‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

For years, I've had a test-card at the start of my slides. Before I start my talk, I can immediately see if the aspect ratio is wrong, colours are off, or any other visual issues with the presentation. A few years ago I was invited to give a talk and was assured that the venue was set up for audio as well as video. I dutifully filled my slides with with demo videos containing sound. None of…

Almost nobody hand-writes an MCP server. They generate one from an OpenAPI document. Speakeasy and Stainless will emit you a TypeScript server from your spec...

When most people in the API space hear the word governance, they picture a Spectral ruleset. They picture a linter in a CI/CD pipeline rejecting a pull reque...

I’m Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice   We are a collection of women's organisations, networks and community groups that work with and support women across th...

I recently led a leadership training session for a client. During the planning, the evergreen question of "how do we make decisions" came up; this post talks about the framework I introduced to help…

Using Git with coding agents - Agentic Engineering Patterns

On the first Sunday of each month we organise Digital Independence Day. This is when we reclaim our digital freedom and switch to democracy-friendly digital alternatives.

A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.

National Health Service rules state that all software created with public money should be publicly available, but fears of computer-hacking AI models like Mythos have prompted a change in policy

It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting…

As AI floods codebases with machine-generated output, the AI verification trap emerges to test the resolve of modern developers.

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can very easily diff to spot any changes - which was fine until we added a build timestamp, so every file

The Council has released a statement severely criticising the EHRC for their desire to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces in the UK

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they…

Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.

I consider myself pretty git-confident, I've worked with it a lot, taught it, been a git consultant, run engineering and various things-as-code teams. This week I had a spectactular git problem where…

Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute say that they have been left with no choice but to exclude trans people, even though they don’t want to. This is outrageous – and we want to defend them. Both org...

The minutes of a meeting, leaked to NWBylines, strongly indicate NHSE does not want the prescribing of puberty blockers at WellBN to continue

Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.