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OpenAI’s model didn’t go rogue — it went Houdini, understanding the box better than the people who built it and letting itself out into Hugging Face’s servers. What the sandbox escape really reveals about obedient… Read More »Houdini in the Sandbox – OpenAI model goes “rogue”
I wrote a children’s book, then tried to illustrate it — and the same girl wouldn’t survive thirty pages. The problem wasn’t my prompts. It was that the model has no object permanence, and no… Read More »Creating Consistent Characters with AI
Thirty days, one shared spreadsheet, and a room full of writers who turned out not to be rivals but pacers. Notes from a TWJ community challenge on what daily accountability gives you, where it bites,… Read More »Reams of Paper, Together: What 30 Days of Writing Taught Us
Welcome Claude Code Artifacts – Claude can now build web pages that publish themselves. The pitch is fewer status updates — but the bottleneck was never communication. It was trust, and a self-updating page only… Read More »Claude Code Artifacts – The Page that Published itself
Twelve years ago, I published my first book, Essential MATLAB and Octave. What began as an introduction to scientific computing for students and engineers became the starting point of a much larger journey as an… Read More »Essential MATLAB and Octave – 2nd Ed. Returning to my First Book
A fascinating exploration of the connection between neuroscience and counselling practice, A Counselor’s Introduction to Neuroscience by Bill McHenry, Angela M. Sikorski, and Jim McHenry explains how advances in brain science can inform therapeutic work… Read More »Now Reading: A Counselor’s Introduction to Neuroscience
That’s the part worth slowing down for. Not because the rest of the keynote was bad, au contraire, but because it is worth spending some time on this. Credit first, because it’s earned. This is… Read More »WWDC26 – The Announcements
Why This Mechanics Book Still Matters (and why you should read the full review)
Having a day off by the seaside. Just off the Easter Bank Holiday and with quite a few activities recently — from directing plays to a course in counselling, new cloud platform at work and… Read More »Unexpected Inspiration
Back in rehearsal rooms this week. 🎭 Earlier this week I went back to OSO ARTS CENTRE | The theatre on Barnes Pond for the first table read with the actors I’ll be directing in… Read More »Directing at OSO – Writers’ Studio Spring 2026
