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105 from 4 Jun 2018 to 5 Jul 2026
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2026 17

  1. Agile on the Beach 2026: Field of princes
  2. Weakly Link 26/21: Control Failures
  3. Weakly Link 26/19: Local Escalations
  4. Weakly Link 26/17: AI stutters
  5. Weakly Link 26/16 - Quantum Mythos Special
  6. Weakly Link 26/14
  7. Weakly Link 26/12
  8. Weakly Link 26/11
  9. Weakly Link 26/09
  10. Weakly Link 26/08
  11. Weakly Link 26/07
  12. Weakly Link 26/06
  13. Weakly Link 26/05
  14. Weakly Link 26/04
  15. Weakly Link 26/03
  16. Weakly Link 26/02
  17. Weakly Link 26/01

2025 12

  1. Weakly Link 25/52
  2. Weakly Link 25/51
  3. Weakly Link 25/50
  4. Weakly Link 25/49
  5. Weakly Link 25/48
  6. Weakly Link 25/47
  7. Weakly Link 25/46
  8. Vibe hacking a padding oracle
  9. Weakly Link 25/45
  10. BSides Newcastle 2025: Mission to Cyberspace
  11. Make it so: GenAI, OpenAPI and ZAP
  12. Scan Agile 2025: People Power

2024 13

  1. From engineer to head of engineering
  2. How to make time to talk?
  3. AI is the enshittification of recruitment
  4. Lean Agile Scotland: Sustainability
  5. SteelCon 2024: It was acceptable in the 80s
  6. Agile on the Beach 2024: Vulnerabilities are cool
  7. DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2024
  8. Recall: the Amazonification of Office Work
  9. Agile Manchester 2024: agile is fragile
  10. XZ Backdoor: Not the End of Open Source
  11. Cyber Measures Up in Manchester
  12. Resisting compliance is futile
  13. Victorification: Wiring the Winning Organisation Book Review

2023 19

  1. AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 4
  2. AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 3
  3. AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 2
  4. AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 1
  5. AppSec loves Agile
  6. BSides Newcastle 2023: Chaos for the future
  7. 44CON 2023: It takes a Village
  8. Leave the badge at the door
  9. Agile on the Beach 2023: we're going to need a bigger boat
  10. BSides Leeds 2023: Get the basics right
  11. Functional programming in MongoDB
  12. DevOps Enterprise Summit - airport culture
  13. DevOps Enterprise Summit - simple paper cranes
  14. ApocalypsAI: Skynet not needed
  15. Your Best Engineers Should Look After the Worst Systems
  16. The Case Against Automatic Dependency Updates
  17. Harvesting Logs for Fun and Profit
  18. Why AppSec fails
  19. Precision Munitions for Denial of Service

2022 15

  1. The agile power of saying no
  2. What do you think are the most exciting developments in software product engineering today?
  3. What do you think is the biggest challenge faced by the software product engineering community today?
  4. What got you started in modern software development methods?
  5. Less is more agile
  6. A mission statement that actually makes sense
  7. Curating Dependency Vulnerabilities
  8. How to run a Digital Platform at Scale
  9. On the weaponisation of open source
  10. What makes a good developer
  11. Pwnkit: How to exploit and check
  12. Bitcoin: When will the madness stop?
  13. Advent of code 2021: Day 22
  14. Advent of code 2021: Day 21
  15. Advent of code 2021: Day 20

2021 19

  1. Advent of code 2021: Day 18
  2. Advent of code 2021: Day 17
  3. Advent of code 2021: Day 16
  4. Advent of code 2021: Day 15
  5. Advent of code 2021: Day 14
  6. Advent of code 2021: Day 13
  7. Advent of code 2021: Day 12
  8. Advent of code 2021: Day 11
  9. Advent of code 2021: Day 10
  10. Context and Lines - My Take on Engineering Room Ep 1
  11. Advent of code 2021: Day 9
  12. Advent of code 2021: Day 8
  13. Advent of code 2021: Day 7
  14. Advent of code 2021: Day 6
  15. Advent of code 2021: Day 5
  16. Advent of code 2021: Day 4
  17. Record and publish your meeting
  18. Fizzbuzz without if clauses
  19. Exponential exploit: Why AppSec is hard

2020 6

  1. Fixing Oracle DB Link Certificate Errors in RDS
  2. Social network distance
  3. Discounted Dining Finder
  4. The Shield and the Sword
  5. Making Software. Quickly.
  6. One million records in 15 seconds

2018 4

  1. Coerced to make Xerces think
  2. How I learned to stop worrying and love a vulnerability
  3. Hiding XXE in Spreadsheets
  4. Laughing out loud - Malicious Reauthentication