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Xan Manning

@rantomatic.com
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Some platform engineering dude, getting a little bit obsessed with his kilowatt hours!

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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 25/09/2026
Cycle to school week is imminent. As a parent who already cycles the sprog to school, I hope that week involves less cars overtaking too close, opening doors on me, overtaking on a blind bend and adults crossing the road without looking. Unfortunately all 4 happened to me TODAY.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vibe coding replaces the interesting bit - writing code to solve a problem - and replaces it with the boring bit - reviewing someone else's code to see if they've done it right. It's a shit swap.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 18/09/2026
Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Superdry is both the name of a clothing store and the effect their clothes have on the partners of middle-aged men who insist on shopping there.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 31/07/2026
Never been to a dedicated EV service station before. Clean, calm, well organised. Probably won’t last once EVs become more the norm.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 27/07/2026
A seemingly random farm with a shop and a café with beefy chargers in Norfolk. Not a bad place to find yourself needing to top up ☕️⚡️🐄
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Mail are attacking someone for a 'man of the people' act and somehow it isn't the privately educated city trader who became a career politician and receives £5 million gifts and £2m in side hussles, but likes to pose with pints of beer he never drinks.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going...
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 09/06/2026
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 24/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Rammstein Placebo InMe Static-X Lacuna Coil System of a Down Serj Tankian Gojira Newton Faulkner George Ezra
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Sometimes information is confidential and there’s typically a contract between myself and trusted peers to know what information needs to stay on a “need to know” basis. My conversations with AI may not even stay in the same country, and be used for future training.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
I can also often trust a junior engineer to be selective with information they share when they need to, I can’t say as much about AI… where do those conversational sessions ultimately go? I mean I’d never throw a junior under a bus acting under my instruction, and I’m not being unethical, but
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Make the AI better than me. To replace me. To be directed by some non technical business person to replace the best engineers to the point that we’re all unemployable. What a miserable place we’re finding ourselves in…
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Reduced workload for grunt work, but the real problems become a battle testing what the AI is capable of or where I need to step in… and I am not always sure I know where the boundary should be and how much AI steals from me. This is such a miserable situation and I know the ultimate goal is to…
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Complex problems myself because I don’t trust that they fully grasp the problem. Do I just not get the whole AI thing? It’s maybe making my day less stressful in some ways but more stressful in others. Also the juniors are disappearing because they’ve been replaced by models. I appreciate the
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Human juniors also drink less water than AI. The junior has better memory (although sometimes selective). The junior is potentially less expensive overall, the junior isn’t taking up sought after capacity in public cloud data centres. Heck I will still get just as frustrated and end up solving…
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Junior or maybe a mid-level engineer to do my work for me, but I have to be super explicit about instructions and providing context. This so called “junior” has amnesia, unless his brain, the context, is written down on disk. Why don’t I just do work with a human junior? They’d use less electricity.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
Hands on problem solving! Sure you think though problems, the AI tries to solve them, but the “aha!” moment when you solve the problem yourself, using your own smarts and the journey of learning and the hit of dopamine… it’s gone(ish). On top of this, I really do feel like I’m just bossing about a
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 22/05/2026
I feel a lot of my work these days is more “thought work”, I’m so rarely getting to code any more, unless I’m feeling super frustrated with my session, the old “fine, I’ll do it myself”. It occurs to me I’m doing a lot less of the stuff that actually brings a lot of engineers joy…
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 11/05/2026
My grandmother-in-law. It’s mysteriously got worse now my car has just changed colour as well.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 23/04/2026
Let’s start the countdown again. Cables replaced in Mackworth, how long until the drooling knuckle draggers return to Nick the cables? I think last time it was 9 days?
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 10/02/2026
Time. It took about 9 days. I think they got interrupted in the process…
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 07/02/2026
Ey up mi duck!
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 30/01/2026
The charger cables in Mackworth, Derby have been replaced yesterday by BP Pulse after having the cables cut by knuckle dragging, mouth breathers. How long will they stay this time? Got to beat the record of 4 weeks…
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 05/01/2026
The summer of effectively free electricity, heating and car fuel is over and we’re now deep into the (at present) -4°c winter. Happy to report we’re still toasty warm inside. I’m collating the data for cost saving over the year.
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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 27/11/2025
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I hate it when my kids buy me something with 'World's Best Dad' on it. Because it's so blatantly not true, and makes me realise what a failure of a father I've been.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 26/10/2025
How do you escape? Asking for a friend stuck in my boot.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 25/10/2025
Parked up at a hotel and every time I open my boot I am ambushed by swans and geese. Is this normal?!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 24/09/2025
Today I Vibe Coded for the first time in Go. Yes I’m ashamed, but I was in a rush, the company pays for GitHub copilot and it was a simple problem I just didn’t have head space to solve myself. The code works, it’s an internal utility, harmless right? 😅
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I love this. Can't remember where I found it but so glad I kept a copy.
A humorous model of an angry old man shaking his fist because he hates electric vehicles. It's titled Anti EV Boomer
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
ECHR offers protection against unfair dismissal from work, protects pension rights, maternity leave rights and protects women getting divorced. People who think it's a good idea to leave should be ridiculed like flat-earthers. The ignorance is astounding.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Pre-ECHR, rights were almost completely at the whims of the current parliament - which doesn't always represent public majority. The Bill of Rights of 1689 could be very easily abolished by parliamentary majority. The ECHR created a set of rights that have an external guarantor. That's the point.
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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Dave Thornley @dht6000.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is bloody great and should be read by everyone in the UK
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S L ∆ P P Y @sstringer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Litter picking Food bank volunteering Checking in on vulnerable neighbours Just three thing off the top of my head you can do that are more valuable to your community than painting flags on stuff.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 07/08/2025
Great review! I’m particularly happy because you happened to be driving the exact colour and spec I’ve been eyeing up (apart from wheel size). I’m struggling with the transition away from Tesla and this is the only car really tempting me. I definitely need the smaller turning circle. Cup holders 💩
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 02/08/2025
In honour of my Twitter profile’s pinned tweet about people who like bitter coffee…
Duolingo translation of «This coffee is as bitter as you» into Norwegian («Denne kaffen er like bitter som deg!»)
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 30/07/2025
*But still exercise caution with paid VPNs - you’re still tunnelling through someone else’s network 😅 I might add ProtonVPN to my list, but I do like Mullvad.
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 28/07/2025
Du blir ikke venner med salat!
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
the room next door - When Donald Trump was Called Out
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
rip ozzy
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 21/06/2025
It’s getting a bit warm folks… showyourstripes.info/b/europe/uni...
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 19/06/2025
Bring back the Danelaw as well? 😀
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