A blueprint for democracy to defend itself against fascism from 1937 – more important now than ever… christianheilmann.com/2026/08/04/a...

Go, vote!

TIL that magic wand* in French is called "Baguette magique" and that is hard to recover from. *(the Wizard/Witch not the Hitachi one)

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

This is really cool - an interactive map of all things Bond, filming locations, accessories, clothing brands… department-m.agency

Just landed in New York and watched Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die on the flight and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you want Twelve Monkeys mixed with Shaun of the Dead and a bit of Brazil, this should be right down your alley. Excellent camera work, and Sam Rockwell shines. www.imdb.com/title/tt1341...

Back in New York for DevRelCon. Landed in Newark and now straight to Strands Book Store until the Hotel in Brooklyn is ready. Hope you see you all there and talk about WeAreDevelopers San Jose in September!

And the campest track suit winner is...

So what were the odds for a 8:0 for England?

10/10 no notes

Morning

One off the bucket list

🎶So today it's not "Rock you like a Harry Kane" but "Hey Jude" in England?

Spending the weekend watching all Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies. #tolkienenmaxxing

Backstage at WeAreDevelopers World Congress Berlin Main Stage, watching Fabian Hedin building cool stuff live with Lovable and having some Köttbullar to celebrate.

That jersey is never merino. Looks like polyester to me.

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... Well, who doesn't?

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs

The AI drug boom has a long way to go before reaching patients.

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Excellent episode. Thanks for being with us

Lionel Péramo@lionel-peramo.com · last mo.

I joined @wearedevelopers.bsky.social LIVE with @codepo8.bsky.social and @danielcranney.bsky.social to talk about CSS Shapes Level 2. (1/4) Watch here: devrel.wearedevelopers.com/live/2026-07... #CSS #WebDev #Frontend

RIP Om Malik - I was proud as punch when I realised he did subscribe to my RSS feed and we had a chat on BlueSky… Om Malik dies at 60 after long heart illness; tributes pour in for GigaOm founder and tech journalism pioneer techstartups.com/2026/06/25/o...

Om Malik dies at 60 after long heart illness; tributes pour in for GigaOm founder and tech journalism pioneer - Tech Startups

Tech journalism lost one of its defining voices this week. Om Malik, the veteran technology journalist, investor, and founder of GigaOm, died on Wednesday, June 24, at Stanford Hospital after what his...

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It's weird that the JavaScript world did embrace tree shaking but never moved on to pineapple pushing and coffee grinding.

Am I the only one who finds Freed from desire by Gala being played at FIFA matches ironic? "My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs"

This is such a weird thing, at least with libraries you knew you never owned the movies.

Mark GJ@brokentv.uk · last mo.

Hey, do you want to win a NVIDIA DGX Spark? Come to WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin and apply as a challenger to #CODE100. We partnered with Cloudflare, TomTom and NVIDIA and the lucky winner will get a DGX Spark worth ~5000 Euro! Apply here: share.hsforms.com/1Zo4RUx9cTGq...

let Canada = new Promise((resolve, reject) => { resolve('goal'); });

OK I got a new Tattoo and this time I thought I get a classic design and got myself an Anchor.

Google Earth has a flight simulator mode:

"Paying for software isn’t paying for a solution. It’s paying for someone else to own a problem." Amen… quinnkeast.com/writing/soft...

What, then, are we paying for?

Software is problem ownership

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Watching footie as a former BASIC programmer hits differently.

Can we bring back the term data diddler?

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