Peter Hilton
@hilton.org.uk
Product manager in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, available for a new role from November 2025 • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design/development at https://hilton.org.uk/blog/
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Feature intelligence
a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility
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Feature intelligence: a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility #product hilton.org.uk/blog/feature...
🇳🇱 Linker Rottekade, Rotterdam
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🇳🇱 Linker Rottekade, Rotterdam
Deconstructed inventory management: the basis for a home information management project #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Deconstructed inventory management
the basis for a home information management project
hilton.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Deconstructed inventory management: the basis for a home information management project #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
What’s a software product that got significantly better at its core value proposition, over time, while avoiding complexity and bloat caused by adding ways to serve a larger market?
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What’s a software product that got significantly better at its core value proposition, over time, while avoiding complexity and bloat caused by adding ways to serve a larger market?
Startup idea: solve the problem of Excel thinking everything’s a date. Make a spreadsheet that’s completely normal, except that dates are only ever in an ISO 8601 date format, and anything else is never interpreted as a date.
My best friend 🤝 Excel
Thinks it's a date
Thinks it's a date
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Startup idea: solve the problem of Excel thinking everything’s a date. Make a spreadsheet that’s completely normal, except that dates are only ever in an ISO 8601 date format, and anything else is never interpreted as a date.
Domestic inventory management: optimising supermarket home delivery #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Domestic inventory management
optimising supermarket home delivery
hilton.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Domestic inventory management: optimising supermarket home delivery #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
If only there were a software product development discipline that focused on maximising meaningful impact 😅
This is something I have tried to teach management at every job I've had when I wrote code; I sympathize with the need for metrics but this is a hard problem to solve
Now that I'm in management myself I am working hard to find meaningful metrics for my team and the value they deliver.
Now that I'm in management myself I am working hard to find meaningful metrics for my team and the value they deliver.
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If only there were a software product development discipline that focused on maximising meaningful impact 😅
Dear readers, I would like you to know that:
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Dear readers, I would like you to know that:
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
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Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Why do so many testers have an identity crisis?
Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I...
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Startup idea: solve the (taboo) problem of source attribution in legal contracts. For example, use stylometry and similar natural language analysis to trace the source of specific contract clauses 😈 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylome...
Stylometry - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Startup idea: solve the (taboo) problem of source attribution in legal contracts. For example, use stylometry and similar natural language analysis to trace the source of specific contract clauses 😈 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylome...
Feature intelligence: a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility #product hilton.org.uk/blog/feature...
Feature intelligence
a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility
hilton.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Feature intelligence: a thought experiment about feature lifecycle visibility #product hilton.org.uk/blog/feature...
💡 Saturday tip: I have just used a dental soft pick to clean the compacted fluff from my phone’s charging socket, with damaging the connectors. Now it reliably starts charging when I plug it in ⚡️
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
💡 Saturday tip: I have just used a dental soft pick to clean the compacted fluff from my phone’s charging socket, with damaging the connectors. Now it reliably starts charging when I plug it in ⚡️
Reposted by Peter Hilton
Own a car, but are tired of paying tax on fuel? Reclassify it as an aircraft and get your fuel tax free.
https://wewinganycar.com/
https://wewinganycar.com/
We Wing Any Car - Pay tax like a billionaire
Add wings to your car and enjoy the same tax loopholes as private jets.
wewinganycar.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Own a car, but are tired of paying tax on fuel? Reclassify it as an aircraft and get your fuel tax free.
https://wewinganycar.com/
https://wewinganycar.com/
Reposted by Peter Hilton
Laughing here in the back at @maritvandijk.bsky.social and @peterhilton.bsky.social talk at #JFall 😂!!!
Indeed essential programming jokes collected by these two!
Indeed essential programming jokes collected by these two!
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Laughing here in the back at @maritvandijk.bsky.social and @peterhilton.bsky.social talk at #JFall 😂!!!
Indeed essential programming jokes collected by these two!
Indeed essential programming jokes collected by these two!
Slides for our ‘Essential programming jokes’ #JFall presentation just now: hilton.org.uk/presentation...
Essential programming jokes
shared experiences and teaching each other #presentation
hilton.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Slides for our ‘Essential programming jokes’ #JFall presentation just now: hilton.org.uk/presentation...
