A product story is the shared explanation of what your product does, who it's for and why it matters. Here's how to write yours with your team.

A classic xkcd comic. ([source](https://xkcd.com/386/)) A while ago, someone was wrong on the Internet, and I couldn’t let it go1. 😄 A LinkedIn post asked whether small PRs are only…

It is a challenge to get smaller types made in 400 scale by the mainstream diecast brands and even more […] The post British Midland Commuter | Saab 340B | G-GNTI | JC Wings first appeared on…

The 2026 season has finished and here is a look at the UCI rankings for the year. There’s the three year promotion and relegation contest to note. More immediately we can see which teams are…

Often Andy Unedited gets spam replies to my posts. These are easy to spot, and I delete them before they are published. But this month I began getting my first AI generated replies. In the past…

Anchoring (also called focalism) is a cognitive bias in which we become inordinately influenced by initial information (considered to be the “anchor”). Once we accept the anchor, all future…

nikitonsky: What are you? A slider? Radiobuttons? Switch/toggle? Thanks esp for the picture #Slider #Radiobutton #Switch #Toggle #Settings #Preferences #SendGrid

Why crawl back when shit happens? Why blame others for the things that didn’t work out? Some things are just hard to understand — too complex to comprehend. Relationships are complex.…

October 20, 2026 Meta is now charging to post links. Business and creator accounts get two free links a month. After that, they need a paid Meta One subscription , with tiers that run up to $499 a…

This week, Netflix announced substantial layoffs. Moreover, content chief Bela Bajaria and film head Dan Lin have been pushed out this week too. What's wrong at Netflix? According to the Wall Street…

Which companies build both their own model and their own harness for it. USA Anthropic — Claude Codehttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/overviewhttps://claude.com/pricingOne of the best-known tandems:…

As a rule, I don’t include students – PhD or other, working with me or not – on my social media network. Sorry – it’s nothing personal. I fear this can escalate to…

Homemade bread looks quite different than bread from a package. Take your average loaf of Wonderbread. It’s going to look the same no matter if you buy it in Pennsylvania,...

Hexagon is a new preprint-style repository focused on research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. It launched in public beta around late September 2026 and…

Self-replicating AI, bioweapons research and AI-ported games share one problem: friction is eroding.

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I didn’t get a full victory during this run and there were quite a few audio glitches in this one and also one strange moment of darkness that I think was probably related to a memory…

It's not AI that will destroy mankind, it's capitalism's insatiable greed. It's the billionaire class that always wants more.

In this month's blog status update, I note I've shuttered my Instagram page; also, I look at Instagram alternatives. Source

Build timeouts, scheduling delays and a reverted cache change led to a measurement system that needed its own debugging.

Harley-Davidson (click to enlarge) Here are some recent random photos I made of subjects that simply caught my eye. Photos seem to be everywhere if you are sensitive to your surroundings. <a…

I'm old enough to remember darker times. When rock-ribbed Republicans would shudder upon hearing a restaurant patron requesting Russian dressing. When Senator McCarthy and his acolytes would hound…

My wife and I were driving past CN's Symington Yard, en route to bird watching somewhere, when I spotted a Bessemer &#038; Lake Erie locomotive on the loop track adjacent to Lagimodiere Boulevard.

Hey folks! Welcome back to another appointment with my Unpublished series! Did I say thank you for all your support already? I mean, you&#8217;re all awesome and I value the time you dedicate to…

Three walks and a Civil Partnership Party in Brum. Two visits to Winchester for tech support and dinner with Aunty A. Admin on Tuesday morning, plus MCS quality audit for the ASHP and CW dropping by…

Games and temporary worlds

There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.Kevin KellyI always admired Kevin…

so if the PQ-led Quebec government can shirk its constitutional obligations under the pretext Quebec never ratified patriation of the Constitution in 82, i should be able to refuse any of my…

Join over 900k others (goal is 1m!) in signing Open Doors Canada’s Arise Africa petition for the United Nations by November 2nd Hi friends, I hope the title of this blog/newsletter grabbed your…

Jim Rohn reckoned you're the average of the five people you spend most time with. Mine are my wife, three sons and a motivational speaker on YouTube. On learning by proximity, and why a chair is…

Lichtenstein changed art by re-creating images drawn from comic books and advertising. His use of these images was, he explained, “not to reproduce it … I do it in order to recompose it”. His…

Women have been so thoroughly written out of art history that a survey of Renaissance-era female artists is full of revelations. Their work was commonly attributed to male artists. Once corrected,…

As the title says: Of course I also beat Radahn after a few more attempts. My Wretch is now on level 89 and 121 hours and 54 minutes into game. I keep exploring, have an invitation from the Dung…

In 2024 I invested $1500 in Evee and Broad Radio via Birchal's crowd funding platform and not much has happened since.

This blog post is only incidentally about AI.

Most military shooters make you feel powerful. They give you a weapon, point you toward an objective, and encourage you to turn everything between you and victory into a pile of bodies. Gallipoli…

(You're looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).

Control 10 , 100 , 1000 many computers. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a earlier course. Or handle 7 different operating systems and OS versions with a single master, like Matias. Best…

A free tool that walks you and your stakeholders through Mager and Pipe&#8217;s performance flowchart, before anyone opens an authoring tool. Here&#8217;s a made-up request. You&#8217;ve seen one…

A small home battery can reduce your electricity bill, even without solar panels. But saving money each day and recovering the purchase price are two different questions. Before buying extra storage,…

It was a long time ago now. 1985. That's over 41 years that have passed. We were living in Bath, on Great Pultney Street at the time, and I was a mature but immature student on a Bristol University…

Do you want to know how you are doing relative to your peers financially? Then this is the article for you. The Federal Reserve recently released its 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, the gold…

La construction de l'avenue Thiers a prolongé Grasse vers l'est et a catalysé la « colonie anglaise ».

Why I log every board game I play, where MyLudo fell short, and how a homemade MCP server lets me log plays just by talking to Claude. Read the full post on the blog.

Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year

The number of people in the UK without work that want it

Within a month of Jev by TypeSafe AI, hyperscalers, AI labs, data platforms and open source projects shipped their own decision models. The request schema became the standard, the model became…

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Don't let AI be the master of everything you do

A cheap Chinese action cam with a hidden Android, a bad flash that bricked it, a 40-byte loader that brought it back, and a software finger that presses OK at boot.