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The National Minimum Wage has become a rationing mechanism rather than a floor. By clinging to age-based tiers, the UK masks a systemic failure where the private sector no longer rewards experience.

The new issue of Mycelium Parish News (copies are still available on Etsy - details in that last link) arrived on my doormat this morning, full of the interes...

I asked Claude: "What is OpenClaw useful for? Do you think I could use it in my programming work, based on what you know about what I do?" Basically it's for non-programmers. Then I asked: "I wonder if I could make software that would be useful to people who love OpenClaw?" That was more interesting and included in the response I linked to, above.

A clip from a video interview with Marc Andreessen has been making the rounds. He was a very successful entrepreneur in the early days of the web and has been a very successful venture capitalist in years following. He's 54 years old. You should watch the clip before reading...

That’s because most teams are doing engineering wrong. The handover to a peer for review is a falsehood. PRs were designed for open source projects to gate keep public contributors. Teams should be doing trunk-based development, group/mob programming and one piece flow. S...

60 Minutes should do a segment on what you have to go through to get a birth certificate in any random state. It's a lot of work, I've had to do it twice in the last few years. You'd have to be a pretty committed voter to be willing to do all that work. I imagine it would be even harder if you're black, and it's going to be hugely hard for married women who changed their last name when they got married. And how much you want to bet they don't accept birth certificates from Muslim countries? It is the biggest scam ever, and if the journalists don't cover it that way, always, with no both-sides-isms, then we should all know this is the end of journalism in the US. And btw also the end of real elections in the US too. The Repubs these days like to say they're against the "deep state" -- well my friends this is about the most deep state bullshit ever.

My weekly blog post. Links this week include the discovery of a new numbers station, the Met Museum made 3D scans of 140 of their objects you can view online and read about the Internet of Checkpoints. My kitty visitor is still here, I had a birthday and I got a response from the UK's Cabinet Office regarding some of the official Whitehall mousers. Link Lagniappe is still going on! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Because they over hired and want to spend the money on data centres for AI of course. At this point the only way anyone should join Meta is with a healthy signing-on bonus and large salary. I wouldn’t be looking at any stock options or promises that could be lost with redun...

I’ve been quite good at maintaining the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice so far this year - yesterday was the fourth session of 2026 so far. I con...

They've been having intelligent and clear-thinking guests on CNN and MSNOW on the coverage of the Iran War, unusually good discourse. But the best coverage I've heard has been from Frontiline podcasts. There's a new one out, haven't listened to it yet, but the one I heard yesterday was very informative and probably a better briefing than our president has been getting (or paying attention to).

An example. This isn't all the data that WordPress keeps for each post, it's just the stuff that WordLand uses. We add some of our own metadata, that's how it is extensible. It's open source, and it's evolved for 20+ years, with a strong ethos of not breaking devs. It could have been twitter, or masto or even bluesky, but they don't show through enough features to be useful as "web text." We want to use all the features of text on the web. I may be the only one who sees this but I predict in a couple of years if we aren't subsumed by AI everyone will say they always knew this is what WordPress is for. 😄

I added Paul Graham to my blogroll at scripting.com. Another massive oversight.

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The misaligned incentives, on both the client and consultant sides, that doom most purple team engagements before they start.

Pluribus We were watching Pluribus for the last 10 days and finished the first season today. I have mixed feelings about the show. I especially found the first few episodes hard to watch because I couldn’t stand Carol. It got easier towards the end of the season but I can’t ...

No, we have CI/CD at home

War Machine (2025)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2026-03-15

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Chelsea Women 2-0 Manchester United Women.

League Cup winners 2026.

Note: this is a secret rss only item.

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Nice editorial from The Register on finding RSS again One of the snags of reporting on the tech sector is tackling the constant stream of announcements of radical new technology that is going to change everything. Another, of course, is trying to find out about them via ...

More on the overwhelm…

I think I’m officially overwhelmed by the number of people sharing their bespoke Claude Code plugins, skills, agents.md, harness, etc., on social media. Everyone has a system. All I want is something simple that actually works.

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