👨💻Software engineer, 📈Market data analyst and ⛰️Outdoors enthusiast.
Hertfordshire
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Ben Barber retweeted
London used to compete with New York for the title of the world’s financial capital.
In the first six months of 2026, London produced just 7 IPOs raising £577 million.
Hong Kong had 85.
India had 102.
Malaysia had 28.
Sweden had 10 IPO/direct listings.
And Amsterdam raised almost 6 x times as much.
An incredible fall from grace.
Greatest game ever made. I stopped playing games when the world moved away from RTS.
31 years ago today, Command & Conquer was released.
GDI vs. Nod. Tiberium fields. Base building. FMV mission briefings. And hours spent hearing “construction complete.”
Command & Conquer didn’t just become a PC classic, it helped define what real-time strategy would become.
One of the greatest eras of PC gaming was just getting started.
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Ben Barber retweeted
Summary of @dhh at Rails World:
dhh: The ship is sinking, but great news, we've arrived on a beautiful tropical island, with an all inclusive resort...it's amazing.
internet: absolutely not. I don't want a mai tai. let me back on so i can drown with the ship.
Ben Barber retweeted
🚨When asked about new taxes, Andy Burnham said “at some point that might be having to ask for a little more"🚨
Andy Burnham isn't even Prime Minister yet but he's already talking about raising your taxes AGAIN.
We are heading for another summer of chaos with Labour obsessing about who they can tax to pay for more benefits.
It doesn’t matter who is in charge, the problem is the Labour Party.
Ben Barber retweeted
Customer: "Oat milk, please. Trying to lower my footprint."
Barista: "Course. Happy with the rapeseed oil in it?"
Customer: "Rapeseed oil? In milk?"
Barista: "It's not milk. It's oats, water, and a good glug of seed oil for the creaminess."
Customer: "I avoid seed oils."
Barista: "You're about to wear a moustache of one."
Customer: "...Almond, then?"
Barista: "Lovely. How do you feel about draining California?"
Customer: "The soy?"
Barista: "Comes with a complimentary top-up of oestrogen. On the house."
Customer: "...Coconut?"
Barista: "Flown across an ocean, and more saturated fat than lard."
Customer: "What's the little carton at the back?"
Barista: "That one's just milk. Cow, field, grass, done. No factory, no solvent, no asterisk."
Customer: "And the footprint on that?"
Barista: "She made it out of rain. Yours is the taxi you took here to ask."
Ben Barber retweeted
Establishment party leaders have been slating Nigel every day for years now.
Presented with an opportunity to make a case to voters and beat him at the ballot box?
They run for the hills.
Cowardly and transparent.
The establishment is on the ropes.
Ben Barber retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: WESTMINSTER DEMOCRACY HAS OFFICIALLY COLLAPSED.
You do not have to be a fan of Nigel Farage to see how incredibly corrupt our political system has become under Labour.
Farage has just resigned his seat in Parliament to trigger an immediate "people versus the establishment" by-election in Clacton.
The press conference he just gave exposed a terrifying level of state and media corruption.
He revealed how the establishment media literally targeted his family by publishing his daughter's home address, exposing her to targeted harassment.
He faces daily death threats that the police completely ignore, all while the state quietly slashed his security funding by 70%. 💷
Even worse, he exposed how the Labour uniparty keeps changing the election and donation rules just to crush their political rivals.
This is not a democracy. This is a system where the ruling party uses the state, the media, and two-tier policing to intimidate and silence anyone who opposes them.
If they can use these authoritarian tactics against a prominent MP, they can do it to any everyday citizen who dares to speak out.
RT to expose this corrupt Labour regime and demand our country back! 🔁🇬🇧🔥
It’s food made for the drunks, what did they expect, never going to be anything decent in there
Goat and skin in millions of 'lamb' kebabs compared to horsemeat lasagne scandal bbc.in/4vUUOQA
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Ben Barber retweeted
Last year’s increase in Capital Gains Tax resulted in a decrease in CGT revenue. Treasury took £13.6 billion in 2024-25 compared with £14.9 billion the year before (@thetimes). When you tax wealth it goes elsewhere….
Ben Barber retweeted
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
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Ben Barber retweeted
🚨NEW: The Reform UK-led Leicestershire County Council has paid off £26.9 million of debt inherited from the previous Conservative administration, reducing the council’s debt to its lowest recorded level in history
[@CharlieSimpsonA]
Ben Barber retweeted
Apple just made Docker Desktop optional on Mac.
And it is completely free.
This is apple/container. 26.5k stars no Github.
You can now run Linux containers natively on your Mac without installing Docker Desktop, without a background daemon hogging your RAM, and without paying $21 a month per developer for a commercial license.
Here is what it does:
→ Runs Linux containers as lightweight VMs directly on Apple Silicon using macOS 26 virtualization
→ Fully OCI compatible. Pull any image from Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry or anywhere else
→ Written in Swift and optimised specifically for Apple Silicon. Faster and lighter than anything Docker Desktop does on Mac
→ Standard container CLI syntax. If you know Docker commands you already know how to use this
→ Push images you build to any standard container registry and run them anywhere
Docker Desktop charges $21 per developer per month for commercial use. Apple's version costs nothing and ships as open source under Apache-2.0.
Microsoft made Docker Desktop optional on Windows with WSL Containers last month.
Apple just did the same on Mac.
Docker is not going anywhere. But the era of paying for a GUI wrapper around containers on your own machine is quietly ending.
Repo here: github.com/apple/container
