Reposted by Nigel SmallOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/20252 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language. 1902675783
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 02/12/2025If you can't keep people safe without invading their privacy, you have no place in government. 140
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The few winners will likely be those attached to hardware, such as Nvidia, and the few true experts who understand the true technology and its limitations. Everyone else will be left reeling. And somewhat broke. 020
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 01/12/2025As it was inevitably always going to do, the #AI bubble is bursting. Not everyone may see it, recognise it, or care about it. But like a collapsing star, soon all that will be left will be a dense core of useful technology. And all the gaseous hype will dissipate. www.ft.com/content/23e5...ft.comOpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimatesA burning platform 130
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 29/11/2025It is not within Trump's remit to control the BBC, close the air space over Venezuela, or recognise Ukrainian territory as Russian. The overinflated tangerine despot needs to get back in his box and the media need to stop reporting this as "things that Trump has decided". They are not up to him. 010
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I get that every time i go to my bloody router. So annoying. 010
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Random opinion: Browsers should not default to HTTPS for .local domains. 210
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Similar to Red Dwarf, Doctor Who is (a) quintessentially British, and (b) best when budgets are limited. The latter leads to the effort being more regularly put into storytelling, rather than special effects and guest stars. Keep it simple. 000
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Certainly a low blow to try to (partially) blame Gatwa though. He is a good actor, as is the most excellent Jodie Whittaker. Both were let down by weak scripts, muddled vision, and unnecessarily lofty ambition for the show overall. 100
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 02/11/2025"Let's go super woke" and "let's sell this to the puritans over the Atlantic" was always going to be a hard square to circle. Might have worked better if the script quality had been more consistent, though. deadline.com/2025/10/why-... #DoctorWho #BBC #Tardisdeadline.comWhy Disney Ditched ‘Doctor Who’: Sources Say Ratings, Big-Ticket Budget & MAGA Politics Were Factors In BBC Deal Failing To RegenerateThe BBC confirmed on Tuesday that its 'Doctor Who' co-production deal with Disney had vaporized. What went wrong on the series starring Ncuti Gatwa? 100
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In a startup, you have no legacy or existing customers. So any decision you make is easy as it has next to no impact. Not true when you have people relying on you. 020
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 29/10/2025And the premise is wrong anyway. Startup culture does not make you more nimble, it actually makes it harder to get things done. People have no boundaries or defined responsibilities, and processes are ignored or simply don't exist. In a startup, these are overhead. Elsewhere, they are essential. 110
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I stopped reading at "how we want to operate like the world’s largest startup". Corporate midlife crisis red flag 🚩 Startup culture should never be an aspiration for a mature company any more than teenage behaviour should be for a grown adult. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...aboutamazon.comStaying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizationsThe following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today. 151
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Just deleted my JustEat account. It's never been super-reliable as the drivers can often not find the house, but the past half-dozen orders have either never turned up, had missing items, or been cancelled. Literally unusable. 000
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 21/10/2025"Next" After all the others realised this doesn't actually fulfill a full-time job, let alone a long-term career plan. 010
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Tonight, I will be cooking the classic English dish "toad in the hole". For anyone not familiar with this traditional delight, you're not allowed to look it up, and must imagine it based only on its name. 110
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 18/10/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is saying i 'm bored of this i 'm going for a twixALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying i 'm bored of this i 'm going for a twix 100
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I don't give a fuck how much tourism the royal family brings in, anything that perpetuates the vile levels of entitlement this mob enjoy needs to be abolished absolutely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...bbc.co.ukPrince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'In a statement, the prince says: 000
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 17/10/2025This is a surprisingly popular idea. Maybe not surprising. 000
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Excellent. I think we may have our work cut out for us. 010
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Feeling an urge to pivot my career to become the Gordon Ramsay of the tech industry, shouting and swearing imaginatively at stupidity, complacency and incompetence until they sort their shit out. 360
Reposted by Nigel SmallPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous. 2625175
Reposted by Nigel SmallData Elixir @dataelixir.com · 08/10/2025Your ggplot2 charts work fine, but are they memorable? Real color engineering: brightness first (strongest differentiator), then hue, finally saturation. Most people get this backwards and wonder why their viz falls flat. www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...chartography.netColor EngineeringThe tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus. 0189
Reposted by Nigel Smalljoshmock @joshmock.com · 09/10/2025[toots his own horn] I built the Elasticsearch Gemini CLI extension mentioned here. Google made it easy for me to roll something stable out very quickly, which is not always how LLM integrations go, so props to the Gemini CLI devs for that. blog.google/technology/d...blog.googleNow open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensionsMake Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most. 031
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 14/10/2025This is solid truth for software eng in general, and has been my life for three decades. Plus, it's a fundamental reason why every organisation should balance commercial and technical forces from the very top of the company. "Engineering as a subsidiary of Product" does not and never will work. 020
Reposted by Nigel SmallSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/10/2025TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/...simonwillison.netsimonw/claude-skillsOne of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped … 417222
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 11/10/2025While I'm certainly a long way from being proud of everything British, being part of a nation that is at the forefront of cutting-edge insults like "cockwomble" and "wankpuffin" really does warm my heart. 010
Reposted by Nigel SmallThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage. The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both. But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting". 1048973
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I wondered where Boris Johnson had gone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewerToxic mass chiselled out of Feltham pipes amid campaign to help stop people tipping harmful substances down drains 000
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The US is no longer a political ally. open.spotify.com/episode/1U8E...open.spotify.comIs a secret US spy ring trying to take over Greenland? 030
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Someone needs to take away this government's computers. It's just bad idea after bad idea with this lot. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukAI to help police catch criminals before they strikeGovernment launches AI crime prevention challenge to support safer streets. 110
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Another day, another example of our government's depressingly tenuous grasp on technology. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comUK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'"The current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a 'nationally significant incident.'" 220
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 12/08/2025While this doesn't quite yet mean the end of access to Wikipedia from the UK, it's certainly a step down that ridiculous road. This gov't are trying to long strong and in control but (in terms of tech at least) are rapidly making the UK an international joke. www.thenational.scot/news/2538029...thenational.scotWikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challengeWikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act. 000
Reposted by Nigel SmallAndy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 09/08/2025If Trump is so keen to swap territory for peace, maybe he should give Putin Alaska, which also used to belong to Russia. 0132
Reposted by Nigel Smallradams @radamssmash.bsky.social · 08/08/2025My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not. 36749851254
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 08/08/2025We learned nothing from two world wars. We have all sat back procrastinating while Netanyahu and his gang literally turn an entire civilization into rubble. We must have no tolerance for intolerance. This crazed ideological madness must be stopped. The world's leaders have to step forward. 000
Reposted by Nigel SmallSylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 04/08/2025TIL: in JavaScript Arrays, "the default sort order is ascending, built upon converting the elements into strings". Meaning `[2, 10].sort()` returns `[10, 2]`. WAT? And suddenly I'm wondering how many bugs I left in the wild because of that 😱developer.mozilla.orgArray.prototype.sort() - JavaScript | MDNThe sort() method of Array instances sorts the elements of an array in place and returns the reference to the same array, now sorted. The default sort order is ascending, built upon converting the ele... 3107
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The phrase implies maintaining a steady state, rather than a need to continually move forward and keep up with a rapidly changing industry and landscape. The work is typically far, far away from just keeping the lights on. 120
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I dislike the phrase "Keep[ing] The Lights On" (KTLO) to describe important areas of ongoing work to existing software projects. It heavily diminishes the amount of work required to keep software updated, safe, performant, and relevant. And as such, the work is routinely overlooked at higher levels. 120