The Stack
Our stack: the writing, experiments, and lessons we have piled up over time, from the people who build the software. Notes on the work and how we think about it.
Latest
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Testing AI is a different job
Two of our senior QA analysts are now certified in AI testing. Here is why that matters more than the acronym suggests.
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CSS Shine Lab
A hands-on lab in four parts on the modern CSS that makes software feel considered. Play with each technique running for real.
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Welcome, Victoria
Victoria Henhoeffer has joined us in York as our Operations Co-ordinator. A quick hello.
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Making time to get better
Anyone here can propose an idea, and the good ones become small funded projects on work time.
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Most hackers start before they turn sixteen
Cyberpsychology Conference
The people who study how AI affects us are finding it as hard to keep pace with as the rest of us.
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Where we draw the line on AI
We have written down how we think about the ethics of AI, the lines we will not cross, and the debates we are not going to pretend are settled.
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The model matters less than the scaffolding around it
AI Native DevCon
The hard part of building with AI is not the model, it is the documentation, tests, and context you put around it.
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AI amplifies judgement, it does not replace it
DataFest
One keynote cut through the hype with a genuinely useful way to think about using AI on purpose, rather than just at scale.
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Focus-time in real life, and other ideas from Thinking Digital
Thinking Digital
A day to broaden your horizons rather than pick up anything practical, and a couple of the talks did exactly that.
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Why we build in chapters
How we run a build: stretches of focused development, with a deliberate week between each one to demo, reflect, and take on change without losing the plot.
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The basics of security still apply to AI, and most people are skipping them
AI Security Summit
Securing software an agent helped write turns out to be mostly the security we already know, applied with more discipline.
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Speak Easy
One of the ways we make time to get better: a weekly group where people practise speaking clearly and with confidence.
From the archive
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ProxyAddress: move slowly and fix things
How we helped ProxyAddress build the secure, trusted system behind a new way to tackle homelessness, address by address.