualified Rust compiler toolchain for safety- and mission-critical systems. se-radio.net/2025/10/se-rad…

As a cyber security consultant I can say that isn’t true. The idea that being not in favour of a terrible law makes someone not on the side of helping everyone (including women and children) is frankly the level of argument a toddler would come up with. If you aren’t with me