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Chris Ward
@chrisward.de
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Left Britain for Berlin after the EU referendum, learnt German, stood in two elections, now a whisker from citizenship. ADHDer. Homo. Androider. Engineering Manager. Speaker. Schöneberger. Crow Queen Posts in 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Views my own. he/him #thfbleibt #fckafd
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 7h
Thank you to the lovely #UITS crowd today. Was lovely chatting to you. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
Photo of me giving my talk at the Unicorns in Tech Summit 25: How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 15h
Hello and good morning to all of you lovely people going to the Unicorns in Tech Summit 25 today.

I'm giving a talk at 3:30pm: How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager.

Especially aimed at those of you who have ruled it out. Please let me convince you otherwise. :)
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
If I were the Nobel Prize Committee I'd give it to Biden.

He doesn't deserve it of course, and I can't stand the man. But it would also be really really really funny.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
This is the Microsoft Office paperclip now. Feel old yet?
Gen AI sparkle-star trio icon
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
Your reminder as to why the Online Safety Act provides anything but.

www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
Can't help but notice that in this era of "vibe coding"... there's been an awful lot more massive data breach cases.

Developments in AI are groundbreaking, but the hype train and dismissal of concerns is only just beginning to bear rotten fruit. There's more to come.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
Give me dopamine.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
A little friend and I made a short video about my talk at droidcon London. 🥰

youtube.com/shorts/5TCfZ...
Systems Design Interviews 🤯 (The Hate-Free Way) with Chris Ward #TechInterview #InterviewPrep
YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
The absolute best.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
Also Janeway was the best captain.

Come for me Trek people. I'll be waiting.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
I'm a Wars guy more than a Trekkie. But largely I really really love both and only prefer Star Wars marginally.

HOWEVER.

Some of you have started suggesting Andor is equivalent to Deep Space Nine.

This is objectively incorrect. Andor is far better than a shit sitcom at a space petrol station.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
Lots of things remain constant in the universe forever. And one of those things is that young Tories are really really weird.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
If you don't need developers cos AI can build what you're offering, then what are you offering that nobody else can just magic up?

If you don't need devs, it's quite possible ordinary people (also non-devs) don't need you either.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
I'll be speaking at droidcon London with my talk:
"Systems Design interviews for people who hate systems design interviews."

The crow won't be at the talk, sorry. It's a hooded crow and I can't transport that on a flight.

If it was completely black, however, I could have had it as my carrion.
Advertising banner for my talk at droidcon London: "Systems Design interviews for people who hate systems design interviews". There is a picture of me with a crow on my head.
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5d
I mean sure, go after the rise of uncivil online discourse, but don't pretend it's on this one single platform. I can type "cisgender" here without having my tweet hidden by the platform.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5d
I'll forever be amazed at this prevailing narrative that Bluesky is some siloed cocoon of unpleasant people that go after you if you don't conform to a certain mindset vs... *checks notes*... Musk's Twitter.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/w...
Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
"We forcibly removed people more humanely"
- Progressive America
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d
💯
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
The worst thing about Chat Control is that it won't even ensnare the people the law is built for.

Those distributing CSAM will easily find another means of doing so. Does that break the law? Yes. But so does distributing CSAM. They don't care about that.

Meanwhile, innocent people get the impact.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
In Germany you face legal restrictions filming or recording on-duty police officers.

That ordinary citizens should be subject to every digital message being scanned really does exemplify how "Freiheit" is a meaningless word in this country. A luxury afforded to the powerful and privileged.
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Signal @signal.org · 8d
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6d
A backdoor to your encrypted messages isn't just a backdoor for governments, it's a backdoor for everyone.

Everything you send will be scanned. It's the digital equivalent to a government employee listening in on every phone call you make.

And state officials are exempt. One rule for them...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 7d
AI no?
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