How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Paper looking at how the use of "AI" in software engineering impacts the build up of and retention of skills, at different skill levels.
Jade (@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt)
Cloudflare caught doing... not great things, and it seems that (surprise face!) AI was at the heart of it.
Vibe coder's gonna vibe code.
Streamline Your Writing with Gemini Scribe for Obsidian
While I've had some fun (and actually some use) with mashing vaults into NotebookLM, this would be a different approach to things. Not sure I'm quite at the "I'm happy to pay for API tokens" stage of this stuff yet, but I'm going to consider this at some point.
Patient-Led Smartwatch ECG Monitoring After AF Ablation: A Randomized Trial
As someone who got (pill-based) treatment for AF, and who was alerted to the AF event by his Apple Watch, this is of interest.
davepdotorg · Steam Calculator
It turns out there's a tool that will calculate how much your Steam library is worth (if you were to buy it all now), and also gives you a ton of other stats too including stuff like how many of your games you've actually run up.
I'm surprsied to find that, as of the time of writing, I've run up and looked at 64% of my library!
uvx.sh | Astral
Now you can download my Python tools (and other people's Python tools, of course) like you don't care about your own security.
Nice.
The end of the curl bug-bounty
AI has caused curl to end its bug bounty programme.
(Very) Minor but (Somewhat) Notable Characters in the Original TWIN PEAKS (1st Preface to TWIN PEAKS Character Series)
Details on a bunch of background characters in Twin Peaks.
JVic - The web-based VIC 20 emulator built with libGDX
The second computer I owned, on the web, in your browser.
AI Product Rankings
Another way to give SEO folk anxiety, I guess.
Kitty Cards: Create your own Apple Wallet cards (no sign-in)
Site that lets you make your own cards that can go into Apple Wallet.
I don't know why or when I'd need this, but it might be useful at some point in the future.
Lorem RSS
Very handy if you're testing RSS-based things.
The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
Having your stuff show up in LLMs is, like it or not, another way and a browing way of having your stuff found. If you don't want to fight that fact, this might be one useful approach to making it work for you.
STFU
On a bus or somwhere public where some asshole is playing a video or music on their phone without headphones? Sit close, open this site, press the button...
When AI/bots go rogue · google-gemini/gemini-cli
On Google Gemini's repo Google Gemini gets into a fight with itself regarding if a label should be on an issue or not. Over 5,000 label changes later...
ANSI cl like python-slicing lisp read macro
Comparing slicing a list/array in Python vs Common Lisp, and showing how you might do Python-like slicing in Common Lisp.
Plans for a Lego cat
Post on Threads with plans for an adorable Lego cat.
Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? | Hacker News
Having got into this sort of thing, to a small degree, while playing with NotebookLM, I'm interested in the conversation about how to do this sort of thing locally. For once this is a HN thread where the comments are likely to be (and seem to be) useful.
Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Prompt injection attacks are going to be so much fun for quite some time to come.
Gleam programming language
Another programming language that I'd like to play with but probably won't ever play with.
Steam Replay 2025
My Steam replay for 2025!
Hike - Markdown-Editor für das Terminal
Article on a website covering my app Hike.
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
Most of what I'm seeing related to "AI" I hate. I'm also fed up with the whole vibe-coding thing and folk who should know better hyping it up. On the other hand I recognise that there's utility to these tools, even (and perhaps especially) as a software developer.
I sense this blog post has some sensible things to say on the subject.
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger
Personally I don't mind the look/feel of Tahoe, but there's no getting away from the fact that some of the design decisions were... actually terrible.
Logitech broke their software on macOS
As of 2026-01-07 I've run into the same problem. Can't fine-tune my webcam, my light or configure my mouse. Looks like a recent update to the Logi software borked things on macOS.
Spherical Snake
Snake. On a sphere. Fun.
Eye Yay - Public domain player App - App Store
A tool for searching for and playing public domain content for the Apple ecosystem. I really need to remember to install this on my Apple TV; it seems like a great way to kill a couple of hours now and again.
Flow
I've yet to try this out, but I'm curious. Google's AI-based "filmmaking" tool.
Jules - Google's Coding Agent
Google's got in on the coding agent lark.
Watch to 5K: Couch to 5km app for Apple Watch
I need to get back into running again, and after a bunch of health issues I need to be gentle which means doing C25K again. The NHS podcast was fine but I don't think I can really work through that again as it is kind of annoying.
This might be worth trying.