AI World Clocks
Pretty funny site that gives an indication at how good various LLMs are at understanding a request to write some code.
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.
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.
Learn Dutch phrases, vocabulary and grammar – Understanding Dutch
Useful-looking site with resources for learning Dutch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
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...
Glyph Party - Unicode Character Search
Handy website for looking up emojis and so on.
Interactive Noise Map - Airspace Change Proposal
Map of noise around Edinburgh and the Lothians caused by Edinburgh airport.
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.
Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong
There's folk I know who seem to thnk they're experts on how the immune system works, and who offer terrible unsolicited advice any time someone has a cold, or the flu, or whatever. It almost always relates to crap based off their own health-freak bias founded in ignorance.
This should be a good article to start with to tackle such bollocks.
AI has a cargo cult problem
I'm not sure I really quite agree with the article, especailly the "cargo cult" side of things, I can see where it's coming from and I think I'd agree in some ways.
Conventional Comments
Similar to conventional commits, I guess. Reading through this I'm not a fan and I can't imagine I'd ever use it; but it's an interesting approach.
Conventional Commits
I've seen this style of commit on and off for a while now. I'm not a huge fan, but I get the idea. What I hadn't realised is that there was a "standard" behind this and even some documentation for it.
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.
Electrobun | Electrobun
A framework for building desktop applications in TypeScript, it seems. I don't think I've quite been grabbed by TypeScript yet, but this could push me over the edge into trying to properly get to grips with it as I can think of some desktop applications that I'd like to build.
TIL: Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
str.splitlines is obvious in what it does, so I don't think I've ever looked at what it actually does. It doesn't do quite what I originally thought it did.
SLip - a Lisp system in JavaScript, for browsers
A Lisp for the browser that is starting to look a lot like a Common Lisp; and on top of which an Emacs is being built, FOR THE BROWSER!
A deep dive into the RSS feed reader landscape | Hacker News
Hacker News thread linking to an article that covers lots of RSS reading options that are available in late 2025. The article is interesting enough, but what's even more interesting is how many HN comments are "oh they didn't list this thing I use" or, just as often, "well I use this RSS reader I wrote myself".
So, yeah, everyone on HN has written an RSS reader it seems.
SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
The list of SPDX licences. For me this is useful to find the ID so that I can add the most useful value to Python package metadata.
Open Source Insights
Handy site, backed by Google, that lets you dive into packages from different ecosystems and see what they depend on and what depends on them, etc.
PyPI+ - Python Package Explorer with Dependency Visualization | Search 500K+ Packages
Another handy tool for diving into the depdencies of Python packages as found on PyPI.
Why Next.js Falls Short on Software Engineering
I'm still not sure about, or won over by, Next.js. Here's another post that covers some things that I think touch on what makes me uneasy about it as a development tool choice.
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
Pretty good read going over DHH's horrible London blog post.
On DHH’s “As I Remember London”
DHH being a terrible person isn't new, but his "input" about London was a whole new level of terible. This is an interesting take on his post.