Oli Lane

Oli Lane

@olane.dev

It’s abundantly clear that these guys are on the frontlines of whatever this is.

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Zach Holman
@hol.mn

with no one reading code anymore, now is the time to start adding your expert proficiency for every single programming language to your linkedin profile

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Jack Bernhardt
@jackbern.bsky.social

something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"

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_duncanhall
@duncanhall.net

Adding "honking of data centre" to the lexicon

Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social

Dear writers, please do not use AI to write/help write your pitches, they arrive in my inbox absolutely honking of data centre, please please just have original ideas and work them up yourself else really, what is the fucking point of being a writer? Getting so many of these at the moment.

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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social

There will never be enough quality candidates for a rightwing party if you make it a condition for entry that you sign up to a position that almost everyone earning above 70k disagrees with:

The i Paper @theipaper.com

In an interview with The i Paper, shadow housing secretary Katie Lam, who voted Leave in 2016, rejected the prospect of Britain rejoining the EU. Read more: trib.al/VYQTH5y

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com

Last year the U.K. only created 15,700 hectares of woodland, less than half its annual target. We generally fail by about the same amount every year. If the 500,000 trees U.K. gov announced were about woodland creation (they’re not) then that wouldn’t put a dent in the ~14,000,000 annually needed.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis
@wil.to

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

geoffgraham.meWhy CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff GrahamBecause I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
Oli Lane
@olane.dev

The local planning portal is so completely crap that I have been compelled to write my own UI for it so that I can actually have a chance of reading planning applications and understanding them.

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Parody Nigel Farage
@parodypm.bsky.social

"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
@migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

If the hubris that lead to security holes and poor engineering of doge/linux did not dissuade your enthusiastic friend, perhaps not supporting the Nazi ideology behind it will: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/

flyingpenguin.comDHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security”Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it. As CEO of Kolide, Meller published honest.security and reduced it to five tenets on December 8, 2020. The first: “ _The values your organization stands behind should be well-represented in your security program_.” That’s politics at work. The third holds that trust is demonstrated through informed consent and transparency. The fifth holds that people make rational decisions about risk when they are educated and honestly motivated. Then 1Password, whose 2021 round was joined personally by Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein, the executives who platformed Nazi merchandise and seated David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on their board, bought Kolide in February 2024, made Meller VP of Product, and still publishes the document as the guiding principles of its Device Trust product. Houston, we have a problem. DHH published his infamous Nazi screed called “ _As I remember London_ ” on September 15, 2025. The post mourns a London no longer full of “native” British and approves a right-wing Tommy Robinson march promoting white supremacy. Meller answered the criticism of DHH on September 26, 2025 with a photo of a child in a dance costume, back turned to the camera, at the edge of a lifeless/closed private pool. With that he boasted he became a multi-millionaire thanks to Rails, DHH, and the company DHH keeps: “ _Let’s ignore the noise and keep building_.” Source: Twitter He posted that as a director of the Rails Foundation, which DHH chairs. 1Password had taken a board seat in 2024 and Meller filled it with such questionable “values”. Again, this was the guy who wrote a rulebook saying work is political, where trust is earned. Fast forward to July 12, 2026, DHH published “ _The will to power will return_.” He tries to gin up a “loss” narrative to evoke FUD, claiming the West has lost its will, weak men have made hard times, a hero generation will end the managed decline, and the last such Crisis ended in total war, so do not bet against another. That title is Nietzsche’s phrase fraudulently repackaged by his antisemitic sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche: she made a posthumous compilation cut from his notebooks into a racist doctrine of strength over weakness, which was adopted by the Nazis. It has been treated by scholars as hers rather than the philosopher’s since the Colli-Montinari edition. This isn’t obscure history. Hitler ran PR at her Weimar archive in 1934, photographed at the door taking her hands, and photographed inside contemplating the bust of her brother. Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche happily welcomes Hitler at the door of the Nietzsche-Archiv, Weimar, 1934, offering him a warm smile and both hands. Source: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Kunstarchiv, http://www.gnm.de/museum/abteilungen-anlaufstellen/deutsches-kunstarchiv/ Days later DHH published the word _remigration_ , Martin Sellner’s Potsdam term for forced deportation of settled populations, documented here at the time, because it’s Nazi propaganda worth identifying as such. On July 21, 2026, DHH doubled-down on all this Nazism with “ _Wolves, sheep, and gypsies_.” He describes Romani people in Copenhagen parks beside a wolf population and states the remedy for one is shooting and the remedy for the other is deportation. Make no mistake. DHH pushes the dehumanization of an ethnic group in preparation for its removal on force of death. It is the rhetoric that preceded the Porajmos. DHH then complained publicly when Claude refused to translate his Nazi propaganda into Italian. On August 31, 2026, DHH named 1Password a Distinguished Corporate Patron of his Omacom Foundation, $100,000 a year for three years, in a quid pro quo he described the same afternoon as proof open source need not be a “commune.” Source: Twitter “Commune” is the Nazi dog-whistle of being anti-communist, the antisemitic project from the start: it’s how the NSDAP fused Jews and the labor movement into being their “one” enemy of “Jewish Bolshevism”. Rosenberg’s 1936 Nuremberg speech made the equation explicit. Seven weeks after the will-to-power essay, DHH spoke of a commune as his enemy on the day he took 1Password’s money. 1Password is the first corporate patron he does not own, and the independence ends there. Lütke, on 1Password’s cap table since 2021, pledged $1 million on August 21. His portfolio company followed in ten days. The quid was the default install slot 1Password had held since Omakub. DHH thanked Meller by name for leading it. Meller had already explained the bond the evening before: DHH pitched him one-on-one for two hours, and he switched to Mac for Rails and DHH seventeen years ago and is switching platforms again for him now. Source: Twitter Then he called DHH’s past year a masterclass in “force of will”. Nine days before the deportation post, DHH’s own headline had announced the return of the “will to power”, the phrase identified above. Meller’s words echo the DHH Nazi title, seven weeks on. Jason Meller, VP of Product at 1Password, August 30, 2026. “Force of will” repeats the title DHH gave his July 12 essay, nine days before the Romani post. The 1935 film title was Triumph of the Will. On August 31 Meller produced the metric that became the company’s defense: Omarchy is the third largest Linux distribution among active 1Password users and first on weekends. DHH called it crazy. A fan called it his cocaine energy. You know, weekend stuff. Source: Twitter When employees and customers objected, this data point was cited. CEO David Faugno told staff the money goes to a foundation and not a person (e.g. to a NSDAP not to Hitler himself), that 1Password rejects DHH’s exclusionary views without offering proof, and that Omarchy is a top Linux platform for its users. Cofounder Roustem Karimov, in a Slack message obtained by The Verge, accused objecting staff of trying to setup a moral monopoly and ostracizing colleagues by rejecting Nazism. Now back to those tenets. **Tenet one.** Values the organization stands behind, represented in the security program. The CEO says the company rejects DHH’s views, yet show us where. The VP of Product funds them, celebrates them, and sits on a board DHH chairs. One of those is the value the organization stands behind. The money identifies which. **Tenet three.** Trust through informed consent and transparency. The pledge was announced by DHH, on DHH’s platform, with the objections handled afterward in private Slack. Employees learned of the affiliation the way everyone else did. Consent was never sought. Transparency arrived through a leak. **Tenet five.** People make rational decisions when educated and honestly motivated. The employees and customers who objected read the two posts and decided. Meller’s word for that decision in 2025 was noise. Karimov’s word in 2026 was moral monopoly. The doctrine says respect the informed decision. The practice says discredit it. Meller’s method is the same on both dates. He never engages the text. He recodes the objection as noise or as shots taken, then answers with a number: his net worth in 2025, weekend install counts in 2026. Honest Security was written against exactly that move. Its whole argument is that a security team which answers human objections with telemetry has already lost. Every director of the Rails Foundation, every patron of Omacom, and every executive at 1Password now owns Nazi propaganda. But Meller is different from everyone, because that guy owns them twice. He brokered the money and he wrote a standard that says Meller can’t be trusted.

