Will FP

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 full-stack developer, forever building another project

[Lewis Holmes @lewisrholmes]

POV: You’ll be working until you’re 174 years of age to pay off our £3 trillion nation debt…

PM: “The Chancellor revealed his love for Pork Scratchings”

[Mac 🌹 @mactellomckeown]

What exactly is progressive about refusing planning permission for a cheap supermarket during a cost of living crisis?

[camilo @AscendedYield]

yeah but the PM is on Gogglebox init

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

[cabenshire 🌐🗽 @cabenshire]

If you see this and think its because he literally got handed $88 billion in cash you are dumb

[Ben Kaufman @_benkaufman]

The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it’s actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up

[Marc Köhlbrugge @marckohlbrugge]

when you see an “expert” in the media talk about a topic you’re quite familiar with, it really makes you question all their other “experts” for all the other topics

[camilo @AscendedYield]

Government minister of a country with chronic current account deficits against the idea of exporting more

[camilo @AscendedYield]

Norway's fund works because Norwegians can look at $2.4trn of Nvidia and Palantir shares for twenty years and not touch it

the people most upset Britain never built one would have forced it to dump Palantir after the first demo and spent the rest on nurses in the first recession

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

You gotta be kidding me.

[Will FP @willfp]

thank you @Railway for making me rotate all of my secret keys and then making it impossible to deploy a new version with my updated keys. i guess its impossible to be hacked if my product is completely unusable

[Æthelstan @TheHauskarl]

The way Britain's electricity grid is run reminds me of something I've seen before, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid for half a decade and have destroyed our capacity to generate reliable electricity.

[Will FP @willfp]

@ordinarytings its culture

[Nathan 🔎 @NathanpmYoung]

Every time the UK does some crazy tax or speech thing, you just have to remember that all the US has to do is permit any STEM grad to get a visa and they would hoover up a big chunk of UK talent.

[Alex Macdonald @alexfmac]

‘What it calls a flying car’

The UK attitude which drives so many entrepreneurs abroad.

This isn’t just the BBC, it’s ingrained in every institution and into the public psyche.

Tall poppy syndrome has likely destroyed trillions in value for the British economy.

Pathetic.

[DHH @dhh]

France built 42 nuclear power plants in the 1980s. 42!! What an insanely inspiring country this used to be.

[Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe]

Jensen Huang has a message for the UK

[Nathan 🔎 @NathanpmYoung]

Every time a london borough goes bankrupt, I want an option for the city of london to buy out the debts and run it under their governance structure.

[ledbymorons @LordCharles111]

You created tethered bottle tops whilst Elon was reaching to the stars you ridiculous little mongrel.