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Claude Code doesn't know anything about the "users' perspective." Part of the software we're working on is totally fenced off, I only use it, I don't read code in there. This is an important technique. I'm thinking I'm the first person coming through here with my codebase and product mix.

Britain’s supposed ‘borrowing crisis’ says less about financial necessity than about a political class still trapped inside the rituals and superstitions of a pre-floating exchange rate world.

I couldn't not say anything about the Knicks win last night in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. The Knicks were losing, then winning big, then fell apart, and by midway through the 4th quarter they were down by 22, and the Clevelands were completely in ...

This is mostly a newsletter about circumventing the capital-a algorithm, but even I must acknowledge that a backwards clock is right four times a day. Google knows I’m…

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Wednesday, 20 May 2026 The average temperature today is 11.93˚C, With highs of 12.51˚C and lows of 11.5˚C, It may feel like 11.5˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 3.13m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure ...

Dr Popovik turned a little dial on the lectern, and slowly the clock wound back. It was a cruel trick, she knew, and self-defeating. She had her bit of fun, and the students got grumpier and harder to teach, and she reached for the dial again to keep herself

bob kitella - diamond in the rough

It’s happened again. iykyk.

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-05-19, with 4 words.

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Markdown support is a big feature for people who want to know what we're doing with their text and what we're not doing. ;-)

I’ve been downloading public-domain books for a project, and many of them are kindof bad OCR scans. A lot of the work I was doing was in Claude Code. I created a skill where it would look online for the text I’m seeking and download it into a sources folder with a certain naming convention. […]

Dionysos Skêptouchos, flanked by Maenads (a collage of three of my Acid Renaissance photographs) It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I rea...

Opus 4.6 is much smarter than the other one. It feels like I'm working with someone from Bronx Science. I had been using Sonnet 4.6, which I switched to after reading somewhere that it costs less and it's usually every bit as good as newer models. I would never work with Son...

Someday you're going to tell your kids that we once used a social network that limited your writing to 500 characters and didn't allow styling, links or titles. What was it called Daddy? Bluesky. And people thought it was great. Why? They might have been taking drugs.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Tuesday, 19 May 2026 The average temperature today is 12.09˚C, With highs of 12.2˚C and lows of 11.58˚C, It may feel like 11.84˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 3.13m/s and visibility is 5873m The pressure ...

When the birds spoke we learned they had names for us too. Not as many as we might have liked: not as many as we had for them, or for each other. A little brown one, a sparrow or a wren, I thought, alighted on my shoulder. I asked her

40+ years old, still sounds futuristic... And the lyrics are more relevant today than when they were written. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8...

A few days ago I wrote that I want to make peace with the mundane. With that in mind, I decided to update the theme of my blog to a classic weblog format. The new theme is heavily inspired by jwz.org and simonwillison.net.

I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do. It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against r...

One of the defining characteristics of a good programmer is an instinct for keeping implementation details in the correct layer of an application. That sounds abstract, but it turns out to explain a huge amount of the progress we’ve made in software development over the last twenty-five years. And nowhere is that clearer than in […]

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2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.