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I get Claude to write code and tests and then I review these carefully. I'm not doing any cutting edge SWE work, so this works fine for me. I also enjoy the bonus that once written…

Don't forget Trump rubbing shoulders with al-Sharaa either.

What are Ofcom realistically going to do when providers refuse to comply? We've seen the X/CSAM issue this week and both the government and regulator are clearly unwilling to stand…

At our company we have enough systems reliant on holiday dates that we have a Holiday system that emits events when there are changes. This happens surprisingly often, given that r…

The relevant CVE is here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14847 , with a CVSS of 8.7.

Back when I worked at a consulting and MSP place this was taken pretty seriously as it violated some kind of standards we’d signed ourselves up to. Security would also happily pick…

It's not just the batteries that need regular servicing, the pads do too. They expire on a similar timescale to the batteries but most AEDs don't alarm for expired pads. It's not u…

He claimed, incorrectly, that people who live near abortion "buffer zones" in Scotland were sent letters by the government warning them about praying privately within their own hom…

What are you defining as a BigCo? In the UK I can only really think of FAANG, a small number of hedge funds / HFT firms, and more recently some AI firms that are paying that level …

I'd aim for a giant bank / financial services company. Some still mandate dedicated Ops/Prod Support teams. It can definitely have it's drawbacks, but you're very unlikely to ever …

This is quite a common policy in safety critical industries. I consulted at a large oil company a few years ago and they had a similar attitude in their head offices.

This reminds me of the “Plane Crash” documentary where a 727 was crashed into a desert in Mexico. Definitely worth a watch for any aviation enthusiasts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

I like the C4 Model as a guide on the different levels of abstraction that you might need for your system.

Do you have a source for the Nanog powerpoint? That sounds really interesting.

Early in my career I definitely worked with a few systems that had 5+ years uptime. I was always particularly impressed by mainframe / NonStop architectures. These days I'd much ra…

I've found the C4 Model to be a good starting point to create diagrams with an appropriate level of abstraction: https://c4model.com/ .

I worked at IBM for too many years. This is nothing new. Their MO around 2010-2015 was to do quarterly reductions in order to minimize the press interest. In the UK the redundancy …

Matt Levine's Money Stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff

This has Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) written all over it. This applies to every financial institution in the US, UK, and most other countries too I imagine. In the UK, an i…

Regarding question 3, this would have been shot during the Spring climbing season. This year had an unusually long period of calm weather, which allowed the ~250 climbers and ~600 …

I recently moved from an org where most people (90%+)used their camera for meetings to an org where 99% of meetings are using an audio teleconf system. As a new joiner I’ve found i…

Hi, My company are using an open source software project heavily. We’re a large org and we’ve had to hack the code base to fix up bugs, extend functionality and add new features. O…