Jamie Lord

“I am not blaming the innovation.

The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand.

There is a gap in one of my paintings, near the top-left where the brush ran out before it reached the edge, and through the gap you can see a photograph.

Cyrus Lopez published an essay last week, ‘The Last People Who Know How It Works’, and it’s the best thing I’ve read about computing this year.

Claude Fable 5 was in public hands for about three days before Anthropic took it back.

This week I stood at a primary school careers fair, on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, and tried to convince children between the ages of four and eleven that software development is the best job in the world.

The Dutch government today blocked Kyndryl’s acquisition of Solvinity, the IT company that operates DigiD.

At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea.

Cloudflare’s Project Glasswing write-up landed today and the Hacker News thread is mostly arguing about whether the prose was written by Mythos or by Opus.

Cloudflare laid off more than 1,100 people yesterday, around 20% of the company.