The more you talk to people, the more time you spend on social media, the more you realise how easy it has become for people to stray outside their marriages. Or outside their long-term relationships. One might wonder what has happened to the world. Both genders are busy blaming each other instead of trying to understand what is actually going on. People who have affairs usually offer a profound justification for them. A mistress, they claim, is good for the marriage because she draws the…

I spent a few days in Breda visiting the city. I mostly walked through Valkenberg, the largest city park there, to see what I could do with light and dark. In a park like that, you have a lot of trees that create shaded spots when the sun is shining. A fun thing to photograph is the play of light and dark, of sunlight and shadow. You wait until someone passes by, until that person is walking right in the sunlight. Their head, their upper body, or at least part of their body is lit, while other…

The LLMs have changed how software gets made, and will keep changing it - for code, for design, for any digital product. Buried under all the productivity talk there is one thing they enable which does not get discussed much: never having to collaborate with another human being, ever again. The library whose maintainer won’t answer, the framework whose author finds your use case silly, the colleague who wants it done just so - you can now route around all of them. You can rewrite the thing in…

I’ve been using Pure Blog for a while now and I absolutely love its simplicity and speed. However, for the longest time, I had no idea that Pure Blog supports hooks! Which in turn you can use to do e.g. YouTube embeds. I had been asking about that instead of reading the actual documentation. But, dear reader, I have now read the docs. And I have discovered hooks, and they are a game-changer. It was exactly what I was looking for. I can keep my Markdown files clean and keep full control over how…

This is a rant, don’t read it. Hype and FOMO are eating our organisations alive. Every feature team needs to become AI-native to have the right to exist. What the hell does AI-native even mean? Definitions I have seen circle around orchestrations of swarms of autonomous agents and magic workflows. None has been about product focus. Meanwhile management is still impressed by one- or two-person teams showing greenfield AI PoCs or peripheral tooling automation. What actual product has been…

Album of the Week, October 24, 2026 I make mix tapes. I have since I was a teenager. We might call them mixes or playlists now—or “radio shows” when I’m doing something with Exfiltration Radio—but fundamentally they’re mix tapes. And making mix tapes carries with it a certain mindset. First, song order matters. Second, surprise is good. And one of the ways to surprise the listener is to take an artist they’ve heard and find a song by them they’ve never heard before. That’s why I have always…

Whenever I feed the ducks I can’t help thinking about the Skripals.

I haven't been on many holidays in recent years, and never while having to entertain a seven-year-old. I think part of the reason is anxiety. So, I've decided to book a trip to London during October half-term to try and overcome this. After making the decision to go, I had to sort out everything else, like booking a hotel, trains, organising things to do, places to go, and what to take… The internet is an amazing resource for information, but for a mind like mine, there are probably too many…

I am a Stingray. Jet, they call me. My boy once called me dad, and as Jet Jr I called him JJ. He lost his life at the end of my stinger for being a chud loser. On any other day I would have killed the lookers-on, too, or I would have only come with them in exchange for nanites but these guys were different - the group was diverse, they werent sticking with their own kind. This is exactly the kind of forward thinking we need to adopt. We traveled some and met another group of stingrays. I hid,…

The books from Li’l Factory have arrived. And they look beautiful!

Do you want to read some books full of spaceships? Check out the Spaceships and the Stars bundle on itch.io, running from October 24 – November 25. Get 21 books for $21. I’ve added “Adamere in Swan” to the bundle, a novelette that takes places a few years before Corners of the Deep Dark. The ebook’s had a bit of a facelift, so the internal styling matches the novel and it uses the same cover font Addison Smith did (though the letters remain unskewed and they still sit on an unmodified stock…

One of the books Peter Naur cites in his Programming as Theory Building essay is Thomas S. Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. This book seems to be regarded as an important entry under the topic of history of science, but what does this have to do with programming? Kuhn’s book sounded interesting so I read it to find out, and in this post I’ll make an attempt at applying what the book is about into programming, and hopefully we can also find some value from doing so. Basic ideas…

Two years ago, we built a little something that we still use quite often: a “Playing Now” shelf for the vinyl sleeve of the currently playing vinyl. But that’s not all: this shelf is NFC-enabled and records all vinyls that we play. This was Chris’ idea, not long after we bought a vinyl player. He started by sketching out what it should look like, and what functionality he wanted it to have. Fortunately, he’s good at 3D things, not just 3D printing, but general work with real materials. Playing…

I thought that it'd be easier for me to just do a quick summary of the coursework month by month instead of week by week, because while I'm learning a lot, I don't really know how interesting it is. I mean, it's interesting to me, which is good, because otherwise I'd be wasting that £12k, but to other people? Ehhhhhhh. So this time, it's Customer Led Disruption in a Digital Era, which is pretty much all about how the consumer can change a business. Which, y'know, yeah, of course, but it's nice…

