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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

PSA: Holding the up-volume and the power button on an iPhone for a few seconds puts the phone into lock mode, with biometrics disabled until the pin/password is entered.

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Related to this, as in something they can go deep on to investigate or validate? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(...

en.wikipedia.org

Spike (software development) - Wikipedia

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

My guess - nothing, they’re just doing it to spite the EU over recent rulings around App Stores, etc…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Recent sysadmin wisdom: if an AWS service hasn’t had any updates in the last 3+ years, make sure you have a plan B

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

No TikTok installed, no account, and I can see the video after this click through (from Bluesky app on iOS)

TikTok click through screen to view a video

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Strange how the history of the world has changed so dramatically, and perhaps the downward slope started with a seemingly humorous (at the time) lawsuit forcing Musk to buy Twitter… I wonder what state the world would be in now if this hadn’t have happened? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.com

Twitter sues Elon Musk, says he can’t “trash the company… and walk away”

Lawsuit: Musk’s contractual breaches “cast a pall over Twitter and its business.”…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It seems like the chime SDK is staying (which I believe is what powers slack comms), just the standalone Chime app that’s going.

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Great report, but how do you pronounce it? WhoAmy? Who-Ah-Em-Ai? @quinnypig.com will have thoughts… :)

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

When I first started reading this I though,t “is this really news, this issue has been around for years…” but then it gets interesting - kudos to the researchers on this one!

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social loving the podcast, but for balance, think you should invite @edzitron.com to be interviewed, to give an alternative view of AI :)

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

iOS 18.2.1 seems to fix the really annoying bug where the iPhone torch doesn’t turn on (either immediately or sometimes at all)… likewise for the camera button from the Lock Screen! 🎉

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The “best” attempt I’ve seen to try and get real-time billing data involved a complex setup where CloudTrail events were fed into the AWS pricing API to calculate the potential costs of newly deployed infrastructure. Hate to think how difficult to support that would be…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

PSA: shop around for insurance at *every* renewal! Car insurance renewal received: up 50% from the best price I got last year. Spent about 30 mins looking, found a new provider that comes in at 10% less than last year's price (almost half of the renewal price from the current provider).

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Final one - Happy Xmas! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge 📚💙 Day 20

Book cover: How to argue with a racist, by Adam Rutherford

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge 📚💙 Day 19

Book cover: The Hobbit, by J R R Tolkien

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

One of the most underrated apps for the iPhone is Shortcuts - it can create some really powerful outcomes, in just a few steps. For example, this 3-step Shortcut allows you to use the share screen to summarise a whole variety of content (web pages straight from Safari, files, etc) with ChatGPT

Screenshot of an iOS shortcut that receives content from the share sheet, passes it into ChatGPT with a prompt, and copies the output to the clipboard

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sort of breaking the rules by adding a comment, but the version I read when I was a kid only had three parts. If you’ve not read it in the last 10 years or so, there is a new “ending” that’s pretty thought-provoking…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Book cover: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Book cover: Danny, Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Book cover: Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Book cover: Football, by Danny Blanchflower

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Book cover: Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This suggestion is more around charity than giving than a loan, but have you seen Give Directly? Even though you don’t get your money back at the end, given your ~50% return rate from the loans, it’s probably going to be more impactful for your donation: www.givedirectly.org

givedirectly.org

GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty

GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and r...

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

After more than 8 years of using on premises versions of Microsoft Office, it’s a breath of fresh air to be using a fully modern, cloud-enabled toolset!

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We'll also be looking at how Rayo can help customers address key concerns around strategic resilience in a world of emerging threats and challenges. Looking forward to getting stuck-in! 3/3 Www.rayo.cloud

rayo.cloud

Seek a better way.

Cloud, data and AI specialists that believe there is a better way to do business. We collaborate with our customers to find a better way to realise the…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It means that I get to work for a company that has a clear mission to help public sector organisations innovate and make the best use of cloud to deliver public good across the UK. 2/3

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Feeling refreshed after a short break, I'm very happy to announce that today I joined Rayo as their CTO. I'm excited for a number of reasons, not least of which is the chance of working with Chris and Robert again (both of whom were instrumental in my deciding to join AWS way back in 2016). 1/3

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Book cover: The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Book cover: Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Book cover: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain, by David Gerard

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Individual pages seem to work best for me so far (I’m a recent convert to reMarkable)…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

There are at least three separate email fields, none of which track with the BuilderID login email… fingers crossed the support team merge the right accounts :)

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Moving an AWS certification account from a corporate identity to a personal identity is *far* harder than it should be…

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Book cover: Assassin’s Apprentice, by Robin Hobb

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Great session, worth watching! What is also interesting to me is that of the 18 in that list, 15 aren’t about GenAI but instead focus on the core services… :)

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Matt J @mhjwork.bsky.social · 12/12/2024