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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
The model that finally reads the brief Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April. It’s a direct upgrade to 4.6 — same price, same endpoints, same SDKs. No migration drama. Except — and this… Read More »Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7
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
Apple Business launches 14th April across 200+ countries, replacing Apple Business Manager, Business Essentials, and Business Connect with a single unified platform. Built-in MDM, Zero-Touch deployment, business email with your own domain, app distribution, and… Read More »Apple Business: One Platform to Replace Three
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
Before Mendeleev, chemists had 60 elements and no theory. Before DVMIB, multimodal ML had hundreds of loss functions and no shared language. A team of Emory physicists just changed that — deriving CLIP, Barlow Twins,… Read More »A Periodic Table for AI