Andy Loughran

Bush Road E11

It was wonderful to lead the Preston Pride parade today as the Town Crier and Bellman of the city and to make the opening proclamation. Love is love my friends.

Oh oh. Getting a 404 when trying to access my QR code for Swim Serpentine later today. Hope the IT team can fix it and it’s not chaos down there!!

Sad to see the demise of rain; the steady march if progress...

⚠️ Dynatrace is reporting a Incident since 11:54 UTC "Issue with Authentication Services" Affects: Dynatrace Product, Process-AWS-americas, Process-AWS-emea, +16 more Live timeline → https://pingoru.io/providers/dynatrace/incidents/9941054 #Dynatrace #DynatraceDown

BTW as a dev, you are not being "left behind" if you don't use LLMs. Everything you'd need to know about using agents and whatnot can be learned in one or two days. You could do that at any point later - or, you know, not at all. Don't let anyone install FOMO in you.

@gridserve.bsky.social is there something up with your system? Luckily using contactless as back up but would prefer the lower rates

I’m delighted to be hosting a press conference organised by MIND and Rethink later today which introduces a pioneering new way of organising mental health care proven to reduce hospital admissions & improve quality of life for patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

My two-year-old son adores getting books in the mail from "Miss Dolly." She's a hero in our house. Safe home, Miss Dolly.

I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end

> Me in ServiceNow: Well this is an outage I better select "Expedited Change" > I have to do all the exact same shit as a Normal Change Sure thanks

The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK

Really big fire on Vallentin Rd in Walthamstow. Multiple houses affected. Everyone being evacuated

TIL that Renault have developed their electric motor technology using copper coils rather than rare earths. www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/... In my early career I remember doing IT support for a rewinding company on the Bootle docks. I wish I'd paid more attention and read up on that then...

"Good growth in every postcode" – exactly! Liberate the PAF, empower small businesses and bedroom coders!

They also tried to kill birmingham on purpose after the war

Learning knots was a fun but pretty non-life threatening game pre-holiday. Now that I'm on a boat and the knots I've done are holding us from floating into other boats, it starts to make me feel like I should have practiced even more. It's holding for now...

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

Loving northern Greece. Just over the border from our South Albania tour last year.

Not sure if it's my algorithm, but disappointed in the lack of #KnickerbockerGlory puns in relation to the NY knicks victory in the NBA.

Loved the penny drop moment earlier when I realised/saw that @sophieraworth2024.bsky.social and @kateraworth.bsky.social were sisters. Doughnuts and running. What's not to love.

We’re on a Bad Services UK Book Tour. Actually we’re on it right now, with Glasgow tonight. We’re doing a short Bad Services UK Book Tour over June and July. The link has tour dates listed, with a few more to be updated in the next few days. good.services/badservicesb...

Saw this cute thing today. Bought 100 larvae about six weeks ago but have no idea whether this dude is wild or pet. 😜

Lambeth is in a financial crisis. But the Greens, now leading the council, proposed: 1. A higher allowance for the council leader. 2. Higher allowances for the two deputy council leaders and 7 full time equivalent Cabinet Members.

THEY ARE BASTARDS

Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.

Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors on Tuesday froze the bank accounts of a landholding company tied to a controversial $4 billion luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner,Trump’s son-in-law.

The worst heat pump is more efficient than the best gas boiler. A gas boiler turns one unit of energy into less than one unit of heat. A heat pump delivers 3 to 4 units of heat for every unit of input. More in future Substack long read. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com

🇪🇺 Meet EuroOffice, Europe’s bold alternative to Microsoft 365, promising sovereignty and control It is based on OnlyOffice and offers a near-like-for-like experience as Microsoft for free. Something for everyone to check out, not only Europeans.

Big news on the future of UK Gov Camp! We're officially registering as a non-profit company so give us a solid legal foundation for funding, grant making and contracts. A full blog post about how you can become an official voting Member of Gov Camp will be published soon.

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

I have pretty well given up shouting about climate change. The odd social media post. I don't know what to do. I am hosting a screening of the National Emergency Briefing in my local village next weekend. I wonder what attendees will think and say. www.nebriefing.org

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

For @aftermath.site: Bambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, threatened a developer for trying to restore their product's functionality using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-ag...

Has Liam Byrne had his Weetabix? (Newly FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/has-liam-b...

Whilst this is true, what is also true is that the “old” internet is still there and there’s nothing preventing us from making more of it. Everything I’ve created or am involved in tries to embody that. Maybe I could do more, I dunno. But I try

New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

Making you pay for more things, and making you sign in for more things. My thesis is that weeknotes and public sector blogging can live on the open web, for free, and that you don’t need a big platform or your own website to do that.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

My "Make Things Open, It Makes Things Better" T-Shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. And now you too can own one! govgeeks.myspreadshop.co.uk

Our position is it's entirely possible this is going to lead to a waterfall of critical vulns, but our job in building general defenses and working towards efficiently doing vulnerability management was already correct and we just proceed like that.