Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 30mOk, now try to count the platforms on them, and then split into disused and used portions, and ensure they are checked every 5 years and you have my life for the past 3.5 years. It's been awesome, I suspect my contemporaries would think otherwise. 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 23hstatic.klipy.comSpider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily SeahamAlt: Spider-Man Pointing Meme 030
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 23hYeah I had exposure to adult social care expenditure figures day to day for a good chunk of time and even I’m “well I’m gonna have to go cost both of these before I can have a sensible opinion on this”. 010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 30/09/2026I’m pretty sure this game is is framed.wtf but for political nerds now 010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 29/09/2026I am still considered unhinged for the quantity of cables I bring places, but I reason these people haven't been in a B&B in Redcar or one of the the Travelodges in Milton Keynes or Sidcup. 260
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book. 523334
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 783479867
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · 29/09/2026"Quite often the technology is simply the place where a much messier organisational problem has chosen to make itself visible." @sharonodea.com in characteristic top form on what ineffective search demonstrates about intranets and their organisations - much of which resonates much more widelysharonodea.comIntranet Findability: Why Employees Can’t Find InformationBetter search won't fix an intranet nobody can find anything on. Here's why findability fails in complex organisations, and how to diagnose it with research, card sorting and tree testing. 074
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 29/09/2026eh, I did the fall of the Berlin wall in GCSE History less than a decade after it happened. This would be more like me covering the uk moving to currency decimalisation, which did feel ancient to teenage me. 011
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 29/09/2026Even I, a jobbing software person, feels like they're yelling at a brick wall when in my industry, merely by stating that the numbers on the screen correspond to stuff in real lives with real consequences. I'm too "human" for tech. Too "tech" for UX. etc. 010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 29/09/2026fwiw, the people trying to fix this, either temp or perm are burnt out. Everything is incentivised to not join stuff up. Vendors offering cross-budget savings don't get bought easily because it's a cross department saving. Internal staff plugging these gaps are heavily overworked. 100
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026One of the joys of living in a "remote" island is watching your parcel arrive in the country, and then disappear for days to months, which no indication of arrival on the island or dispatch off the mainland online until 2 working hours after it arrives on your doorstep. 040
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026Damn what was *in* that parcel to be destroyed in under 16 hours?! 110
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026😅 "I should be able to interrupt you, it happens in an office" "why do you think I'm so much more productive at home?" 180
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026I sadly can't remember if this was the Times or the FT :( 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026Ooo, door code story. I worked somewhere where a journalist did a "how to spend a lot of money" feature - we had a trade giant plasma screen. They filmed someone entering the code as a "filler shot" but no one checked, video went online and welp the door code was changed straight away... 110
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026Early in our relationship, my husband sincerely thought I might be having petit mal seizures. He’d watch it happen real time. We went pursing an epilepsy assessment. Nope, focus issues. 190
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026I do not have a cat. I appear to have a swiffer pad that has gained sentience 071
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being 202706408
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026Welcome to the grown up professions, fellow software workers. ❤️ 000
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sorry, I saw your message, but I also saw nineteen other phone alerts that same minute. My brain evolved to evade predators. I will not improve. 232770
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026This is why I know when Sunderland AFC won the FA Cup final 010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026Ah damn my dad was a lot less ditzy on 30 a day. 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/20262. My mum, 2 years into working at a women’s crisis centre: “I’ve been talking to the ladies there and a lot of them with ADHD seem to act a lot like you did and do, obviously more extreme, I’m not saying you need to go to a crisis centre but maybe you should look into an adhd assessment?” 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/20261. Discovering non-stimulant options were available - I assumed no one would give stimulants to someone with high blood pressure, so no point unless I had treatment options. (My bp has lowered on Elvanse)! 100
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 28/09/2026I put it off for many years because I’d gotten a dyspraxia dx at uni and then various mental health labels mean that I would have never been allowed to have adhd medication, especially under the NHS. Two things changed that: 100
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just finished re-reading The Player of Games. Such a brilliant book. Surely one of the best genre novels of all time. 3124010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 27/09/2026I bet no one is going to “socially prescribe” a cushy middle class job, are they. 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 27/09/2026I would say this stuff tends to be slow, unfortunately. Tech is faster, society changes are slower. Railway workers were going for over 6 decades and 16k workers were killed or injured in GB alone in 1900. It’s now one of the safest railways in the world but it took a long time. 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 27/09/2026Watching the first episode of Knightrider and Michael Knight (still Long) is exclaiming he will give up this gig completely if the car has a computer that listens and talks to him. Same, same… 😅 010
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 27/09/2026My first "real" office (late 00s) someone got dress coded for wearing slip on leather shoes with their suit instead of lace up leather shoes. (Excluding my 3 months as an A Level student accidentally breaking systems at Phones4U, who had a dress code photo guide that forbid non-collared blouses) 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 27/09/2026It is forgotten that the illegal rave phenomenon was primarily a working class movement. These people are now in their 50s and 60s. 020
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons 246242475636
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026Feeling cleansed after writing this ashley.rolfmore.com/twenty-thing... Seen so many moans about PMs not getting stuff. I do my best not to be one of “those” types of PMs. Well, turning the tables back for a little cathartic release. How to not be one of “those” software developers…ashley.rolfmore.comTwenty Things That Were Exhausting to Explain to Software Developers❗This post is a rant. We all get caught in our own rabbit holes so don't take it personally. Take the point instead. A growing list of things about data, software, and reality that apparently aren't... 041
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026So you’re just making both the wearer feel anxious/inadequete increasing the volume of data and no real action. So it gets filled with snake oil, or general anxiety, or even prejudice (eg “patient has poor compliance according to CGM”) ☹️ 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026Analysis and action is actually the important bit, which all these wearables see as a “downstream system problem”. 100
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026“Oh no! It was once at x figure at 4pm!” retrospectively is not a helpful number on its own. The painful part was that none of this answered the question of “how much insulin to dose right now”. That’s a gap the wearable doesn’t cover. 100
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 26/09/2026FWIW, further back, I was on a (startup) team looking at the overall mental impact of moving from pin prick blood sugar (few times a day) to CGMs (every 5 to 15min). For ppl with T1D. Even clinical profs did not understand that they couldn’t take similar data at higher frequency in the same way. 100
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 24/09/2026May get shy and delete this in the morning 😅 - but I share because this is from countless teams I have worked with, often with bright people. 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 24/09/2026Really, why do I get asked if the customer reallly really reaaalllly needs to know what record/screen corresponds to the controlled and versioned documents produced by that system? A system commissioned to track changes to data over time? Like, why is this not obvious to others? 110
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 23/09/2026There does seem to be a greater awareness/knowledge of general political topics on that side of the border, even with my traditionally "non-political" gamer friends. 110
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 22/09/2026I appreciate this is a serious thread, but also I’m now convinced they’re removing cheesoid because it’s accidentally one of the best descriptions of machine learning you will find in fiction 😅 000
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 22/09/2026We can still reserve the term “glitch witch”, right? For ahem, legitimate purposes… 😊😁 100
Reposted by Ashley Rolfmore (she/her)Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sounds like a business model to me... 051
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 20/09/2026Me when I'm merrily going for a culture victory in Civ against Genghis Khan... 041