Heather Burns
@WebDevLaw
Gigging/giggling UK tech policy wonk for hire + MSc student @lawstrath + author, Understanding Privacy. Personal tweets. IANAL. 💬 on Signal, dafties.
ICYMI, no I am not part of a grandiose open source conspiracy which someone apparently hallucinated in a k-hole
I've now blogged about what it was like to lose yet another day of my life to the stochastic harassment of a project I left five years ago. heatherburns.tech/2025/01/12/ano…
The "worst day at work" award goes to X's director of European gov't affairs, who not only performed disastrously in a Parliamentary hearing on the abuse and threats sent to MPs on this site, but then had to be told by MPs that her boss had just quit. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/77…
Here I am in El Reg, causing good trouble. (Imagine that.) theregister.com/2025/06/25/hom…
History has its eyes on you.
Inimitable. The original. #Hamilten
Someone messaged me "hopefully he'll leave you alone now that he has a new target", and yay? I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
Ancient proverb; live your life in a way so that the people you’ve failed to lead do not have to depersonalise you into the phrase “single point of failure”.
What a contrast in language and authority between the authentic leadership shown in this post, which is centred in the community and the task ahead, and the vapid therapy-speak of the two A8C WP executive directors, which has always been centred in their unelected power.
This was my talk tonight. TL;DR WordPress was not built by just one person. WordPress belongs to all of us.
*Boop*
The Empire being stripped of competent people in their ranks (Dedra, Partagaz, Galen Erso, among others) and left only with bootlickers & sycophants in the end. Totalitarianism doesn't even allow initiatives. They just want dimwits who follow orders. That's THE POINT in #Andor
Really good privacy job on offer, though sadly requiring a bum in a seat in central London privacyinternational.org/opportunities/…
Today I lost a few hours dealing with a Karen demanding to speak to my manager, and all I can say is holy crap woman do you know what sort of a body count I’ve had in 2025 on this app alone
🚨From 10 June: A new podcast series about a wargame that simulates a Russian attack on the UK Former ministers & military chiefs play the UK government pitched against an imagined Kremlin Russia knows our weaknesses - but do you? @SkyNews & @tortoise news.sky.com/story/the-warg…