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In Working With Intelligent Machines, written at the beginning of my AI-assisted coding journey, I quoted from Garry Kasparov’s The Chess Master and the Computer. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC...
This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.
From Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, in which young Italian artists explore sound’s potential as a weapon: The little gang played amplified noises on these evenings at the café, sounds that had been recorded at Lonzi’s apartment by...
I was very late to the Markdown side of things, however text files were always my jam, certainly professionally (there is not a callcenter agent in the world that didn’t have a thin Notepad window taking up a small slice on the left or...
Status: The big crash came last night, though it mostly subsided by this afternoon. I’m reluctant to assign a cause: could have been Sunday’s allotmenteering, could have been the psychotherapy. Could even have been the rejection I got...
Power Cat 2026-06-17 Could this mean the end of our hero?
Fujifilm just announced a new Fujikina event in New York City. The three-day event will take place October 16-18. Aside from the dates and city, no other information was included in this announcement. You can sign up to receive more...
Tucked just off busy Holborn, amongst a dense cluster of much newer buildings is a rare survivor of both the Great Fire and the Blitz: Barnards Inn Hall. This historic gem is now home to Gresham College, an extraordinary institution that...
LA DOLCE VITA may not have been intended as a movie serial but I’m quite enjoying watching it as one. It beats THE LOST CITY, anyway. Marcello and Sylvia having suddenly and unaccountably found themselves marooned in the Trevi Fountain...
One of our clients is having an opening night at the weekend and I went to take some pictures for their new site launch.78 words · 1 image
The soundscapes of Radio Lento can turn even the most overwhelming urban landscape into a rural retreat. But is it good for me? A couple of weeks ago, feeling stressed at work, I took myself around the block for a mid-afternoon walk. It...