Notices by Neil Craig (tdp_org@mastodon.social)

A new Senior Architect role just went live this morning @ BBC.

- UK residents, flexible location, full-time, permanent
- £70-85k
- 35 hour week, 25 day leave
- Great pension & working conditions, no hero culture
- Diverse teams, everyone's welcome & valued
- Main focus is on search, mostly AWS infra/services

More info:
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Architect/33430-en_GB/

Shares/boosts would be much appreciated 👍🏻

#BBC #GetFediHired #WebDev #WebTech

Yesterday I deployed a change on www.bbc.co.uk/.com, account.bbc.com, our main media mediation service etc. which soft-disabled TLS 1.0 & 1.1.

Requests over TLS 1.0/1.1 on ^ result in an error page (inc link to a feedback form).

So far I've uncovered a load of internet junk inc. a fleet of old TVs in Asia which poll our weather pages for their local forecast but nothing's been reported broken yet.

Really wish the web had a deprecation strategy. This is a lot of work.

#WebDev #InfoSec #BBC

We're seeing requests to www.bbc.com return to normal-looking levels from Afghanistan - since about midday UTC today (1st Oct 2025).

#Afghanistan #Censorship #WebDev #InfoSec #Taliban

> Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet

Confirmed. We don't get much traffic to www.bbc.com from Afghanistan usually but, yeah, it's basically nothing now - probably just GeoIP errors or government/military usage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo

Now I've thought of this I can't un-think it

"A global agreement designed to protect the world's oceans and reverse damage to marine life is set to become international law.
...
Covering more than two-thirds of the ocean, the agreement sets binding rules to conserve and sustainably use marine biodiversity,"

Some good news for once!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5j87114deo

@fesshole I once saw someone park on the edge of the triangular traffic separation island leading on/off of a roundabout - blocking one lane of the roundabout (which is pretty busy).
They had literally zero shame and were definitely not broken down.
I can't quite fathom the "logic".

I tried a GitHub Copilot PR review as it's been ages since I last did.

It was wrong on 3 out of 3 suggestions it made:

1. It suggested inverting the IP ACL and API key check such that it'd have allowed anyone to purge anything from our CDN cache
2. It said I'd got some basic logic wrong (I hadn't) on 1 of ~20 changes of the same type (var not set or var == "" -> strlen(var) == 0)
3. It made up a service name and wanted me to use that

What a pile of shit.

#Copilot #AI #Github #WebDev

Love this boy.
#CatsOfMastodon

New game. Guess the sales price (in £ GBP):

Oxfordshire, UK.
7 bedrooms
3 bathrooms
1075 square metres (house)
12 acres of land

It's epicly beautiful IMO.
No looking it up! Even if you're an OSINT ninja.

Patron saint of insecure JavaScript

@Gargron Definitely. The engineer who commented on the codebase did an impressive job of being diplomatic - sounds very much like it's a poorly implemented mess to me 🤣

Feels like Dorsey didn't quite think the name of his new app through...
"bitchat"

I'd guess he was thinking "bit chat" but I read it as "bitch at"

...or maybe he's being "clever"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/jack_dorsey_debuts_bitchat/

Just been told we're recruiting for a new Senior Architect permanent role at the BBC working across TVs & other devices for iPlayer and Sounds content.

* Hybrid: 1-2 days/week in London/Salford/Newcastle office
* 35 hour working week
* Salary: £75-85k
* Up to 10% pension contribution + loads more benefits
* 26 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Very inclusive & flexible work environment

More info:
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Architect/24386-en_GB

#BBC #FediHired #Recruitment

More BBC jobs:

**Senior Product Manager (Curation Tooling)**
Salary: £65-75k
Hybrid: London/Glasgow
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Product-Manager-%28Curation-Tooling%29/24720-en_GB/

**UX Researcher**
Salary: £40-50k + £5k LDN weighting
Hybrid: London
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/UX-Researcher/24514-en_GB/

**Senior Data Scientist**
Salary: up to £70k
Hybrid: London/Salford/Newcastle/Glasgow
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Data-Scientist/24142-en_GB/

All:
- 35 hour working week
- Up to 10% pension contribution + loads more benefits
- 26 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Very inclusive & flexible work environment

The full RCA on last week's Google outage is available now.
There's a fair bit more detail and a list of actions they're committing to:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

I'm *so* surprised that two fragile, childish morons have fallen out and are being massively petty dickheads despite the enormous impact that'll have on millions of people.

The USA was the *only* UN security council member which voted against a resolution for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid.
F that. No excuse.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164056

@fesshole I'm not a wheelchair, walking frame or pushchair user but am 100% with you. It's pure selfishness by morons.

I don't know loads about religion, the Romans or cricket but i'm pretty sure this isn't Leo and that chap isn't Roman.