Mark Ridley

What does the future hold for the integration of AI tools into product-development teams? @Mark_Ridley concludes his insightful series on this emerging topic by considering the road bumps ahead — and proposing a balanced approach going forward. buff.ly/3qlSLsC

@willcritchlow I was just writing up a quick note for Seeto customers. In very short summary; the bad people managed to get a full backup of lots of customer info, but it's encrypted. If you had a simple or shared password, change it everywhere you used it blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice…

Haven’t been following the lastpass saga - is it “urgently rotate passwords”? (I don’t use it, but I know people who do)

@ythos I can only assume you didn't block this one?

Just finished the final season of Dark on @netflix. Not sure what I'm going to do with all these notebooks, genealogy charts and the entire wall that I've stuck drawing pins and red thread all over.

@_RichardABrown Is that a book to write passwords in, or a book full of complex generated passwords that you can choose from and write the name of app next to? Also love the calf/poppy motif.

The perfect gift for your security conscious friend or family member...

I appreciated @Joe_Peppard's perspective on the future of the IT department in his excellent & deliberately challenging WSJ article. But I (and some great CIOs) don't agree with all of it. Here's the take by @StuartSumner in Computing bit.ly/3EHJ1ec (reg to read)

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So all this stuff about AMP. Some of our customers have tested moving away from AMP. There were no detectable negative impacts on search performance. That's it. That's the tweet.

@willcritchlow Thanks for sharing Will - I know lots of publishers will be enormously grateful to be able to get rid of the overhead of maintaining AMP

@skoravensis I've experienced this pain before... Happy to share a possible solution and glad it worked!

Thanks to @Mark_Ridley for his sensible suggestion. I was going nuclear when a small targeted drone strike was required.

Huh. Plugged in the new M.2 SSD and it also wasn't recognized. I'd been approaching it all wrong and naturally assumed the drive had *failed* because they've let me down before. Swapped in the old one. Windows bootable media and a MBR fix and we're back up and running!

@Dbee_Daniel Thanks, will check them out!

@Mark_Ridley I've seen "the secret leaders" podcast recommended, I've only listened to one episode and that was pretty good. Also "VC20" is based in the UK I think, but not nessecarily focused on UK startups only.

Any recommendations for a good UK based #startup or #entrepreneurship #podcast? Bonus points if they're just getting started, looking for sponsorship and represent a diverse community

I'd just like to say that my daughter had a birthday party at our local #RNLI station and the people there couldn't have been nicer to us. In fact, they really pushed the boat out...

@skoravensis We traveled far and wide on that important quest. For a traditional experience, I like Maria's in Borough Market. Proper sandwich. For the best flavour, got to be @Le_Swine in Spitalfields. But you know that.

Fridays used to be Bacon Day. There was an ongoing quest to find the best Egg and Bacon Sandwich in London. Many places have been challenged. There were the good, the bad and the truly awful. I may have to bring this back. Recommendations?

@skoravensis @phillbailey "Sequel Server" all day long. But I could probably be caught saying My S Q L or MySequel interchangeably.

@phillbailey Now I think about it, it's often sequel server but SQL on its own. @Mark_Ridley confirms this. How odd.

Which is it? After sitting in a meeting with half the team saying "sequel" and then the others sticking to "Ess que el", I just wanted some conformity for the sake of the intern who didn't seem to know what the fuck was going on.

Gall's law is one of my favourite quotes, and applies to everything from software to business. Finally got my hands on this little gem in the faded flesh

@skoravensis That is certainly in much better condition than it was when I last saw it. You have waved a very glittery wand all over it.

So, @Mark_Ridley, I may have applied too much Fabulous Spray to the mouse. Soz.

@nazjunaid @Warnes Coffee cups aren't see through...

@Warnes @Mark_Ridley When working from home

I used to watch Mad Men and think, "Look at those people smoking on a plane". Now I watch Mad Men and think, "Look at those people standing in a lift"

@Warnes Wait.. we can still drink whiskey, right?

@Mark_Ridley They did drink whiskey at 10 a.m. so shouldn't really be argued with