Founder at The Developer Society
Birmingham, England
Joined May 2008
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Steve Hawkes retweeted
✊ BE PART OF IT. We are proud to be part of this powerful short film that celebrates shared ownership in the West Midlands.
💪 ‘Be Part of It’ is a poem created by @jasminegardosi, former Birmingham Poet Laureate, captured on film with moves from @DanceCo_opBrum.
😍 It includes footage of West Midlands co-operatives and mutuals @gluecollective, the The @devsociety_ and Hockley Mint – all captured by the brilliant by @mediaco_op.
📺 WATCH IN FULL a film that showcases the diversity of creative co-operative industries, and people, in the region 👉 buff.ly/3BbERyI
👏 The film was commissioned by the West Midlands Ownership Hub – a partnership between @westmids_ca, Co‑operatives UK and @EmployeeOwned – and funded by @powertochange_.
Steve Hawkes retweeted
🆕 Demand for EVs is growing as we race to curb the climate crisis. But mining for nickel required for #EV batteries in Indonesia is driving deforestation & abuse, pushing island communities into extreme precarity.
We took a close look at nickel supply chains in 🇮🇩... 🧵1/
Steve Hawkes retweeted
🧵Fantastic to see @coopuk's new campaign - focusing on member ownership & control and also #coops values and principles.
We're not extractive businesses, owned by distant shareholders with shareholder dividend a top priority. Member ownership and control is a major point of difference - and that's true for all 7,000+ independent co-operative businesses across the UK (1 of 5).
Steve Hawkes retweeted
SQLite is cracked
ALT SQLite is cracked Fun fact: SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion (1000000000000 or a million million) SQLite databases in active use. It is maintained by three people. They don’t allow outside contributions. It is everywhere SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is in: Every Mobile (Android, iOS, Windows) device Every Mac or Windows10 machine Every Web browser Every instance of Skype, iTunes, and Dropbox client PHP and Python Most TV, set-top cable boxes and automotive multimedia systems Countless millions of other applications How do they cook? There are over 600 lines of test code for every line of code in SQLite. Tests cover 100% of branches in the library. The test suite is extremely diverse, including fuzz tests, boundary value tests, regression tests, and tests that simulate operating system crashes, power losses, I/O error
Steve Hawkes retweeted
🆕 Good conversations, serendipity - and coffee
@Jackie_Brennan1 shares insights from our #CoffeeConnections user research: the benefits, the needs - & the surprising magic of serendipitous matches! ✨
Read the blog - & join the next round of matches! 👇buff.ly/4cf2Avk
Steve Hawkes retweeted
🚀New global #PeoplePower2023 report launched today shows where civil society conditions are improving & getting worse. 🔴🟡🟢
Nearly a third of humanity lives in countries rated as ‘closed’.
New ratings & data on top violations: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2…
I can totally see @htmx_org selling the equivalent of these to get to support development.
Paying open-source maintainers for time boxed access for your team is a really smart concept from @simonw for creating sustainability simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/1…
Steve Hawkes retweeted
The NHS’s half-billion-pound deal with Palantir.
It’s the largest data deal in NHS history. Today, the ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP) – was awarded to US company Palantir. It’s bad news.
🔥 Here’s what you need to know about it, by data lawyers: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
Steve Hawkes retweeted
Big banks have no place in the NHS!🚨
Retweet if you agree!
@EveryDoctorUK💙
Found a fantastic case for @htmx_org for a project we're working on, does this mean I'm cool now?
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Makes me smile seeing people rediscover SSi, just like1 @JohnPinner teaching everyone at Python West Midlands about tech moving in cycles, and that the pendulum swings both ways.Underpinned my thinking on being agnostic to tech trends and focusing on developer and user experience
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I can't send a babygrow to a recent new mum at one of the charities we work with because that could be a conflict, but this is ok???
Bill Morgan was hired by Rishi Sunak at the end of last year🚨🚨🚨
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It's so lovely to see illustrations you did years ago pop up in your feed. This is one of the privileges of contributing to open source projects, you never know how far the ripples of your contributions can radiate. 🐍👑🤓
To tell contemporary stories in theatre, don’t we need to put tech centre stage? What is digital theatre - and is it still theatre? Find out in our Saturday morning keynote by technophile playwright Emily Holyoake buff.ly/3OOeRvZ
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Steve Hawkes retweeted
Well, well, well...
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I really don't understand the "get ahead" AI mentally in pumping out formulaic content, surely they see the second wave of AI levels the playing field and filters all the junk out?!
It is just a short term gains thing?
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Can we please all go to subscribing to each other's RSS feeds now? 🙏
I don't mind if we call it RSSx...
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