Charles Humble
Techie, podcaster, editor, author and consultant, 1/2 of Twofish. I'd rather be making music.
Work: https://www.conissaunce.com
Music: http://www.twofish-music.com
- Reposted by Charles HumbleSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Charles HumbleThe energy transition is happening, faster than many realize. This week, I look at how clean energy is surging, where we can get it wrong, why silence on climate is spreading, and what we can do. Read the full edition for the data, the stories, and practical ways to keep the conversation going:
- The excitement around ‘Moltbook’ is weird. It's basically the old fallacy of writing “I’m alive” on a piece of paper, photocopying it, and then saying ’OMG look what the photocopier says!”
- Human brains run on ~12-20 watts and sandwiches, while AI needs gigawatts. Could biology hold AI's future? I spoke with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys from FinalSpark about building computers from human stem cells, neural encoding, and the ethics of conscious systems.
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- My wife and I went to see the wonderful “H is for Hawk” at the cinema this week. Fabulous acting particularly from Claire Foy, and a brilliant soundtrack from Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (which kind of does the job of the inner monologue in the book). Loved it.
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- @monkchips.com just trying to submit a talk to Monki Gras and can’t get Papercall to work. It says “ There were errors with your submission!” But if there are it isn’t telling me what they are! If you’re not already full I’d love to pitch a talk-two new ideas, one of which I have no idea how to do
- For my first sponsored article of 2026 I sat down with Kin Lane from @naftiko.bsky.social to talk about business capabilities and how language shapes our mental models. Kin is such a deep thinker and I found the conversation really interesting. #AI #APIs #AgenticAI #DomainDrivenDesign
- For my first published article of 2026 I sat down with Kin Lane of @naftiko.bsky.social to talk about business capabilities and how language shapes our mental models. Kin is such a deep thinker and I found the conversation really interesting. #APIs #AgenticAI #DomainDrivenDesign
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- Any GenAI experts willing to answer what feels like quite a basic question for me with regards to Grok's ability to generate deepfake and non-consensual sexualised images? DM me?
- Apple's new UI guideline that recommends putting icons next to every single menu item is truly awful. So bad, in fact that MacOS Tahoe is the fist MacOS I've ever uninstalled. I'm back on Sequoia. Sequoia has lots of bad design choices but Tahoe really is legitimately terrible.
- Reposted by Charles HumbleTell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
- Reposted by Charles HumbleI wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
- My latest @gotocon.com n podcast with Michael Nygard is live! We discussed building resilient systems, Conway's Law, and why celebrating firefighters over fire preventers hurts engineering culture. 🔗. www.buzzsprout.com/1714721/epis...
- Reposted by Charles HumbleNEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
- Reposted by Charles HumbleScience has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/493Tpgx
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- Reposted by Charles HumblePerspective on the news about the Trump administration seeking to break up the NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research from the ground at the AGU meeting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
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- Reposted by Charles HumbleI know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
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- Reposted by Charles Humble🎥 All Øredev talks are LIVE! A month ago we shared 3 unforgettable days with 115 speakers! With 127 talks & 8 sessions running at once, no one could catch everything… Good thing our camera crew did! YouTube 👉 youtube.com/c/oredevConference Rewatch your favourites & discover new ones
- My Øredev talk is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJG...
- The audio version of my podcast with Laura Tacho is out. She's brilliant and well worth your time.
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- Fun chat with Nathen Harvey for @gotocon.com Turns out using AI to write code faster often makes software delivery worse—because typing was never the bottleneck. AI amplifies what you already have: great systems get faster, broken systems just hurt more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IKB...
- I wrote about why so many AI pilots fail and talked to eng leaders who've actually rolled out gen AI at scale. Success comes down to fundamentals: 1. clear communication 2. fixing your data permissions 3. measuring impact not adoption Full article on LeadDev leaddev.com/technical-di...
- It is 2025 and iOS 26 still cannot add an MP3 to your music library. Am I the only person who finds this baffling? My music-writing partner and I send MP3s back and forth to each other all the time in between studio sessions but the process to get them on our phones is ludicrously cumbersome.
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- Reposted by Charles HumbleI am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public
- Reposted by Charles HumbleNEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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- Reposted by Charles HumbleA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
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- This talk by Stephen Midgley from AI for the rest of us is deeply moving and well worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckqw...
- I wanted to write a response to the Gates climate memo but it turns out @weatherwest.bsky.social has done a much, much better job of it.
- On a clear disc you can seek for ever.
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- AWS' Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now has Scope 3 emissions data going back to January 2022. This was customers' #1 requested feature, I'm told. Still waiting on per-service breakdowns beyond EC2/S3/CloudFront though. My latest for @thenewstack.io: thenewstack.io/aws-adds-sco...
- AWS' Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now has Scope 3 emissions data going back to January 2022. This was customers' #1 requested feature, I'm told. Still waiting on per-service breakdowns beyond EC2/S3/CloudFront though. My latest for @thenewstack.io: thenewstack.io/aws-adds-sco...
- As a long-term JetBrains user (IntelliJ and WebStorm are two of my favorite tools) I've been trying to make sense of their rather confusing AI strategy. I've written my findings up as my first short article for LeadDev: leaddev.com/ai/breaking-...
- As a long-term JetBrains user (IntelliJ and WebStorm are two of my favorite tools) I've been trying to make sense of their rather confusing AI strategy. I've written my findings up as my first short article for LeadDev: leaddev.com/ai/breaking-...
- Days since I last spilt coffee on the cat==1;
- I agree with almost all of this, but I do get frustrated by the idea there aren’t people expressing a balanced view within the tech press. Doing so can feel risky, but it’s important. For example: thenewstack.io/why-tech-pro... thenewstack.io/ai-consumes-... thenewstack.io/ai-at-the-ed...
- Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
- I just fell asleep on the sofa while drinking a coffee and managed to spill coffee over me, the sofa and the cat. How’s your day going?
- 🎧 The audio version of my @gotocon.com podcast with Alice Bartlett, a tech director at ft.com, on technical leadership, navigating messy code, and AI. www.buzzsprout.com/1714721/epis... #tech #engineering
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- There's so much happening in AI at the moment in can be hard to keep up. The @aifortherestofus.live newsletter, which @hannahfoxwell.net and I write between us, offers a good weekly round-up of what's happening and way it matters. You should subscribe: ai-for-the-rest-of-us.kit.com/139e8e415d
- 🌱 New @thenewstack.io article: How HSBC, OVO Energy, and the UK government are making tech more sustainable (and cutting costs doing it): thenewstack.io/real-world-i... #GreenSoftware #Sustainability #DevOps
- Jane Goodall was extraordinary. Such an ability to connect with people from political leaders to TV viewers.
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- Reposted by Charles HumbleGot my performance review.
- Reposted by Charles Humbleyeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
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