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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 09/10/2026

Nope, not April 1st. Money’s a helluva drug.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

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50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets

From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 06/10/2026

the bechdel test for an open source community is: two women in positions of formal authority discuss something other than moderating a man's behavior

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 06/10/2026

I’ve been spending evenings building the train service tracking app of my (admittedly kinda lame) dreams. Live activities, signal data for exact locations, even works on your watch! Want to try it out?

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 02/10/2026

Native apps were ALWAYS better. Always always always. Especially when it came to a11y. Choosing cross-platform has always been a fudge to save money at the expense of the user.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 01/10/2026

Hurdy-gurdy solo at Hare & Hounds on Tuesday. Le Vent du Nord defining the genre as always 👌

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 30/09/2026

It's quite hard to overstate how fucking awful Meetup is now that Bending Spoons own it. I want to attend a 2 hour meetup where we play the piano to each other. No I do not want a £10.99 subscription. No, I do not want your app.

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why don't you trust me?

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djstimms.bsky.social @djstimms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the most important stories I've worked on - give it a read.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 27/09/2026

Unpopular music take: Keith Jarrett at the RFH, London 2008 was better than the Köln concert.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 25/09/2026

My annual rant about why this kind of behaviour should be outright illegal and apparently it should be: www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/regulat... Bottom of the slider means zero @justgiving.bsky.social JustGiving is owned by Blackbaud (£2bn market cap)

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are aiming to hit at least 2,000 paying members in time for our birthday next month. The deadline is Sunday. That means, for the rest of this week, you can get a full Dispatch subscription for £4 for the first two months, or, just £60 for a full year. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/lets-hit-200...

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Let’s hit 2000 members for our birthday

You have one week…

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is your brain on Meta.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 16/09/2026

Morning swim in the Med? Ok.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 12/09/2026

“This is about equipping people for the world they are in, whether or not we like the world we are becoming,” feels like something Sam Altman would say, not the leader of Birmingham’s biggest University. University should be about equipping adults for the world, and to help them change it!

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 03/09/2026

Slowly make haste, and without losing courage; Twenty times redo your work; Polish and re-polish endlessly, And sometimes add, but often take away

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 28/08/2026

Who is the audience for 5 hour long podcasts where two dudes talk about “whatever is in their head” at that moment? I’m not sitting through 5 hours of anything. Time to tax podcast microphones.

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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Birmingham Council commits to '20mph on all local roads' in major vision for city Birmingham Council says 'cars will no longer dominate street life around homes and schools' 👏👏 www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

birminghammail.co.uk

Council commits to '20mph on all local roads' in vision for city

Birmingham Council says 'cars will no longer dominate street life around homes and schools'

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 25/08/2026

Just in case you were wondering, if you’re the guy that doesn’t want any sort of governance in a project you’re running (software or otherwise), you’re probably the reason that project needs good governance.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 22/08/2026

The second job I ever applied to was Harvest back in 2013. I wasn’t a good “culture fit” but the team there seemed genuinely passionate about their craft and their product. What a shame… www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Harvest price hike hits business with 1500% increase in bills

Richard Haldenby says his average monthly bill for Harvest had risen from $130 (£95.50) to $2,110.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 21/08/2026

“Brand new” 😂😂😂

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 21/08/2026

I get that corporate has to chase the "cool" job title. But "Member of Technical Staff" tells me nothing about what it is you do. It isn't "everything technical". Where do you excel? What is your focus? Tell me - and be proud of it.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 19/08/2026

"I built a better X for Y" *sends link to vibe-coded landing page* Are you... sure that it's better?

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 15/08/2026

I live in a deeply unserious village which plays hits from ABBA and Grease from its bell tower. Anyone who says Bournville is uptight is only partially correct.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 14/08/2026

i think about this post every day and it makes me chuckle every time

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 14/08/2026

Can I give up on tech and go and play in a band like this for the rest of my life? Just fucking joyful youtu.be/0MbFy2zQKCM?...

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The Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours

YouTube video by Celtic Colours International Festival

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 10/08/2026

The NHS have now deleted around a third of all their Open Source repositories. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

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Rose W @rosew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The two biggest ways to quickly build your skills in tech: 1. Work places where you are never the most knowledgable person in the room. Even if you bring experience make sure there are other people who's experience you can also learn from.

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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 08/08/2026

Went to a gig. Performer was 75 year old Japanese jazz fusion legend. Oldest person in the audience (except me and my dad) was 28. Photos were taken on a 21 year old games console. Badass tho.

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John Chadfield @joxn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Wikimedia Foundation CEO "we support the employee’s right to unionize" Also Wikimedia Foundation CEO: *hires Littler-Mendelson, the largest union avoidance firm in the US* @wikimediafoundation.org

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

we must recover the old wisdom

Biryani for 800 people
4 kg ginger
2 kg garlic
200 kg mutton (cut 6 pieces from each 500g of meat)
50 kg rice
32 kg masoor
80g saffron (8 tolas)
2 kg chilli powder (red)
2 kg crushed chillies (red)
500g whole green chillies
360g elachi
250g turmeric (use sparingly of this quantity and use egg yellow to obtain richer colour)
500g jeera
250g shah-jeera
250g tuj
20 kg ghee (use sparingly. If mutton is fatty, less with be needed)
20 litres oil
1½ litres lemon juice (or vinegar or ½ vinegar and ½ lemon)
40 x 500ml yoghurt
12-16 doz eggs
25 kg potatoes
20 kg onions
1 kg fine salt (use only as much as is required)
6 kg coarse salt (for rice and meat)

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