Friends in town
Recommendations by locals
I guess it's Alpha launch Monday!
If you're visiting Edinburgh and want some highly opinionated and subjective recommendations from locals about what to do and where to eat and drink take a look at friendsintown.info. Bonus points if you can name the inspiration for this site :D #edinburgh #travel
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humbleStrategy.app
A simple online tool for creating Hoshin Kanri diagrams
They say releasing something before it's ready is great motivation to keep going. As I've been using this without changes for a few weeks it's time. If you know about Hoshin Kanri / LVT (or hate OKRs) go to humblestrategy.app and let me know what you think. If not stay tuned for the beta release!
28.07.2025 12:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Expert Generalists
Being an Expert Generalist should be treated as a first-class skill, one that can be assessed and taught.
As someone who was once rejected by Thoughtworks for being too specialist but went on to work there for over a decade officially in ~11 roles (unofficially many more!) this series *resonated* π martinfowler.com/articles/exp... Great advice if you're struggling to fit in a box at work or hiring
03.07.2025 12:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Serendipity
18.04.2025 12:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Friends have been suggesting I use NotebookLM for a while, today I dived in. Initially things went well, it's really helping me synthesise my ideas. When I prompted it to interview me about next steps things took a took a turn for the worse. I was shocked to see it use my own words against me!
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OpenDoc - Wikipedia
So I finally signed up for Canva today and gave it a whirl. Controversial opinion, it's just OpenDoc built on web technologies π
Never heard of OpenDoc? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
03.04.2025 12:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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Programmer, dad, one of microservicesβ grumpy uncles. Warhammer, started playing WoW again - send help
Senior Manager Product and Platform Engineering. ExtremeProgramming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl. I'm a Canadian / Australian in New York.
Old millennial. Techie. Basically a contrarian but can't see the point of getting into it.
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