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Charles Humble

@charleshumble.bsky.social
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Techie, podcaster, editor, author and consultant, 1/2 of Twofish. I'd rather be making music. Work: www.conissaunce.com Music: www.twofish-music.com

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Studio session tonight. Trying to note down a chord sequence in Apple notes. Autocarrot keeps turning Cmin into either Colin of Cumin which isn’t helping.
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 10/08/2026
A Microsoft rep gave an AI talk to autistic teens... and got out-argued by one of them in under 5 minutes. @charleshumble.bsky.social tells the story — and what it says about the AI hype cycle. Watch: youtube.com/shorts/dh0TK...
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"AI Is a Failed Attempt to Simulate Human Intelligence Using a Turing Machine"
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is lovely
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Lucas Hendren @lhendren.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the sustainable angle is what sold me on smaller models before efficiency was fashionable. in applied ML most of my wins came from feature engineering and a right-sized model, not scale. the failure mode is reaching for GenAI when a linear model would ship faster.
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 28/07/2026
Does every problem really need GenAI? @charleshumble.bsky.social makes the case for smaller models, smarter engineering, and sustainable AI in this excellent @yowconf.bsky.social talk. Watch here: youtu.be/5rFuv4SK7OY?...
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Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable • Charles Humble • YOW! 2025
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Close up on a genius by Rolf Stenersen.
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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It took 7 years of self-funded work, but Sonic Pi is finally at a place I'm happy with. It's even easier than beginners and even more powerful for pro users - and just way more polished in every way. It's also a (friendly) technical trojan horse for SuperSonic. www.patreon.com/samaaron/pos...
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Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 1 | Sam Aaron
Hey there, happy Friday and huge love to you wherever you are in the world. Today, it's time to open the vaults and let loose something that
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If I were in government I'd be scoping an announcement to have solar, batteries and air conditioning (heating and cooling) in every school and hospital by 2030
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 22/06/2026
"Platform engineering is not IaC" @abangser.bsky.social & @charleshumble.bsky.social on the biggest misconception killing platform efforts, why AI makes a mature platform non-negotiable & the question that reveals whether your team is treating platforms as a product. 👇 youtu.be/Xsd02ebVv4w?...
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State of the Art of Platform Engineering • Abby Bangser & Charles Humble • GOTO 2026
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 11/06/2026
"We added #PlatformTeams, automated infrastructure, all the right stuff — and somehow got slower." Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi explain exactly why that happens, and what to do about it — using #SystemsThinking tools most devs have never touched. GOTO Book Club 👇 youtu.be/8tNtZMm3Hyc?...
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Signals & Levers • Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi & Charles Humble • GOTO 2026
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I just invented a new job title. The DevOops engineer!
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank you! What a lovely thing to say! I thoroughly enjoy writing the newsletter with Hannah every week.
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Richard W. Bown is 📝 very slowly editing @bownie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A beautiful evocation of all that is pure and good about writing. Thanks to @charleshumble.bsky.social for sharing this in his newsletter. Alongside the Brazil and cricket themes, it really couldn't have been any better! #writingcommunity #booksky www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
Trump: The First Green President
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Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
From the Yom Kippur war to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, history shows that major events in the oil and gas markets can drive enduring changes to the global energy mix.
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 01/06/2026
OpenStack was simple – everyone adopted it. Then it became unmanageable. #Kubernetes followed the exact same arc. @jakewarner.com saw it coming & built Cycle.io as an escape hatch. He & @charleshumble.bsky.social talk #SovereignCloud & the geopolitics of infrastructure. 👇 youtu.be/ajX56E4G5qk?...
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Sovereign Cloud: Who Really Owns Your Infrastructure? • Jake Warner & Charles Humble • GOTO 2026
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In my latest piece for LeadDev, I argue that if we don't start valuing stewardship over sheer output, we're going to drown in our own automated technical debt. #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #GenerativeAI #SoftwareQuality #TechLeadership leaddev.com/software-qua...
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AI-generated abandonware is hollowing out open source
When everyone can build, the scarce resource becomes maintainers.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
GitHub argues that its problems are caused by unprecedented scaling demands caused by AI, but I’m not convinced. I think they might be more down to poor engineering combined with conflicting priorities at Microsoft. Also my irony meter just exploded.
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Scott @scarey102.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New from @charleshumble.bsky.social: leaddev.com/software-qua... "If we take Fedorov’s argument that the problem is one of rapid scaling caused by AI, it’s hard to ignore the irony [...] It is now buckling under the weight of the automated, AI-generated activity that followed."
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What’s gone wrong at GitHub?
For most of its life, GitHub has been remarkably reliable. Then, somewhere in the last year or so, that stopped being the case. What happened?
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 01/05/2026
Former UK prime minister John Major on climate change: "Some people deny [it]. I don't know what planet they are living on…It's a cop out" via @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who: - Is UK based - Looking for flexible, part time work - Has an academic/research background - Wants to build a research grants program - Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔
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Research Manager | British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) | Ecology Jobs
Location: Hybrid – Shropshire office, mostly remoteSalary: £30,000 – £40,000 pro rata (depending on experience)Contract: Permanent, 2–3 days per weekClosing date: 13 July 2026 Make a difference for one of the UK’s most loved species The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) is a UK charity dedicated to protecting and conserving native hedgehogs. Through research, advocacy,
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
exchange on X 

