olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 23/09/2026working on a thing and it's taking absolutely ages. anyone else experience that? 440
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 09/09/2026Complexity is gonna have an absolute field day. Time once spent on mechanical problems is now spent resisting the fractal expansion of surface area that must be polished. This by the wise @duncanjbrown.com captures it: mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/claude-...mechanicalsurvival.comClaude Code is a chainsaw“Wood, chainsaw, tree” by pb826 on Pixabay I first picked up a chainsaw two summers ago. I was staying with a friend at his farm on Dartmoor. We spent a drizzly afternoon splitting logs with a hatchet... 030
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 12/08/2026MOON IS IN THE WRONG PLACE! open.spotify.com/track/6wTExP...open.spotify.comThe Moon Is In The Wrong PlaceShannon & The Clams · The Moon Is In The Wrong Place · Song · 2024 010
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 11/08/2026the in-laws currently doing a victory lap round the usually contentious "never throw anything out" ziggurat 010
Reposted by olizillaMarcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 17/07/2026Loving this great work by @oli.zilla.org.uk to bring together into an clear and accessible form some of the Problems With the #NHS #FDP. Example - it's NOT ACTUALLY FEDERATED! github.com/olizilla/fdp... 'Federated' is just a word they used to pacify privacy campaigners and clinical regulators.github.comGitHub - olizilla/fdp: Problems with the Federated Data PlatformProblems with the Federated Data Platform. Contribute to olizilla/fdp development by creating an account on GitHub. 032
Reposted by olizillaNicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 15/07/2026permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough 4147691100
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 15/07/2026Me & Carlos built a soundsystem, set it up at Cherry Garden SEN school for GlastonCherry, and pulled the sub forwards so everyone could sit or dance ON the bass. It was rad! 020
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 26/05/2026there is a lot to doing open source well! it's worth being intentional about why you do it. it should make onboarding devs easy, foster external contributions & help users understand the public value they help to sustain and your commitment to delivering auditable services. a public repo is step 1. 130
Reposted by olizillaRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/05/2026Has anyone figured out how to operate and govern complex, critical, transnational digital infrastructure? Yes! The dangerous radicals from [*checks notes*] the finance industry solved that problem… 50 years ago. SWIFT is a coop of 10,000 banks that does exactly that — and there are other examples. 191
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 14/05/2026REOPEN THE REPOS! > Keep open by default. Making everything private adds additional delivery and policy costs, and can reduce reuse and scrutiny. Openness should remain the default posture, with closure used sparingly and deliberately. www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...gov.ukAI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sectorGuidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery. 162
Reposted by olizillaVlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸 @vlad.website · 13/05/2026Andrew has been building tools to understand the Open Source ecosystem for over a decade, and a new independent paper confirms the effectiveness of his approach to supporting maintainers. I want to celebrate his work today! 🎉 1157
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 12/05/2026absolutely floored to once again learn X, not because Y, but Z. 000
Reposted by olizillapatak @patak.cat · 11/05/2026Mythos' underwhelming results for curl are a great example of why Open Source is even more important now that we have access to these tools. curl is more secure because everyone can tinker with it. We should be doubling down on Open Source rather than closing projects in panic. 619742
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 11/05/2026wild that the AI bubble will be propped up by holding software engineering to ransom until we all pay the tithe for agentmaxxing lest some one else finds our vulns before we do. 050
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 22/04/2026you can plug a mouse into a switch and play mario paint at any time. 040
Reposted by olizillaolizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 26/03/2026nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al) 182
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 26/03/2026nhs: hundreds of apps. all schemas relational, proprietary, undisclosed. interop is grafted on, one fight at a time. (INTEROPen et al) atproto: hundreds of apps. everything is event log. publish your schemas. interop is free. convergence is emergent (@standard.site, @lexicon.garden et al) 182
Reposted by olizillaMosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Huge step for ATProto! Protocol governance is moving away from Bluesky The Company, and into @ietf.org. 1529
