Kevin Coyle

Hey everybody! Check out my most recent talk at @smashingconf where I delve into existential dread and ask the question: "When will AI replace us?" youtube.com/watch?v=8mnCC7…

@steipete Hang on so you can’t use it with extra usage anymore?

Yeah folks, it's gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models.

@lukerobertblack To be fair his hair looks like that photo was a decade ago

It must have been so weird to pretend they’ve never met

Honest SMRs need to come online asap. Every resource needs to be exploited including solar, wind, tidal and fossil fuels. We need to review the licences and agreements that was made in the 1980s that deprived us of a Norwegian style sovereign wealth fund. Not to roll it back just to explain to the public what we did and why we are in this near catastrophic mess.

No idea why these guys don’t like clean air, energy security and a future for the next generations…and…

@plainionist No

Do teams of skilled software engineers even need Scrum Masters?

This is cringe breakfast tv antics. He’s one step away from asking them to spin a wheel to get their petrol thrown in too.

@basedandbougie @Nigel_Farage It’s cringe breakfast tv.

The people complaining that @Nigel_Farage should have gave the flowers to less a fortunate family. I highly advise you to … Go to Tesco. Purchase £8 flowers. Take out £20 for from their saving and deliver the £8 flower and £20 note to a less fortunate person you know. Stop complain about everything and go out and do something! 😂

At the end of the day conservatives need to rally around a common platform in order regain control. Reform is doing tremendous harm by having such a mixed message and Restore is bulldozing its way into the conversation. The Conservatives still won’t be forgiven by 2029 and whilst it’s great that Kemi acknowledges past failings — it’s not good enough when one nation wets still sit on the green benches. Similarly, it’s not great that the instigators of bad previous government policy now sit at prime locations within reform — usurping up and coming new activist voices. Every seat that a failed ex tory takes is a seat taken from a hard working activist. The right needs to unite asap around a set of shared policy compromises before it’s too late.

There is a rift. In that Party - too big for anyone to ignore.

@simonwatt85 We’ve baked it in already that we are not going to get one.

The triple lock is a mechanism to ensure the old age pension keeps up with inflation. If it's scrapped, what sort of pension will young voters get when they retire? Doesn't anyone think ahead these days?

@tomhfh Use an encrypted password manager.

If you haven’t already, turn two-factor authentication on for *everything*. And remember the safest place for your passwords is jotted down with pen and paper. The internet is about to get a heap more dangerous.

@cla70495427 @donmcgowan Ah so it's not a freedom of the individual -- it's a reduction in the freedom of the state?

@kevincoyle @donmcgowan The poster seems to have an issue with freedom of speech, so I can only imagine the "assault" would be on the states freedom to infringe on the freedom of it's people, curtailing speech using threats of violence. I'm not sure what else makes sense with what was written.

Yesterday, Reform UK dropped a billionaire bombshell via their pet [paid] media channels. Ben Delo — one of the UK's youngest self-made billionaires, declared that he would re-migrate to the UK in order to donate to Nigel Farage's pension fund. I had questions — I went looking. A mathematician and tech entrepreneur, he made his fortune in cryptocurrency as co-founder of BitMEX alongside two others in 2014. By 2018, he was reportedly the UK's first Bitcoin billionaire. So far, so standard for this type of guy. But when you start reading about those he has donated money to, and the circles in which he moves, things become a bit murkier. There are few firm details about Delo's philanthropy, but among other things, he helped fund Toby Young's Free Speech Union. He maintains a suite of offices called The Sanctuary, close to Westminster Abbey, in which he allows 'guests' to use his facilities for free. Podcasts, office space, networking events. The notorious Triggernometry podcast, hosted by Konstantin Kisin, records from the Sanctuary. From which he told the world that Rishi Sunak could not be British because he is a brown Hindu. Other notable purveyors of Ben Delo's generous office complex are: Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib, Kemi Badenoch [multiple times], Claire Fox [and her Academy of Ideas] and his close friend, Jordan Peterson. A genuine smörgåsbord of right-wing, free speech warriors. Another feature of Delo's philanthropy is his summer party in Westminster Abbey. Attended last year by such notables as Matt Goodwin, Maurice Glassman and Paul Coleman — director of ADF International, the Christian law firm that opposes abortion. When Nigel Farage gave testimony to the US Congress last year, he was flanked by Lorcán Price from ADF. The ADF helped topple Roe V Wade in the US and have cosied up to Farage in recent years. Watch this space for Reform UK's forthcoming anti-abortion stance, I'd suggest. Of course, it's widely reported that Delo pleaded guilty to financial crimes by failing to implement anti-money laundering controls within his company and received a 30-month probation sentence alongside a $10 million fine. In 2025, the crypto president pardoned him. According to the Guardian, Delo has been biding his time, burnishing his reputation since receiving the seal of Trump approval [and by extension, of course, Farage's]. He is now launching himself into the UK political sphere as the latest white knight to attach his steed to Nigel Farage's rickety bandwagon. The timing yesterday was not coincidental, nor was its method of delivery. It's no secret that Reform UK have been fighting to keep the spotlight in recent weeks. Dropping poll numbers testify to that. Farage and Delo coordinated their announcement yesterday to coincide with a lull in the war [supposedly] in order that they maximise the headlines. And it worked. But, as you can see from the examples above, Delo runs in the same right/far-right circles as all the others. Propping up some of the most hardline anti-immigration and Christian Nationalist figures. This isn't a story about money — these people run together. It's an assault on our British freedoms. We need to be VERY wary of them.

