Andrew

There’s not much I hate more than when publications post links to their paywalled articles on social media. I get it. Everyone needs to make money but my time is also worth something. If you post to social media, you create a transaction with my attention. I think i should be compensated for that.

Killian! I'll Be Back!

One of the biggest disappointments of moving abroad is that I can’t go to things like Interesting anymore and hang out with my friends. Glad (and not surprised) it was awesome.

Trying to convince my son to delete Fortnite off his XBox so I can play the new Doom.

Negotiations are ongoing and possibly heading to BATNA.

Of course the best time to decide to start going for a daily sunrise swim is at the end of summer 🤣🥶

Also new glasses FTW!

My commonplace notebook.

I find that vibe coding works very well when coupled with good application design. Small functions, separation of concerns etc. Software Engineering basics still apply.

@wesbos.com - they made it! YYZ -> SYD Thank you!

Using Generative AI we can do so many new things but simple interactions like this erode trust. Which is it 2021 or 2024? (it's 2024)

I’m in my 40s now and all I can say is that the idea of a hacker house sounds horrendous.

Every time I read about laser scarecrows now I just hear Jack Black singing - ch, ch, chicken! La, la, lava… 🐥🌋🍗 😋

It seems like it’s still possible in 2025 for a decent sum of money to go missing when a web payment form fails. 🤬😭

Migraine coming on. Day officially ruined and it’s not even 9am.

Subtle mode in the latest @zed.dev release is very welcome. Great job all.

Judging by the dust, I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in the area who buys this stuff.

I’ve been digging through my old cd collection. I realised I don’t have a cd player anymore. I thought I was ok as I dusted off an old MacBook only to find I’d replaced the cd drive with an SSD at some point. 🤦‍♂️

We still need a stripe for event ticket sales.

I wonder how many office chit-chat groups had their name updated to “Top secret Houthi war plans” yesterday.

Omg. Huge. 👏🏻

The new parent dashboard from my kids school says their attendance is 99%. The school calendar shows their attendance correctly at 100%. This bug annoys me more than it should.

Seemingly Trump is unintentionally creating the market economics for more competition with American tech. It’s going to be a long, tough, expensive change for many orgs though.

I'd love to see research/science like this coming out of agriculture. Instead a lot of ag research seems to me to be package selection.

It's also weird that I now have my fingers crossed hoping they find something wrong to justify the effort/expense, which also seems silly.

Why is it that you hurt something, wait an age for an appt to see a doctor, wait ages to get a scan and then by the time you go get the scan things have never felt better? Is this some kind of health industry thing to make sure people have real ailments or a real lack of resources?

Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction From the Global South to the Arctic, can machine learning-enabled weather prediction better protect communities and economies?

There's lots of interesting developments in weather forecasting models at the moment. Creating a model that is accurate and requires orders of magnitude less compute is very interesting, especially for furthering rural, remote edge applications.

www.turing.ac.uk/blog/project...

I’m still amazed at how many organisations spending good money on genAI still have no benchmark against which to compare results.

Semantic Diffusion used to be called Chinese Whispers. Are we not allowed to call it that anymore?

If you want more proof that the future of humanity may be doomed, watch one of the “a day in the life of a software engineer” videos on YouTube. 🤯

Outrageously expensive digital prescription request service poster.

This seems to me to be something we could do better with technology. Surely the cost of a digital script could/should be 0.