In January I sent a three-line patch to Tufte-LaTeX, a package with nearly two thousand stars. Six months later it is still open, the maintainers have stopped answering email, and a few of us are… Read More »Who Takes Over the Deli? – On maintenance, succession and who has commit rights
For three days in June, a frontier AI model worked and then vanished at another government’s command. The Fable 5 shutdown turned an abstract worry into fact — and forced a harder question than “build… Read More »In Tech: Sovereignty isn’t a wall you build
Half of IT leaders say Copilot transformed how their people work. Half say the free version would do. Both are right, and that makes the ROI problem a pricing problem. Read more here.
Solaris, a parade of Linux shells, the occasional PowerShell detour — and always, stubbornly, back to the native macOS Terminal with my hand-tuned zsh setup. Then a passing mention on Talk Python to Me got… Read More »Warp, From a Long-Time Terminal User
Ghost calls itself “the first database built for agents.” Strip the marketing varnish and what you’ve actually got is a forkable Postgres workflow that quietly redraws how developers experiment — and how easily disposable infrastructure… Read More »Ghost – A Database for Our Times?
This release is about removing friction without touching the core: keeping your compressions on rhythm when it actually counts- Download here https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-cpr/id1659875521
Picture this: you are in the flow, using the terminal (yes, the terminal). Open VIM and you have to stop because you can’t type #. Here is the fix for Mac
Microsoft Expands Copilot’s AI Brain: Why Claude Is Joining the Mix Microsoft has begun quietly reshaping the architecture behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the change tells us a lot about where enterprise AI is heading. Until… Read More »Claude in MS Copilot
✍️ Ever wondered whether your books could end up as fuel for an AI — without you ever knowing? I discovered two of mine did. Now Anthropic has agreed to pay US $1.5 billion to… Read More »When Code Eats Creativity: Discovering My Works in the Anthropic Compensation List
There are certain moments in life when technology promises serenity and delivers chaos. You sit down, ready for an evening of podcast-fuelled pottering about, and your Apple TV decides—rather unilaterally—that you’ve had quite enough stimulation… Read More »Keeping Podcasts Playing on Apple TV