Max Rostron

Leeds is probably the most unlucky city in Western Europe 🎭 European City of Culture funding? Sorry we're leaving the EU. 🚄HS2? Sorry we spent too much in the chilterns. 🛫New Airport terminal? Sorry that's not climate friendly, but London Airport expansions are fine. (1/X)

what adam neumann is doing now is such an obviously good idea. most of american life unless scheduled is super isolationist so you rarely get those spontaneous interactions with ppl.. this sorta flips that around right at the point of where ppl spend majority of their lives. anyway, it’s super duper interesting to see the wework model applied to residential.

I see some weird things but this takes the biscuit. A vulnerability in the Companies House website, that let anyone view the private dashboard of any one of the five million registered companies, see directors' personal details. And modify them.

Unpopular Opinion: We aren't building the future 10x faster with AI. We are just generating legacy code 10x faster. Everyone is currently bragging about developer velocity. "I built this entire backend in a weekend!" "AI wrote 80% of my codebase!" But here is the reality check we are ignoring: Code is a liability, not an asset. If an AI tool spits out 1,000 lines of functional boilerplate in five seconds, that is still 1,000 lines that a human being has to read, review, secure, and maintain when the dependencies inevitably break next year. We are treating code generation like a pure productivity win, but we are optimizing for the wrong metric. The bottleneck in software engineering was never how fast we could type. The bottleneck has always been comprehension, architecture, and maintenance. If we don't shift our focus from "generation speed" to "architectural sanity," the tech debt of the next five years is going to be an absolute, unmaintainable nightmare.

Seven Americans are dead, and over 100 are wounded. Thousands of Iranians have died, including over 100 schoolgirls. America might be responsible for those 100+ school girls. Whoever is making these, and whoever is approving them, just.... stop.

BBC maybe guilty? Met Office drier for my location next few days "Major UK tourist attractions are calling for changes to the way weather forecasts are displayed on mobile phone apps - warning that "misleading" rain icons cost venues up to £137,000 a day"

@EseKpeji thats a vibe - tuesday evenings look sorted for me now

Londonmaxxing with the crew ♟️🤌🏾

He basically ran from Manchester to Wigan in under an hour. That’s nearly faster than the train @northernassist pattern up fam.

POV: you’re a developer in 2026😂

Ladies and gents, I know that life has become too expensive to live, but, as summer comes, consider dropping out the brain rot of modern bars, festivals, nightclubs, gentrified markets etc, and instead using one's time and the money you'd have spent to visit Britain's public houses. A nice day, or evening in a good pub, is far more rewarding for yourself, pubs, and the country than to feed the machine trying to destroy them. Many of today's forms of entertainment are simply ways to mould you into a modernistic lab-rat. Unless it's genuinely a cultural trip, drop out the holiday to far away instagram locations and recognise that if we all stop feeding what's unimportant and direct that energy into things like for our precious pubs, we could rekindle the togetherness that's been drawn out of us. Therefore, I'm not suggesting you spend more money, but instead allocate what you would have spent at a cinema or some other type of hypnosis treatment on the pub and its survival. Instead of taking your children to brainwashing factories, let them experience the pub garden as we did. There, they can meet others their own age or spend time with you without all of the technology and distractions that prevent them from doing so. If you have no intention of doing any of those things and have no interest in pubs, then ignore this message and good luck to you. But, to those who can see where I'm coming from, I hope I've struck a chord within you. The historic tradition of pub going has survived a great deal of time for a great many reasons. Just as, there's reasons that they're suddenly in danger. As I always say, pubs have never been just places to drink, but a vital excuse to be together. Whatever you do, take care. 🤝

@thomasforth Owls and sheep preferably. I’ll allow for bees if they rank over dragons and lions but would rather not.

JFC. Yeah fine, get rid of the people, put birds on or whatever. FFS.

Oh my goodness. I'm going to have to actually research this. Surely not. I refuse to believe we've actually done that.

A recently-deciphered papyrus scroll reveals the location of Plato’s grave The scroll is one of thousands of scrolls that had been scorched and buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Herculaneum that scholars have recently used AI to read for the first time.

Going to leave you with this tonight: The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you. Night gang.

LAN party culture was so special. You honestly had to be there The last time the internet felt like a fun cohesive community before it descended into weird and isolationist

- pov uk recruiter dms you for £50k a year, on site, 996, 0.5% equity EXCITING opportunity at a startup - sapnin mate yooo awlriggght ye your stock will make yooo a milyonaire when they are acquired in 7 years lad, sweet init - no idea what 996 is so you google it - laughs in 10-4 core hours remote job - ftse100 are paying you £85-120k, bonus and 15% pension - american top tech are offering you £120k, bonus and £150k in rsu, 9-5 hybrid - you’ll grind leetcode when you can be arsed if you get bored - close laptop - time to go on your 4th city break of the year in mainland europe with the love of your life

These Tottenham championship meme videos have been killing me 😭

@DanielLockyer Love this mix as well, but have so many questions about this guy who takes at least half an hour to eat his street food and have a drink. Most people are in and out in <10 minutes. Full rawdog as well. No phone or screens, just being present in the moment.

vibing to some Japanese uncles yakitori disco music

Europe is quietly becoming what the United States once promised the world. More and more people are looking at their best years ahead and choosing a place where everyday life is designed to work. Where the future feels stable enough to plan for. Where safety is not a luxury product. Where you can build a good life without gambling your health, your family, or your dignity on one bad month. In much of Europe, the “dream” is not about becoming a billionaire. It is about becoming unafraid. It is the freedom of walking home at night without scanning every shadow. The comfort of knowing that if you get sick, you do not need to calculate whether you can afford to be treated. The relief of having a society that still believes children should carry backpacks, not trauma, and definitely not weapons. The calm of streets built for human beings, not just cars. The ability to take a holiday without feeling like you are committing career suicide. The basic decency of labor protections that assume you are a person first and a resource second. And then there is the part people underestimate until they live it: the texture of life. The cities are older and more beautiful than you expect. The distances are smaller. Weekends are real. Food is real. Public spaces are not just decorative, they are functional. Parks are full. Cafes are full. Trains take you somewhere, often across borders, without turning travel into a stress test. You can live in one country, work with another, and visit a third like it is normal because, in many places, it is. The European dream is also a quiet confidence in the social contract. That if you contribute, the system does not abandon you. That you can raise a family without feeling like you are one accident away from ruin. That “getting ahead” does not require burning out. That a good society is one where normal people can live normal lives and still feel proud of them. This is why more and more Americans are not just visiting Europe, but staying. Some come for studies and never leave. Some arrive for a job and realise the lifestyle is the real promotion. Some originally planned a one year experiment and then cannot imagine going back to a place where stress is treated as a personality trait and insecurity is marketed as freedom. Europe is not perfect. It has bureaucracy. It has politics. It has problems that deserve criticism. But in many European countries, life is still built around a simple idea: society should reduce fear, not monetise it. That is the new dream. And people can feel it the moment they arrive. If you could choose one thing to trade for a better life, what would it be: more income, or more security? And what do you think your country would have to change for people to stop leaving, and start staying? Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

It still baffles me that Labour do not seem to understand what should be their central mission: vast swathes of provincial Britain, especially towns and small cities, are run down, economically hollowed out, and with a decayed social fabric. Sorting that should be a top priority

Interesting chart from Molior, showing city centre construction activity in Manchester has collapsed. I Leeds and Birmingham are similar. Goes to show that it's not unique to London, just hidden by the greater availabilty of greenfield suburban development elsewhere.

devs who didn't handle divide by zero errors in their finance apps are about to find out