Loving this great work by @oli.zilla.org.uk to bring together into an clear and accessible form some of the Problems With the #NHS #FDP. Example - it's NOT ACTUALLY FEDERATED! github.com/olizilla/fdp... 'Federated' is just a word they used to pacify privacy campaigners and clinical regulators.

GitHub - olizilla/fdp: Problems with the Federated Data Platform

Problems with the Federated Data Platform. Contribute to olizilla/fdp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough

saw this and thought of me

max dithered 🌌@sneptech.bsky.social · 3w ago

Me & Carlos built a soundsystem, set it up at Cherry Garden SEN school for GlastonCherry, and pulled the sub forwards so everyone could sit or dance ON the bass. It was rad!

at last we have taught the Katamari to roll itself.

there is a lot to doing open source well! it's worth being intentional about why you do it. it should make onboarding devs easy, foster external contributions & help users understand the public value they help to sustain and your commitment to delivering auditable services. a public repo is step 1.

Brian LeRoux@brianleroux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

so what to do? Every repo should have a license, clear docs for the humans (and agents), minimal essential dependencies favoring builtins, comprehensive test cov, CI/CD flow with linting AND security scanning, w trusted publishing, and staged delivery a new baseline. that's a lot of stuff..

Has anyone figured out how to operate and govern complex, critical, transnational digital infrastructure? Yes! The dangerous radicals from [*checks notes*] the finance industry solved that problem… 50 years ago. SWIFT is a coop of 10,000 banks that does exactly that — and there are other examples.

REOPEN THE REPOS! > Keep open by default. Making everything private adds additional delivery and policy costs, and can reduce reuse and scrutiny. Openness should remain the default posture, with closure used sparingly and deliberately. www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector

Guidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.

gov.uk

Andrew has been building tools to understand the Open Source ecosystem for over a decade, and a new independent paper confirms the effectiveness of his approach to supporting maintainers. I want to celebrate his work today! 🎉

Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Showing our work: nesbitt.io/2026/05/13/s...

absolutely floored to once again learn X, not because Y, but Z.

Mythos' underwhelming results for curl are a great example of why Open Source is even more important now that we have access to these tools. curl is more secure because everyone can tinker with it. We should be doubling down on Open Source rather than closing projects in panic.

daniel:// stenberg://@bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability yes, as in singular one. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

wild that the AI bubble will be propped up by holding software engineering to ransom until we all pay the tithe for agentmaxxing lest some one else finds our vulns before we do.

Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Weekend at Bernie's - Which of your dependencies are wearing sunglasses? nesbitt.io/2026/05/08/w...

you can plug a mouse into a switch and play mario paint at any time.

nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al)

nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al)

Huge step for ATProto! Protocol governance is moving away from Bluesky The Company, and into @ietf.org.

Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg@knotbin.com · 5mo ago

So exciting! Huge props to @bnewbold.net, @dholms.at, et al for making this happen. Definitely still a long journey ahead but this is a huge step! 👏

> protocol design choices do not merely leave governance unaddressed but actively shape it, because every architectural decision makes some governance arrangements natural and others difficult or impossible

Laurens@laurenshof.online · 5mo ago

Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...

you can just do this

Steve Kenson ❌👑@stevekenson.com · 5mo ago

Huh. If you had "require alt-text" enabled under Settings > Accessibility, check it. Because it may have been disabled. Mine was. If you didn't have "require alt-text" enabled before, consider it. It's a useful reminder to keep Bluesky accessible.

stop scrolling and come and make some things.

Marcus Baw@marcusbaw.com · 5mo ago

Does anyone have additions for my AwesomeList of Missing NHS Things? PRs welcome github.com/pacharanero/...

absolute scenes over at @nsandi.bsky.social. careless use of chatbot harms us all.

nervous system? yeah, me too.

get yourself a team that respects *your* context window and output token limits.

> Everyone there is trying to fix tech as some noble act. But really it’s none of that: It’s a social club: That’s ALL it is.

Lu wilson@todepond.com · 5mo ago

new blog post "DEATH OF THE TADI WEB: Forever" www.todepond.com/sky/forever/

new asset-based class taxonomy just dropped! (Adkins et al, 2019) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

the agent cannot hear the the prompt. strings fall apart. the context cannot hold.

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 5mo ago

Opus Medium in CC. Prompt: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM"

for anyone following my story arc: yes i am aware that it is illegal to work on IPFS and then IPS at the IIPP but here we are. I cannot change my characters.

me, a simple researcher trying to understand how to implement "International Patient Summary" records: ... Official European implementation guidance doc (haunted):

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2

I've been working on a unified cli that works for github, gitlab, gitea/forgejo and bitbucket. So you (or a coding agent) doesn't need to learn 4 different sets of commands for what are basically all doing the same things: github.com/git-pkgs/forge

GitHub - git-pkgs/forge: Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface.

Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface. - git-pkgs/forge

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my two speeds