Greg Hawkins

Former CTO & CISO Starling Bank, coder, author. Novel: Views my own or not even mine. @[email protected] @gmorpheme.bsky.social.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

OK - shameless self promotion: my novel Coldwake is on sale on Kindle for only 99p / 99¢ for the next week. If you read books on Kindle, go on - give it a try > https://t.co/AOzM46x6PR

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers Thank you. After an hour and ten minutes I got through to someone.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers is it actually possible to speak to a real person ever? How do I go about it?

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers I will try the number though. Thanks.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers Actually you can’t. You get some canned advice for a couple of common issues and a useless chatbot that tells you no advisers are available.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers Probably (at least company PAYE data) - but without being able to get some level of cooperation from my accountant it is very hard to know the best thing to do.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers (Also after trying to resolve this for about four months I’m quite happy to publicly name and shame @IntouchAcc and @brooksongroup.)

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

@HMRCcustomers I have a company and my accountant is botching my PAYE returns, messing up my both company’s tax and my personal tax. I can’t get any service out of the accountant at all and want to alert HMRC to the difficulties I’m having and try and undo the mess.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

Real AI in software engineering would be opening any github project written by academics more than 3 months in the past and automatically resolving the spaghetti of conda, pip & os dependencies to the point the thing could ever actually be run.

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.

[Greg Hawkins @gmorpheme]

Maybe Audible could have informed me it was a preorder:(

[Kathleen @oldpicposter]

"Here's to Lancashire"-#EvertonFC Dixie Dean raising a toast to the FA Cup staying in Lancashire and joined by #ManchesterCity Sam Cowen, who seconds Dixie's toast (1933)

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

By the way, no way am I leaving Twitter. This place is like a lovely pub, that got taken over by some soulless pub company and with a full on wazzock as a new landlord. But I was here first and I’m staying.

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

The 2024 General Election if Not Voting counted as a vote for the 'Apathy Party':

Apathy: 611, 40.3%
LDM: 22, 7.3%
LAB: 13, 20.1%
GRN: 2, 4.0%
CON: 1, 14.2%
RFM: 0, 8.5%
Others: 1, 5.6%

Apathy majority of 572.

[isaacs @izs]

Y'all. Seriously.

Hardly anyone even understands the unbelievable depth of Tolkien's linguistic genius. If ever there was an artist just straight up making jokes that only he would ever get, omg. So get this, it's epic.

You know the "Brandywine River" in Lord of the Rings?

[Charlie Reynolds @cwjreynolds]

Still find it hilarious that the Team GB skateboarding squad is just a bunch of children and a 50 year old man

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is to ‘constult’ (17th century): to act stupidly together.

[Ethan Decker @ehdecker]

This is a fantastic insight about brand choice in a social setting.

From @rorysutherland

[Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman]

Just wanted to share quickly how lovely yesterday felt in Southport; a total contrast to the night before. 🧵

The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour:

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

Some people still have faith in the government's ability to deliver large scale IT programmes