Technical director for a UK SME #PropTech firm. F#, SQLite advocate since 2001, machine learning, distributed systems, Azure & .NET mobile apps.
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Almost any line of business system would be better off written in F# than C#.
C# still has a place in "lower level" .NET code such as core frameworks where mutability is still important for performance reasons. But that use-case doesn't need any of these recent C# "enhancements"
"Britain faces unprecedented squeeze, warns IFS"
We're 18 years in on this story and only now is it making headlines. jfc
What do you do when one of your Azure VMs just starts being in a "Degraded (unplanned)" health state for over a week now?
We tried "Redeploy" and it worked for about 18 hours before becoming Degraded again.
The VM itself seems fine, but this is concerning nonetheless...
Using agents effectively on greenfield codebases is actually 10x harder than brownfield codebases
Nobody seems to talk about that though...
Can Apple or Google last even 6 months without moving the goalposts for what is required to submit a mobile app?
I'm so tired of this shit. Regulate the app stores into oblivion.
Today I accepted Microsoft's Voluntary Redundancy Offer
Unfortunately they rejected it and curtly wrote "do we know you?" 😒
"Streeting: Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days"
Wes Streeting sounds keen, let's give him some boots and a gun and see how he gets on 🤣
We have a VM in Azure UK South AZ1 that's been in a "Degraded" health status for 3 days. The VM itself seems fine, no issues we can see. What's going on? Surely I don't need to click a button to fix this? It would normally live migrate us to a different host. Something feels off.
Nathan B. Evans retweeted
I’ve heard several OAI people say there are unfixable bugs in hardware that are exploitable by AI models directly speaking machine code so even if we could solve software that’s not enough. We need defense to move faster than offense if that’s even possible we may just have a new normal that requires adapting to insecure software (bank transfers require going into a branch and taking a dna test 🤣😬)
"Docker is weird" -- orange site
Docker is indeed the weirdest contraption ever conceived to workaround OS limitations... but this isn't news
These people are ridiculous. Banks should have active failover across a minimum of a dozen DCs in any country they do business. Relying on 1 DC is stupidity of the highest order.
Publish a "Remote MCP" that only supports Copilot
Publish a "Local MCP" that is only available through "npx" (what the fuck is that? (yes i know, but i don't want to know))
Don't be like Azure DevOps folks
Utterly infuriating... use the correct tools.
The typical ADO shop would have banned NodeJS from all their shit, so why expect it to just exist so casually?
TIL i learnt wordpress is vulnerable to username enumeration attacks, in 2026.
absolutely wild scenes
