AI World Clocks
Pretty funny site that gives an indication at how good various LLMs are at understanding a request to write some code.
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A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System
I've owned a copy of Lions' for a long time; perhaps 25 years at the time of writing. I'm pretty sure it was one of the firts books I ordered from this wee book-selling website called Amazon, back in 1999.
Here's an online version.
Syncing a fork - GitHub Help
Handy document for reminding myself on how to keep a fork in sync.
I’m autistic and don’t speak. Here’s what I want you to know
Interesting insight into being on the spectrum and being non-verbal.
Cloudflare Pages
I use GitHub pages a lot. They work. But I also feel that all-eggs-in-one-basket isn't a great idea. I should look at playhing with Cloudflare Pages at some point.
Learn Dutch phrases, vocabulary and grammar – Understanding Dutch
Useful-looking site with resources for learning Dutch.
Body Battery for Apple Watch : r/AppleWatch
The reddit post where I first discovered BodyState. For a year or so this remained a really useful and focused app that did what I needed. As of November 2025 it's been sold to a company who are starting to ruin it already.
Such a shame.
The madness of king altman: how AI became the god of silicon valley
"At this point, it doesn’t matter if tech executives and VCs believe their own hype and wild claims about what’s next for AI — though I firmly believe that they genuinely buy into the things they’re preaching and chugging their own kool aid — because they’ve made the grand pronouncements, they started their cults, and they promised a future of AGI-powered wonder. They sold equity to investors who give them billions every year, and those investors now expect steady double-digit percentage returns."
A fun (and hopefully concerning) take on the AIification of everything.
A beginner's guide to Ollama
Straightfoward into to getting up and running with Ollama.
OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes - The Verge
Rather funny hacking of an AI/machine-learning vision recognition system.
"Director of AI at Tesla" apparently doesn't VC or backup
So the "Director of AI at Tesla" appears to be in the habit of not committing code for at least 2 months at a time, and doesn't do backups... O_o
1 Second Painting - Home
ML-generated abstract art; lots of it. Keep hitting the button, get more. Does what it says.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."
A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.
RISEN: 5 Steps to Build Context-Rich AI Prompts
A guide to an approach to writing good LLM prompts.
These Apple Intelligence Features Aren't Coming Until 2025
Pretty useful summary of what Apple Intelligence delivers and has coming (as of December 2024).
GitPodcast - Repository to Podcast in Seconds
A project that uses "AI" to turn a GitHub repo into a "podcast". It's weird and disturbing and kinda funny and yet, wweirdly, sort of impressive.
In a "thanks I hate it" kind of way.
AI Needs Your Help
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Make It Fair
PPA article about the campaign against the UK government's wish to relax copyright laws relating to AI using people's work for training.
We hacked Google’s A.I Gemini and leaked its source code (at least some part) - Lupin & Holmes
Fun read where a group of folk tried to get Google's Gemini to give up some of its source code. I'm not convinced this is such an amazing win, or that the title really matches the facts, but it's a fun ride.
David Lord :python: (@davidism@mas.to)
Some dodgy GitHub behaviour from a RedHat employee.
Conflicts at Work
I'm not sure I quite agree with all the content here, but I do like the overall breakdown. Having worked with some very disagreeable people, and having worked with people in a leadership position who could not handle any form of disagreemnt (I should blog my startup experience one day...), this does hit a few points I recognise.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
Why “Everyone Dies” Gets AGI All Wrong
"Everyone Dies" is on my to-read list. From what I've seen it sounds pretty alarmist, but also that feels like that's the point. This article seems pretty negative on it (not that I've read the article at the time of saving this) so I'm keeping a link to this to read at some point in the future, once I've read the book.
The Mission - From Wayne....November 10th, 2026, will mark...
One of my favourite bands playing one of my favourite albums at one of my favourite places in the UK.
VERY tempting...
Interactive Noise Map - Airspace Change Proposal
Map of noise around Edinburgh and the Lothians caused by Edinburgh airport.
Glyph Party - Unicode Character Search
Handy website for looking up emojis and so on.
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews | Hacker News
Interesting article relating to ideas on how to conduct a good code review. I've chosen to link to the Hacker News thread where I first found it, rather than the blog post itself, because this is one of those HN threads where the comments are a worthwhile read too.
AWS Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next
A review of the great us-east-1 AWS outage of 2025.
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C
While it might make sense to think that most of the reactions that take place in our body happen at body temperature, that's not the case.