Open the README of Airtable’s official Ruby client and, before you reach the install instructions, you get this: We are currently transitioning this gem to be supported by Airtable. We will maintain…

Coffee Valley is a small specialty coffee store only a short walk from Ikebukuro station. They serve a range of coffee drinks plus toasts and cakes. Since it opens as early as 8am, it would make a…

There has been a bunch of discourse in the AI space about how to get agents the correct context. Following along with those discussions, I’ve built a system that seems to work quite well for me…

And not the cricket kind!

Previously, we discussed that two things need to go right: architecture, and the learning loop. The learning loop is how innovation happens. Recently, I was reminded of a quote by a mechanical…

Can Generative AI be said to know anything?\nWe'll answer that through the (broken) definition of knowledge, the epistemological concept of sensitivity and a detour into philosophy of law.\nThis time…

I've been seeing a tremendous amount of discussion going on recently around the use of X. I have an annoyingly-long history with this topic . What you do in private is your own business. What you do…

Explaining what trauma is, how it changes an individual's brain, and how it can be healed.

Eddie (my AI agent) now manages my to-do list. 1 I hadn't planned that. It kind of happened on its own. As I wrote in one of my previous posts , I like interacting with him via Telegram. The playful…

AI rollouts fail as procurement exercises. The research on why — and the few weeks of planning that separate volume from value.

I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved.

As I get older, I have to recognize that some pains are inevitable . I worry a lot about my health and I get anxious about small symptoms. I know that I am kind of a hypochondriac. My pattern is as…

tag(s): #random-thoughts #pic This weekend I had to head to Home Depot to get supplies for some house repairs.[1] And of course I took some time to wander the aisles and look at tools and supplies…

A desktop research workspace in Laravel and NativePHP. Streaming SSE into a queued job, distilling reports with a local model, and why cosine similarity cannot tell a paraphrase from a contradiction.

Ten files open for a one line change is either layering working correctly or one idea smeared across a codebase. The count does not tell you which, and git history does.

Uber burned its entire annual AI coding budget in four months — the full allocation gone by spring, no controlled overrun flagged in planning. Three-quarters of enterprises watched AI costs blow past…

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Imagine you're enjoying a really premium SSH session when the remote host's network drops out long enough to cause your client connection to hang, and things are past the point of recovery. And,…

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for…

NVIDIA's Q2 FY27 revenue reached $96b with a $108b Q3 guide, but hyperscale revenue grew only 13% sequentially against 25% for everyone else. To fund the buyers filling that gap, NVIDIA extended…

We’re on holiday camping in the Lake District. I’d set my mind on riding the Fred Whitton Challenge (FWC) route while we’re here. I’ve not been feeling great this month…

My old churn model measured how surprising a user’s silence was against their own history. That’s a real question with a real answer, but it isn’t churn risk: it flagged regulars…

For most of my career, working with computers meant giving them precise instructions. I wrote the code, searched for answers, and operated…

How many Gorons do I have to name?

Echofeed was a service to take rss feeds and ’echo’ them to other services such as Mastodon. Recently they have been winding down the service for numerous but very understandable reasons.…

The last thing I wrote about building software with a coding agent ended on a question I could not answer with more machinery: is this test still capable of telling me I am wrong? The setting was a…

The real danger is not that AI destroys humanity. The real danger is that humanity logs off.

TLDR; small, local models are a good instrument for measuring what a harness costs an agent. an API is only as good as its outputs’ specificity, parsimony, and truthfulness. obvious code repair is…

Version 1.1.0 of mcp-windbg is out. It's the first release since 1.0.0 , which was broken on fresh installs for some time. What Happened: 1.0.1 The dependency was mcp>=1.28.1 with no upper bound.…

why do i keep going down color-based rabbit-holes? my latest foray into colors leads me today to the dye system in soul's remnant. for those of you who don't have a finger on the pulse of MMOs on…

Real-world HTML arrives wrapped in navigation chrome, tracking attributes and inline CSS. ReverseMarkdown 6.2.1 adds Config.Preprocess, an ordered pipeline of DOM transformations applied to the…

Alfred North Whitehead’s count is exactly two. The philosopher—an Englishman who had settled at Harvard and was writing in the years just after the Second World War, at the moment American…

Four ways to approach printing your own models.

A USENIX WOOT 2026 paper shows that SIM cards can send AT commands directly to phones and IoT devices, forcing 2G downgrades, silent browser launches, and even code execution.

I just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in Times of Cholera. Here are five drops of wisdom I couldn’t help but underline (my own translations): #1. “Wisdom comes when it’s no longer of…

When I was learning CSS’s grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked. I was surprised to get scolded for…

# Thursday last week saw me back at the doctor's for a two month review of the fluoxetine. While it's certainly better than the citalopram (not hard) I don't think it's fully there yet. My wife says…

Lean Software audits the alarm business. A dashboard reports thirty-eight new vulnerabilities over a weekend in which nobody changed a line, because the attack surface lives in delivered assemblage…

A big batch landed since the last update. Here are the highlights. Secrets at Rest Tenant secrets (SSO config, webhook signing keys, Slack URLs) are now encrypted with per-tenant envelope encryption:…

📸 August snapshots. (Or: What I did on my summer vacation).

How canaries, PostHog, Merge Boy, and teammates across roles turned a risky WordPress rewrite into more than 1,000 pull requests in five months.

Quality software reigns again

What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?

Working in public is usually sold as a growth strategy. For me it is something quieter and more useful: a way to keep ideas moving, keep the builder muscle warm, and leave a trail I can come back to.…

Eula wrote a response (“Collecting reference books for creativity”) to my post on inspiration from physical artefacts and organising them. Ironically, I didn’t appreciate the continuity between these…

A fifty-megabyte CSV from a vendor is sitting in a bucket, or about to be. An agent will search it and parse it. That works until you need to join it to warehouse.public.stores, at which point you…

Qwen 3.8 27B This week was interesting for local models with the open-weights release of Qwen 3.8 27B. It was highly anticipated, because Qwen 3.6 held the crown for a long time in open models of a…