Mark Chitty
@TechPdM
Product Manager @Zap_Map. Ex-dev. Been in digital since the late 90s. Fascinated by #EV,#AI,#AR and #VR (not necessarily at the same time). Nascent Vibe Coder.
Heard a boy in a bookshop ask his dad what the shelves full of OS maps were. Dad explained that they were used to go places as "there was a time before GPS", and opened a map to show him. Son didn't understand at all. As a map lover it breaks my heart.
Humanoid robots in China go head to head in a boxing match
I tried writing my name for the first time in 20 years. Im working on it. Lol #Neuralink
A partner at a prominent law firm told me “AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now.”
Tl:dr; EVs reduce PM10 pollution through the use of regenerative braking. 💥 modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/sur…
This guy built an auto aiming trash can for his messy coworkers
My wife just compared all this tech-adjacent extreme longevity focus in men to anorexia in women. A physical manifestation of anxiety and lack of control. And now I can't get the thought out of my head. Spot on.
NEWS: Chinese robot company Unitree has unveiled their new low-cost R1 humanoid robot. • Starting price: $5,900 • Weight: 55 lbs (25kg) • 26 joints • 4 feet tall • Battery life: 1 hour • 8-core CPU + GPU • Warranty: 8 months • 4-mic array • Equipped with multimodal AI…
The Chichen Itza Pyramid has a rather astonishing and beautiful sonic artifact. If you clap your hands in front of it, you will be presented with the sound of the Quetzal Bird. Consider the amount of planning and engineering this required.
🚨 Big news: InstaVolt is coming to the West Country! 🔋 30 ultra-rapid chargers ☀️Solar + battery on site ☕Farm shop & café 📍 Just 10 miles west of Stonehenge on the Fonthill Estate Opening Spring 2026 – just in time for next summer Because your charge stop should be a…
Asked the Head of AI at a Fortune 500 how he decides buy vs build, and his framework feels widely applicable: “we buy what accelerates us, and build what differentiates us”
The Sun is the source of ~100% of energy. Everything else is just crumbs. x.com/i/grok/share/y…
The dirty secret of the 'sharing' economy (and the 'gig' economy) is that part of the profit margin is created by removing the responsibility for risk away from the business.
For a decade, I thought Airbnb would protect us if something went wrong. That was until the life of my son was in play and they sided with the host. If you trust @Airbnb, don't learn the hard way like I did. Here's my story:
For a decade, I thought Airbnb would protect us if something went wrong. That was until the life of my son was in play and they sided with the host. If you trust @Airbnb, don't learn the hard way like I did. Here's my story:
the new bottleneck is no longer doing the work it’s reviewing the work
"If you’re painting (even your very first painting) you are a painter. Consequently if you create a program, by hand or with the aid of an agent, you are a programmer." - Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask
It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/the-…
I wonder how many brands are ready to completely lose control of their IP.
History says otherwise. Here are tech shifts everyone feared—yet each created way more jobs than it destroyed: 1.Looms → sparked textile industry 2.Steam engines → scaled factories & transport 3.ATMs → didn’t kill banking, branches grew 4.Computers → wiped some clerks,…
EVs are now 4x cleaner than internal combustion engine cars