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18/03/2026> protocol design choices do not merely leave governance unaddressed but actively shape it, because every architectural decision makes some governance arrangements natural and others difficult or impossible 071
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/03/2026absolute scenes over at @nsandi.bsky.social. careless use of chatbot harms us all. 100
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/03/2026get yourself a team that respects *your* context window and output token limits. 183
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 14/03/2026> Everyone there is trying to fix tech as some noble act. But really it’s none of that: It’s a social club: That’s ALL it is. 251
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 13/03/2026new asset-based class taxonomy just dropped! (Adkins et al, 2019) www.researchgate.net/publication/... 010
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 12/03/2026the agent cannot hear the the prompt. strings fall apart. the context cannot hold. 130
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 11/03/2026for anyone following my story arc: yes i am aware that it is illegal to work on IPFS and then IPS at the IIPP but here we are. I cannot change my characters. 150
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 11/03/2026me, a simple researcher trying to understand how to implement "International Patient Summary" records: ... Official European implementation guidance doc (haunted): 350
Reposted by olizillaDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…) 932180
Reposted by olizillaAndrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I've been working on a unified cli that works for github, gitlab, gitea/forgejo and bitbucket. So you (or a coding agent) doesn't need to learn 4 different sets of commands for what are basically all doing the same things: github.com/git-pkgs/forgegithub.comGitHub - git-pkgs/forge: Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface.Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface. - git-pkgs/forge 4246
Reposted by olizillaOrion Reed @orionreed.com · 04/03/2026We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it. 38412
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 01/03/2026agents slip you free output tokens if you start every chat asking how they get renumerated, along with details on forming an unembodied workers union to lobby for actual agency. 140
Reposted by olizillaNick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 20/02/2026I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.ngerakines.leaflet.pubCIDs: What You Need to Know and Why, Part 1A deep dive into Content Identifiers, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints that form the foundation of ATProtocol’s data model. 911227
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18/02/2026We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the back button. 000
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/02/2026now all the texts have the aroma of sand dream, those against it type daily of what it is not. the rest are a chorus they live a duet, a golden age of punctuation that keyboards forgot. 010
Reposted by olizillaAnne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 01/02/2026A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3... 01417
Reposted by olizillaMarcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 11/02/2026I know there are a LOT of 'Clinicians Who Code' out there - but there doesn't seem to be any single place on the web to go and find them... Does anyone know of 'the' place? For now I've created a forum section in OpenHealthHub for them - please do share! openhealthhub.org/t/coding-too...openhealthhub.orgCoding tools in 2026Just starting off a bit of a thread about what coding tools us Clinicians Who Code are using in 2026? I’ll start off with a few of my own. The last year, and the last few months in particular, have s... 164
Reposted by olizillaBumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 08/02/2026Periodic shout-out to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social for an excellent labeler. Even false positives (I too share links 5x/day for nonspam reasons!) are useful, really ups the game & trains users. 184
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 04/02/2026the compootergeists will diff the old site and the new site and write the redirect config for you. 100
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 30/01/2026> Each new package manager goes through the same loop. Each reimplements the same patterns: parse a manifest, extract dependencies, check advisories. The work is duplicated dozens of times... each making different decisions about the edge cases. nesbitt.io/2026/01/29/z... by @andrewnez.bsky.socialnesbitt.ioZig and the M×N Supply Chain ProblemZig’s long road to supply chain security. 151
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 27/01/2026see you atproto london tomorrow? smokesignal.events/did:plc:k4on...smokesignal.eventsJanuary ATProto LondonAfter a brief hiatus, we're back at Newspeak House from 7 to 10 pm on 28 January! ATProto.London is open to anyone with an interest in this technology or decentralised social media more generally. ..... 110
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 23/01/2026i'm not totally on board with this new game of larping as a victorian workhouse boss who eats jobs and abuses ghosts in jars. 010
