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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 12/08/2025

🗣️ What makes DevOpsDays London truly special? Our Open Spaces! 🤝 This is your chance to drive the conversation, discuss pressing issues, and collaborate with the community. 🎟️ Be part of it, Sept 23-24. Tickets: ti.to/devopsdays-l... #DevOpsDays #OpenSpaces

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 11/08/2025

A huge thank you to @elastic.co for supporting DevOpsDays London 2025! 🙌 Your partnership helps bring our amazing community together to share ideas, spark conversations, and inspire the future of DevOps. We couldn’t do it without you! 💜 #DevOpsDays #DevOps #Community #London2025

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 10/08/2025

Join Torsten Hopf for this humorous, story-driven talk on a small app’s chaotic cloud journey—full of tempting tech, hard lessons, and costly mistakes Perfect for anyone navigating software architecture in the cloud. #Cloud #DevOps #Architecture Tickets: ti.to/devopsdays-l...

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 09/08/2025

📣 Calling all DevOps professionals! 📅 DevOpsDays London 2025 is just around the corner, Sept 23-24. 🎓 Elevate your skills, share your knowledge, and be part of a vibrant community. 🎟️ Grab your tickets now! ti.to/devopsdays-l...

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 22/07/2025

Testing stuck in the past? In this fun, fiery talk, Ashley Smith tackles outdated testing practices in “Agile” teams, shares real-world anti-patterns, and makes the case for quality as a shared responsibility. #Testing #Agile #DevOps devopsdays.org/events/2025-... ti.to/devopsdays-l...

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

So looking forward to this talk. Such an important topic and one that just isn't discussed enough.

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Looking forward to this talk and learning more about MCP and specifically how it can be used in a DevOps context! #DevOps #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysLondon #CommunityEvent

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 17/07/2025

Drowning in alerts? This talk by @lnxchk.bsky.social shows how SLOs, automation, and machine learning can cut through the noise. Learn to focus on what truly impacts users, reduce meaningless alerts, and improve incident response. devopsdays.org/events/2025-... Tickets: ti.to/devopsdays-l...

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I still see too many postmortems being run in ways that aren't really blameless so excited for this talk! 🙌

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 07/07/2025

A US spy-tech giant that is fuelling the worst excesses of Trump’s regime, is poised to capitalise on Wes Streeting's 10 year health plan 🕵️ We say Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS. goodlawproject.org/palantir-poi...

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Palantir poised to cash in on Wes Streeting’s NHS plan | Good Law Project

The health secretary has put central records of our health data at the heart of his project to revolutionise the NHS – and a US spy-tech giant is in pole position to clean up.

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Ian Ames @ames.world · 23/05/2025

I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know 👍 (inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❤️)

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Building Successful Communities of Practice in organisations

Take this self-paced course to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Learn about the benefits for members and organisations, how to build them and ...

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 15/04/2025

Will Larson (@lethain.com) recently wrapped up an *incredible* streak of posts on engineering strategy on his blog, lethain.com. Strategy is hard, much harder than it looks. Especially since, much like design and management, when done well, it looks easy. Easy and obvious.

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Irrational Exuberance

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Agile Manchester returns next month (14-15th May). Full event programme here: agilemanchester.net/programme-2025 30+ sessions - keynotes, workshops, case studies, fun! 1 and 2 day tickets available - message me for a discount code.

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Programme 2025

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IT Revolution @itrevolution.com · 08/04/2025

"Model the leadership behaviors you want to see in others." Check out the final part of our leadership series: buff.ly/ygoge91

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Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net · 07/04/2025

“Flexibility isn’t a perk, it’s a necessity of modern life” The amazing @sophweston.bsky.social sharing The Principal Engineers Path at @qconferences.com in London today So much powerful, practical advice! 💖

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Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net · 07/04/2025

“I have 3 children under 7 and I’m here, of course I’m organised” I LOVE this! @sophweston.bsky.social sharing the skills she learned as a parent that helped her career! Stakeholder Management, Influencing, Flexibility, Crisis Management

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Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net · 07/04/2025

I’m in this pic and couldn’t agree more! Finding your community and leading a community will supercharge your network @devopsdays.london changed my life. 💜

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Advertising at the DLR station at the Excel. A coincidence given that it’s #KubeCon this week? I think not.

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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 01/04/2025

Please share! We have a bunch of diversity scholarships to give out for @pixelpioneers.co! Don't hesitate if you're eligible and would like to attend the conference on 20 June in Bristol. You can also contribute to the diversity fund by making a donation: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Golden bricks that are “good enough” and devs being endlessly creative within the constraints of the platform. Excellent talk by Mags Hogstedt & Christian Mikkelsen from Lego at Platform Engineering Day at #KubeCon.

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A brilliant start to Platform Engineering Day at #Kubecon with @hazelweakly.me speaking about hiring for platform engineering. Very insightful and also funny. And sparkles… ✨✨

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I'm very excited that DevOpsDays London is going ahead again this year and very pleased that we're finally able to announce it! 🎉

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm looking forward to speaking at #QConLondon in a few weeks! I’ll be talking about navigating the path to engineering leadership - drawing on lessons from 30 years in tech to explore how we grow, develop & take ownership of our careers. qconlondon.com/presentation...

