I just came across a post on X that stated “nothing makes me want to hire someone less than this”, with a picture of the “open to work” badge LinkedIn offers job seekers. This being X, I thought I answer using appropriate voice: This, albeit succinct, is not very enlightening, so let me elaborate… Like […]

Join me in Gdansk in Poland on the 27th of May for Infoshare to present what I already covered in print in the German AI magazine and on the WeAreDevelopers Magazzine: Vibe coding, creativity, craft and professionalism… are we making ourselves redundant?

Last Saturday was my 50th birthday and it’s as good a time as any to reminisce a bit. The 80s were shit First of all: don’t believe the Stranger Things image of the 1980s. They were not a time of leg warmers and neon colours. They were a time of social unrest, existential anxiety and […]

In a moment of boredom, I wrote a little app/web page that shows lovely words we should be using more. It is done in plain HTML, JavaScript, and some CSS. The source code is available, and I am also happy to receive pull requests adding more lovely words. This is not what I wanted to […]

As someone curating a newsletter and dabbling in AI, I am feeling both overwhelmed and bored with news about yet another AI model being released by Company XYZ that will be a “game changer” and “leaves the others in the dust”. It feels hard to guess what I should be excited about. The size of […]