Chris Bennetts

This is about 25% of the Microsoft workforce. Microsoft is dying.

I'm going out on a limb here and suggest that we dump retros (as usually done) altogether. I see zero value in all those ridiculous games and rituals the coaches seem so enamored of, and in any event, a retro is a conversation, not a formal meeting. Instead, let's improve continuously. 1/6

"Despite massive investments...[AI] has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."

"[Our research] found: - Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality; - Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. " theconversation.com/big-us-style...

These bloody things are a good test of how well-sealed your home is. I assume everyone else’s is failing as bad as mine is?

One of the best technical articles I’ve read in years. Stewart Brand’s classic book “How Buildings Learn” has shaped my attitude to the way systems change for most of my career, and this piece gives some great new things to ponder.

The food is mostly terrible, but it’s safe and accessible. If literally nothing else, their multilingual self service terminals make them incredibly useful for getting your calories in a foreign country. Relied on them a lot when I visited the Netherlands and Germany.

"we vibe coded this" cheers for the warning not to enter personal data into it. 👍

While working in person, many employees still spend the day on video calls with their colleagues—“but an isolated workday doesn’t have to be the new norm,” Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington argue:

Someone should make a bollard base stand for the Homeview.

An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...

Not to dunk on anyone’s taste in music, but a Powderfinger reunion tour, seriously?

Bloomberg: "It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That ocean journey runs about $80 million compared with $74 million for a standard commercial launch. The eye-watering prices are the result of a global tanker shortage that's getting worse"

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Think legacy code is just old Cobol programs? Think again. The untested code you committed this morning might already be legacy. In my new video, I explore why legacy isn’t about age, but about testability and the cost of change. Watch now on @modernswe.bsky.social ➡️ youtu.be/jScItKhruN0

In general, if you’re using LLMs to analyse LLM-generated work, just stop. Cut your nonsense requests for paperwork that encourages people to use LLMs to create it.

The Roosters defence line moves faster than Usain Bolt. Either they’re going too early, or they’re breaking General Relativity. Pretty much impossible to attack against. #nrlgf

Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers:... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/connected-cars-are-a-surveillance-platform.html

I know it’s great to see Bogong moths back from oblivion, but can they stay the hell out of my apartment?

Newcastle beating Penrith with twelve men to get into the GF. Did not expect that! #nrl

I don’t think pre-game entertainment can ever outdo the Kylie performance. May as well just scrap it for the next few years.

Horrifying stuff. Why the hell are cars connected to the internet?

I love Kylie as much as the next gay dude, but since she’s playing at the AFL grand final, the NRL must book Regurgitator for theirs.

How an abandoned water park became a lightning rod for the Canberra community

As our car sizes grow, new evidence points to pedestrian risk

If you need tools like Jira, the odds are that you're not working with agility—where we adapt what we're working on to incorporate lessons learned as we work—at all. No shop that works with any agility has the level of bureaucracy that requires tools like Jira. 3/3

Doesn’t look bad technically, but a $3500 AUD entry price stings. And 254g and 11.3mm thickness is a big lump to keep in your pocket every day.

The finding underscores the myriad privacy concerns surrounding smart TVs, especially when you consider how many consumers are likely unaware of the various ways their devices monitor user activity.

What part of selling groceries requires mass surveillance?

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

Not another one!

If you are "writing a user story," you're already in trouble. A "user story" is exactly that, the user's story. They're the ones who "write" the story, not you. A user story is not a code word for a waterfall up-front specification. A "story" describes your user's work, not yours. 1/4

Imagine writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day and that's not the best thing you did in life.

The Ultrajesus.

It’s pretty hard to see a future for Mount Selwyn tbh. It’s just too marginal.

The best security is having nothing to secure. Why do companies insist on accumulating customers’ personal data?

The impact crater is a lot more noticeable than I expected.

You shouldn’t need to share your biometrics to buy groceries.

New Ted Lasso still brightens the mood. That’s what it’s for, and it does it well.

If your solution to system failures is "tell developers to be more careful," you don't have an engineering strategy. You have a wish. And wishes don't scale. As humans, we are fundamentally fallible. We make mistakes. 🧵 (1/6)

How the hell are these creepy things legal?

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

We are building powerful, poorly understood, non-deterministic systems, handing them autonomy, and wiring them into places that matter. Stop asking if AI is conscious. Start asking: where is the engineering discipline keeping it safe? New video out now ➡️ youtu.be/mRF99to28sA

Study finds personal e-scooters have important role in solving traffic and public transport hassles