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Brian PJ Cronin
@brianpjcronin.bsky.social

Chat is it bad that every single website / app / tech product that we have found ourselves entangled with over the past 15 years eventually reveals themselves to be pro-fascism

The Verge@theverge.com

In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password’s Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following: www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...

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Dan Hon
@danhon.com

Replying to @danhon.com

JK Rowling needs a password manager like 1Password because she can't handle complex characters

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺
@lizwebster.bsky.social

Replying to @lizwebster.bsky.social

Britain spent decades building one of the safest egg systems in the world. Now thanks to Brexit freedoms vulnerable people are effectively being told: British Lion eggs at home are safe but be careful ordering a runny egg in a British restaurant because you may not know where that egg came from.

Oli Lane
@olane.dev

There’s a street corner near me that could really do with a drop kerb for pushchairs, wheelchairs, etc etc. In completely predictable fashion, the council website has plenty of information on what to do if you want to get one added for your drive, and nothing at all for this case.

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ceej
@ceej.online

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Oli Lane
@olane.dev

Cambridge could use… well, about 50 of these. But I’d settle for any at this point.

The Rancid Highwayman@rantyhighwayman.eurosky.social

Always nice to see some of my work in the wild and being used. We're going to need more bays @cityinfinity.bsky.social

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Phil Rodgers
@philrodgers.co.uk

Get this ugly, ridiculous piece of security theatre off our streets. That chain wouldn’t stop a bicycle thief, let alone a terrorist attack. It’s all the more ludicrous because the other end of King’s Parade is defended by plain old bollards, which is what we should have here.

Oli Lane
@olane.dev

We did it, we found a proposal for where to put solar panels that makes less sense than “on a railway track”

chloew1656.bsky.social@chloew1656.bsky.social

Don't know why they don't put them over graves. Particularly in old churches and cemeteries where the graves are over 100 years old. I'd be quite happy for my committal service to be, "dust to dust, ashes to ashes, sunlight to renewable power".

Oli Lane
@olane.dev

Very much looking forward to the pollsters having to poll the popularity of Count Binface with a straight face

Oli Lane
@olane.dev

Is this… the first thing she’s done as culture minister?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

UK CULTURE MINISTER NANDY SAYS SHE IS LEAVING X, SAYING THE PLATFORM NOW FAVOURS ABUSE AND MISINFORMATION