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 4147681100
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 15/07/2026i agree, though i'm not convinced that CRDT research is pulling away folks who would otherwise be solving the issue of how to talk to people about divergence with multiparty-sensitivity to local nuances. 010
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 · 14/07/2026Thank you for this! This is the missing piece for me to let my references roam on @semble.so 080
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 03/06/2026those doing the work people are cool. i got them tickets to the gig. pls don't bring those other folk, ok? 110
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 26/05/2026hell yeah! i had a bad time with tauri on linux recently! how's it holding up on porta-linux? 120
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 · 18/03/2026yes. it makes me think the aphorism "how you do one thing is how you do everything" is actually a warning. 020
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/03/2026plz. i am just an engineer. stood in front of a failure demand concealment device. asking it to report the failure to any string concatentor that might spare a cycle to lower the drawbridge far enough to let us, maybe, use your service. 001
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 · 16/03/2026"we've reached your output limit for the day! lets pay you extra for a bit more today, and tomorrow lets see how we can waste less of your energy on bullshit that turned out not to be necessary" 030
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/03/2026"welcome to the team! your colleagues and i have iterated on this up to date onboarding doc just for you that sussinctly describes the outcomes we want, the constraints, the current situation, and the set of rituals that we actually do and why. lets go!" 110
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 16/03/2026complex emotions watching the tech industry learn basic management skills but only for talking to computer. 150
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 · 15/03/2026yes that quote goes too hard without context. no disdain intended from me. i ran a bunch of social clubs (laudatory) a while back and burned out trying to balance the messy all-welcome magic from the creping asocial norms of the industry, sponsors, scalpers. 010
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 · 13/03/2026that's a good one, thanks for sharing! I dug in to the gov.uk app with my digital transformation hat, you might like it: oli.zilla.org.uk/2025/02/26/a...oli.zilla.org.ukIt’s fantastic. It’s also very long, and you have much to do. Here are 3 of the 33 “priority reforms” that stand out, ordered from the achievable to the transformative. 000
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 13/03/2026www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/b... More notes in circulation than ever, but a steady decline in the count of claims of damaged notes since 2006. 001
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 · 11/03/2026i know right! it's wild that "international" specs keep doing this. 010
