Matt TK Taylor

@tk.gg

pm on developer platform @cloudflare.social ex pm @financialtimes.com @MattieTK on the bird app, tk.gg elsewhere. Builder of vidgrid.tk.gg and @project-push.tk.gg

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I'm so interested in how the left have galvanised around heat pumps, and the right have seen them as an unnecessary green policy. But then air conditioning is seen as a polar opposite culture war with the environmentalists fixated on emissions. It's the same technology!

Love that this late in my life I still am experiencing technically illiterate lawmakers deciding that "banning" things is the solution to everything online. The Online Safety Act has to go.

Jess Phillips says that tech companies are all "lying" and that they know "exactly how old" every user is. (The proof, according to Phillips? She gets menopause ads and her children don't.)

Bsky doing 2FA purely via email still and not via OTP authenticators is honestly reducing my participation in the ecosystem. Every app I end up logged out of within a few days and tapping through requires a dance to my inbox.

Cory Doctorow on Radio 4 explaining to the UK government an AI growth strategy was peak. It wouldn't work, of course, but it's a good speech. "instead of consuming the last drops of water in the United Kingdom that are not polluted by human faeces to cool a data centre to make child pornography".

I've written a Cloudflare-First issue tracker for agents and dogfooding building it with Claude Code (Claude writes issues to it to improve how it can write issues to it) and this feels like the Product Manager equivalent of working on your esoteric Pi configs.

Before, setting up tunnels for local dev with @cloudflare.social meant running cloudflared and jumping through hoops. Today: no more hoops! Tunnels are built into your local dev server, and you can configure your own static addresses in one line of configuration. 🥳 2 demos in 2 mins