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It’s a term I’ve only recently heard and it’s something that I have spent the last month leaning into heavily. I’ve ‘created’ 12 apps to help me manage my life (both at work and outside work). I don’t know how I feel about that term however. Vibe sounds like I’m just jamming or it’s totally inconsequential. These apps are in fact very important to me now as I am making decisions on how to spend money. I’m understanding my eating and drinking habits and making modifications. As a family there is…
Danish police disperse pro-Palestinian activists who attempted to blockade the headquarters of the giant shipping company Maersk based in Copenhagen Denmark. That is one brutal way to ‘disperse’ activists. I’m seriously proud of those that make a stand and put their bodies on the line for people far away. Genocide is not ok. You cannot support these racist and inhumane activities and expect people to remain silent.
Why birds don’t crash (and what humans can learn from them). Absolutely loved the insight in this video.
It’s been a really strange year so far. A lot of life happening. A lot of things that have disrupted my thoughts and energy. Which has reflected into a lack of engagement online.
World War 3 Is About To Begin. Diary of a CEO with Professor Jiang. It’s 2 hours long and one of the most engaging things you will listen to or watch all year.
Gary Neville & Jamie Carragher react to Man Utd’s win over Liverpool! Absolutely loving Jamie loosing his shit over the fact that his team were crap and got battered. Manchester United scored all 5 goals this game. It was glorious.
I have been building apps with Claude for several weeks now. In that time I have been able to ‘develop’ five super capable apps. All in HTML/Javascript (so open in any web browser). The first was my biggest pain point, a finance app. It took the longest but also taught me the most. I’ve since created a Markdown table generator, Meal Planner and Contacts app and another app that I’m not going to disclose but is for my mental sanity. All tailored for me, by me. I honestly feel like a kid in a…
whoami.wiki. This looks incredible.
Om’s article Software Eats Its Own looks at it from a software engineer’s perspective - and I can completely understand because what is happening in the software industry will ultimately impact every single knowledge worker out there (including engineering, architecture, consulting, legal, education and the list goes on). It is not the industrialisation of software, rather of knowledge work in its entirety (to really varying levels).
It’s good to be able to enjoy some outside space again. Took me hours to clean the mess the kids had made over the winter.
I have a proper crush on Hannah Fry (math professor at Cambridge University). It’s the style of what she is saying, but also how she breaks things down that I love.
I was talking to a contractor in Ottawa and they mentioned that during a careers fair for a civil contractor, one of the largest number of applicants were senior software engineers that had been without a job for over a year in some cases. I knew this was our new shared reality, but can also see the winds of change for many (most?) industries.
I was talking to a contractor in Ottawa and they mentioned that during a careers fair for a civil contractor, one of the largest number of applicants were senior software engineers that had been without a job for over a year in some cases.
I have spent all day developing a finances app with Claude. It’s really been an incredible process but honestly speaks to the amount of wasted time in trying to either put something together or polish something. The results are staggering, only because I know the level of effort it traditionally takes to make software. This is 2026. Remember that we over estimate the advances technology can make in a few years and under estimate what it can do in 10…
We had an amazing couple of evenings here in Toronto. A light jacket. The sun was shinning. A bit of park action. A bit of ice cream action. Hopefully we’ll be greeted with the first buds on trees.
For a while now AI has been a curiosity for me. This weekend it because something else. I think my conception of the ‘tool’ was that it was hype but no real substance yet. It had a while to go before it could do anything meaningful in my life - much less actually having an impact on my life. Then I tried Claude. Until this weekend I had essentially dabbled in Co-Pilot at work, ChatGPT on occasion and Gemini during google searches. I tried Deepseek when it first came out and it was, meh -…
The world is about to get seriously disrupted in ways I honestly didn’t think was possible, so quickly. I thought certain professions were likely immune, at least for a while. The reality is that this is not the case at all. Disruption is coming for us all. I honestly don’t know what is scarier. What I will face or what my boys will face.
Its taken a while, but new look index page is sorted.
Talking with my mother about the US/Iran negotiations and she dropped a gem, ‘It takes Iranians 12 years to make a rug. You can’t expect them to negotiate peace in 1 day.’
You know that moment in time when you realise that you are using something special. I remember Richard telling me about Google in the first year of University. I remember using an iPhone for the first time. Getting into a Tesla for the first time. I can now add Claude into that mix. If you’ve been using ChatGPT, Co-Pilot or anything else, I highly recommend using Claude instead. Same tasks, much better and mind boggling results. For me it was a complicated tax related document, 54 pages deep.…
I mean, this is what Americans are paying for. Americans work hard. Have limited holidays. They suffer from a limited social net, but when they work and they buy things they are paying for the bombs and death and destruction in the name of Israel. Spend 30 seconds watching the destruction they sowed across Lebanon this afternoon. These criminals have to be stopped and be held accountable.
