Jon Topper

Great to see Oxford Street pedestrianised. That’ll really help people get from the tax dodgy candy store, to the tax dodging tourist tat shop, via the tax dodging vape emporium.

It's notable openai could have done this before its agents hacked huggingface et. al but they just... didn't.

most of the loss is convertible notes. Its a paper loss. mu.social/profile/zach...

*sad beep boops*

I suppose that’s why they were so keen to report “profit” as “revenue without subtracting costs” recently.

Well this sounds fun. Good luck everyone.

Adding "honking of data centre" to the lexicon

Happy to announce aws-vault v7.15: SSO sign-in now uses the OAuth2 PKCE flow by default, like `aws sso login`. No more matching device codes between terminal and browser-just a single approval in the browser. Thanks Patrick O'Doherty!🔐 And the project also got a new logo🎉 github.com/ByteNess/aws...

is it basic engineering practices

Now seems as good a time as any to share this excellent mashup: youtu.be/E3aDzQCPi44?...

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

Arse Of The Deal.

Railway engineering, or establishing a jewellery factory.

Say what you like about GenAI, but it’s certainly helping to shine an identifying light on the people who are both lazy and stupid.

TIL

I read this morning that Palantir stock spiked in value, which may have been auto-trading bots reading this headline and believing it to be real. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

“Honestly, what the fuck”

I will always stan LDAP.

@theguardian.com I’m a subscriber, using the iPad app (latest version). I’m still seeing World Cup content on my home page even though I’ve used the settings to try and hide it. I cannot tell you how little interest I have in football, even big international competitions.

Ok, but then how do I cook them? Some recipe this is.

New euphemism for AWS re:invent just dropped.

Just read a fascinating piece on how an AWS team applied random graph theory to redesign data center networks. Started with a Slack shout-out and a "spaghetti monster" of cables. Love when theoretical math meets real-world engineering at scale.

Hello! Calling all Americans/Canadians/Australians/everyone else who are not in my timezone who likes puzzly word games like Wordle and Connections. I made a game called Keywords and it is quite good fun. Give it a try - or please share it with someone who might like it!

Is that good

vim, emacs, pico, vscode, intellij, joe

If one of the tech arseholes named an AI or glorified speaker after me and that became the meaning of my name I would become the machine that hunted them down. Alexas, Claudes, Siris, you should get together and hatch a plan. We would all understand.

I discovered that my Green candidate won by 2 votes against Reform after 2 recounts. Don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count. So glad I made the effort.

This article about @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social makes the case for universal basic income as a way to increase creative output of society. Makes sense to me.

There’s no specific date for this one, but *during* May 1961 Italian artist Piero Manzoni shat in some tins, so I think we can all agree that – precise or otherwise – this is a 65th anniversary that simply cannot go unmarked 🧵

If you see this, post a bird.

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

I would simply not have booked the mentally ill anti-semite.

Shots fired, Italy.

I don’t know who needs to know this, but Marks & Spencer extremely chocolatey hot cross buns are back in stock for the season

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

We’ve just published the video of @topper.me.uk's AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion. Watch now - awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #Serverless #AWSCommunity #DevOps #EC2

I’d watch an anime of Dark City.

Ok team, I’ll be at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social at the beginning of next month. Who else will I be seeing there?

“New thing”. lol.

Classic AI boosterism

The EU AI Act essentially demands this.

This used to happen in the early days of the dot com gold rush, but the thefts were mostly things like Cisco line cards, worth tens of thousands and easily smuggled out in a pocket.