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I'm sure that five years from now we'll look back and realise that Snow Leopard was the best version of OS X.

Laravel has opinions. Where do controllers go? We know. How do you queue a job? We know. How do you send an email? We know. 🧠 AI agents thrive on this. They stop guessing and start shipping code that actually looks like a human wrote it.

This from @obie captures how I'm feeling about coding agents

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/on-…

Craft CMS is moving to Laravel laravel-news.com/craft-cms-is-m… posted by @ericlbarnes

After making their biggest profit in a decade £2.6b after tax), the British government is bailing out Jaguar Land Rover because they didn't take out cyber insurance. They've made £11.6 billion profit over last 10 years. Fiscal rules my arse. Free market capitalism eh?

Bravo Apple! Calculator app has a memory leak.

1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used

Nick Clegg made a reported £100m from Facebook. And now the reputation laundering begins. Congrats to him on this magnificent PR coup. Nicely played, Clegg. A glossy magazine profile AND extract in the paper that created the Facebook PR crisis that led to his hiring. 1/

@CFDevelop And, to get the best out of AI, you really need to know how to engineer software.

@CFDevelop I’ve been thirty years in an industry that didn’t exist when I left university. Maybe the reason I’m excited now is that whilst I’m happy writing code, I prefer to solve problems and provide solutions.

If you’re one of those people going around complaining about how bad AI generated code is compared to your own code, you’re a bad developer You know how I know? The worst devs always put down code they couldn’t write themselves

The last time engineers panicked because software engineering changed from low level languages like C and C++ to languages like Java and VB, a bunch of people lost their jobs You know who didn’t lose their jobs? The people who were flexible and just ran with whatever came up

To all the businesses supposedly replacing engineers with AI: You're going to be outstripped very soon by all those businesses that enabled engineers with AI instead of laying them off And don't think that the freed up capital is going to give you buying power when some of these smaller businesses start bobbing above the water They will be in a much stronger position with a greater sense of purpose and fulfilment from seeing you overthrown than simply joining your incumbent ranks

More people need to know about this… the incredible dining cars of @transport_wales. We are cruising along at 90mph – past the peaked hills of the Welsh Borders with an ace three course steak lunch for under £30 and staff who smile & chat. This isn’t a brag: I upgraded my cheap return ticket (I’ve spent the weekend away volunteering with friends at @TalyllynRailway) for just £10 to sit in First Class and this lunch is my own holiday treat. But the talented chef aboard cooks for the whole train: regular is the psssht of doors heralding another passenger who’s popped down for a hot snack served from the buffet. Manchester to Cardiff via Shrewsbury, Hereford, Abergavenny, Leominster and more places in between: such is the popularity of this train that there’s talk of more Mk4 cars being added to each service. There’s a market for this, and it works because of good staff and good product. I tweeted about the breakfast and some people grumbled in the replies that not all train services are this good, or that they were cross about their own experiences elsewhere. OK. But this train right now is great - Chloe doing front of house and Matthew in the kitchen - I want to call them out right now to @tfwrail for being brill just as I did Adam & Alex on Thursday. It might feel to some that the Dining Car concept – of saving time by eating great food at good prices whilst travelling between places and having the best, changing, views of any restaurant in any season – is something lost to time, the staff and wider team of @transport_wales are proving that it CAN work in 2025. Done well, on-train dining is one of the most joyful things about rail transport (to me), and I’m chuffed to bits to have had the chance to experience it here again. It isn’t the choice for everyone, and it isn’t practical on every journey, but I think - no matter what other things you might find fault with railways elsewhere - it’s good to call out & share the good stuff. This *is* good stuff, with great staff, and it to me it feels like something special. Diolch!

A stunning and shameful PMQs. Parliament has been denied its right to scrutinise the government for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction. Huge amounts of public money has been spent in secret. 100,000 Afghans put in danger. Did any backbench MP get up and ask the PM about it? Express any outrage as a democratically elected politician? Ask the PM to rule out it ever happening again? No. Not a word. Pathetic.

I am loath to criticise my former BBC colleagues and I’m aware they weren’t in on the story. But the idea of a TV presenter losing his job being the top story on the website as opposed to Parliament being kept in the dark for two years about the Afghan data leak is risible.

This Afghan refugee story is huge and yet THIS is the homepage of the BBC website… have they taken leave of their senses???

We really don't appreciate the skill of roadmenders, look at this, perfectly blended in, you can't tell where the original road ends and the repairs begin.

Remember Labour’s attempts to cut disability benefits last week? Well, yesterday MPs voted on amendments to their plans. Here’s some of the things Labour MPs voted to block: 🧵👇

A serial fraudster has registered dozens of fake “banks” at Companies House - with names like “UBS Group AG Ltd.” Every time he’s busted, he just does it again. Zero checks. Zero consequences. And a legit incorporation agent has enabled the fraud. Thread: