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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2026

The bigger your to-be-read pile is, the less chance there is for the book to be snatched by a political ban or an AI ingest-and-pulp deathbot. Hoarding unread books is resistance. Future historians will thank us.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 11, 2026

It's too hot for #Caturday so Luna is hanging out by the fan.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 10, 2026

It is genuinely difficult not to lose it when you've been pulled in as involuntary tech support for a company who forces users to use the phone app (even if they are on a laptop) and the phone app doesn't work.

Enough users have left them 1-star reviews about this for them to accept they have a problem.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 10, 2026

I earned the Writer (2026) badge from Phonotonal.

https://www.phonotonal.com/badges/assertion/bdeaf036f228d4d3/

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 08, 2026

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@jscholes/116886273722247873 Which is the Wilhelm Scream, option 1, option 2, or the person being asked to do these horrendous CAPTCHAs.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 08, 2026

It's so great to see all the responses arriving for the State of Continuous Delivery survey.

If you've responded, thank you (and please share with your friends). If you haven't, please join our huge collective effort in exploring software delivery in the modern era.

https://oc.to/state-of-cd-survey

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 07, 2026

Meanwhile in DevOps No.78

Prompt engineering.

#MWID

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 07, 2026

LinkedIn bro with an AI-generated profile pic posts an AI-generated cartoon about how AI will make the user of AI unemployed.

This reminds me of an effect we found in our AI Pulse report. Across all job roles, people think AI will disrupt everyone else's job, but not theirs (as they've seen how weak it is when it does something they understand).

Developers, though, were uniquely self-aware.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @paco@infosec.exchange

@paco@infosec.exchange feels like an ancient proverb... the most expensive thing you'll ever receive is something you get for free.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026

Replying to @tastapod@mas.to

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026

Replying to @tastapod@mas.to

@tastapod@mas.to what an amazing gatekeeping experience!

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

Replying to @thirstybear@agilodon.social

@thirstybear@agilodon.social @jefframnani@mastodon.social but what if we assign twice as many developers to our agents... 😬

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

I don't have much time for people who wouldn't do things for other people, but do them for AI.

Writing docs. Adding tests. Externalising CSS and JavaScript. Thinking up a clear specification. Paying it for doing work. Saying please and thank you. Worrying that they are working it too hard.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

Replying to @petko@social.petko.me

@petko@social.petko.me I guess I'm missing out!

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

I couldn't wait for the official publication date on this one! A #mwid sneak peek!

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @earth2marsh@hachyderm.io

@earth2marsh@hachyderm.io I can't think of any reason why it would be there, just delete it!

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

I just called my daughter and did the whole call as Gollum. After the call I said to my wife, "Andy Serkis got paid a lot of money for that." To which she replied, "Yeah. But he was good at it."

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

Hello darkness my old friend...

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 28, 2026

Meanwhile in DevOps No.68

Opportunity.

#MWID

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @RonJeffries@mastodon.social

@RonJeffries@mastodon.social I'm trying to work this out right now. My technique is compiling a list of harms so I can work out what the red lines are, who I need to campaign to remove harms, and what I would and wouldn't do with AI if the harms were to be resolved.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

@neil when I check my batteries, I always find one that's bigger.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Happy #Catutday all you cool #CatsOfMastodon from Luna

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

You can always play Pipeline while you're blocked from working.

https://pipeline.stevefenton.co.uk

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

A future etymology site will teach out grandchildren why "fake" means "something you don't like". It will say it used to mean "not real, but made to look or seem real" until people "who are not what they claim to be" used the term to "show or pretend to feel emotions that are not sincere".

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

♫ ♫ oh please, baby, please
can you do it for me ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ update all my npm
dependencies ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ but not that pinned one
and don't update 'em too soon ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ and kick those post install scripts
'cause they bring only doom ♫ ♫

... or don't use AI and just run pnpm update.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

Meanwhile in DevOps No.67

A weighty subject.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @michelestrider@mastodon.social

@michelestrider@mastodon.social I knew the observation car would be too busy, so picked food.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @thirstybear@agilodon.social

@thirstybear commits and pull requests also emerging like zombies from what we believed to be their graves!

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

If you put on new soccer boots, the rules of the game are still the same. If they help you run faster, that only matters if it helps you win possession, set up an assist, and score more goals.

How To Measure AI’s Organizational Impact...

https://coderlegion.com/15292/how-to-measure-ais-organizational-impact

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social the sockets seem pretty upset about it.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

I’m caught between a rock and a hard place on generative #AI. While I can see potential uses for it, I’m unable to ignore the harms. This led me to a thought exercise where I asked "would I use AI if it wasn't evil, and what would I use it for?"

Long article. Human written.

https://stevefenton.co.uk/blog/2026/04/generative-ai-harms/

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

I used to worry that the Fediverse would eventually collapse into one big server. Once you've been subjected to a couple of shutdowns your selection criteria for an instance factors in longevity.

I think things are more positive than I originally thought, because I think we'll end up with a collection of large servers and lots of very small ones.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @norootcause@hachyderm.io

@norootcause automation does tend to solve the problems of fallibility, rather than reliability (i.e., automation doesn't make your software more robust, but it does eliminate a lot of "oops").

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @sil@mastodon.social

@sil I feel that if we could get string templates in before Doug writes the JSON spec and you liberally the sandwiches we might get..

{ /* A quote by Oscar Wilde*/ "quote": Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working }

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @lornajane@indieweb.social

@lornajane Difficulty: 12

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @kevlin@mastodon.social

@kevlin you'll eat your words if they arrive at 09:50, spend five hours unloading your order, and leave at precisely 14:45.

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Steve Fenton ➜ @stevefenton@mastodon.social · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net

@synlogic4242

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