Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Jason Birchall
@jasonbirchall.bsky.social
Open source developer focusing on reliability at GDS. Here to learn đź“š https://github.com/jasonbirchall
🎉 Congratulations to the Ministry of Justice Splink Team (@robinlinacre.bsky.social) for securing the win in the Open Data category, sponsored by @odihq.bsky.social at the OpenUK Awards 2025! #openukawards #opensource #opendata
As 2024 ends, my time at the Ministry of Justice also concludes. Over seven years, I've worked with amazing people and learned a lot. I'm proud of our progress and excited to take on new challenges in 2025 as I lead the SRE effort for the GOV.UK project at GDS. #sre
Okay, this feels like progress! “These represent the first ever models trained exclusively on open data, meaning data that are either non-copyrighted or are published under a permissible license." huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
A Blog post by Pierre-Carl Langlais on Hugging Face
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I get the scepticism around AI tooling in #SRE, but Meta’s approach to incident response is interesting: 42% accuracy in identifying root causes. That’s pretty good for large-scale systems. Wouldn’t it be cool if it went further? https://tinyurl.com/fh4tpx8c
Screwdrivers are going to make hammers obsolete. Silly right? That's what most tech discussions turn into.
Still getting over the fact that a lunatic can stand up in front of a crowd and scream about migrants eating cats and dogs and it gets him elected. Maybe I'll never get over it.
“Education isn't something you finish.” ~ Issac Asimov
"The easy path today makes a hard path tomorrow. The hard path today makes an easier path tomorrow." A Tiny Thought worth reading in the Farnam Street blog. fs.blog/brain-food/o...
“The master (of chess) does not search for combinations. He creates the conditions that make it possible”. Ivan Chernev, 1957
Exploring Blue Sky feels like a breath of fresh air—a reminder of the excitement I had when I joined Twitter years ago. No platform is perfect, but it feels cleaner and more focused. It’s early days, but I’m genuinely enjoying this space's vibe and potential.