Calum Shepherd

It's so frustrating! A whole year to 'fix' the app, and the same basic issues persist 🫠 I really need to dig out alternatives!

2025 #Sonos 🫠

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Building a Billionaire-Proof Social Media Site Bluesky’s Jay Graber has a pointed message for tech billionaires.

These tees look so good 😎 observer.com/2025/03/blue...

Twitter hasn't worked for years 🤷

Smashed a ton of adds on here for people I was following on Twitter. Hi!

Worthy Read: How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have by Ken Rudin

"Most of a company's growth comes from the less glamorous stuff: incremental and consistent optimization of the core product." 💡

Want to drive more growth? Forget chasing new features.

Great, thank you!

Ex-Twitter and still looking for great people in #product to follow. Please hit me up if you are working in this space. Big fan of #proptech, #govtech and #climatetech! #productmanagement. Gracias!

@team18f.bsky.social had a great track record. I remember reading their guidance a few years back and thinking how great it would have been to work with their team. #digital #dodge

@stephenjenkinson.bsky.social Hey Stephen. Any plans to make the pavement extensions on Hillside Crescent permanent? They are a good addition to slow traffic sweeping in from London Road, but remain a pandemic era eyesore! Junction is exceptionally wide for pedestrians. Thanks :)

Quasi-religious beliefs have ended 200 years of European growth, author argues Political movements—some pseudo-religious in their beliefs—preach that growth is bad, and must be stopped.

Quasi-religious beliefs have ended 200 years of European growth, author argues

fortune.com/europe/2024/...

NYC approves its set of major land-use changes:
—No parking requirements in many areas (pink areas); reduced in yellow areas
—20% density bonus for affordable units
—ADUs in many parts of city
—Increased infill densities
—$5 b for infrastructure & affordable housing
citylimits.org/2024/12/05/w...

When you view your roadmap from today forward, you tend to forget that today = the sum total of many decisions in the past. This is why the near term is more "locked" while the cone of uncertainty expands as you move into the future

@richmironov.bsky.social thanks for the follow - great to have you on here!

Keen to enjoy this place as much as 2018 Twitter, so want to expand my network!

I'm a product manager with LandTech, a company helping property developers source new development opportunities.

- Product management
- SAAS
- Going multi-market
- GIS / map based systems
- Data...?

Hit me up 🙏

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky?s=09

I miss having a good Bodega nearby. Open late with fresh food and bagels. UK has nothing like them 🥲

A rhino'tastic time 🦏

It's Scotland. We excel in endless public sector websites that barely function. It's a speciality of ours. I'd expect a big IT outsourcer to be hired, and for them to go on and make a pigs ear of it.

Designing a simple service is relatively easy.

Designing a simpler service while bounded by a range of immutable constraints is the actual work.

It's messy. You need tech with you from the start to help you understand the mess.

Line graph time series of 2023's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2022 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability on this graph showing only between May and October months. A long-term decreasing trend is visible, which is a result of only the Arctic. Data is from the NSIDC.

The extent of global sea ice cover remains record small for this time of year. Both poles are unusually low, but the largest departure is currently coming from the extreme event in the Antarctic.

More global visuals at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/ 🧪