People are starting to think about 1-3 person teams making full games with AI that rival AAA studios.The idea being that they're competing by making stuff people want.What I don't think enough people are thinking about is your AI interviewing you for 9 hours and building you 10 perfect games just for you.Soon we’ll have games customized to your favorite storylines and fetishes that are continuously varied by AI.Gaming is Metaverse 1.0 (2022)Or making you 10 full TV series like Game of Thrones,…

It’s now full on autumn here. “True” Thanksgiving last weekend* was great, thanks for asking. Had a gravy juice.** We’ve already taken drives to have a look at the multi-coloured leaves in the forests. And the walks down to the shore now need a bit of tweed instead of the linen shorts of a few weeks ago. Chilly. But it’s all going to be OK. Winter is coming. That’s all. by the way, I might be a bit short this week. Been busy, working on a PowerPoint presentation for a community group on the…

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Sorry I’ve been quiet, life got in the way. I enjoyed Ross’ post entitled “The Search for Joy“, it’s been roughly where my head has been, trying to find a meaning. Life can feel real hectic at the moment, where you’re trying to run to stay still. This is especially true as a business owner, as you’re batting away AI driven instructions as you rescue another site from a client’s mitts (seriously, I’d be a lot more open to it if – as a technology – it learned to say “no!”). It can feel…

I said, I think in 2023, that we’d have AGI between 2025 and 2028, with 2027 being the most likely year.I still say 2027 for an AI product that can replace an average knowledge worker. And I think that’s the definition of AGI to use.Daniel Miessler on X (June 2025)The whole debate is very strange because so much depends on definitions, but I think we got AGI this year. In 2026. In the form of Claude Tag.Elaborating...Why do I consider that AGI?Because it’s persistent, organizational memory that…

There are travel blogs and then there is Three Steps Off the Coast.For the last ten years, Sandrine and Geoffrey (now accompanied by their son Victor and pet dog) have been documenting their travels and sharing their photos, stories, itineraries, and budgets with the world on their popular travel blog. Now, to celebrate their ten-year anniversary of travel blogging, they have brought to life their 10 most memorable trips as immersive 3D travel maps.10 Years, 10 Adventures is a collection of ten…

Read on the website: Scheme is fun and pretty! It could be even more perfect, and that’s what I explore in this post.

Translated from Japanese into Dutch by Luk Van Haute. It's not available in English yet, but I'm sure it's coming some day soon! The Dutch title, literally translated, would be 'to birth and to murder'. I wonder what the English title will be. The Birth Murder? Birth and Murder? Murderous Birth? Imagine a world where you could commit murder legally. Simply birth ten living children and you'll gain the right to murder anyone you'd like, fully state-sponsored and without any consequences. Or…

Can you still book a cheap London hotel for Christmas? Yes, but the choice is shrinking. On 13 October, I found at least 16 well-reviewed hotels with a room for two from 24 to 27 December for £450 or less for the three nights. The cheapest was £351, and most were between £410 and £450. Below are the 8 best, all with free cancellation, so you can book now and keep looking. How I pick these Every week, I search Booking.com for the same stay: three nights from Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 December,…

The past week has been a bit of a roller-coaster for me. If you know me, you know I have plenty of stuff to keep myself busy and plenty of stuff I want to share – if only time and energy would permit. Whenever I can, I’ve spent my time authoring and producing content which I believe to be interesting, different, unique, valuable and of my own efforts (unless where specified, and that’s the exception rather than the rule). But since my recent choice to abstain from OzBargain because of their…

I certainly would not hire 1,000 third-party consultants to help fix patches. I would probably rethink the architecture of the whole system and company, so that the exposed footprint is minimized. I would give proper training to the internal 3.000 people and power them with AI tooling (even if for monitoring and preventing attacks). And I would even consider open-sourcing the code. But hiring a lot of (most likely under qualified) people to patch vulnerabilities is a losing game.

Jitsi Meet is a free video-conferencing package of which I have been hosting an instance since 2020. Here's how I have it set up.

I really did rush through the first week of Orktober and I didn’t enjoy myself as much as I should’ve. For the second week I’ve paced myself more and enjoyed the process a hell of a lot more. It’s a fun competition but if it takes the fun out of painting minis that’s no good so lesson learnt for me haha. I’ve never owned a “weird-boy” ork until the most recent new one came along. Even though I like weird things I was never really drawn to the character. Dunno, wizards, warlocks, witches and…

Showery today with strong winds. Car washing. H.B1,B2 making 139 to date. Mike Reed leaves tonight. Cleared all the lab bins out. Insurance man came.

