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Occasionally blogs: https://mattharwood.com Senior Software Engineer Your classic Yogi Pan Vegan Zack Polanski Fanboy™ Often found with nose in a book Or somewhere it shouldn’t be. Average Commuter Town, UK #dotnet #ddd #taxwealthnotwork
Spent the evening watching the local chamber orchestra play Haydn, Finzi and Mozart in our medieval church. T’was beautiful. Though the clapping conventions were baffling 😂
Has anyone heard a cohesive argument of what Meta would do with an LLM that actually works?
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’:
"The difference between Meta and Apple might be that Meta is mer... https://mattharwood.com/2026/03/13/has-anyone-heard-a-cohesive.html
A charming little story for when you feel squished by the shell you’re in: unsquish.me
Funnily enough, with moving home at the moment, this is what I needed ☺️
A very interesting conversation on the feeling of instability in software engineering caused by the robots: www.youtube.com/watch
Welcome! It’s great to have you 💚
My landlord just said ChatGPT told him my rent should be much higher. What do I say to that?
Gemini says I get 4 months free rent a year?
Finished reading: The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage 📚
What a gorgeous looking book. Just looked it up, not sure I can resist. How are you finding dipping in to it so far? ☺️
Thank you @tamhauyu.bsky.social and others at @greensorganise.bsky.social for a very enjoyable conversation with Owen Hatherley. Really interesting stuff! Let's be loud next time! 😆
Our politics is heading in an increasingly dangerous direction.
We must, and will, resist.
Nothing is ever going to change...
Unless we organise.
Find out your Green role at greensorganise.uk/your-green-role , and get involved with your local party today.
Finished reading: Crudo by Olivia Laing 📚
Read in one sitting - easily done with such dreamy writing. The chaotic feeling of 2017 described perfectly, reminding us it only feels worse now.
100% this. GDP is not the ultimate goal. A healthy, flourishing, equal, compassionate society in balance with its ecosystem is the goal.
Our political class have forgotten this - cajoled by think tanks, donors and “the city”.
A country can have an excellent GDP and be terrible to live in.
Another book hunt today. Brick Lane Bookshop and Foyles mostly. Picked up Credo by Olivia Laing (because I loved The Silver Book so much) and Sarah Ahmed's No Is Not A Lonely Utterance.
Almost grabbed a copy of everything else I saw but decided not to.
Congratulations for it all 🙏
Boxing Daying solo today, started off with a bit of cleaning and now, of course, football. Hoping for a good result for The Hatters #COYH ⚽️
Let's choose kindness in 2026.
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
And to you! 😊
Watched: Urchin 🍿
Because for some reason I want to remove hope from life at Christmas. Apart from that, quite a piercing watch, great lead.
I went for Nick Cave’s “The Death of Bunny Munro” just based off of liking his music. Not my usual thing but I’m open minded 🙃
I’m heading in to Cambridge with multiple agendas, one being to replenish my fiction pile for the Christmas period. Any burning recommendations?
Really nice overview of the Fediverse in numbers for 2025 (via predictions!) from @tchambers
www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/2…
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
Gosh you do love the life don’t you Caroline! Hope you’re enjoying 😊
Finished reading: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico 📚💙
If you’re over 30 and struggle to tell the difference between what you like, and what you like to think you like, this one’s for you.
I actually let out a little cheer when the commentator speculated about “weeks out”!
Not for long sadly! 🥺
Why Rory Stewart might need to self reflect...
