David Whitney
@davidwhitney.co.uk
Director of Architecture @ fintech
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
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@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
🔗https://davidwhitney.co.uk/now - Other Socials
@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
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David Whitney
@davidwhitney.co.uk
· Nov 12
davidwhitney.co.uk
Hi, I'm David - you might be here because I:
- Wrote a couple of kids books about programming
- Spoke to you at an event or conference
- Had a fabulous time with you and a cocktail
- Have offered you some software consulting
- Taught you something
Available at davidwhitney.co.uk/now 🖤
- Wrote a couple of kids books about programming
- Spoke to you at an event or conference
- Had a fabulous time with you and a cocktail
- Have offered you some software consulting
- Taught you something
Available at davidwhitney.co.uk/now 🖤
Reposted by David Whitney
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
"Are you enjoying using Excel, can you leave an app store review?".
No, spitefully, no.
I have never, and will never enjoy using Excel.
To the product owner - it's not you, it's my deep loathing of data provided to me in Excel.
No, spitefully, no.
I have never, and will never enjoy using Excel.
To the product owner - it's not you, it's my deep loathing of data provided to me in Excel.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"Are you enjoying using Excel, can you leave an app store review?".
No, spitefully, no.
I have never, and will never enjoy using Excel.
To the product owner - it's not you, it's my deep loathing of data provided to me in Excel.
No, spitefully, no.
I have never, and will never enjoy using Excel.
To the product owner - it's not you, it's my deep loathing of data provided to me in Excel.
Reposted by David Whitney
The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
The Seven Deadly Sins of “Go Faster”
Things that will make your dev team take longer to deliver worse software:1. Adding more people to the team2. Making them work longer hours3. Cutting down on work that “slows them down”…
codemanship.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...
Honestly this kind of "oh no, not AI" grandstanding is more tedious and just as compromised as bad uses of AI.
www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...
www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...
Arc Raiders review - a smartly designed extraction shooter marred by one inexcusable decision
Rich combat and an unusually friendly community make Arc Raiders an cracking extraction shooter, but Embark Studios' continued use of AI voices is inexcusable.
www.eurogamer.net
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Honestly this kind of "oh no, not AI" grandstanding is more tedious and just as compromised as bad uses of AI.
www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...
www.eurogamer.net/arc-raiders-...
Reposted by David Whitney
.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team!
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download .NET 10.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) | .NET
.NET 10.0 downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
dotnet.microsoft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team!
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Put 👏🏻 Model Binding 👏🏻 In 👏🏻 The 👏🏻 DOM 👏🏻
Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Put 👏🏻 Model Binding 👏🏻 In 👏🏻 The 👏🏻 DOM 👏🏻
I know they'll give the Grammy to Deftones because the grammies mostly only respect heritage, but it should go to Spiritbox.
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I know they'll give the Grammy to Deftones because the grammies mostly only respect heritage, but it should go to Spiritbox.
This is the summary DHH earnt for himself.
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is the summary DHH earnt for himself.
Reposted by David Whitney
www.otelbin.io learn something new every day.
OTelBin – by Dash0
Edit, visualize and share OpenTelemetry Collector configurations
www.otelbin.io
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
www.otelbin.io learn something new every day.
This is poor management characteristics in basically all technology roles tbh.
How poor leadership slows down game development
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is poor management characteristics in basically all technology roles tbh.
Gen-Z's have finally found their Avocado toast moment.
Old fucks will narritivise the hustle porn they never lived until they die.
We managed to make a society where legitimately how flukey one generation was managed to overshadow generations of people working.
Old fucks will narritivise the hustle porn they never lived until they die.
We managed to make a society where legitimately how flukey one generation was managed to overshadow generations of people working.
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Gen-Z's have finally found their Avocado toast moment.
Old fucks will narritivise the hustle porn they never lived until they die.
We managed to make a society where legitimately how flukey one generation was managed to overshadow generations of people working.
Old fucks will narritivise the hustle porn they never lived until they die.
We managed to make a society where legitimately how flukey one generation was managed to overshadow generations of people working.
Reposted by David Whitney
I am looking for a full-time job.
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I am looking for a full-time job.
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Excellent and accurate thread.
Hipster hosting just ain't realistic for things that have to work at global scale, despite what people want to believe.
Hipster hosting just ain't realistic for things that have to work at global scale, despite what people want to believe.
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Excellent and accurate thread.
Hipster hosting just ain't realistic for things that have to work at global scale, despite what people want to believe.
Hipster hosting just ain't realistic for things that have to work at global scale, despite what people want to believe.
