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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 · 1h
Give me dopamine.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5h
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 · 5h
The absolute best.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6h
Also Janeway was the best captain.

Come for me Trek people. I'll be waiting.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 6h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
"We forcibly removed people more humanely"
- Progressive America
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 5d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
AI no?
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
I am still truly amazed at how a henchman of the jaundiced overweight draft-dodger can complain about soldiers being fat.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No more ‘woke’ in the US military: key takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s speech
Pentagon chief railed against diversity and fat-shamed the troops as he directed his generals to fall in line – or quit
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
I'm giving a talk at the Unicorns In Tech Summit next Saturday: "How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager".

This will be a tough talk to give given that lately I'm finding things are increasingly getting much much harder. But I hope it'll be useful.

Tickets here: www.unicornsintech.com
Graphic advertising my talk at the Unicorns in Tech Summit: "How my ADHD made me a better engineering manager".
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
Good morning from me and this hungry little buddy.
Me with a crow on my head eating peanuts out of my hand. The crow's mouth is very full.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
Sorry, for non German speakers: the article talks about "Chatkontrolle" - basically the demands from government to be able to intercept or "have a backdoor" to encrypted messaging systems. Forgetting (or ignoring) of course that a backdoor for someone is a backdoor for everyone.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
Oh, and that's ignoring the fact that you can't really achieve these without banning encrypted communications in general - which is tantamount to putting everybody in prison because then there'd be no more crime.
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 4d
It is truly incredible that as well as dancing to Nazi tunes on topics such as migration, liberal governments around the world are doing the authoritarian prep work right as Nazis are polling first place so they can get going with Nazi shit on day 1.

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...
Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt
In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5d
Nah it's fine thanks. I will work it into the talk though to make it honest. :) and yes those are the common strengths. Just at the moment the environment triggers the worst of the weaknesses. Thank you for the response, it was very nice. ❤️
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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 5d
Same! I remember the first job I had where my appraisal said "incredible organisational skills". Literally every school report, uni tutor feedback and all appraisals from the majority of my career said precisely the opposite.

But damn, tech is bringing out the worst in the old ADHD at the mo...
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