Kieran McHugh

ChatGPT audio chat and their AI voices are SO impressive now. The intonation and natural pauses and filler sounds make it feel like talking to a real person.

I love living in London, I’ve been here for nearly 10 years. It might be the best city in the world.

The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive.

Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.

🫡 to all the furries running the internet’s infrastructure

Some parts of iOS 26 are nice and some parts are driving me 🥜

The Apple event was a great day for the brits. They wheel us out when they want to make the product announcements sound profound.

I mean, our brains do the same thing only with a biological substrate instead of a silicon substrate. LLMs are “probability machines” but their output is based on a real, acquired understanding of the world from a training data set. Different to humans but still arguably thinking.

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Yes!

Cantab is the postnominal people from University of Cambridge (UK) can put after their name eg “MSc Hons (Cantab)”. Many universities have them. Oxford is Oxon, mine is Ebor (York). It’s the Latin name of the city.

My AirPods Max have been repaired 4 times and they’re failing again, but fully out of warranty this time. Shockingly bad product reliability, especially for the price. Don’t buy them.

A screenshot of chatGPT showing the subheading "One tiny knob"

Why is GPT-5 obsessed with tiny knobs?

Got to be past tense read 🙂‍↕️

In the UK we should do anti-honours. And the first person to get an anti-Knighthood should be whoever removed all of the fucking padding from the seats on the trains and replaced them with ironing boards.

Biggest red flag for AI generated text is excessive use of present participles 🚩 "highlighting the importance of", "underscoring the relevance of", "avoiding the risks of", "emphasising the need for" etc

Really like this actually. Currently the selected tab in liquid glass looks atrocious - this would be a better approach.

Had anyone tried the Donkey Kong game on switch yet?

I’ve never looked into it properly - some of our work pre dates the compiler. Does it work in dev mode with hot reloading etc?

It’s probably not the best code but our dependency arrays are not always equal to everything used in the function so I assumed the compiler wouldn’t be able to handle that

I think if you’re building a simple app it’s overkill. If like us you’re building a calendar and need buttery smooth mouse interaction performance, a single missing useCallback can cause the whole app to rerender on every mouse move and make it feel atrocious. Just depends on the context really.

A picture of me standing outside 10 Downing Street

So cool to visit 10 Downing Street!

Comic strip: Coworker A (drinking coffee): "Some day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself" Coworker B (coding at a laptop): Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more! And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Coworker A: Uh… no… Coworker B: Code. It's called code

Along the same lines:

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

A screenshot showing I can’t access my DMs on Bluesky until I complete age verification

Oi mate do you have a loisence for those DMs

They will have to do age verification as well, the deadline is in a few days though I think

I enjoyed Careless People! Very relevant for everyone in tech.

Hi Nic, so sorry about this. We’re doing a migration right now and it’s taken longer than we expected. If you need access urgently send me a message and I can help 🙏

So nostalgic about this UI

This feels cursed but I can’t explain why 🤣

Lmao StackOverflow mods are going through and closing questions I asked 10 years ago. They shall not rest until they have eliminated every question on the platform.

I’ve seen an uptick in people on LinkedIn posting pictures of sick relatives and using things like relatives’ cancer diagnoses for content.

It’s kinda nauseating tbh.

Check the slack if you’re still a member!