Founder & Cloud Consultant PAYE → £100K+ Self-Employed SWE | DevOps | Platform Engineering

Bristol
Joined December 2023
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just saw someone on tiktok saw if you’re trying to get in to tech in 2026 you need to train as a forward deployed engineer people in the comments lapping it up like “how to learn” it’s like telling a non league footballer to just be ronaldo
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Caved. Heatings on
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I’ve been making career based content on all forms of social media since lockdown I’d estimate that less than 10% of the people who approach me for help actually follow through
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A lot of is a lack of investment That doesn’t always mean money. Time, agency, effort etc The idea that 6-24 months of hard work can change your life is completely unfathomable to some people
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no idea how so many people make vulnerable apps with ai tbh only at 75% of the way through my mvp did i start checking it myself, found some odd things then i created a security skill in claude and ran some sec tools. i found 3 critical and 2 highs, fixed again with claude
❗️ The CEO of a South African coffee chain vibe-coded an internal dashboard for all of his 132 stores, only it had one big flaw: all of the sensitive internal data was stored in the source code of the login screen. The dashboard URL was discovered through employees posting photos of their laptop screens on Instagram. The CEO said he had discovered Claude and was "almost certain" that software itself will soon "become free," they said.
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You can be paid to post on the lowest X subscription now, is this new?
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Just tried an independent peri peri chicken place. £25 whole chicken and 4 sides. Like teleporting back to 2017 nandos prices
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can’t believe i’ve been locked away building backend infra for 10 years i have far too many ideas to not be building great product
currently using opus 5.5 with remotion and strudel to generate a launch video for my startup i'm buildling this is how we were supposed to bootstrap
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Porsche 911 is a Mazda MX5 for the upwardly mobile
M&S is just Iceland for the upwardly mobile
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My Mrs wrote a Substack post on the unhinged way adults seem to take every single interaction that happens to their kids as a personal slight cakeyincascais.substack.com/…
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currently using opus 5.5 with remotion and strudel to generate a launch video for my startup i'm buildling this is how we were supposed to bootstrap
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the work is behind the scenes competition is the easy part
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This is nonsense tbh an online pharmacy will prescribe you whatever you want in reason Not everyday GP nonsense
The ibuprofen thing is fascinating because in the uk it's nearly impossible to get meds for anything. I have to stock up on melatonin when I go to europe or the us
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The M&S induced diabetes epidemic in Gen Z and Millennials will be outrageous in a few years
Of course we will be having a look on Friday
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Must be nice to not have astigmatism
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Building this. Coming soon. If you’re a recruiter, consultancy or enterprise - DM me for pre launch beta testing
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What a fucking city we are
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Lammens is fucking horrible
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Yoro clearing a ball under zero pressure with 25-30 yards of space to travel into Just not good enough
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So many replies to this were AI generated They need to fix this
The best Software Engineers in the US right now are telling you they don’t review code and have 10, 20, 30 agents running at once Meanwhile your British 40+ middle manager drops in to standup a couple times a month “yeah I’ve tried AI, not that great would never pay for it”
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