@theo @steipete I've been a Linux user for the past 20 years now and I can say hand on heart it's in a fantastic position. BUT - Software vendors still don't see it as a viable platform so we're third class citizens. - PC laptop quality pales in comparison to a MacBook Pro.

@steipete This makes me sad. Linux is in an incredible place right now. Installing Cachy on my random HP laptop with Niri felt absolutely magical. Yet here I am typing this on my Macbook 🙃

OH: Almost everyone at RedHat uses Macs now.

Jackie I have a lot of respect for you and I don't mean this to sound in anyway disrespectful but it's important for us to have some constructive empathy with Gen Z and younger who are now finding that they are excluded from having a real stake in society. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who was born in 1995 -- without any prejudice of what you have experienced. They were encouraged to go to university when there were no jobs in those fields. They were coming into the jobs market the moment that the financial markets imploded. Then the pseudo austerity of the coalition government and the slow decline which followed of our national influence. Wages have stagnated, fiscal drag is real but at the same time they are seeing money existing in the system but not being spent in the ways to which will help them. Whether that anger be directed at migration, billionaires or pensioners -- the anger is real. Those of us that are not in their generation (I'm a millennial and tbh I've done OK), we need to listen. These people are our future and we need them to have a stake in that with us.

@miriam_cates @DanielJHannan You’ve no idea what sacrifices the majority of people made to buy a property..🙄

“Reform’s commitment to keep the triple lock is the final nail in the coffin for the hope of pension reform from the Right. Britain’s young people are now condemned to pay through the nose for the retirement of the wealthiest generation in history.” ✍️👇 conservativehome.com/2026/04/08/mir…

Between Tailscale and Cloudflare we’re truly blessed with the free stuff on offer here for devs.

@dr It’s about knowing your limits. Mine are marketing and giving good advice. I’m shite at both

I’m jealous of builders who are good at marketing. Still no paying users of Basedoc. No big plans for how to get any

@plainionist I’ve been saying this for ages. The llm compiler loop is so much tighter than even typescript.

Hot take: Rust might be the best language for vibe-coding. The compiler provides strong feedback and guardrails. And AI thrives on guardrails.

@aryanlabde Personally, I’d be worried about security and legal liability.

As a vibe coder, what’s your biggest fear right now? - launching and getting ignored - running out of money before MRR - building the wrong thing - never shipping at all

@EuroDale Yup, seeing it in English and in England. Nice to see some variety on my feed

Nå som X automatisk oversetter innlegg kan jeg skrive oftere på norsk. Men jeg lurer: vil jeg nå like mange som før? Ser du dette innlegget på engelsk?

@PovilasKorop That’s just a cue to make a cuppa tea

Here we go again. Claude Code. If the almighty-powerful Mythos works the same, then software engineer and other careers are still safe for 10+ years.

@TracyBrabin @UKLabour Protections for children is a smokescreen for increased government surveillance and control over the internet. We are not buying it. There are better ways to protect children and it starts in the home.

🚨Reform UK are not on your side🚨 They don’t want: ❌Investment in our NHS ❌Protections for children online ❌Free breakfast clubs ❌£45 billion for Northern Powerhouse Rail @UKLabour is delivering here in West Yorkshire Don’t let them hold us back. Vote Labour this May🌹