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Blog - Dia Browser Takes
I like the simplicity of The Browser Company’s second browser. I had been using Arc as my primary browser as I preferred the left hand side tabs - particularly on my 34’ screen - for around a year.
Dia is a step back in feature set and an easy take is its chrome with chat G...
Blog - Phone battery issues
When a phone gets hot, very hot, because it’s processing something in the background and it doesn’t finish. It has crashed and you realise the battery has gone from 98% to 8%. You force close every app and have to leave your phone for an hour to cool down. Since October 2022...
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• Quoting Gov.uk
Linked - Boost in support for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or ME
The plan published today provides the foundations for significant improvements in all key areas that affect people living with ME/CFS in England, many of whom currently struggle to access appropriate care tailored to their complex condition.
As a priority, the plan wil...
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• Quoting ME Association
Linked - Gov.UK Issues Presser on ME/CFS Delivery Plan
***The Delivery plan has been published, however, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has so far failed to provide a link to the actual Plan!
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• Quoting Mike Fisher
Linked - People - Principles - Process - Product
The order in which we should focus is people, principles, process, and then product. You have to get the people right first. Then you decide on the principles that you are going to follow, i.e. what is your team’s culture. Once those are established, you fix the processes...
Blog - Tomoz App Launched
I made an app that, allows picking of whatever calendars you want, and shows only what is happening tomorrow in a simple agenda view.
Also supports export to markdown and other formats.
Over 200 downloads in fhe first two days.
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• Quoting Andy Bell
Linked - Andy aiming to run Piccalilli full time
***I think courses are going to be the main driver of keeping the lights on and pushing us towards full time work on Piccalilli. Now that we have a nice system for publishing courses, the velocity will of course increase.
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Blog - Accessibility Development Digest
The is a selection of favourited articles in my RSS reader app around web design and accessibility
#ARTY Could Get You Sued
Check / Uncheck all in a Table
Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Di...
Film Review - Oppenheimer
Film Review - The Offering
Film Review - Brick
Film Review - The Old Guard 2
Film Review - Straw
Film Review - Exterritorial
Film Review - Back in Action
Film Review - The Electric State
Video - Mltply App out now
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Video - Preview WIP - new app to track fatigue
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Video - Swipe to Lead
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• Quoting Beeps
Linked - Rebranding and design costs
Making intuitive interfaces and design systems that work for everyone is hard and takes time, but often the expectation is to deliver quickly.
Oh, and about the cost
A bit of hubbub has been made about the cost of the brand refresh, lamenting that a chunk of change (abou...
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• Quoting Simon Willison
Linked - Context engineering
The term context engineering has recently started to gain traction as a better alternative to prompt engineering. I like it. I think this one may have sticking power.
Here’s an example tweet from Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke:
I really like the term “context engineering” o...
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• Quoting GitHub Next
Linked - Continuous AI - Development Workflow Automation
We’ve chosen the term “Continuous AI” to align with the established concept of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Just as CI/CD transformed software development by automating integration and deployment, Continuous AI covers the ways in which AI can be u...
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• Quoting Microsoft
Linked - Natural Language Web
NLWeb simplifies the process of building conversational interfaces for websites. It natively supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), allowing the same natural language APIs to serve both humans and AI agents.
Schema.org and related semi-structured formats like RSS – use...
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• Quoting The Register
Linked - Patients duped in records-and-payment scam
Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.
In a Friday security alert, the federal cops warned the public to be on ...
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• Quoting Bateman Horne Center
Linked - Post-Exertional Malaise - The Key Sign of ME/CFS
Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) is the hallmark symptom of ME/CFS. It’s now recognized in long COVID patients too.
What Is PEM?
PEM is unique to ME/CFS - it doesn’t exist in any other illness.
“inability to recover normally following physical, cognitive, or emotional exe...
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• Quoting The Register
Linked - GDS say Copilot AI saved workers 26 minutes a day
The United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has found that giving civil service employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot saved them an average 26 minutes per day on office tasks.
Microsoft 365 Copilot provides generative AI assistance with various Microsoft ...
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• Quoting The Register
Linked - New GitHub Copilot limits
***Microsoft’s GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want to surpass those limits.
Predictably, the change has elicited grumbling from the GitHub Copilot users in online forums.
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// Published 2025-06-27, with 51 words.
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• Quoting Harry Roberts
Linked - Build for the Web
Iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform, that is it.
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.
If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.
In the last year alone, I h...
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• Quoting Simon Willison
Linked - Context Rot from AI
Via Simon Willison, a quote from a comment on Hacker News by Workaccount2. Sharing here as I’ve found that I have inadvertently been doing this myself when wanting to move on with an agent and not have it carry existing context into a new request.
They poison their own c...