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I remember when every software service needed a mobile app.Syncing between your computer and your phone was one of the most important things to get right, because that was the promise: everything you needed, always in the palm of your...
On Soft Yellow, Mark Fisher and Artificial Paradises in the Labyrinths of Neoliberalism
Breezy and cool with a clearing sky. The chipmunk who lives in my front garden runs between my feet to the end of the porch, takes fright at something there, and runs back. Raspberries in the yard like bruised thumbs are slowly turning...
19 June 2026 The UK gov has published the 2026 carbon emission conversion factors. You can use numbers like these (or from sources like Climatiq) to work out your organisation’s carbon emissions. The major changes document is...
The most important thing I've done isn't on my CV
Every Laravel RAG tutorial builds the same ingestion pipeline (chunk, embed, store) and stops the moment the agent answers on screen. None of them check whether retrieval is any good. But retrieval quality is decided at ingestion, before...
Read This If You’re New and Trying to Find Your Way. “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently. I don’t think we have...
A kind cyberchum alerted me to some mobile display issues, initially with my podcast website and then this site. I set to yesterday and with the help of the developer tools in Firefox and Safari, managed to diagnose the problem and find...
A few weeks ago I called out a scammer after they asked me to advertise their free deed poll service (which is like mine... except it harvests personal information and provides an inferior output). It's pretty bad... but after talking to...
A technical piece about creating a typed polymorphic component in React, and the few hurdles I stumbled upon while getting there.