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel 
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thank you!
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thanks, really appreciate it! The reviewer/maintainer perspective is one I didn't get enough of for this piece. I would love to hear what patterns you're seeing.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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-...
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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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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If anyone in my network needs an exceptional UX person — and I mean genuinely the best I've ever worked with — please DM me.
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...
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Monarch butterfly population increases 64%
Two new reports estimate a 64% increase in species population and a significant decrease in forest degradation in the butterfly's winter home
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 23/03/2026
.@hannahfoxwell.net talks #Kubernetes at the Edge with @charleshumble.bsky.social – from farm drones to stroke care AI, sustainability, and why the tech industry must do better. #EdgeComputing youtu.be/zOP_Dtwo1gs?...
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Kubernetes at the Edge • Charles Humble & Hannah Foxwell • GOTO 2026
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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 17/03/2026
Computers made from living neurons? #GOTOpodcas: @charleshumble.bsky.social speaks with Ewelina Kurtys about the emerging field of biological computing. It’s a fascinating look at a possible next chapter. Give it a listen 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast
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Yacine Kheddache @kheddache.me · 17/03/2026
Thanks, @charleshumble.bsky.social, for this great and open conversation. A real pleasure to discuss what @microcks.io is about and how it helps enterprises improve their API and cloud native application development. 👉 thenewstack.io/risk-mitigat...
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Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of
Learn how to manage agentic AI risk through systems thinking, contract testing, and sandboxes to ensure autonomous systems stay predictable.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
18% of the Fridays this year have been Friday the 13ths which honestly seems very on brand for 2026
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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NEW TECH PODCAST ALERT! Asynchronous & Unreliable In 2026 I'll be hosting Asynchronous & Unreliable, a new podcast on the most interesting concepts driving modern tech including but not limited to AI - because ChatGPT and pals are not the only things going on in technology
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I am booking flights on Norwegian. All together now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVAS...
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Fascinating Aida - Cheap Flights
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I’m on Mastodon when I remember. It has superior, mature third-party clients (e.g., Ivory) but I think it’s just too confusing for mainstream adoption. Bluesky feels more like Twitter when Twitter wasn’t a cesspit and most of the people I want to hear from are here.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/03/2026
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...
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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 02/03/2026
The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts buff.ly/mnIBYBe
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The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts
Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The heart of the story is burnout, succession planning & building something better for solo maintainers. thenewstack.io/commonhaus-o... [3/3]
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The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts
Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I talked to founder Erin Schnabel + Marco Vermeulen (SDKMAN!), Andres Almiray (JReleaser) & Chris Riccomini (SlateDB) about what lightweight OSS governance actually looks like in practice. [2/3]
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Who takes care of the people who take care of open source? For @commonhaus.org's 2nd birthday, I revisited the foundation for @thenewstack.io. [1/3]
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 01/03/2026
Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.
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The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts
Learn how Commonhaus Foundation protects solo open source maintainers from burnout and security risks like XZ Utils through low-touch, agile governance.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I have nothing but good things to say about www.starfishaccounting.co.uk
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Leading B Corp Finance & Growth Specialists | Starfish Accounting
B Corp accountants in Reading & Oxfordshire. We provide transparent, purpose-led finance and growth strategy for sustainable business owners.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In fairness though I’ve not read much of her oeuvre!
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Orwell was doing the same sort of thing caustically in essays at the same time, and he was explicitly theorising it (Politics and the English Language, 1946). Or someone like Wyndham would be another example.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The style point is interesting but is it Blyton or is it Hemingway and the American wire services reaching Britain? She may have been the vector for children/mainstream rather than the origin.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Abby Haddican: Times New Resistance is like Times New Roman — the official font of the U.S. State Department. It autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For eg, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon. www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-re...
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Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican
Times New Resistance is a font that autocorrects the autocrats. Download, distribute, disrupt! Free, just like America used to be.
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Thank you
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Also Paul Thomas Anderson has very literal film titles. “Is there any blood in it?” “There will blood.” “Any battles?” “It’s one battle after another.”
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
H is for Hawk is a criminally underrated film (as well as a wonderful book).
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Charles Humble @charleshumble.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Charles Hamilton? Over 5,000 stories under various pseudonyms, most notably as Frank Richards. Barbara Cartland (723+ novels) and John Creasey (560+ books).
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