Nintendo found success with its Switch, letting gamers choose their preference: handheld mode or docked. Now Apple is playing the same game with iPhone Duo, letting people choose their favorite: iPhone mode or iPad mode. Even if such dual-natured devices perfectly split the use-case line right down the middle, a person will naturally lean towards one or the other. So here’s the question with the Duo: is it a phone first and a tablet second, or is it a tablet first and a phone second.…

The research in this post is interesting, especially as it relates to where the software development bottlenecks are in the age of AI: If writing code isn’t the bottleneck, what is? The task-breakdown surveys point at things like meetings or debugging. This just leads to more questions: what are developers doing in those meetings and why can’t it be done by AI? Won’t debugging get automated as capabilities improve? To understand the real bottlenecks, we have to get qualitative, and dig into…

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this website is now listed on 1kb.club and 1mb.club. both are maintained by brad adding your own site is done via email and you don’t even need an account browsing both clubs i found websites which i added to my feed reader and others i removed by sending a patch sorry brad — more emails incoming…

It’s been quite a while since GameHut, a Youtube channel run by Jon Burton, 29-year director of Traveler’s Tales and an old maven of Genesis/Mega Drive effects, posted a video. I’m not sure Burton himself worked on this game in this one, but he does a fine job of explaining (14 minutes) how the developers used the Genesis’ catalog of technical tricks to make one of the most visually striking games on that platform, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, pulling off realtime effects that might seem…

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This essay by Garrett Bucks about what’s going on at Cornell really got to me. I highlighted too many quotes, but here’s one that particularly stood out: I’m writing this in the middle of the night. A few minutes ago, my nine-year-old daughter woke up and called out for me. She’s sick, and needed tissues and medicine. Of course I leapt to my feet. I’d do anything for her and her brother, such that they get to grow up enveloped in love and care forever and ever. We all would, us parents. At…

Nathan Fielder’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything, has a scene where he plays her Who’s on First. She can’t follow it. He keeps going. She keeps smiling. I couldn’t follow Who’s on First the first time I heard it. I watched the movie with another autistic woman who had never heard the routine, and she couldn’t follow it either. Until that scene I thought everyone needed it explained. Elizabeth Holmes is autistic. The Department of Justice says she went to prison…

"Seaside Watch" by Oleksandr Kolstov Part of The Story Trail.

This seems like news worth bringing to the widest audience possible: as reported by friend of the blog Wesley Mead, it appears that Sky One will no longer be broadcasting The Simpsons at all as of the 1st November. This leaves E4 (plus the occasional weekend lunchtimes on Channel 4) as the only place to see Our Favourite Family on linear television in the UK going forwards.It's not been the noblest of ends to the channel's 36-year relationship with the show, losing the rights to first-run…

9723/21642I bought a gift at the White Company last week. They wanted to know how things had gone and sent an email to Rechared Herring to find out. What were they aiming for there? Recharged? Rechaired? Recharred? Or just Wretched Red Herring? A day of football craziness for Phoebe and me today. First we were up super early to drive down to Harpenden for her match.

This article is a very good representation of how I see the PM landscape right now as well: After a brief period where PMs were expected to become engineers themselves, the engineering team is moving back to owning most implementation mechanics. PM increasingly owns what should happen, why, the principles governing a product's behavior, and how success should be evaluated. There are debates around communicating that vision between PRD's vs. prototypes, but that debate hides the fact that the…

Before we finish with Faversham, there’s one last area I want to talk about, and it’s one that is particularly relevant to the recent brewery closure announcement that has come from Danish brewing giant, Carlsberg. If you haven’t been sleeping these past few weeks, you will be aware that the brewer of what many would regard as “the worst lager in the world”, are looking to close the historic Marston’s Brewery, in Burton-on-Trent. The closure is scheduled to take place next summer with the Danes…

Coffeeneuring is a community event of taking to the bike to celebrate fall’s moods, angled sunlight, colors, breezes — and tastes of autumny drinks. I came across it for the first time last year just before the end of the month-or-so time span that it’s run by Chasing Mailboxes. It was too late to participate, so I looked forward to it all year. I was ready when the official rules dropped and then, disaster, or near disaster: I badly hurt my shoulder and couldn’t get on the bike the first…

Fossilized Insect in AmberA tiny insect lands on the sticky surface of a tree, unaware that this ordinary moment might become part of the geological record.Millions of years later, that insect may still be visible, suspended inside a golden piece of fossilised resin.Its delicate wings, slender legs and even the finest hairs on its body can sometimes be preserved in astonishing detail.Welcome to

Whatever, friends, who even cares. A whole bunch is happening, have been feeling bad about not posting anything, but in reality have enjoyed not having to do anything. The list of tracks I wanted to post here is at this point 30-deep, but this will be just a regular-sized post. Hopefully all the other very cool stuff will make it to the Patreon. Also just did what might be the final Albums of the Decade interview, and it's a gem. More about that soon. Got to see good people live recently…