Cloud Consultant Building The Platform To Accelerate The UK Job Market PAYE → £100K+ Self-Employed SWE | DevOps | Platform Engineering
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My Mrs wrote a Substack post on the unhinged way adults seem to take every single interaction that happens to their kids as a personal slight cakeyincascais.substack.com/…
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I'd say ~75% of my issues with AI coding disappeared once I gave my agent the ability to verify its own work
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Most of the pushback on PM’s announcement, including from pro-growth accounts, says he’s solving a non issue. I can certainly empathise on why people feel this way because thats true for majority of the UK economy.
But look at who actually uses 6 to 12 month non-competes and long gardening leaves: Google DeepMind, high Frequent trading firms, prop shops, hedge funds. The companies hiring the top 0.1% of engineers and researchers in the UK.
In the age of AI those people matter more than ever. Look at Anthropic and OpenAI. Divide the market cap by the headcount and you’re at billions in enterprise value per person and accelerating.
Half of US’s 2026 GDP growth came from AI.
Both Anthropic, OpenAI and the same company hoarding all the UK AI talent Google were all built from California, which has banned non-competes for over a century.
If Britain ends up banning non completes and lengthy gardening leave, the following will happen:
- Top talent breaks free from incumbents.
- That talent lands in British AI and hard-tech startups.
- Those startups create GDP growth Britian keep saying it wants.
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Announcing tsc-rs (aka ts-rust), my complete rewrite of the Typescript compiler, type checker, and LSP, all in Rust.
This is a project I've had agents working on for 5 months now. I burned ~$400k of Codex tokens and got nowhere. Burned ~$20k of Opus and got there in 2 weeks.
I have not read a single line of the code.
tsc-rs is an open source drop-in replacement for tsc, and it's available now.
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We learn every day. I just logged into an old workplace pension, and changed my investments plan from the default fund to an equity fund.
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Up to $5.5M to move your startup to Qatar.
Just an MVP gets you in the door.
The Startup Qatar Investment Program (backed by QDB) funds tech startups to launch or expand in Qatar.
Two tracks:
START: up to $1.1M if you have a proof of concept or MVP
GROW: up to $5.5M if you're already established and expanding
What else you get:
- Entrepreneur visa + flexible work visa
- Registration and license fees waived
- Subsidized housing
- Subsidized co-working space
- Access to R&D and innovation grants
- Mentoring, training + help hiring talent and interns
- Your product showcased at exhibitions
Sectors they want:
- AI & ML, B2B SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, Climate Tech, Robotics + more
- Not on the list? It's open to any innovative startup
Apply link below 👇
startupqatar.qa/en/investmen…
Bookmark this + tag a founder looking for a new market.
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I made $504,571 in September 2026.
🎛 Polyfork.dev — $504.5K
📷 Pitchfra.me — $29
🐱 Mydev.cat — $27
I started Polyfork 2.5 months ago inspired by my work in 3D and my love for retro and mobile games.
I always wanted to make a platform, I just love building tools and stuff that people find useful, and when I joined @shipordie_ I learned and realized I could just do it and build things.
I built 5 products in 2 months and learned really a ton, learning by doing is just the best way to learn for me (thats why I dropped out of University every time I tried).
The 5th product I built, and my favourite, was Polyfork, it blends my love for 3D, games, platforms, coding... everything I've been doing on my computer since I was a kid.
A friend told me to apply it to the XPRIZE hackathon since it was fitting. Long story short, project earned me 4.5k this month plus the first place of the hackathon ($500,000).
Thank you @marclou @jackfriks @levelsio for the inspiration to build!
I made $217,071 in September 2026.
💪 HYROX — $112K
⭐️ TrustMRR — $53K
📈 DataFast — $31K
🧑💻 CodeFast — $7K
🐥 Twitter — $7K
🏴☠️ Ship or Die — $3K
⚡️ ShipFast — $2K
🍜 Indie Page — $685
🕵️♂️ Stalkr — $319
🎞️ YouTube — $263
🦐 SuperShrimp — $221
🌱 HabitsGarden — $143
🧾 Zenvoice — $138
🚀 LaunchViral — $129
🛡️ ByeDispute — $97
📚 WorkbookPDF — $67
💩 PoopUp — $9
✂️ Margin: 90%
The HYROX experiment hyrox.marclou.com inflates this month's revenue, but it's the best month ever for my marketplace TrustMRR.com ($53K) and my SaaS DataFa.st ($31K).
I do everything solo, and I'm not going to lie, I'm fucking proud of myself.
Since I was a kid, I've been told to focus on one thing. I find that boring. I want to play and try a bunch of things.
I never felt confident because nothing really worked out for 7 years. I ended up being average at everything: coding, marketing, design...
But building 37 startups (marclou.com) taught me something far more important: resilience, discipline, and optimism.
Over the past decade, those skills have compounded. I now run a tiny portfolio of startups making $1M+/year, sleep 8 hours a night, work out 2 hours a day, and spend plenty of time with my wife.
Anything is possible if you're hungry.
Believe in yourself.
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one Opus 5.5 prompt, and now I run around a virtual office managing agents to work on github issues and merge conflicts
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here's how i shipped 2,500 PRs last month to production
this was originally supposed to be for Cursor Compile in London. i couldn't make it since i was livestreaming for Grok @Bot Galaxy so i'm making it available for free here on X! watch it on 2x speed, i talk slowly
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I am sooo tired of rude people. I feel like everyone is forgetting basic manners I don’t get it.
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Some personal news: I'm joining @AnthropicAI as Managing Director, International Affairs, leading the company's work with governments outside North America
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“henry cavill as aegon the conqueror-”
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Tiah-Mai Ayton is just too good 👏
#LiddardMorello | LIVE NOW on DAZN ▪️
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Prediction: There will be more demand for software developers 2026-2030 than there was from 2020-2025.
