Last week
- Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works and was fairly easy to get started but has its own set of downsides: Cairo always produces RGB PDFs, which are not accepted by printing...
- Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice Admiral Joe Dyer, former chief test pilot of the US Navy and former Commander of NAVAIR. [You can follow me on social media:...
- 8 Predictions for 2026, exploring the future of AI, personal agents, smart homes, and more....
Two weeks ago
About a month ago
- If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a bunch of little, unconnected segments. These are usually a reference to something I’ve found on the web,...
- I’ve been trying to work out why successive advances in GenAI models don’t feel particularly different to me, even as others react with genuine excitement. I use these tools constantly and have done since ChatGPT4 was released nearly 3 years ago. I couldn’t imagine a world...
- From next February, workers at Instagram must be in the office, five days a week. This makes Meta the second tech giant after Amazon to mandate a 5-day RTO. Will more big companies do the same?...
about 1 month ago
- Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them in a spearate post - the following advice is what I...
- I’m going to call this from the start. The Go60 is the best travel-friendly split keyboard, perhaps even the best all-around split keyboard, you can buy right now. I’m no MoErgo fanboy – in my review of their Glove80 I was pretty clear that there were areas I felt the Glove80...
- I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job. I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
- Every airline’s cabin baggage regulations are subtly different. 10kg plus a personal item. 10kg INCLUDING a personal item. 8kg plus a personal item. 8kg, plus a personal item of up to 2kg. 8kg plus a laptop, umbrella, walking cane OR a personal item up to 2kg. 23kg as long as...
about 2 months ago
- PDF can do a lot of things. One them is embedding 3D models in the file and displaying them. The user can orient them freely in 3D space and even choose how they should be rendered (wireframe, solid, etc). The main use case for this is engineering applications. Supporting 3D...
- The Budget, 2026 Edition Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Updated network test parameters for 2026 are: 9 Mbps downlink 3 mbps uplink 100 millisecond RTT Regarding devices, my updated recommendations are the Samsung Galaxy A24 4G (or equivalent) and the HP 14. The goal of these...
- A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem....
- I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar. Again it’s dominated by the AI wave, with lots of blips capturing our explorations of how to use LLMs and similar technology. “Agents” are...
- For the last year or two, I’ve been giving a talk at conferences around Europe about free software. It’s called “open source, open mind: the cost of free software”, there’s a couple of recordings of it up on Youtube if you want to check it out, and, like a lot of my conference...
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