Had a really great time with The Outer Worlds 2 this weekend. The reviews seem to be all over the place - which I think is perhaps reflective of how much your builds do seem to matter.
Setting is still a touch indistinct, but ~15 hours in is hitting its stride.
Setting is still a touch indistinct, but ~15 hours in is hitting its stride.
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Had a really great time with The Outer Worlds 2 this weekend. The reviews seem to be all over the place - which I think is perhaps reflective of how much your builds do seem to matter.
Setting is still a touch indistinct, but ~15 hours in is hitting its stride.
Setting is still a touch indistinct, but ~15 hours in is hitting its stride.
I've been struggling through being really really ill at #HelloStavanger, so I've not been able to see many talks, but this looks right up my alley.
October 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I've been struggling through being really really ill at #HelloStavanger, so I've not been able to see many talks, but this looks right up my alley.
Next ban ghosts.
Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent systems
Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent systems
Nobel laureates also sign letter saying ASI technology should be barred until there is consensus that it can be developed ‘safely’
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have joined artificial intelligence pioneers and Nobel laureates in calling for a ban on developing superintelligent AI systems.
Harry and Meghan are among the signatories of a statement calling for “a prohibition on the development of superintelligence”. Artificial superintelligence (ASI) is the term for AI systems, yet to be developed, that exceed human levels of intelligence at all cognitive tasks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Next ban ghosts.
Like dogs, there are only good shots.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Like dogs, there are only good shots.
The problem is a social contract isn't... a contract at all.
Social contracts all trend towards promoting a power imbalance because people with it will choose not to be bound.
Social contracts all trend towards promoting a power imbalance because people with it will choose not to be bound.
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The problem is a social contract isn't... a contract at all.
Social contracts all trend towards promoting a power imbalance because people with it will choose not to be bound.
Social contracts all trend towards promoting a power imbalance because people with it will choose not to be bound.
Unfortunately we're at the bit where critique of technology is where critique of journalism has been for the past decade and a half.
There is no "the technology industry", just like there isn't "the media".
There is wealth, and those that would use it to weaponise good things against you.
There is no "the technology industry", just like there isn't "the media".
There is wealth, and those that would use it to weaponise good things against you.
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Unfortunately we're at the bit where critique of technology is where critique of journalism has been for the past decade and a half.
There is no "the technology industry", just like there isn't "the media".
There is wealth, and those that would use it to weaponise good things against you.
There is no "the technology industry", just like there isn't "the media".
There is wealth, and those that would use it to weaponise good things against you.
And what did we learn about single region deployments?
Anyone?
No, didn't think so.
Anyone?
No, didn't think so.
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
And what did we learn about single region deployments?
Anyone?
No, didn't think so.
Anyone?
No, didn't think so.
Reposted by David Whitney
SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF
SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF
Almost exactly a year after my SponsorLink v2 post, and having virtually no traction whatsoever (besides a handful of sponsors, deeply appreciated!), I’m announcing its retirement and replacement…
www.cazzulino.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF
It'll never happen because they probably only have the nerve to be cool one time, but Tron 4 should be soundtracked by Perturbator.
You know it'd be great.
Or Perturbator + Health + The Algorithm.
You know it'd be great.
Or Perturbator + Health + The Algorithm.
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It'll never happen because they probably only have the nerve to be cool one time, but Tron 4 should be soundtracked by Perturbator.
You know it'd be great.
Or Perturbator + Health + The Algorithm.
You know it'd be great.
Or Perturbator + Health + The Algorithm.
Cute speaker souvenir from @dotnetnorth.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Cute speaker souvenir from @dotnetnorth.bsky.social
Oh and that's an affiliate link, any and all proceeds will go straight to "entertainment at the metal bar", so LGFU ;)
Exited to be speaking at Build Stuff in Vilnius.
It's always my last conf of the year, has great vibes and is always a great excuse for a party (the metal bar over the road from the venue is excellent).
Come! 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events?sca_ref=9646...
It's always my last conf of the year, has great vibes and is always a great excuse for a party (the metal bar over the road from the venue is excellent).
Come! 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events?sca_ref=9646...
Build Stuff 2025 Tickets – Secure Your Spot at the Software Conference
Get your Build Stuff 2025 tickets now! Join top software engineers, architects, and tech visionaries in Vilnius, Lithuania (Dec 3-5, 2025) for hands-on workshops, cutting-edge talks, and game-changing...
www.buildstuff.events
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Oh and that's an affiliate link, any and all proceeds will go straight to "entertainment at the metal bar", so LGFU ;)