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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 07/10/2026

I increasingly think that lisp / Clojure got it right with code as data. Being able to traverse and modify code based on context allows for really elegant abstractions while keeping business logic clear.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 21/09/2026

I feel like with MCP we are learning the hard way that even with LLMs you still want domain composition. MCP doesn’t compose and there’s currently no discovery method. It makes building a robust systems that others can build on top of harder.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 10/09/2026

What if instead of giving $5000 to every American, you gave them a choice. $5000 now or $7500 invested in a social wealth fund (locked until retirement) that invested in American businesses directly. You encourage business to invest in automation, adopt AI etc…

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 07/09/2026

The fat synth patch on Yeah yeah yeahs - Spitting off the edge of the world is just 👌

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 20/08/2026

The most vitriolic arguments I’ve seen are between programmers who like Clojure and programmers who like Haskell.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 14/08/2026

Did we seriously just use the national alert system to tell people not to have BBQs

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 11/08/2026

Finally managed to get tickets for the Odyssey in 70mm IMAX.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 08/08/2026

Just discovered the The Adam Curtis Subreddit. It’s just clips of the news with NIN and Burial edited over the top. Pretty on brand.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 08/08/2026

This is even better if you milk clarify the Alcohol beforehand. Genuinely an absolute treat.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 25/07/2026

The Untouchables is nearly 40 years old but it’s still an absolutely fantastic movie to this day.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 15/07/2026

Theme for tonight’s England match: Chumbawumba - TubThumping

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 22/06/2026

I love it when I leave a job and I give a speech emphasising how great I am.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 29/05/2026

*In supermarket and hearing repeated beeping* Me: This new Autechre album is banging

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 21/05/2026

I don’t want video games to look photorealistic, nor do they need to be an infinite sandbox or constantly evolving. But I would like more games you can play on the couch together and have fun with other people. I feel like that has been practically lost apart from a few Hazelight games.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 13/05/2026

Been working on some codebase analysis tooling recently. I'm more convinced than ever of the validity of Conway's Law. Your system architecture will be modelled on your organisation's communication structures.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 18/04/2026

Early start today to a very long day. Tony Iommi is keeping me going with Planet Caravan. Maybe it’s time I treated myself to that mesa boogie stack…

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 08/04/2026

Yay, SIGMOD just published the paper I wrote with @muratdemirbas.bsky.social and Lingzhi Deng, it's about strengthening Raft's consistency and time-to-recovery lnkd.in/ef6qUJzw

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LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right!

A new Raft enhancement for fast, consistent reads.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 07/04/2026

I’ve come to the conclusion that AIs are bad at writing code that is easy for AIs to maintain.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 13/03/2026

#GOTOpodcast: @boicy.bovon.org sits down with @suksr.bsky.social to unpack the ideas behind her new book “Architecture for Flow.” • How value streams and team structures shape architecture • Architecture for Flow Canva • Why visual thinking matters 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 19/03/2026

Lads night! 🎉 ( Me sat at home alone, catching up on Adam Curtis Documentaries )

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

the reason The Matrix uses humans as batteries is because some executives thought the original idea—that the machines would use human brains as processors—was too complicated for audiences and they wouldn't accept it anyway.

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Felix Turner @felixturner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I think Manchester has deployed boosterism well over the last decade, but it has tended to work because it delivered things at the same time. Boosterism without delivery is just words and there’s some risk the city starts to rely too much on narrative for its momentum

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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 24/02/2026

Radiohead - House of Cards came out 18 years ago. I remember they open sourced the 3d scanning data used for the video. It was cool to muddle around with it and render it out in 3d.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 24/02/2026

Looking forward to see @jeffgerstmann.com take on Phil Spencer retiring…

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This one hits hard.

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Broken Sword: Reforged, besides looking absolutely gorgeous, plays unexpectedly well on the tiny screen of my phone. The interface works great, everything is readable and visible, and I don't even need my glasses. This is how the Monkey Island remakes should have been treated...

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 20/02/2026

Watching Game of Thrones again, and I forgot about Deus ex Benjen

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 10/02/2026

Microsoft posts 32% YOY down on hardware sales last week. This week Lisa Su talks about next Xbox consoles on track for 2027.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 09/02/2026

I’m convinced that Warren Spectre’s one city block could be convincingly created now.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 05/02/2026

I’ve just realised my Apple Watch can have a db volume meter as a complication. So now I can pretend I’m in mission impossible and say toast at increasingly louder volumes.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

reading this essay with The Tyranny of Structurelessness echoing in my ears www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

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The Tyranny of Stuctureless

The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 01/02/2026

" they expect one of us to be in the wreckage, brother"

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 31/01/2026

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering: "How does software X deal with that?" And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 31/01/2026

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️pop 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 21/01/2026

Huh, the Apple silicon decision to have unified memory means you can run LLMs with crazy memory requirements pretty easy… *goes off to look up Mac Studio pricing*

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emily s. @emily.news · 14/01/2026

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 06/01/2026

So for the first time in 6 years my cpu is the minimum spec… maybe it’s time for an upgrade this year.

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 01/01/2026

30ml Vodka 20ml Liquor 43 15ml Passoa 15ml Butterscotch liqueur 10ml lime 2 dashes of orange bitters 3 drops of tonka bean 6 drops of 10% saline Shake over ice. Serve in a lowball glass.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 26/12/2025

I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

"Why do we have to take ethics classes for a computer science degree?" This is why. And frankly, we should be failing more students for inadequately demonstrating their understanding of the topic. Let's review some fun historical examples of why "No, actually quality will continue to matter."

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11 of the most costly software errors in history | Raygun Blog

Software errors can cause chaos, with costs that bring down businesses or even governments. Not even NASA is immune from code errors - here are the most costly bugs, crashes and outages of all time.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

five gold rings? jeremy that's insane

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