Anthony Dhanendran
@dhanendran.co.uk
I’m a product manager and sometime coach Product and software development, music, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter Involved with @hopeful.technology https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
an unfathomable amount of stuff has got better over the last 40 years - hell, even over the *last 15* - and anyone convinced it hasn't does not remember or know what things were like 15 or 40 years ago.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Is the "he" here Miliband or Rubio?
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h agoForeign secretary Ed Miliband will travel to Washington tomorrow to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine and Gaza with his US counterpart Marco Rubio, as he seeks to move beyond past criticism of Donald Trump and build ties with the president’s team www.ft.com/content/bea0...
Phone feature wishlist: I would find it useful if iOS had a “default audio playback” setting so that when I press play on the headphones and the OS can’t determine which app was most recently playing audio, it can default to Overcast which is going to be the correct answer 95 per cent of the time.
Phone feature wishlist: I would find it useful if iOS had a “default audio playback” setting so that when I press play on the headphones and the OS can’t determine which app was most recently playing audio, it can default to Overcast which is going to be the correct answer 95 per cent of the time.
Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d agoSo I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
Just to be clear on this article, the position I took isn't "developers need to be more brave" but "funding needs to be more brave". Developers make all the cool stuff, just because they want to - the funding side hits it with market research and fear and growth targets and shareholders.
GamesRadar+@gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 2w agoWe need games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Balatro, and Peak as a cure for the "fear" in the industry, say experts www.gamesradar.com/games/we-nee...
Every Londoner should experience the Nine Elms Sunday market in all its grime and glory
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d agowent to the Nine Elms Sunday market this morning, assuming it was essentially a little carboot sale, and had not anticipated its actual size at all, turns out it's roughly as large as Texas and as easy to navigate as a corn maze, now back home and not not feeling like our Ithacan boy
Someone need to tell David Shepherd (senior lecturer at Portsmouth apparently) that this kind of valorisation of female athletes is incredibly patronising and unhelpful. From The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
Went back and forth on the graphic so many times. Really wanted the bubble chart (which I do like) to stand by itself, but couldn't get a way of labelling that I was happy with. A few ways that nearly worked, but never quite there.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d agoYouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Glad these guys are in charge of the future of humanity
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoUpdate: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
The definitive (and more or less accurate) word on this is from Caspar Salmon:
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d agohello from Britain where I'm in the pub with a group of friends and I would say we're now on minute 20 of them sharing stories about the nonce teachers they had at school
Yeah, with UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF all rejecting it, it's dead in the water even without UEFA's boycott. In any sensible organisation, Infantino would be prepping his registration statement today.
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 5d agoThe conversation seems to still be geared around the scheme Infantino was trying to push. That ship has sailed. The real question now seems to be whether it is days, weeks or months for him in this job. It is a completely untenable situation now all these various actors are scurrying away from him
There was a story a few years ago that half of all Facebook messenger voice notes worldwide were Cambodian in origin, because it's always been a very hard language to adapt for programming languages and mobile phone keyboards. restofworld.org/2021/faceboo...
I was going to confidently claim that there are no acts whose entire output I’ve heard, but then I realised there are probably half a dozen one-album-wonders from the late 90s/early 2000s for whom I’ve probably heard the lot.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName an artist/band who's whole discography you've heard.
We should really just make citizen reporting of this sort of thing far easier? I get resourcing wardens etc is hard but if there was a easy way to upload people parking illegally etc. Then it'd be huge boon for councils and wider society
Aidan Skinner@aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6d agoJust now this guy got out of his car which was parked in a bus lane when I asked him to move and took a photo. Told me he was going to take my phone and shove it down my throat. I told him he wasn't and he got back in and drove off after I stood there for a couple of minutes.
Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.
Beard on drums and Lockwood on lead guitar, I'm guessing
You'd definitely miss having supreme power at moments like this
In a surprising turn of events, the French have declared war on Chris Philp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French patrol boat heard firing shots during BBC interview in Channel, MP says
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says the vessel fired 17 shots as he was giving a BBC interview.
bbc.co.uk
It's still interesting how the phrase "Games Workshop might be Britain's most culturally significant company*" will cause most people to do a double take (or a "sorry, what's Games Workshop?") *obviously Psygnosis->Rockstar North is the chief competitor, if it still meaningfully counts as British
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last wk.Always fun to look at the Games Workshop annual report. “in the last financial period we sold over five million novels.”
McBride's book (I need to re-read) is fantastic for all the reasons Duncan describes
Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · last wk.Digging out random quote from Damian McBride book and there's so many fun chunks
Enjoyed this thrashing of Emirates's new rail booking website from @headforpoints.com
I am genuinely shocked by the new Emirates rail booking platform
Emirates has launched a train ticketing platform to earn and spend miles, but it has so many problems, and overcharges, that you should stay well, well away.
headforpoints.com
