Thomas Mangin
thomas.mangin.com
Thomas Mangin
@thomas.mangin.com
Technical Director of a UK ISP (Exa Networks Limited) providing a Content Filtering Solution (SurfProtect) and author of Open Source Software - https://github.com/exa-networks/exabgp
Martial Artist training in Takemusu Iwama Aikido
I am recruiting but for some reason I do not feel like interviewing this man, or giving him a reference.
June 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I spent a few 💵💵 on Claude and ChatGPT to see if they could help me with python development.

They are good "monkey see, monkey do" and can help productivity (but you are waiting a lot). They run code and identify issues correctly but author absolutely terrible patches.

TL;DR: Not for junior devs.
May 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you read the article and find yourself disagreeing, take some to try to understand why as you probably need to reconsider some assumptions.
Recently I was invited to present on long term software development. I asked around for people's experiences, and they delivered in spades! Please find linked here the collected wisdom. Relevant for everyone shipping software that has to stay viable for a decade or more: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert
Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as ...
berthub.eu
December 24, 2024 at 10:40 AM
I joined the VC LINX meeting late today about the significant MoU change.

Thankfully, it was not an issue, as only two non-board members were on the call. It must be that the LINX team has done a great job, and no one has questions 😂
December 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Migrated my account to my own pds, it seems bluesky sees my account as having an "Invalid handle". Let's see how it fares 😂
November 27, 2024 at 4:18 PM