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Commentator and author. 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' out on Kindle & in paperback. Focus: Brexit and UK politics. Science fiction. AI and other fun geeky stuff. Expect: Facts, stats, sarcasm and gallows humour. More about me: http://www.edwinhayward.com/

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Pas les hommes.

03.08.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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All the songs in this video and many more are on my Youtube channel.

www.youtube.com/@EdwinHayward

03.08.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And here's a little demo video, showcasing a few of the visual effects in the music player, and some snippets of my songs...

03.08.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why?

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

03.08.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Free Online Music Visualizer with Playlists and Effects Bring your music to life. Upload multiple tracks, make a playlist, and choose from 15+ stunning visual effects. Supports WAV, MP3, OGG, AAC, and M4A.

A jukebox of my AI-generated music is playing on my vibe-coded visual music player.

Two years ago, the above sentence would have made no sense!

Why not try the Music Visualizer for yourself? Load music, and tick "Auto Effect" to swap visual effects randomly.
www.superuseful.com/online-music...

03.08.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1) Take an old AI vibe-coded tool.

2) Ask Horizon Beta test model on OpenRouter to "improve this tool".

3) Chuck result through Claude Sonnet 4 to sniff out bugs, memory leaks and logic errors.

4) Back to Horizon Beta for fixes, and iterate.

Elevates some pretty basic stuff to the next level.

03.08.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you get fat after giving up your gym membership, the gym isn't punishing you.

Because you chose to quit, you don't get to use the gym equipment or take fitness classes.

It's the same with Brexit. The EU didn't punish us for leaving. We surrendered the benefits of membership.

03.08.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 356    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I have always been Libdem but admire the Greens too. Labour got my vote twice in a row due to FPTP. Never, ever, again. Why? The Gaslighting.

No party should need to Gaslight.

But they are also corrupt,ape the Far Right, are Eurosceptic, & ignore #ProportionalRepresentation

03.08.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not even as difficult as that.

03.08.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pornographic imagery is so easy to find online that all you have to do is search for it in a foreign language and you'll be swamped.

First search, least imaginative keyword possible, instant wall-to-wall porn.

More proof the Online Safety Act was always a tool of repression, not of actual safety.

03.08.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you get fat after giving up your gym membership, the gym isn't punishing you.

Because you chose to quit, you don't get to use the gym equipment or take fitness classes.

It's the same with Brexit. The EU didn't punish us for leaving. We surrendered the benefits of membership.

03.08.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 356    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

They'll be out in 2029 then, which means any grand plans die then and there.

03.08.2025 09:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brexit is the most absurd hill for Labour to die on, and yet there's no doubt that they're dying, as recent poll numbers prove.

It is stark staring mad that their approach to Brexit continues to be "slightly improve the lifeboats on the Titanic".
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

03.08.2025 08:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 369    ๐Ÿ” 143    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

UK voters - this is your alarm call

03.08.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Labour continues to fade.

When you have both Labour and the Tories cosplaying Reform as hard as they can, anyone attracted to that sort of thing is stampeding towards the Real Deal.

What Farage used to lack was validation. The two main parties have gifted it to him on a platter.

03.08.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 135    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This ๐Ÿ‘‡
( Never a truer word)

03.08.2025 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Labour continues to fade.

When you have both Labour and the Tories cosplaying Reform as hard as they can, anyone attracted to that sort of thing is stampeding towards the Real Deal.

What Farage used to lack was validation. The two main parties have gifted it to him on a platter.

03.08.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 135    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

All of that is white noise for me.

There's a Grand Canyon of understanding between coding using a web browser chat and coding using the tools you listed.

Intriguingly I have never seen any company try to bridge the gap, presumably because devs live and breathe the stuff and don't get others don't.

02.08.2025 23:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Putting you on mute now so that I don't waste more time.

I detest people who pretend they've won arguments by deliberately missing the point.

The global internet can't be policed because it's GLOBAL and our laws are not. End of discussion. Bye forever.

02.08.2025 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1) impossible
2) impossible

2 words: Global internet.

Ongoing dialogue is pointless since you seem unable to grasp the simple facts above, and instead inhabit an ideal world in your mind that's completely disconnected from our real one.

I'm out. No more time-wasting for me. Have a good evening.

02.08.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No. There isn't one because I know enough to know it's an unsolvable problem.

Many things in life are.

02.08.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got a major refactor done in a perfect conversation a couple of days ago, modifying over 1,500 lines of code in half a dozen exchanges, and it all worked perfectly first time.

And on other occasions the same model hallucinates when asked to fix a dozen lines of code.

Ours is not to reason why.

02.08.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely. It's not a credible piece.

02.08.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is that when coding via IDE? I just use web chat.

02.08.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's odd how something seems to click. I guess it's just luck, but it feels like you won the coding lottery. I tend to look down my list of bugs and fixes and give it the very hardest stuff first, in hope...

02.08.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When that happens to me, I tend to ride my luck in the same conversation a bit too long, and the model loses coherence and starts to hallucinate badly.

(I should really be resetting conversations more often to maintain attention.)

02.08.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When vibe coding with AI, do you sometimes get really hot models? (Take your mind out of the gutter.)

The combination of previous prompts in the conversation seems to land just right, and you have a long spell of accurate coding instead of the usual mix of ok code and slop.

02.08.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not true at all. Most MPs are on Twitter, for example.

01.08.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am in favour of ID cards.

01.08.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because MANY people are there and FEW people are here.

That makes being here much less valuable than there.

01.08.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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