Matt Fozard
@elfoz.bsky.social
Software developer, dad, bike rides and pub walks, weather watcher // Hampshire UK
Has a look at my feed - ***dooooooom*** - turns off and goes for a walk in the sunshine
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Has a look at my feed - ***dooooooom*** - turns off and goes for a walk in the sunshine
Spec driven development + agentic AI to generate code seems like a good idea on the surface, but what does it leave for me to do? Gather requirements, write specs, press some buttons, review the AI's code, perform manual testing. Writing my own code was the fun part...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Spec driven development + agentic AI to generate code seems like a good idea on the surface, but what does it leave for me to do? Gather requirements, write specs, press some buttons, review the AI's code, perform manual testing. Writing my own code was the fun part...
It is [0] days since I trashed a live database 😱
(but also: yay for working backups)
(but also: yay for working backups)
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It is [0] days since I trashed a live database 😱
(but also: yay for working backups)
(but also: yay for working backups)
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
Looking forward to this - it's a real improvement on having to match arrays by index
ECMAScript excitement 😉
Congrats to my coworker @ashley-c.bsky.social at TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at TC39 today 🎉
Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍
github.com/tc39/proposa...
Congrats to my coworker @ashley-c.bsky.social at TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at TC39 today 🎉
Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍
github.com/tc39/proposa...
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Looking forward to this - it's a real improvement on having to match arrays by index
As a pedestrian and rider I feel this one almost every day 😭
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
As a pedestrian and rider I feel this one almost every day 😭
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Slack has changed to hide "inactive" channels and apps by default. Some kind of announcement would have been nice, I thought I was going mad. It makes it pretty hard to reactivate a conversation when it's not there any more...
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Slack has changed to hide "inactive" channels and apps by default. Some kind of announcement would have been nice, I thought I was going mad. It makes it pretty hard to reactivate a conversation when it's not there any more...
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The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
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something pretty galling when the National Gallery gets two individual gifts of £150 million each to build one gallery as the Northumberland Wildlife Trust has to scrabble around for £30 million to buy the Rothbury Estate and restore it to nature 🫠
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
something pretty galling when the National Gallery gets two individual gifts of £150 million each to build one gallery as the Northumberland Wildlife Trust has to scrabble around for £30 million to buy the Rothbury Estate and restore it to nature 🫠
Ride report - legs would prefer to hibernate, weather deciding that “largely dry” doesn’t mean it can’t rain for some of it #ukweather #ukmtb
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ride report - legs would prefer to hibernate, weather deciding that “largely dry” doesn’t mean it can’t rain for some of it #ukweather #ukmtb
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There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
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... not to mention, AWS themselves has UK data centers!
Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access.
Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc
Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access.
Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
... not to mention, AWS themselves has UK data centers!
Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access.
Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc
Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access.
Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc
A brief review of my waterproof gear after 45 minutes commuting in heavy rain: Berghaus Stormcloud jacket ✅ (and *such* a good hood), Rab Downpour trousers ✅, Merrell Moab Speed 2 gore-tex boots - left ✅ & right ❌ - time to dry my socks off #loveukweather
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A brief review of my waterproof gear after 45 minutes commuting in heavy rain: Berghaus Stormcloud jacket ✅ (and *such* a good hood), Rab Downpour trousers ✅, Merrell Moab Speed 2 gore-tex boots - left ✅ & right ❌ - time to dry my socks off #loveukweather
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Artist: Ninj https://b3ta.com/board/11422013
From the 'Ruin A Bond Poster' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/ruinabondposter/popular/ #RuinABondPoster
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Artist: Ninj https://b3ta.com/board/11422013
From the 'Ruin A Bond Poster' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/ruinabondposter/popular/ #RuinABondPoster
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
Run report: full english breakfast not the best fuel for running but the South Downs making up for it
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Run report: full english breakfast not the best fuel for running but the South Downs making up for it
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And a nice writeup of the story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch
Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes
www.science.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
And a nice writeup of the story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
earthsky.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳
Just remembered Microsoft Visual Source Safe and how terrible it was at actually keeping your source safe #codinginthe90s
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Just remembered Microsoft Visual Source Safe and how terrible it was at actually keeping your source safe #codinginthe90s
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content