Software professional with an appreciation of the world outside the IDE and a passion for learning (and cheese). Make the computer do the work!

London, UK
Joined January 2009
If you have recurring meetings in your team, add this to the agenda in the next occurrence: - "How can we stop having this recurring meeting?" You'll get weird looks at first, but then everyone will love it.
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Surveillance and predatory commercial interests are being prioritised over our rights. The #DataGrabBill will make it easier for the State and companies to get your data, use it, share it and keep you in the dark. Join our campaign. #HandsOffOurData action.openrightsgroup.org/h…
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"This is highly personal information and an intrusion into people’s privacy … The recent data breach from the Electoral Commission demonstrates that people’s data is not always safe in the hands of UK regulators.” 🗣️ James Baker for ORG. #HandsOffOurData thetimes.co.uk/article/priva…
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Palantir – the US spy tech company – has its hands on our medical data via the £480m NHS Federated Data Platform contract. The #DataGrabBill will ease the way for unprecedented exploitation of our most sensitive data. #HandsOffOurData theguardian.com/society/2023…
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NHS Palantir data deal puts patient trust at risk, patients won’t be able to opt out of sharing health records – despite MP warning that anonymising data is ‘impossible’ Read more 👇 bit.ly/40Q8myd #palantir #NHS
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Identifying a risk is key to mitigating a risk. The #DataGrabBill thinks differently. It'll ease the need for organisations to carry out Data Protection Impact Assessments that are key to preventing data harms. It takes the protection out of data protection. #HandsOffOurData
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Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes makeseatsmatchvotes.org&utm_source=twitter_share
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Following a very engaging @bazelbuild Community Day, I had a blast at #BazelCon Day 1, too. On to tomorrow - the agenda looks equally promising. I'll also be presenting Automatic Suggestions for Optimizing Bazel Performance with Bazel Invocation Analyzer. opensourcelive.withgoogle.co…
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Worth checking out: blog.bazel.build/2022/11/15/… gives an overview of metrics you can use to understand the performance of a Bazel build, including some features added in 6.0. @bazelbuild #performance
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Analyze your Bazel profiles on analyzer.engflow.com to find out how to speed up your builds and tests now. This web UI is built on top of our open-source Bazel Invocation Analyzer and provides an alternative to the CLI. @bazelbuild #performance #opensource
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We are thrilled to work with some of the world's most innovative companies and engineering teams to accelerate their developer productivity, and to have the backing of top investors @a16z, @firstminutecap, @Tiger_Global. Kudos to our team for reaching our core milestones!
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💚 #BazelCon goes live in ONE WEEK! Get ready for two days of learning, and networking with the Bazel #opensource community. There'll be keynotes, announcements, lightning talks, Q&A's and more. Register today → goo.gle/bazelcon2022
We've had an overwhelming demand and are close to max capacity for the @bazelbuild Community Day created by @EngFlowCom and @aspect_dev hosted at @datadoghq, with Bazel contributor sessions and a beginner bootcamp. Register this week to reserve your spot!
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HOW TO DEFEAT BORIS: all other parties should stand down in Uxbridge & South Ruislip at the next election, and let me take him down. That way he won't just lose, he'll lose in the way he deserves. #BinBoris
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You're on the right track when your team can confidently deploy to production not just on Fridays, but after 5pm on Friday. There's some changes that would be foolish for. But with sufficient CI, a stable pipeline, and observability of production they are a tiny minority.
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Save the date, #BazelCon 2022 is coming! 📅 When: November 16-17 📍 Where: Pier 57 in New York AND virtual 🤔 What to expect: Talks, live Q&A, collaboration opportunities, and more Register today 👉 goo.gle/bazelcon2022
How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains? It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
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The #BazelCon agenda is up and it's 🔥! We'll be there too, contributing four presentations. ​​opensourcelive.withgoogle.co…
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