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Twitter's latest consensus on inevitability: now that large language models can write code, everyone will become a software developer.

People, you see, have problems, and software solves problems, and AI removes the barrier between people and software, therefore everyone will build their own software.

It's a syllogism, after a fashion,…

What’s going on, Internet? Guestbooks are one of my favourite relics of the old web.

My old guestbook stopped working after the database behind it shut down, and I’ve been meaning to bring it back ever since. Well, it’s finally here.

The new guestbook is powered by webweav.ing, built…

I wondered if it would snow again this season. The weather has been persistently cloudy, but there has been little snow. Today, the weather changed. Just as I was about to go out for a walk, it started snowing heavily. It has been months since I have seen the snow…

I maintain a web page that lists notes from IndieWeb events. Entries are added to the page when notes from meet-ups are archived to the community wiki.

This web page contains several h-feeds. h-feed is the microformats markup that says that the tagged area represents a feed.…

I love thermal imaging cameras. They're great for spotting leaking pipes, inefficient appliances, and showing how full a septic tank is. The good folks at Topdon have sent me their latest thermal camera to review - it is specifically designed for spotting wildlife.

This is the TS004 Thermal Monocular:

Ava and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Ava chose for me to write about was “What I associate with my name”.

When I was young, I remember distinctly looking through a kids’ encyclopaedia and finding “James” written in there a few times [1]. I don’t know why…

Every major self-help framework of the last two decades falls into one of two camps.

• Camp one is Stoic Acceptance: your problems are features, not bugs, and the path to contentment runs through radical non-resistance.
• Camp two is Relentless Optimization: your problems are solvable if you wake up at 4:30…

Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them!

I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow today, but here it is. Some of…

Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the delightfully-named “second helping” questions that Ruben wrote.

Do…

I was listening to a recent episode of The Rest is Science (fantastic Podcast, by the way - go listen), and in this particular episode Michael and Hannah were discussing boredom. At one point in the episode, Michael mentions an experiment where Dutch scientists put a hamster wheel out in…