Matthew Skelton

@matthewskelton
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CEO/CTO at Conflux │ Co-author of Team Topologies │ Fast Flow │ Human & AI Agency │ Empowered Excellence Across Organisations
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A new Git version just dropped and it comes with a new experimental `history` command!

`reword` can be used to change commit messages and `split` can untangle a single commit into multiple ones.

No more interactive rebase. 🎉

https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

@WarnerCrocker "The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact." 🤣

Just under two months to go until this year's UX Scotland event in Edinburgh.

Event programme: https://uxscotland.net/programme-2026

1&2 day tickets available: https://uxscotland.net/tickets - discounts for freelancers and groups.

Programme 2026

UX Scotland

I was on a call today that mentioned a blog post by Marianne Bellotti (author book "Kill it with Fire" 🔥) about writing some COBOL on IBM z/OS via ISPF, and it goes into detail about what I tend to condense into "Mainframes work differently than systems most folks are familiar with today."

Datasets, JCL, weird format requirements, and why can't I just create a file!?

And it's funny, I had a good chuckle at "JCL on first glance is a gobbledygook of all caps" 😂

Enjoy! https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f

Hello World on z/OS

Let me tell you … karma is a bitch.

Medium
Dieser 13 Jahre alte Klassiker geht aktuell in einer KI-Bearbeitung rum. Mir tun Menschen leid, die glauben, mit sowas hätten sie eine kreative Leistung erbracht. Die Freude, sich etwas auszudenken, daran zu arbeiten, es so gut wie möglich umzusetzen, zwischendrin an ihrer Arbeit zu zweifeln und genau dadurch immer besser in ihren künstlerischen Fähigkeiten zu werden, werden sie nie erleben.
Ansonsten isses egal. Ihr wisst, dass das hier das Original ist, ich weiß es - Rest juckt nicht. 🧡

@matthewskelton @TeamTopologies here's all my relevant work, cite me and use it :)

https://olivia.science/ai/

Critical AI

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

https://olivia.science
One of the more insane facts about palantir is Louis Mosley the grandson of wannabe British hitler Oswald Mosley, is the head of palantir's UK branch. youtu.be/IOekgrWfJxE?...

The Decline of Britain's FAILE...
The Decline of Britain's FAILED Hitler

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Imagine the Third Reich but with the surveillance capabilities of AI-enabled tech.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mju3usxpks2r
This excellent thread by @[email protected] breaks down how Palantir is arguing for increased power and less accountability for the tech oligarchs—it’s worth reading in full:

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/post/3mjtpunycuk2h
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out: