This post about API Context Engineering captures a lot of things I have been thinking about API descriptions, pipelines, and task-scoped interfaces "The surface you hand an agent is the surface it will use" apievangelist.com/2026/08/11/c... #linkTuesday

Context Engineering Is Governance

When most people in the API space hear the word governance, they picture a Spectral ruleset. They picture a linter in a CI/CD pipeline rejecting a pull reque...

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I'm hiring a Living Wage Intern based in my Westminster Office. If you are passionate about policy, Parliament, and care about the people of Newcastle, apply here: chionwurahmp.com/2026/07/job-...

Basically if you don’t want to use the everyone toilets you can go find the single sex cubicle.

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's Code - LIVE

I’m Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice   We are a collection of women's organisations, networks and community groups that work with and support women across th...

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I talk to teams about risks and costs when delaying decisions to reduce uncertainty, but even better is this analogy of decision making severity as hats, haircuts, or tattoos emilywebber.co.uk/decision-mak... #linkTuesday

Decision making at the right level with Hats, Haircuts and Tattoos

I recently led a leadership training session for a client. During the planning, the evergreen question of "how do we make decisions" came up; this post talks about the framework I introduced to help…

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Is there a danger that working with coding agents will improve the quality of git practices? I hope so! Ask your agent to read this excellent post simonwillison.net/guides/agent... #linkTuesday

I can't think of a single instance of a country at war that still allows an enemy propaganda outlet to operate inside its borders. Not just allows it. Uses it. Chooses it as a primary method of govt communication. It's insane.

These "recipes" for switching away from big tech are a fabulous resource! If you've ever wondered what you'd need to do to change providers, start here! Digital Switch Recipes — Digital Independence Day #DIDit

Digital Switch Recipes — Digital Independence Day

On the first Sunday of each month we organise Digital Independence Day. This is when we reclaim our digital freedom and switch to democracy-friendly digital alternatives.

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The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

It's a bit surreal to check the calendar and realize we are still basically only 6 months into "agentic software dev goes mainstream". The old world barely feels memorable. And I'm already very judgy. If you cannot figure out how to use it to produce _better_ code than you did before: skill. issue.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 4mo ago

yes, you can create slop very fast with AI but also you can fix minor UI papercuts *so* easily. the product we're about to release next week is so much better because I literally used it, found a bug, lodged it in linear, fixed it myself, verified it, opened a PR, and the team merged it. repeat 20x

NHS England is hurriedly hiding all the software it's written from public view because of the perceived risk of hacking from cutting-edge artificial intelligence like Mythos. Security expert @edent.tel says the move is unnecessary and counterproductive. www.newscientist.com/article/2524...

NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of computer-hacking AI models like Mythos have prompted a change in policy

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Good to see @openrightsgroup at #oggcamp2026

The government was forced to admit the EHRC’s transphobic draft guidance got it wrong, and they’ve had to send it back to the drawing board. But the fight is far from over. They plan to bring an updated version back to parliament in May. So we need to act – fast 👇

Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance

It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting…

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We know that with Rebecca Rumbul as OpenUK’s new Board Chair leading our phenomenal Board and working closely with our CEO Professor Amanda Brock, OpenUK will continue to have huge impact on the UK’s digital landscape and global open source. Congrats on your appointment Becc! 👏 #openuk #openukboard

AI makes code cheap to write. Verifying it is now the hard, expensive, human part — and the "prompt and review" model risks burning out the very engineers we need to catch what AI gets wrong. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/shipping-...

Shipping faster, thinking less? The AI code verification trap

As AI floods codebases with machine-generated output, the AI verification trap emerges to test the resolve of modern developers.

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Wanted to warn the #NodeJS community: This campaign is active. Thank you to the maintainers who shared their stories - some of these came frighteningly close. One got all the way to the fake meeting before walking away. The more we talk about this, the harder it is for these attacks to succeed.

Socket@socket.dev · 5mo ago

🚨 New Investigation: Attackers are hunting the maintainers behind Lodash, Fastify, buffer, Pino, mocha, Express, and #Nodejs core, because compromising one of them means write access to packages downloaded billions of times a week. socket.dev/blog/attacke...

This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

AI Liker Georg@avengingfem.me · 5mo ago

probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...

"Claude Code has been winning not because of the model but because of the interaction patterns" - Anna Hevesi **Spot on** #monkigras

Delighted to have managed to get myself to #Monkigras this year! I have only done one previous Monkigras event and it was life changing, so who knows what this year will bring!

After the recent #IWD this seems like the right time to share this excellent article about AI and ick, written for women and articulating some of the things we're experiencing with this shift abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built... #linkTuesday

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

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I've been using git so long but somehow missed the -I (uppercase "i") option to ignore lines matching something. Blogged it so I'll remember how to do it next time I need it #thatsWhatBlogsAreFor

Selectively ignore lines in git diff | LornaJane

I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can very easily diff to spot any changes - which was fine until we added a build timestamp, so every file

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A brief reprieve from the US-Israel-Iran war news to share some photos from Lviv, because the western Ukrainian city was absolutely glorious today, on this first day of spring. Signs point to the long, horrible winter and freezing cold being over. The Russian attacks, however, are likely to continue

I'm very aware of the radio silence from the big mainstream media outlets on this story. Almost like they don't want to acknowledge it. Do they fear it will humanise trans people? sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/un-human-r...

UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion

The Council has released a statement severely criticising the EHRC for their desire to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces in the UK

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When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org

This is interesting - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - couple of things that stand out to me as problems organizations need to tackle 1) one person's productivity can be another's slop, and 2) cognitive overload hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they…

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"Being the go-to engineer is a double-edged sword" I had some pause for thought reading this article from LeadDev leaddev.com/culture/put-... #linkTuesday I recognise myself, but also got some strategies to try.

Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer 

Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.

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