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QCon London 2025 | The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned

Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.

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IT Revolution @itrevolution.com · 19/03/2025

The best processes are invisible. The worst ones are impossible to ignore. New article on enabling flow & removing obstacles: buff.ly/5mM5Bzg

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Looking forward to this one, tonight @stevesmithtech.bsky.social!

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QCon London 2025 | The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned

Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.

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Newcrafts Conference @newcrafts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Are you inadvertently making your code more complex than it needs to be? Join Kevlin Henney's workshop 'Keeping it Simple' to explore the real cost of complexity in code, culture, and process. We'll tackle technical debt head-on and discover practical simplification strategies: buff.ly/4houjvO

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Making slides for my upcoming talk at QCon London and busily searching for images on Unsplash. Found a lovely photo of the amazing Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage Site and true wonder of the natural world. The alt text on the image reads "A rocky beach with a bunch of rocks on it". 😂

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 13/03/2025

It's a big day for me - my first video is published on Dave Farley's Modern Software Engineering Youtube channel! I made a short video about my perspective on it: youtube.com/shorts/ZHeSV... I'd like to thank everyone whose encouragement and feedback over the years has brought me here.

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My first video on MSE is out now! 😱🥳

YouTube video by Emily Bache

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Christopher Street Project @christopherstreet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere. Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.

Trans Day of Visibility Rally
Washington DC
National Mall between 3rd St and 4th St
March 31 - 4 PM
transdayofvisibility.com

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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I am running a Masterclass on Communities of Practice on 20th March, and the slides are looking 👌 Expect lots of insights and practical steps for communities at all stages. Join me at leap-online.mn.co/plans/1510719

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LEAP Masterclass
Communities of Practice, creating powerful networks and accelerating digital skills
With Emily Webber
20th March 2025 1pm-2:30pm
Registrations open!

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Study for FREE on my online course site. There is already a collection of stuff there to get you started and we are looking to EXPAND on that free learning content this year. Take a look, and stay in the loop for more valuable learning resources ➡️ courses.cd.training

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Don't miss this opportunity to grab yourself a copy of The Team Onion at a bargain price!

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matty stratton @matty.wtf · 06/03/2025

We are almost sold out of tickets for @chicago.devopsdays.org! If you’ve been waiting to get your ticket to join us for the TENTH EDITION on March 18, don’t delay because we will likely sell out of tickets shortly! Get discounted ticket today at tickets.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-c...

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Voucher redemption :: DevOpsDays Chicago 2025

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 04/03/2025

Whoa.. Vivian Graubard over there on LinkedIn, bringing the whole fucking receipt book. Turns out those whiz kid DOGE "geniuses" couldn't pass the basic, entry level tech screen it takes to get hired at 18F. They didn't even meet the bar to *get an interview*.

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Hibri Marzook @hibri.net · 03/03/2025

Leaving a conservative religion was tough journey for me and for the most part a lonely one. There is now more support than ever and apostates like me are visible. Support #FaithtoFaithless humanists.uk/faithtofaith...

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Introducing Faith to Faithless | Helping people leaving high-control religious groups

Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most challenging and painful experiences anyone can face. Humanists UK's new animation brings these deeply personal stories to life.

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Jon Smart @jon.bvssh.com · 03/03/2025

Communicate, communicate, communicate. Communicate three more times than you think you need to and you're a third of the way there. Change is social. Data, storytelling, incentive (it's a priority, the outcomes are better, the water is warm!). #BVSSH

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matty stratton @matty.wtf · 28/02/2025

suggestions for ordering die-cut stickers that are NOT StickerMule? Sticker Robot says 2 week turnaround and we need them faster than that...

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Steve Smith @stevesmithtech.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Very excited to be a part of the Modern Software Engineering channel!

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Sophie Weston @sophweston.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I've recently become a bit obsessed with @thebugclubband.bsky.social. Musically speaking, that is. I'm not actually stalking them.

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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 16/02/2025

There's a wicked cycle whereby they keep getting asked for commitments and reply with commitments, and those commitments are seen as "not enough," so they fall into overcommitting on their roadmap and fall short. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-341-10...

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TBM 341: 10 Tips for Turning Around a Platform Team

Platform teams are tough work. The idea sounds great, but the day-to-day is hard. Someone recently reached out for advice with this common scenario. If you are a platform team member, you might find t...

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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 16/02/2025

A cold civil war ... never thought I'd be writing that, but here we are.

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

SDinGov Virtual returns on March 12th - virtual.sdingov.net A 1 day, online event for anyone involved in designing, delivering and commissioning public services. Save 10% on ticket prices if you are employed or contracted in the public sector. Full programme: virtual.sdingov.net/programme-2025

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Service Design in Government

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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This week's round up of Posts from Awesome Folks hellotacit.beehiiv.com/p/posts-from... - Organisations, people, teams, outcomes and other things.

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Posts from Awesome Folks #140

A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading

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