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I renamed the my dotfiles repo branch from master to main after putting it off for ages.

Don’t be a Meat Proxy A meat proxy is a human who forwards questions to an AI and forwards the answers back — adding nothing but latency.

Nice to catch up with a friend this week.

RubyConf 2026 Recap There is a new ‘killer app’ for Ruby I’ve been hearing that about Hanami and friends for a long time, but no one I know has used it or barely even tried it.

I made my AI slop public for everyone to ridicule.

Two news macOS dictation apps to consider this week: Handy and TongueType.

I’m sorry, not sorry, about the rising amount of AI/LLM related posts.

Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet This is so right on.

Good Tools Are Invisible Once your identity is invested in a tool, admitting its flaws starts to feel like admitting something about yourself.

“Every network.

Hot, hot, hot, man.

LNER eventually agreed, after I sent an email every week since April, to give me my money back.

I might upgrade macOS now they know how to do corners again 😎 I started off the week with food poisoning on Sunday/Monday.

STOP MAKING *ARRS – I could not agree more.

I had a small Elixir Phoenix app that I wanted to deploy somewhere for testing.

THE PRESSURE I am jealous of those projects that shipped a horrible bug at some point in the past that made the world burn for a while.

Hot innit.

I had to see the scale for myself to understand – This video from Alex at KTZ Systems is really thought-provoking.

The Idiot from Serial Productions was really enjoyable.

Saw my first obviously written by AI job posting this week.

Busy week for me.

The daffodils are looking sad and are nearly over, but fear not, the cherry blossom is out 🌸 and we’re blessed to have many cherry trees throughout the city.

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY.

April?

Broke another tooth eating sweets I don’t even like.

As you might remember I’ve been having several ZigBee related woes for a while, and this week was no different.

A is back!

You’ll be glad to know I’ve had neither the time nor headspace to worry about AI this week.

I discovered that not only is Oban Web now free but it also works with the fairly recent SQLite support.

You may or may not have noticed that I shipped a pretty big re-organisation of my “web presence” this week.

This week is very AI/LLM heavy for which I apologise.

My DNS problem took a step forward when I realised that I might be able to solve it, again perhaps temporarily, without having to actually setup a proper DNS server – which I seem to be constantly putting off.

The Mecha Comet looks like a cool little handheld computer which I would never use.

Remember I was going to try a try a lo-fi approach to using a proper domain on my home network?

Although I now have a slight reluctance to print for fear of something going wrong I decided to go ahead and print a AMS Lite top mount.

Monday came, back to work for many.

A thousand apologies to those whose Monday back at work was unbearable without these weeknotes.

Christmas again.

Another brief sojourn to Sheffield this week.

Brick Borrow – This seems like a really good idea?

If your blog doesn’t have a feed it is dead to me.

The replacement screen for which I raised a PayPal dispute was received and works, that’s the end of that particular saga.

My advice, never get sick.

No Game Boy news this week.

My latest trip down South was successful and restorative – LCD Soundsystem were right.

Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats Affected devices have been unpaired and removed from the Nest app I have a 3rd Generation model so I guess I’m next.

We went to see The Divine Comedy as planned.

The car seems to have developed “a noise” since going to garage.

This is probably one for my therapist, but I genuinely screamed at my printer this week.

I had to reboot my Apple TV remote again, same issue as last time, the volume buttons stopped working.