I've had mostly successful book clubs and some failures. Failures were due to bad books, too many people, taking too long to complete. One successful spin-off was getting aspiring seniors to buddy with a junior and read a book with them

Although I enjoyed @einarwh.bsky.social's points, all is not lost for book clubs. IME: no more than 5 people or coordination is hard and so is discussion. One person allocated to lead discussion on a chapter each. If it takes a long time to complete, build in review. Read during work

Very good! Reminds me of an article about Duolingo being too easy. If you slice the work too thinly, it can lose almost all worth

"This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"

Trail run fun on Exmoor. When Aurora is really enjoying herself, she's too fast for the camera! #trailrunning #exmoor

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Mitch Spano and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #DF25.

We will explore upcoming features, like Apex cursors, improvements to testing on the platform, agentic tooling, and solutions for scaling your compute.

reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df...

Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s

lucky dog

Awesome place!

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

I'm not an AI booster, BTW. There are things I wouldn't do (e.g. big bicep files) because I need to understand all of it. But, there are places where I've found it super helpful.

The helpful places are not evenly distributed or necessarily where you would expect them to be until you play with it

Is this in a chat with Copilot or some agentic thing? They're not good at taking big steps in creating stuff. If you watch the transcript of a coding agent, it steps on a lot of rakes before it gets to something that compiles.

You actually do! They make lots of mistakes, but you can instruct them with a workflow of change, lint, compile, run tests. Then, most of the time, they get to something useful for you to review

This is really good. It's important for people to take coding with agentic AI seriously. Not with breathless excitement, nor blinkered skepticism. But as a tool with strengths, weaknesses, and skills in use

I saved this from Tumblr just yesterday bc I needed it.

There's no room for my tail, the bikes are going to have to go

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

keep it 💯

I love this picture of Aurora carefully watching my son while he tests the new brake pads on his bike. She's such a gift of a dog for a young boy

Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform

DO IT

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”

This only happens to you once