Neil Crow

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury. He was given less than two years behind bars. It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

Today we honor the life and work of Sir Tony Hoare (1934–2026), one of the giants of computer science. His work shaped algorithms, programming languages, concurrency, and formal verification. In 1960, while a visiting student at Moscow State University working on a machine translation project, Hoare needed a way to sort the words of Russian sentences before looking them up in a Russian–English dictionary. His first idea was insertion sort, but this line of thinking led him to invent Quicksort — still one of the most widely used sorting algorithms in the world. In 1969 he introduced Hoare Logic in An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming, giving us the famous Hoare triple {P} C {Q} and launching the field of formal reasoning about programs. He also created Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), a foundational model for concurrency and message-passing systems that influenced languages and systems for decades. Hoare also introduced null references in ALGOL W, which he later called his “billion-dollar mistake,” a candid reflection that pushed language designers toward safer type systems. For these and many other contributions he received the ACM Turing Award in 1980. Few researchers have shaped the intellectual foundations of our field so deeply. Thank you, Tony Hoare. May you rest in peace.

@mr_james_c @paulg watch you talking about

@paulg Like clockwork.

I started my career working on tobacco brands. There's virtually zero product differentiation. Yet smokers would define their personality based on the brand they smoked. So I can tell you this article is 100% wrong.

@Rainmaker1973 It's actually linked to an MMRPG with players in VR headsets playing @PlantsvsZombies in realtime

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

@mmbronstein Is that Rotten Row? Sounds like a nasty database problem

Central London is best experienced ahorse

@adamwathan Much better job than Bojan's hat x.com/tunguz/status/…

Finally stopped clinging on 😄 Where do I get my membership card?

Sadly, I lost a really special piece of jewellery tonight at Gatwick airport. I’ve had it for 13 years, and saved all my money with my first job to buy it second hand. I doubt very much it’ll be found and returned, but in any case, if anyone finds this bracelet it’s mine

@patrickc No Las Vegas data points ... what happens in Vegas stays in Vagus

I gave OpenClaw an export of my Apple Health data and asked it for some interesting analysis of heart rate vs travel data. It figured out that it could approximate my location from workout GPS annotations plus time zone stamps from other logged datapoints and then produced a bunch of interesting charts.

@Grady_Booch @jshortt55 @AnthropicAI pair programming partner may or may not be surprised ... claude doesn't mind though

@fluffypony @levelsio Don't look up newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-…

@levelsio My only gripe is that the codebase is ATROCIOUS. It's so poorly architected. Someone is going to have to make a Clean Architecture reimplementation of it, it's unsustainable in its current form.

The last time I saw this kind of attention was 10 years ago with @rrhoover and the @ProductHunt meetups in SF OpenClaw is a really special moment in history

@JohnOleske @jdpoc ...surprise you here What the, hell you doing here ? You've come to the wrong workplace. - Doh!

@jdpoc “Simpson, Homer Simpson, he’s the greatest guy in history! From the, town of Springfield, he’s about…”

Anyone who reads music will get this right away ...

@tannokasa4 @DrBrianMay keep in mind if you need any help with your tour in 2026

@paulg please stick to 4 space indentation

Elon should call the combined company " X".

@fluffypony @OWokeyDokey @ErnstRoets Free drop-off how generous, you don't want to try that at Gatwick, the drop-off zone without parking and leaving your car is £10 for 10 minutes (i.e. R220 ), and £1 per minute thereafter.

@OWokeyDokey @ErnstRoets Short-term parking means you’re picking up or dropping off. At ORT it’s free for 30 mins, and then R30 for the next 30 mins. After that it gets EXPENSIVE, because you shouldn’t be parking there for longer than an hour.

This is how revolutions begin.

@starbuxman @PostgreSQL But in terms of data resilience : an Elephant never forgets

@PostgreSQL logo should be a goat 🐐 💯%

we have leaping cars from China before GTA VI

South Africa vehicle sales crushed a 10 year high 🏎️🇿🇦 annual car sales are up 20% 🔥🔥 what's driving this market? 💰 a stronger rand ⛽️ lower fuel prices 🚗 surge in affordable Chinese vehicles 🏦 cheaper finance & lower interest rates 💳 two pot system withdrawals

@dhh OMG

This is how (and why!) it's pronounced OH-MAH-CHEE.

@ph1 Nice! You may need better bait.

@neil_crow I'm impressed at your tenacity! My tweet is an experiment - I'm seeing if I can catch AI-powered bots by speaking in a language that's much easier for them to understand vs non-bots. linkedin.com/posts/beingagi…

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@MichaelJordaan Someone should tell them the Microsoft already owns Visio too, as a diagramming tool

Tech autonomy is a great idea for emerging markets too. Lots of freeware out there that can do a similar job.