I Like Kill Nerds

Everything costs more.

For a couple of years I treated writing code by hand like a moral position.

I’ve built a converter that takes a NAM capture and produces a Helix Stadium Proxy clone.

The client who wants a whole website for $500 will email you at 10pm about the shade of blue in the footer.

If you run a small business, don’t post an AI image in your local community Facebook group unless you enjoy being yelled at.

I’ve been using Opus 5.5 in Claude Code a lot since Anthropic released it on Tuesday, and my weekly usage has barely gone down.

Here’s how I’ve been working lately.

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on the 1st of September.

Nobody has asked me whether GPT-6 Astra is better than Sol.

Rockstar are about to drop the long-awaited Netflix extended look at GTA 6.

A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now.

Right-click inside a Froala editor and you get the browser’s menu.

Type 125.40 into a payment field and the app recorded $12,540.

Nobody looks at their WooCommerce search until it starts costing them money.

Selling Quad Cortex presets is one of the most manual jobs in music gear.

Bruno’s microphone was clipping so hard by about 6:15am that every time he raised his voice it sounded like a blown speaker in a Commodore.

Fable 5 came back on the 1st of July with a meter attached.

Downloading a video from Instagram feels like one of those jobs a computer should manage without turning it into a whole event.

I was trying to get into Privileged Mode on my NordicTrack treadmill when it stopped me with a code, then asked for a response before it would let me through.

Nobody in Canberra has stood up and said “we’re banning VPNs.”

Someone has registered isfable5back.com.

So you bought a Helix Stadium and now you want to record.

On the 10th of June, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that governments should have the legal power to block dangerous AI deployments.

Helix Stadium Native is on the way.

I started writing TypeScript in 2015, back when admitting that out loud in certain circles got you looks.

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the dangers of leaning on AI too hard.

About six months ago I reviewed the Helix Stadium XL and came away cautiously optimistic.

I’ve been working on a game in Three.js.

Aurelia 2 has had server-side rendering sitting in that slightly annoying place where the core has the right foundations, but app developers still don’t have a tidy package they can install and use.

I recently ran into a fun little problem with the Helix Stadium XL and Streamlabs Desktop.

GPT-5.5 dropped yesterday under the rumoured codename Spud, and I’ve been hammering on it inside Codex for most of today.

At 25 I could code until 3am, sleep four hours, and do it again the next night.

For fifteen years I played guitar in my bedroom.

Remember Web3?

Let me save you the suspense.

We used to build things.

You spent years building expertise.

The RBA just raised the cash rate to 4.1%.

You can earn more money.

The startup mythology has a convenient excuse built in.

There was a moment, somewhere around 2012, when the internet was as good as it was ever going to get.

The return-to-office push has been justified with a lot of words.

The guitar world has spent the last few years treating capture tech like a holy war.

In 2008, the financial crisis destroyed millions of jobs.

I have a ducted air conditioning system made by iZone.

I have written a lot of code.

I catch myself being nostalgic for the early 2000s.

The most successful software I have ever built ran on technology that was embarrassing to admit at the time.

I used to get bored.

Someone alive today will be the last professional writer.