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Identity theft

I listened to a terrifying episode of Darknet Diaries this week where a developer, Connor Tumbleson explained how their identity was stolen by some form of grifting company that created a fake Upwork profile pretending to be them. They then proceeded to hire freelancers to pretend to be Connor in interviews… It’s all very weird […]

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I don’t hate it though

Something I really don’t like is how “hate” is used so lightly — especially by tech folks. Same for “dead” too (tech doesn’t die it’s just sand that can think). Over the last couple of years, I often get mischaracterised as “hating” stuff. Y’know, “Andy hates React”, “Andy hates Tailwind”, “Andy hates Twitter”, or more […]

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Some Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon predictions for 6 months time

Predictions are fun and social networks seem to be in a period of turbulence, excitement and of course, decline. This is what I reckon it might look like in 6 months: Twitter will be like Facebook: cringe and irrelevant. It certainly will not be “dead”, but just like Facebook is now: Twitter will be completely […]

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