Trust is the glue of our society, but we’re living through a 30+ year crisis of trust in institutions. As software makers, we aren't just witnesses to this crisis; we are participants in it.

When a number is wrong, trust is lost. And I am sort of fed up of "works on my machine" being applied to number and data outputs by systems. "Number is correct, bug closed". We have to do better.

So I've tried to document that, and also share some more difficult areas like communicating uncertainty in a sensible way.

The lovely people at #Monkigras are letting me share this with a wonderful audience of curious engineers next week (19th-20th March - link https://monkigras.com/ )

Do not worry, there will also be trains. Hopefully yellow ones.

#PreppingCraft #SystemsThinking #ResilienceEngineering #TrustBeforeTruth #AI #RailwayEngineering #ux

If you’re planning your 2026 conference calendar, here’s where you can meet Screenly in person over the next few months:

FOSDEM (Brussels) - 31 Jan–1 Feb
Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) (Barcelona) - 3–6 Feb
embedded world Exhibition&Conference world (Nuremberg) - 10–12 Mar
QCon Software Development Conferences London (London) - 16–19 Mar
MonkiGras (London) - 19–20 Mar

@fosdem
@qcon
@redmonk

#ISE2026
#embeddedworld
#monkigras

On the way home, and already I'm thinking about how you are never prepared.

Preparation is not a state, it is an action.

Preparation is about moving yourself into a state where when the inevitable or the unexpected happens, it is the you that needs to be there for when that happens.

#Monkigras

In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded.

Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw