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Weeknotes: Astronomy — Week 8, 2026 Over the years I have noticed a trend in my blog: During late winter things feel a little wobbly. Alas, the time has come to admit it since…

Weeknotes for week 8, 2026: On community, specifications and Voyager.
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Slack's new activity manager is almost perfect, but has missed the most useful feature: The ability to add *any* channel I'm in into custom views.
Like most Slack users, I turn off channel notifications to avoid constant beeping, but I still want to follow and group important channels!

walked all 40km of the yamanote line today. pretty fun but now everything hurts!

if only your employer had [for some reason] vibe-coded a nextjs-compatible API that runs on Vite, but there's no way that a serious, grown-up company like yours would have done something like that......

You're finally removing the // @ts-nocheck from each typescript file?

wait, does this mean that currently bank robbers have to bring their own $$$ sacks?

please tell me you actually will implement this to vidgrid?

this is wonderful

Weeknotes: Tuesday’s Gone — Week 7, 2026 Last week we got a cryptic text message in the falling snow. This week ran the full gamut from bitter cold to early spring. On the docket…

Weeknotes for week 7, 2026: On Trifon Zarezan, drinking 13.7 drinks and a 3 year TCO forecast.
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now THIS is podracing!

Yes: Largely consumer sentiment as tracked by YouGov/etc. doesn't currently reflect investor/shareholder aspirations.

However in some sectors chatbots/agents _are_ upending incumbents.

These aren't mutually exclusive statements: Unnecessary friction in products is ever more important to consider.

In many ways, the rise of AI agents and chat-based UX is like a consumer rebellion against poor UX and complicated billing.

Weeknotes for week 6, 2026: On Russian-food, Anti-Action artwork and C4.
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If I think about all of the things in my life which cumulatively bring me joy, the loudest is the Roland TB 303 which objectively makes everything better.

Weeknotes: It’s Electric — Week 5, 2026 This week was very ... taxing. I did a lot of thinking, talking and diagramming this week but I know you’re not here for that. This week’s…

Weeknotes for week 5, 2026: On two different jurisdictions of tax, and two different types of soup.
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Weeknotes: Moth into Flame — Week 4, 2026 Reader, how are you celebrating Burns Night? With some help I assembled a passable haggis, neeps & tatties and a cheese board. Some wisdom…

Weeknotes for week 4, 2026: On a pivot to MCR, and failing to eat Ekiben.
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Weeknotes: Eye of the Beholder — Week 3, 2026 I’m now a wallet phone case guy. Monday was Coming of Age day (a national holiday for those paying attention) and it was coincidentally also…

Weeknotes for week 3, 2026: In which I procure a doll, stay indoors a bit, and then go to see a superstar DJ.
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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

ah, we traded places, I was on the roof of bracken house at the time! still gutted to have missed your debut at the expo!

I am astonished that this never came up! Looking forward to your next soundcloud drop.

sorry WHAT

set a bed-time alarm

Weeknotes: Bepsi Frogs — Week 2, 2026 Twelfth night burst into my apartment in the dead of the night and bundled my Christmas tree into a small box. Week 2 and I’m both still…

Weeknotes for week 2, 2026: On climbing, drilling and interesting facts about drinking habits
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the more interesting question is: where exactly has the money gone?

A table showing the performance of AI writing detectors (GPTZero, Originality, Pangram, and Roberta). The first 3 are commercial, the latter is open source. All of the commercial offerings achieve an accuracy of >95% on average. Roberta performs substantially worse with an accuracy of 10-20%. Raw table follows. Table 2: Detector Performance by Genre and Model: 4-Mean Model Genre GPTZero Originality Pangram RoBERTa GPT-4.1 amazon review 0.9675 0.9811 0.9642 0.1153 GPT-4.1 blog 0.9950 0.9722 0.9850 0.1090 GPT-4.1 news 0.9864 0.9982 0.9964 0.0185 GPT-4.1 novel 0.9960 0.7086 1.0000 0.0076 GPT-4.1 restaurant review 0.9700 0.9801 0.8859 0.0800 GPT-4.1 resume 1.0000 0.9994 1.0000 0.0191 Claude Opus 4 amazon review 0.9250 0.8984 0.9279 0.1990 Claude Opus 4 blog 0.9650 0.6869 0.9599 0.1078 Claude Opus 4 news 0.9733 0.9491 0.9872 0.0418 Claude Opus 4 novel 0.9630 0.4175 1.0000 0.0132 Claude Opus 4 restaurant review 0.9380 0.7750 0.8529 0.0923 Claude Opus 4 resume 1.0000 0.9759 1.0000 0.0193 Claude Sonnet 4 amazon review 0.9550 0.9744 0.9396 0.1936 Claude Sonnet 4 blog 0.9750 0.7509 0.9897 0.1244 Claude Sonnet 4 news 0.9900 0.9873 0.9933 0.0350 Claude Sonnet 4 novel 0.9900 0.7028 1.0000 0.0132 Claude Sonnet 4 restaurant review 0.9700 0.9048 0.8878 0.1105 Claude Sonnet 4 resume 1.0000 0.9984 1.0000 0.0193 Gemini 2.0 Flash amazon review 0.9250 0.9506 0.9128 0.1739 Gemini 2.0 Flash blog 0.9500 0.9023 0.9477 0.1025 Gemini 2.0 Flash news 0.9800 0.9933 0.9898 0.0071 Gemini 2.0 Flash novel 0.9950 0.9731 1.0000 0.0029 Gemini 2.0 Flash restaurant review 0.9200 0.8728 0.8049 0.0783 Gemini 2.0 Flash resume 1.0000 0.9993 1.0000 0.0140

AI writing detection is getting _really_ good these days. I hadn’t been paying attention to this part of the industry and I’m surprised (in a good way) to see how good it has gotten!

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naughty

Weeknotes: For Whom The Bell Tolls — Week 01, 2026 How did you ring in the new year? We walked around Kabukicho a lot before deciding it would be simpler to go to Aoyama for some sparkling…

Weeknotes for week 1, 2026: In which we ring in the new year and ruin a pan.
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Weeknotes: Buchō's Rules — Week 52, 2025 Phew, we did it, we made it to another Christmas in Japan. Well done reader, I know it was hard, and I’m proud of you. This week was split…

Weeknotes for week 52, 2025: On christmas, karaoke and morning toast
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I am so sick of ChatGPT's patterned speech showing up in nearly every new piece of marketing I see. Folks, if your marketing reads identically to that of your competitors and every other promo, pamphlet or junk email: You're just blending in!

and conversely, it's bizarre how washed-out Metroid Fusion looks & sounds when _not_ on the original GBA hardware. the two games are polar opposites in so many ways.

(of course I love them both)