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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader
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Hands-on leader of Agile Product tech projects. Iterations and Automations. AWS, Terraform, Python, Rust. Also Solana fanboi https://www.mcbh.co.uk
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · 2d
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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d
Everyone who confuses correlation with causation ends up dead.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · 2d
Hugely looking forward to this @deadparrot.dev talk on the new love of my life, @rust-lang.org
#portotechhub
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · 23d
Yesterday I wrote a small Rust program to decode and list transactions on the Solana blockchain. I haven’t felt this excited about a piece of code in decades.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · 27d
Feeling pretty sad that I missed out on the golden years of Ethereum because the EVM opcodes are basically assembler level stuff and I love all that
Photo of a screen showing a selection of opcodes for EVM programming, e.g: SAR, CALLVALUE, ADDRESS)
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Aug 5
OpenAI released their long-promised open weight models today under clean Apache 2 licenses and with benchmarks that put them shockingly close to o3-mini and o4-mini

I've run the smaller (20B) model on my Mac and it's very impressive, despite only using ~15GB of RAM simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/g...
OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good
The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses—Apache 2.0—and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s …
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Jul 22
The new Bristol Supercomputer will be crucial for the UK’s security and sanity. Why? Watch this

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdmKxMdX/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Jul 7
How we built Haboo - culture and attitudes

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How We Built Haboo in Under One Year | MCBH Tech Product Realisation
A blog post by Mark Henwood, describing the disciplines and methodologies used to delivery Zero to One success for the Haboo Money project
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Jul 1
They're all just drinking each other's Kool-Aid. Often second-hand.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · May 22
I’ve been wondering about non-US alternatives for a few months now.
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The Register @theregister.com · May 22
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump
Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from customer unease over US hyperscalers.…
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 20
REALLY looking forward to this #rustnationuk talk on creating Web Applications using Rust from @gbj.dev
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 19
I recently changed from EE to O2 and on the journey from Cardiff to London the O2 coverage is ABSOLUTELY abysmal. Beware, people. If you like to use mobile data, O2 is not your friend.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 7
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
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The Verge @theverge.com · Feb 7
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
If implemented, the secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 5
oh good
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Feb 4
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg.

Read more here: tcrn.ch/4aKfIZa
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 3
(h/t: @the.language.nerds)
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 3
Why Serverless, a blog by me

(There's no question mark - I'm telling you why)
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Why Serverless - Blog - Mark Henwood - Startup CTO
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Feb 3
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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · Feb 1
Today Apple opens the build engine from Xcode. It’s an open source library designed to create build systems.

https://swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/

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Swift.org - The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform build tools that provide a powerful, consistent, and flexible experience across the ecosystem.
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Jan 23
The point of @bsky.app BlueSky is NOT actually BlueSky itself.

Or, how ATProto should change EVERYTHING

#atproto #bluesky

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The Truly Social Net Starts With BlueSky - Blog - Mark Henwood - Startup CTO
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Mark Henwood, Senior Tech Project Leader @mcbh.co.uk · Jan 19
100% this. Misunderstood, the OKR construct is destructive. The problem is always not understanding that the KRs should be Key BUSINESS Results. Not shippable things / releases / phases.
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