The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I used ProtonMail (which is end-to-end encrypted and, as a result, does not use standard protocols). Cher paused, did a search, then found the Proton...

The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I used ProtonMail (which is end-to-end encrypted and, as a result, does not use standard protocols). Cher paused, did a search, then found the Proton...

The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies [1] or on my own, I probably had to do much more than software developers at large corporate places. Most of my work life, I've been a solo freelancer, which meant I would spend...

The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies [1] or on my own, I probably had to do much more than software developers at large corporate places. Most of my work life, I've been a solo freelancer, which meant I would spend...

Now, when it comes to technology, I'm actually pretty conservative. There have only really been two key moments where I've got excited about technology. Seeing a Mac for the first time Writing applications in Ruby on Rails All the rest were broken promises. But I think I've now got a third moment. I have seen the...

Now, when it comes to technology, I'm actually pretty conservative. There have only really been two key moments where I've got excited about technology. Seeing a Mac for the first time Writing applications in Ruby on Rails All the rest were broken promises. But I think I've now got a third moment. I have seen the...

More family stuff to deal with. And work has mainly been a mixture of frustration and LLMs. Sporadically For Site Manager I took great care setting up Capybara/Selenium tests. I put in a whole load of timing code and the tests ran extremely reliably. I even got them running in parallel, using Selenium Grid to run 4...

More family stuff to deal with. And work has mainly been a mixture of frustration and LLMs. Sporadically For Site Manager I took great care setting up Capybara/Selenium tests. I put in a whole load of timing code and the tests ran extremely reliably. I even got them running in parallel, using Selenium Grid to run 4...

(Published a few days after week two). I've been reading the Murderbot books and I've been pretty hooked. My wife started reading them, then the series came on Apple TV and I watched it - but I've turned to the books as they are (unsurprisingly) much, much better. They were written a decade ago and what is described...

(Published a few days after week two). I've been reading the Murderbot books and I've been pretty hooked. My wife started reading them, then the series came on Apple TV and I watched it - but I've turned to the books as they are (unsurprisingly) much, much better. They were written a decade ago and what is described...

Claude builds a UI I did a sketch on my iPad, showing a dashboard in both desktop and mobile layouts. I gave it to Claude, with a short description (for example "the hero section has a fixed height, so the news articles there have a vertical scroll bar in desktop layout; but the service sections have variable height...

Claude builds a UI I did a sketch on my iPad, showing a dashboard in both desktop and mobile layouts. I gave it to Claude, with a short description (for example "the hero section has a fixed height, so the news articles there have a vertical scroll bar in desktop layout; but the service sections have variable height...