Seccl now looks after more than £3 billion on behalf of more than a quarter of a million customers and expects to triple assets under administration over the coming year.
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This is the main thing I worry about currently as far as AI is concerned. I follow conversations among professional educators who all report the same phenomenon, which is that their students use ChatGPT for everything, and in consequence learn nothing. We may end up with ...
I’m quite certain that everyone at Apple, right up to Tim Cook, would swear up and down that Apple does value third-party developers and does not treat them like they do suppliers.
But ask iOS and Mac developers, small or large, whether they agree with Evans’s succinct...
If you’ve spent any time measuring value streams, you know that coding isn’t usually the problem. Having a clean flow of good information about the problems we are trying to solve is usually the problem. Not having a safe and fast way to deliver changes and get feedback o...
Is what you’re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it’s probably going to be great at it. If you’re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you’re asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.
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This is a write-up of a talk I did for our tech team at work.
As developers, our bread and butter is to get our software from its current state to some future state.
Working sustainably in small batches and performing regular releases is considered industry best practi...
tl;dr – The podcast industry has long relied on the open nature of RSS to sustain a wide variety of small businesses. But that could all disappear if YouTube becomes the de facto place to publish podcasts.
Podcast Movement Evolutions, a conference focused on ‘the busin...
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What I’ve been listening to this month.
Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World
A Design for Life (Remastered Version) - Manic Street Preachers
Movin’ On Up - Primal Scream
Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
Time for Peace - The Little Shadows
Planet of the Apes - Pinehurst Ki...
One thing you can’t take away from me is how I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes in any circumstances.
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Managing histamine intolerance on a vegan diet requires careful planning. This 5-day meal plan avoids high-histamine plant foods while ensuring nutritional adequacy through fresh, minimally processed ingredients.
Daily Meal Plan
Day
Meal
Menu
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Almost everything I produce is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python using GitHub Actions for the free compute.
If you want to create completely free software for other people to use, the absolute best delivery mechanism right now is static HTML and JavaScript served from a ...
Almost 9 million people in the UK remain significantly underpensioned compared to the broader population. The latest data reveals that underpensioned groups have annual private pension incomes ranging from £3,650 to £6,750. This is 43% to 80% compared to the population av...
There are 400 Junior ISA (JISA) accounts held in the UK with a value of at least £100,000, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, as part of its analysis into the long-term impact of saving and investing...
Redis 8 is now GA, loaded with new features and more than 30 performance improvements
This release adds 8 more data structures, including vector set (beta), JSON, time series, and five probabilistic structures, including Bloom filter, cuckoo filter, count-min sketch, top-k,...
HMRC’s newly published ‘Understanding the Use of the Lifetime ISA’ report lays bare the confusion at the heart of one of the government’s flagship savings products. Most striking is the revelation that even financially literate savers, including those actively contributin...
I’ve been building out some RSS feeds recently as I really value the nature of RSS delivery in a reader of my choice, rather than being forced to go to websites full of adverts and cookie notices, or forced into apps that also are full of apps, despite being paid for - looki...
Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. Developers should check that their sites don’t rely on UA styles for certain cases to avoid unexpected results and failing Lighthouse checks. In this post, we’ll have a look at wha...
You can’t.
That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one.
Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) may indicate that th...
With that, here are 7 phrases I often use when sharing feedback that makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action.
“This is a great start”
“I noticed”
“At the same time”
“Even more”
“I believe you w...
A couple of songs came up sequentially today that seemed appropriate for the times.
There are some bad people on the rise
They’re saving their own skins by
Ruining people’s lives
Interesting Drug, Morrissey
But the leaders of the free world
Are just little boys...
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AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.
We often take the internet ...
If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned.
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At the start of the week: Get together with the team to decide what to ship—bring live—at the end of the week. Ideally, everyone contributes, but this is intentionally not a requirement.
At the end of the week: Get together and look at what was shipped. Everyone high-fives or, together, lands on one lesson to learn.
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In honour of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way.
Most of these insights are things I heard someone else say. They’re the things that I find myself telling people when they ask me for adv...
Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. Here is a short guide to get you star...
These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity.
Inversion: Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant. Instead of asking, “How can I help my company?” you...
There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path.
Peopl...
1. Why Do You Really Want to Work Here Specifically?
1.1. What have you learned about our company beyond what you’ve read on the website?
1.2. What do you think you might be able to do that’s different from what we’re already doing?
1.3. Why is our company and this j...
