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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

As of SEP-2640 you can kind of do this at the skill level, but tools don’t compose naturally. There’s no good way of canonically declaring a capability and its implementation separately. I feel like progressive api discovery is what’s missing.

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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

It is also profoundly more in line with the American psyche. You’re not getting a handout, you’re getting a share of what you’ve worked towards.

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

You then can move from a labour economy towards a capital economy (which America on the high end already is) The national fund could create a citizen dividend. Essentially UBI funded through investment in American businesses.

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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

I think I just love songs that have that massive sound scape and sound better when really cranked

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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 · 21/08/2026

It’s also better in a Nick and Nora.

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

They both want clean elegant design but fundamentally disagree on what that is 😅

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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 · 16/06/2026

For what it’s worth, I don’t really care where a team is at. But I do care what trajectory they are on. Are they automating toil, are they improving their codebase, are they able to achieve what they set out to do? And if not are they improving their processes so that next time they do…

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 16/06/2026

Seeing the improvement. Sit in retros, are they asking questions, coming up with ideas and plans to improve? Or does it look more like a moan session? Are they self analysing? Using metrics to interrogate what they do? Recognising if they slip back etc…

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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 16/06/2026

Anything that points towards them having a regular continuous improvement cycle. Many teams do retros etc… but often it ends up just being going through the motions.

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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

More importantly, if you do not model your organisation structure, then you will not have any structured architecture.

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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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Matt (Tech) Lloyd @techlloyd.com · 11/03/2026

As an old flash dev, what’s your workflow? Using an old version of flash or are you using Haxe or similar?

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

Looks awesome, is the team behind this on bsky?

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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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