Reposted by Peter Hilton
Looking forward to doing not one, but two talks at @nljug.bsky.social #JFall this week, one of which is a new talk (😱!) with cospeaker @hilton.org.uk.
Will I see you there?
Will I see you there?
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Looking forward to doing not one, but two talks at @nljug.bsky.social #JFall this week, one of which is a new talk (😱!) with cospeaker @hilton.org.uk.
Will I see you there?
Will I see you there?
Programming joke cycles: joke variation templates’ different purposes #programming #humour hilton.org.uk/blog/program...
Programming joke cycles
joke variation templates’ different purposes
hilton.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Programming joke cycles: joke variation templates’ different purposes #programming #humour hilton.org.uk/blog/program...
People in companies are allowed to benefit from and enjoy hanging out together, even after a project no longer needs it. I suppose it can be called a ‘book club’ or something if it needs legitimacy 💡
I've had a monthly meeting for a project basically since I started at Igalia, and we basically reached a point in the project it doesn't make sense to sync monthly anymore and I am kind of sad 🥲
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
People in companies are allowed to benefit from and enjoy hanging out together, even after a project no longer needs it. I suppose it can be called a ‘book club’ or something if it needs legitimacy 💡
What’s the third binary number *called* (0, 1, 10, …)? How do you pronounce it?
Is it ‘three’, because we name the natural numbers as concepts, separate from their representations in base-10 or base-2?
Is it ‘ten’, because number names assume base-10, and there is no number ‘three’ in base-2?
Is it ‘three’, because we name the natural numbers as concepts, separate from their representations in base-10 or base-2?
Is it ‘ten’, because number names assume base-10, and there is no number ‘three’ in base-2?
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What’s the third binary number *called* (0, 1, 10, …)? How do you pronounce it?
Is it ‘three’, because we name the natural numbers as concepts, separate from their representations in base-10 or base-2?
Is it ‘ten’, because number names assume base-10, and there is no number ‘three’ in base-2?
Is it ‘three’, because we name the natural numbers as concepts, separate from their representations in base-10 or base-2?
Is it ‘ten’, because number names assume base-10, and there is no number ‘three’ in base-2?
Curate a product feedback database: where so-called product ‘feature requests’ belong #product #management hilton.org.uk/blog/product...
Curate a product feedback database
where so-called product ‘feature requests’ belong
hilton.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Curate a product feedback database: where so-called product ‘feature requests’ belong #product #management hilton.org.uk/blog/product...
‘Pizza is how you get a hard-working, motivated, excited person to shut down for the entire afternoon.’ - Samir Talwar functional.computer/blog/pizza #workshops
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
‘Pizza is how you get a hard-working, motivated, excited person to shut down for the entire afternoon.’ - Samir Talwar functional.computer/blog/pizza #workshops
Startup idea: solve the problem of young professionals who live with their parents while saving to buy a house, and who buy ‘too many’ books.
Rent out 40-foot containers kitted out as cosy libraries: wall-to-wall book cases, wood panelling, armchair, reading light, rug. Book storage to escape to.
Rent out 40-foot containers kitted out as cosy libraries: wall-to-wall book cases, wood panelling, armchair, reading light, rug. Book storage to escape to.
October 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Startup idea: solve the problem of young professionals who live with their parents while saving to buy a house, and who buy ‘too many’ books.
Rent out 40-foot containers kitted out as cosy libraries: wall-to-wall book cases, wood panelling, armchair, reading light, rug. Book storage to escape to.
Rent out 40-foot containers kitted out as cosy libraries: wall-to-wall book cases, wood panelling, armchair, reading light, rug. Book storage to escape to.
🚲 Bus stop islands are normal in the Netherlands, but new enough in London for a recorded announcement: ‘For your safety, please cross the cycle lane with caution’ #cyclingInfrastructure
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚲 Bus stop islands are normal in the Netherlands, but new enough in London for a recorded announcement: ‘For your safety, please cross the cycle lane with caution’ #cyclingInfrastructure
Actually thinking about typography, when choosing how to render code: tonsky.me/blog/syntax-... by @tonsky.me
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
tonsky.me
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Actually thinking about typography, when choosing how to render code: tonsky.me/blog/syntax-... by @tonsky.me