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In July, I will run another live edition of CODE100 at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and if you want to take part and earn your spot on stage in front of 5000 people, why not have a go at solving this year’s challenge? The char explosion problem Oh dear, we wanted to show you some […]

I am no longer taking any new predictions, thank you.

The status quo When you are working on a project, one of the core requirements would be to choose a programming language to use. If you work alone, as long as everything is reproducible on your development machine, things would be more or less all right. If you need to use ...

Table of Contents 1. Hutch 1.1. Project Links 1.2. Overview 1.3. Features 1.4. Roadmap 2. Feedback Welcome! 1. Hutch I'm proud to announce that I've released my third (and, in my opinion, most useful) iOS app: Hutch. 1.1. Project Links I don't want to bur...

A lovely typeahead component by Florian Schulz. HT to Marcin Wichary for sharing. And the "screenshots" are interactive!! Very cool stuff here.

I had to say this to Claude just now. "this is exhausting. you're driving me around in circles and saying over and over 'this is it!' and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort."

Yesterday I ran a podcast, a voicemail to NakedJen saying she could/should use Claude or ChatGPT to create software. Later that day she told me about the software she had written. I tried using it, and and then interrogated ChatGPT which had been her programming partner, to explain what she did and what the app does. I'm not sure I have the actual story yet, have to talk with Jen live. But it turns out that the thesis was correct, and she was already using ChatGPT, had even given it a name -- Harry, and was delegating tasks that I would want to use. Of course she was. Now I have to learn more from her about what she's doing. Stay tuned.

On Feb 8, two months after Firefox announced they were pivoting to AI, I wrote a piece saying in 9 points what I would do if I ran Firefox, instead of what they were doing. Now a few weeks later, has there been any further development of this idea?

There's something incredibly funny about slapstick and farting. I was flipping channels the other day and came across an old WC Fields movie. I used to love them when I was a kid, but figured now, with so many many fancier forms of entertainment this wouldn't get to me, but I was laughing uncontrollably the whole way through. Later, I caught a SNL skit with a boss being surprised by her employees with a Happy Birthday celebration and started farting uncontrollably. They're indulging in body-humor thanks largely (I think) to Sarah Sherman whose whole comedy schtick is about disgusting things about the human body, esp her own. The boss was played by Ashley Padilla, another SNL superstar. Everything she does is funny, esp farting. Even now, rewatching the segment, I couldn't help but laughing loudly. Farts are funny. I have no idea why.

My weekly blog post. Links this week include some iPod archaeology, a public works chicken and a story about the graphics designer responsible for Britain's road signs. I went to a protest and my kitty visitor went back to his real home. The Link Lagniappe well has not yet run dry! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Every so often, a new data serialisation format appears and people get excited about it. Recently, one of those formats is **TOON** — Token-Oriented Object Notation. As the name suggests, it’s another way of representing the same kinds of data structures that you’d normally store in JSON or YAML: hashes, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans and […]

The post Writing a TOON Module for Perl first appeared on Perl Hacks.

We should teach everyone how to write software with the AI apps. If the language is too hard, make a new language that's easier. Eventually we'll come up with a fantastic language but you and I won't invent it, people who are newbies in 2026 will. Just like there was a whole...

How I ported a Google Apps Script weather station forwarder to Cloudflare Workers to push my Tempest readings to CWOP, Weather Underground, PWSWeather and Windy.

The source code for my podcast builder app is open source. Of course I use my outliner to edit the OPML file for the podcast text and link in the enclosure. I recommend opening it in Drummer. To see how the atts work, click on the suitcase icon with the cursor on the main head for each episode. The new att is enclosure, which is the URL of the audio for the podcast. Drummer automatically fills in the length and type.

Podcast: Jen and I often exchange voicemails. Yesterday I sent one about how she, who is not a programmer, should try creating software with Claude or ChatGPT. I think the hardest part is figuring out how to get it to give you a file that you can run from your own desktop. But I explained that in the voicemail. Midway through I realized this a podcast, and checked with her if it would be okay and she was very emphatic that I should. You see NJ aside to being one of my best friends for life, is also a Natural Born Blogger. Her first instinct like mine is to share it and shut up. So that's what I'm doing. As usual I asked Claude to write the show notes. Hope you like it and thanks for listening!

“We are always open.” It used to be a recession indicator, now it’s another commodity to sell. The bridge to my hotel. Bumped into Spinoza. Slava and me. Yes! I want basic, fit ladies. “Monster is coming!” May this beer which is chilled to perfection in this cold Amsterdam night and these joints which I rolled but didn’t have the chance to finish because I’m already stoned as fuck bring happiness to whoever finds them. I need to sleep.

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Tech Stuff

HopTab Open source app switcher and tiler to replace Cmd+Tab. If you Cmd+Tab a lot you may find this app quite useful.

Number, currency, and unit formatting

Did you know that the mathematical value 1234.56 looks different in Boston, Berlin, and Bangalore? Hardcoding formats

I was lucky enough to witness the beginnings of social media, working on the platforms that made it happen. I’ve also seen the decline of its first iterations and products. Currently I am witnessing the idea of a social web being perverted, weaponised and automated out of any trace of human or social aspect… In […]

If the models of our age are trained on the internet I know and remember, then I cannot imagine the effort it took to get them to be as sycophantic as they are. Because the way they are behaving now is nowhere near the tone of their source material. I want my LLM to correct ...