Phil Wills

@phil-wills.com

Dad, Scout leader, runner, softcore software engineer @ Accurx

My favourite recent games have been Tactical Breach Wizards and Dispatch. They fit nicely in the the 15 hours window. People are bringing up Witcher 3 as a counter, but even better than the main game were the expansions. Tight, focused stories that never overstay their welcome.

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social · 6d ago

back on the hater week debate floor with my most radical and correct stance yet: all video games should be roughly the same length as resident evil 4. this would improve 99.9 percent of them and, more importantly, save the video game industry

I was lucky enough to work with Oli many years ago and it's frankly ridiculous that he's available right now. If anyone's hiring for frontend engineering roles you would be extremely foolish to miss this opportunity to snap him up.

Oliver Ash@oliverjash.me · last wk.

I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!

Only just picked up on this as saw another spate of "how rubbish is our country, we can't do anything, France is special etc" Guys, I hate to tell you. It's one of the worst ideas going, government has actually arrived at the right conclusion... See next post. www.briefs.co/news/the-uk-...

UK Scraps Solar Car Park Mandate Over Cost Concerns

The UK government dropped plans to require solar canopies on new car parks after consultation flagged cost issues. EV charger rollout becomes the new priority.

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This thread is worth it for the photos of early EVs alone. (I remember thinking that "Who Killed The Electric Car?" was paranoia and ascribing malice to simple business factors and the utter convenience of liquid fossil fuels, but now I'm not so sure about that).

Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦@nafnlaus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

But really, he doesn't come into the story yet, the actual story starts way further back. In the early 1900s, there was great competition between ICE vehicles and EVs, with the former being clean, reliable, and easy to start but underpowered and short range. Improvements in ICEs, plus EVs...

New personal piece: Why does regulation often feel so toothless? The news is full of businesses behaving badly and seeming to get off very lightly. Why? As someone who used to work for a regulator, I wanted to set out some of the very simple reasons regulators struggle…

Why does regulation often feel so toothless?

It has become a common complaint that regulators in the UK are toothless and ineffective. Unable to keep up with the pace of the internet…

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Handsworth is where my mum worked and I went to scouts and church. It's where my brother and his family live and work. It has people from many backgrounds living with, not just alongside each other. That doesn't matter to those with Jendrick's mindset www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

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My conclusion after a long drive this summer is that modern EV batteries can go significantly further than me without a fifteen minute break. Maybe there's a use case for people who can't easily charge at home, but a lot of things would need to line up

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 12mo ago

this is fascinating on new Chinese tech which allows EV drivers to swap car batteries in just 3 minutes instead of waiting for the vehicle to be charged www.ft.com/content/d4e9...

Finally got round to reading this and what resonated with me most is where it touches on the value of institutions. They will let you down, they should be questioned and doubted, but there's so much of value that just isn't possible without them.

Charity Majors@charity.wtf · last yr.

New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

Hillel is one of the few people I've come across who looks outside of software for perspectives that could be usefully applied to it. This is a new, to me, and interesting framing for reducing incidentn risk

Hillel is on Social Media Break@hillelwayne.com · last yr.

Still avoiding social media but I have ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. I have a new blog post! It's about the hierarchy of hazard controls and how we can use it in software engineering. URL is www.hillelwayne.com/post/hoc/, patreon notes is www.patreon.com/posts/blog-n.... Please enjoy!

As part of El's ongoing project, she needed to cover Gaiman. By the time she reached him, we see him in a different light. This is long, detailed, and shines its own light on the writer and the work. If you like criticism and can bear to read on the topic, this feels both essential and definitive.

Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · last yr.

Today on Eruditorum Press, Last War in Albion returns with a chapter on Sandman and Neil Gaiman. Strap in. This goes hard. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

I keep hearing from healthcare #AI companies that Large Language Models ( #LLMs ) can be made to be "deterministic" as part of arguments around safety. I thought I'd do a little ranty 🧵 to explain why (a) it's not true in the real world, and (b) it's not even the right question. 1/

Abstract image of a Large Language Model

New: How Roman Abramovich's aides created an elaborate tax-dodging scheme to pretend his superyachts were being used for commercial purposes when in fact the billionaire was using them for pleasure. Experts say it could amount to illegal tax evasion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Revealed: how Roman Abramovich dodged taxes on cost of running his fleet of superyachts

Cyprus Confidential files suggest offshore scheme was used to evade tens of millions in VAT on long list of expenses

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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

Continuing on my path to making the web better, I’m now looking for an organization who needs help operationalizing excellence in frontend and product design so we can ship world-class experiences together 🚀

‘Will men see themselves as implicated in the culture that produced Dominique Pelicot and his accomplices, and seek to transform that culture, and themselves?’ Everyone, but particularly men, should read this essay by Sophie Smith. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial

Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

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I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know

Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

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