David Burns

Selfie of me in the Royal Albert Hall

Making sure I get culture not just from yoghurt! Listening to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall!

Pokemon card with Squirtle playing in the waves. The text is written in Korean

This is possibly my favourite Pokemon card that I’ve ever gotten!

One benefit of working from home in a heatwave is it’s ok to be without a T-shirt in between meetings

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

Labour MP slams Parkrun for trans inclusion. It's a non-competitive fun run A Labour MP has called for trans women to be banned from Parkrun following the Supreme Court's controversial gender ruling.

So good the government are showing how transphobic they are instead of solving real problems

www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/07/p...

@newsagents.bsky.social just a question, Jon said saying what Bob Vylan said was anti-Semitic. Are only Jewish people allowed to join the IDF?

YouTube video by BrowserStack AMA- To Vibe or Not, that is the question

Last week, my team at BrowserStack and I discussed whether to use vibe code or not, and all the good and bad that can come with it.

It was a fun session and I hope you enjoy it too!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ce...

#AI #VibeCoding #webinar

A lot of my frustrations in my career have been about people trying to solve problems for the short term.

Unfortunately, partnerships aren't a short term problem. Engineers need to start realising this...

TIL that Chrome and Safari don't have a built-in JSON viewer...

I would have gone crazy if I didn't have it in Firefox

For a long time I have been telling people to make sure you test your websites on different browsers... and on different platforms.

Can't sign into my kids mobile provider on desktop but can on my mobile web browser

Sad David, got loads of things to do today...

Also my Switch 2 has arrived and see above

Getting bored of people telling me that AI is going to replace me.

I write a very precise prompt for it to get it so incredibly wrong...

a pixel art of wreck it ralph with his arms up ALT: a pixel art of wreck it ralph with his arms up

X or Y questions that are answered with yes

‘Misogynistic’ Reform activists depict female cabinet ministers as cows in abattoir Labour and Lib Dems have condemned the stunt in Hertfordshire as ‘horrifically misogynistic’ and ‘dehumanising’

Lovely people ...

Am I the only one that gets annoyed when tv shows show people in large timezone gaps both being in daylight?

Today watching a call between someone in Fiji and the UK and both are in daylight…

Oh maybe!

Anyway, it’s such a strong album! I have it on loop at the moment. Got any other suggestions for things I’ve recently missed?

Apple Music showed it to me as a "new release" yesterday 🤦‍♂️

I missed the Linkin Park album that was released last year...

I definitely missed out! This is such a great album!

AI generated picture that has misspelt build as Builk

AI is taking over and will take your job...

I don't think so... I can spell basic words and AI can't!

A ring nosed parakeet on my arm while I stood on a path in Battersea Park

Walking through Battersea Park, London, a Ring nosed parakeet decided he wanted to see what I was doing

While I’m not too worried by them aiming for that goal, I am worried about how this will impact how software is built and tested long term. It’s driving things to more monopolies…

I’ve been saying to a few people for a while that Microsoft’s goal is to own the entire SDLC. I’m listening to @lennysan.bsky.social podcast and Aparna Chennapragada (CPO at MS) said Microsoft isn’t too sad to be losing to Claude as everything will get stored on GitHub and use their other products.

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

Wow… the UK is heading towards its own Gilead

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

If the UK government wanted to improve productivity of the UK it would drop the prices of train journeys and improve cell signal along train lines so it’s never less than 5G.

I say this as I’m annoyed by the lack of signal from the south west to London

Nothing like going through European passport control… so glad that Brexiteers fucked everything up so they could be freely racist

@maitlis.bsky.social well done for calling out Rupert Lowe as the racist bigot he is. @newsagents.bsky.social

I had an amazing time at #NordicTestingDays! The organisers did an amazing job and the speakers were all great!