Matt (Tech) Lloyd

Is anyone in the industry really surprised at the rate of CVEs being discovered? We kind of always knew it was all held together with tape and a prayer. Now we just have automated ways of discovering the holes.

I increasingly think that lisp / Clojure got it right with code as data. Being able to traverse and modify code based on context allows for really elegant abstractions while keeping business logic clear.

Did we seriously just use the national alert system to tell people not to have BBQs

Finally managed to get tickets for the Odyssey in 70mm IMAX.

Just discovered the The Adam Curtis Subreddit. It’s just clips of the news with NIN and Burial edited over the top. Pretty on brand.

The Untouchables is nearly 40 years old but it’s still an absolutely fantastic movie to this day.

Theme for tonight’s England match: Chumbawumba - TubThumping

I love it when I leave a job and I give a speech emphasising how great I am.

*In supermarket and hearing repeated beeping* Me: This new Autechre album is banging

I don’t want video games to look photorealistic, nor do they need to be an infinite sandbox or constantly evolving. But I would like more games you can play on the couch together and have fun with other people. I feel like that has been practically lost apart from a few Hazelight games.

Early start today to a very long day. Tony Iommi is keeping me going with Planet Caravan. Maybe it’s time I treated myself to that mesa boogie stack…

Yay, SIGMOD just published the paper I wrote with @muratdemirbas.bsky.social and Lingzhi Deng, it's about strengthening Raft's consistency and time-to-recovery lnkd.in/ef6qUJzw

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I’ve come to the conclusion that AIs are bad at writing code that is easy for AIs to maintain.

#GOTOpodcast: @boicy.bovon.org sits down with @suksr.bsky.social to unpack the ideas behind her new book “Architecture for Flow.” • How value streams and team structures shape architecture • Architecture for Flow Canva • Why visual thinking matters 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Lads night! 🎉 ( Me sat at home alone, catching up on Adam Curtis Documentaries )

the reason The Matrix uses humans as batteries is because some executives thought the original idea—that the machines would use human brains as processors—was too complicated for audiences and they wouldn't accept it anyway.

I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

I think Manchester has deployed boosterism well over the last decade, but it has tended to work because it delivered things at the same time. Boosterism without delivery is just words and there’s some risk the city starts to rely too much on narrative for its momentum

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

Radiohead - House of Cards came out 18 years ago. I remember they open sourced the 3d scanning data used for the video. It was cool to muddle around with it and render it out in 3d.

Looking forward to see @jeffgerstmann.com take on Phil Spencer retiring…

This one hits hard.

Broken Sword: Reforged, besides looking absolutely gorgeous, plays unexpectedly well on the tiny screen of my phone. The interface works great, everything is readable and visible, and I don't even need my glasses. This is how the Monkey Island remakes should have been treated...

Watching Game of Thrones again, and I forgot about Deus ex Benjen

💵💵🌭 💵🚰

all-time tom cardy banger just dropped

Microsoft posts 32% YOY down on hardware sales last week. This week Lisa Su talks about next Xbox consoles on track for 2027.

I’m convinced that Warren Spectre’s one city block could be convincingly created now.

I’ve just realised my Apple Watch can have a db volume meter as a complication. So now I can pretend I’m in mission impossible and say toast at increasingly louder volumes.

reading this essay with The Tyranny of Structurelessness echoing in my ears www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

" they expect one of us to be in the wreckage, brother"

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering: "How does software X deal with that?" And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️pop 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Huh, the Apple silicon decision to have unified memory means you can run LLMs with crazy memory requirements pretty easy… *goes off to look up Mac Studio pricing*