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Hey, at least being haunted by demons was metal AF.

Court reckons ‘open’ means… something.

The new chapter of thinking starts somewhere else on campus.

A personal exploration of herding code-generating robots

The government have made a website where you can learn how you were prompting it wrong.

Professional AI tool is marginally better than consumer AI tool.

Please do not click on any tags or links.

Getting Emacs to tell me what I haven’t yet made worse.

Some meandering British socio-technical vibe checking, with reference to Adolescence, Black Mirror, Roblox and Balatro.

My dotfiles are actually an explosion of disruptive radical technical innovation, I’ll have you know.

Does anti-circumvention law offer a route to legally challenging unwanted LLM web scraping?

Let’s try LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen until Mozilla decides they want to make a browser again

Computering is a series of bad life choices: here are mine.

Zigzag your way through the hundred million item graph with this one neat trick etc.

Switch your browser around, declaratively.

Wherein we learn that people who are sold on a technology are sold on a technology, and that’s about it

Linting and autoformatting crappy little scripts as if they were proper software

Choose an OSM tag, make it cool

A meandering wander around the scary magical future of package management.

Mingled Makefiles for a multirepo milieu.

Put some Hello World in a file.

A short guide to string encoding in elisp.

Brief notes on the matter of sharing brief notes about the inner guts of technology.

Over many years working on API integrations, I’ve seen a whole lot of ways that the experience could be less frustrating.

In February, I discovered a potential vulnerability in the Sainsbury’s and Nectar website.

For many years, other developers told me about iTerm2 and I ignored them.

For the first time in almost fifteen years, my Twitter acount got suspended.

A fun discovery: if you have two Macs, one running Catalina and the other running Big Sur, you may struggle to back up the Big Sur machine to a network share on the Catalina machine because Catalina formats Time Machine volumes as HFS+ and Big Sur expects…

A nostalgic prelude Anyone remember building web apps in the old days?

It should be fairly apparent to anyone who has lived through the Brexit referendum that the attention spans of both politicians and journalists in the UK is quite limited even at the best of times.

I was recently re-reading H.L.A.

Back in 2018, the British government published a document on the World Wide Web.

The revelation in the last week or so that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had financial connections with MIT’s Media Lab has led to the lab director, Joi Ito, to resign.

In a blog post I almost missed earlier this year, Jeremy Keith points to an interesting use case for print stylesheets, namely putting QR codes on the printed versions of, well, just about anything on the web.

Apple’s two-factor authentication and app-specific password implementation is bad.

Today, I saw a story doing the rounds on Facebook about a group of pro-Brexit buffoons attempting to block an Aldi supermarket warehouse as a protest against Britain’s failure to depart from the EU.

Pop-up “Instamuseums” are a thing, according to this video from Vox and this article by Sophie Haigney in The New Yorker: people will queue around the block and pay $40 for the privilege of taking photos of themselves alongside works of installation art s…

Techne If you are reading this, I have a new personal site.

Greetings humans.

There’s a growing consensus in the scientific literature that open plan offices damage the mental and physical health of employees, destroy their morale and generally make their work lives less pleasant.

I’ve been grumbling on Twitter about the DVLA.

Jeremy and Jake are debating the merits of Chrome’s plan to hide away the path segment of the URL.

[Ctrl]-L gets you back into normal mode, then you can :q!