Simon Wood

Passionate geek with a love of Javascript, APIs, and Cloud. I am Associate Director Technology at Holiday Extras.

[Paul Moore - Security Consultant  @Paul_Reviews]

Here's a slightly odd take on the #OnlineSafetyBill

I'll allow every message I ever send to be publicly available... if *every single conversation* by MPs, PMs etc is too.

We won't access it all the time, just when there's suspicion of wrongdoing ;)

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⌛️We're running out of time to save encryption in the UK.

This tech keeps our conversations secure, but the #OnlineSafetyBill includes powers to scan ALL of our messages.

This week, the @UKHouseofLords must oppose these Orwellian surveillance powers.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣 Important!

67 preeminent U.K. cryptographers & computer scientists speak out against the perilous magical thinking of the Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision, explaining its dangerous misunderstandings and its rights-chilling implications.

[Martin R. Albrecht @martinralbrecht]

68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety."

Read our letter here: https://t.co/DPHkBowkoQ

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

Furthermore local results tell us very little about potential outcomes at a future general election. Many of us don't vote the same locally and nationally. The media is drawing conclusions that just are not there!

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

Local elections are not about party politics. I did not vote for a party, I voted for a person who works hard to improve my local community. In my strong view party politics has no place in local councils.

[Ava @noampomsky]

I don’t say I’ll google it anymore I say I’ll google reddit

[Sergio Pereira @SergioRocks]

Meetings are the worst!

They burn people out and nothing gets done.

My tweet on meetings and burn out last week hit a nerve. It resonated with a lot of folks.

These are 7 steps I follow to aggressively reduce meetings.

A short 🧵

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

@alisalih @GergelyOrosz Collaboration features. Co writing and document at the same time. Comment, suggest, and markup tools. Also app script on Google Sheets means I can write JavaScript to code in additional functionality.

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

@Adude52190366 @GergelyOrosz Interesting, which features? I find Google Sheets to be superior to Excel in almost every way. Maybe we use very different features?

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

@GergelyOrosz You missed out Google Docs Vs Office 365.
Agree with your points for MS and for Google. I would put office solutions down as a win for Google, not on revenue maybe, but on usability Google docs runs rings round Office!

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

No one writes code comments today like we wrote code comments in the 90s

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

Why is the Ticketmaster website so broken and so crap? Surely they make enough money to build a decent tech solution?

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

This is awesome news for Ashford. https://t.co/Gee6bSedui

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

Can somebody please report on energy prices as price per unit. Instead of this misleading "average household". Just tell us pence per KWh of the old price cap and the new price cap!

[Simon Wood @hpoom]

@retrotechtive If you want to find one in the UK and ship it to me. I can arrange onward shipping to you.

[LGR @lazygamereviews]

Ahh man, RIP Sir Clive Sinclair! https://t.co/nUg21bS6M5

[Dominik Diamond @DominikDiamond]

All your UK videogame companies today were built on the shoulders of giants who made games for the ZX Spectrum. You cannot exaggerate Sir Clive Sinclair’s influence on the world. And if we’d all stopped laughing long enough to buy a C5 he’d probably have saved the environment.