Taken on the 15th of September, 2026 Tianjin, Five Great avenue 天津，五大道 "Tianjin Five Major Avenues Cutural and Tourism Area is a region with a total area of 1.28 km2 and a total of 2185 buildings, including 423 Western-style buildings many of which were built between the 1920s and 1930s."

I had a bit of a freakout day today, I won’t go into all the details, but it was a thing to do with work where I realised– –ergh, actually I started writing about it but I don’t think it belongs here. Better to whinge in my journal, I think. To sum up: I’m at a bit of a dead end career wise, and I’m going to have to start thinking laterally to get out of it. I had a look at job listings online, and what a morass that is. Better to stay at the job and at least bring in some semi-regular lucre…

In 2026, the developer who writes every line by hand and reads every line with their own eyes will disappear. So what should us poor developers do now? Maybe we should start a new carrer as plumpers? I believe you no longer need to pay a human to turn an idea into code. Idea -> Code You still need humans that even know which Idea is worth to implement. What should we even built > How can we built it You still need people who build software that actually solves other people’s problems. Also you…

Imagination is the new moat.

The Pagecord blog has had design overhaul. It's astonishing what CSS can do these days 🤩

My recent piece for the I newspaper I’ve read hundreds of books about the royals – these are the 11 best has been tremendously productive for the blog. It led me to find out more about Barbara Cartland, producing two more posts and huge interest from my lovely readers. It was generally a most enjoyable project, though as I was keeping up with the latest royal news, the King and Diana’s brother having the same name, Charles obv, was occasionally confusing in the reading. Bad planning. The list…

RJ-83 Crimson Firehawk Pack-in Young Jedi Adventures Vehicle Pilot Item No.: No. F7878 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: n/a Includes: Crimson Firehawk vehicle, Nash Durango pilot figue Action Feature: n/a Retail: $44.99 Availability: August 2023 Appearances: Young Jedi Adventures Bio: Nash Durango was a female human pilot and mechanic from the Outer Rim planet Tenoo who lived during the High Republic Era. She befriended Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs. (Stolen from…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…

I haven't had this old Ovation guitar out of it's formidable flight case for a couple of years. It was almost perfectly in tune out of the box but the electrics are a bit goosed. Hence the spray cans and some annoying fiddling about that I had to do. There were some slight improvements after a while. These are odd guitars. Tight and heavy. The plastic bulge of the back body shape makes them awkward to play standing up and/or sitting down. It's a very physical thing. The action is OK but ... it…

I think it's safe to classify both of today's photos as "standard Disneyland views". Nice enough, sure, but you probably won't call Aunt Marge to tell her all about them. (Call her anyway, she's lonely).Yep, it's no surprise that it's a photo of the Mark Twain. It looks pretty against that deep-blue sky. Daredevil ducks wait until the last possible second to scoot out of its way (while other less-brave ducks stayed safely out of harm's way). I'd say that this behavior does not set a good…

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

When you’re in a relationship with someone, treating sex as a hobby that you enjoy together is a fabulous way to maintain connection and keep things interesting – I believe this very strongly and I know I bang on about it a lot here. Rarely do I get such a perfect, horny, beautiful example of […] The post Guest blog: Why I write porn for my wife appeared first on Girl on the Net.

As we go into our Club weeks, I always have a pile of possibles drawn from the TBR which I hope to choose from for my reading. However, despite having many, many options, I realised when looking through online lists of books published in 1949 that there was a title by a particular favourite of mine which I didn’t actually own… The ones of his which are missing from my collection can often be quite expensive, so I had a nervous browse online, and to my delight I was able to find a reasonably…

On several occasions in recent months, I’ve looked at the aesthetic side of Japanese literature during the interwar period, but as some of you may know, a very different style of writing also rose to prominence at this time. The years between 1925 and 1935 were known as the ‘red decade’, with proletarian literature rising gloriously before being brutally stamped out as the country turned once again towards militarism. Out of all the writers engaged in this endeavour, one man stood out, and one…

At the rock housesWhen I first went to school we were taught that the very first human homes were in caves and that these were clearly damp, dark, unpleasant places to live, soon superseded by tents, wooden huts, and other such shelters. Today, we have a great deal more knowledge of early human habitations around the world, from houses built on frames of mammoth bones to bark-walled dwellings. But along with this knowledge goes an awareness that we are in fact ignorant of the lives of many…

I was a big fan of Sokpop's previous games - they used to release a very small game every single month. Some of them, like Stacklands, ended up becoming full-sized titles. Their output was proof, I suppose, that you can constantly make loads of games on a fast schedule without AI if you are disciplined about reusing your resources. You can see their Steam developer page here. I think playing a lot of their games in a row can teach you a ton about scoping projects and reusing stuff. It's pretty…