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Information rules. “The clergy was generally educated. They knew, among other things, the local vernacular, latin, and could read. Since the commoners didn’t speak Latin anymore, they couldn’t read the Bible directly, so the clergy became gatekeepers of the relationship with God. The clergy also exclusive had access to handwritten books. They strengthened that with… Read More »Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States

Site release 1e5257d: ai: refresh Paradigm scores, add Squint and the ambassador entry (#185). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

I vibe coded a little thing that shows links from my RSS feed and ranks them with a really basic algorithm based on things I up/down vote and how long it’s been since they were posted: 100links.org.

It’s just my personal RSS feed for the most part but I thought it was a neat addition to my blog.

I'm contemplating a couple of additions to Frontier in the Atlantis release. Two new formats, JSON and Markdown, have come along and become popular since I last worked on Frontier. Two fantastic open formats, in wide use on the web. From many years of working in JavaScript, I...

HTTPS is bugging me again. Now that my main desktop is finally a modern Mac, I can see how ugly Google is getting about my poor old blog that goes back to 1994. I think they should make exceptions for historic sites. Go ahead and have your AI do a scan and see that there are ...

Recientemente añadí un nuevo filtro al directorio de ¡Blog!¡Blog! Cada vez que entres a ver el directorio, el listado de blogs se ordena de manera aleatoria para que siempre te sorprenda uno distinto. También vas a poder ordenarlo por fecha en que se añadió, para ver los últimos que se sumaron al directorio. Por último […]

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 25 September 2026 The average temperature today is 19.36˚C, With highs of 20.01˚C and lows of 18.75˚C, It may feel like 19.13˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 1.54m/s and visibility is 10000m The pre...

New HISSandaROAR library where I spent many hours destroying an old wardrobe with mics inside it! VERY cathartic! SD087 WARDROBE DESTRUCTION is now released The idea for this library dates back to a horror film I worked on back in…

Some HCL Connections communities have been running for more than 15 years. Their discussions, documents, and decisions form a valuable collection of organizational knowledge. New employees and people changing teams can use this history to come up to speed, so losing it would be a serious problem.

The HCL Connections preview server is a good example. Content disappeared there after an update, and nobody had preserved it. An archive would have kept that knowledge available.

This week I found connections-export, a Python project for creating portable archives from HCL Connections content. It looks like an awesome tool for preserving a community’s current state in an open format.

👁️ Oh - he thinks it’s a comedy …

Evidence-based UK review of pterostilbene for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-09-25.

This week’s links cover the fragility of US-based infrastructure, smart fridge firmware, AI-generated slop, journald, and the art of asking good questions.

If you’d rather shop on Etsy, the Mltply maths workbooks are now there too: thechelsuk on Etsy. It’s the same set of printable workbooks for Years 1 to 7: Addition & Subtraction, Times Tables, Division, Fractions, and Squares, Cubes & Roots. There are also SATs arit...

Mltply is my free iPhone and iPad app where children practise maths by chatting with Buddy the robot. Plenty of practice still happens at the kitchen table, though, so I’ve put Buddy on paper. The Mltply workbooks follow England’s national curriculum, year by year. Each one...

AI has moved the bar. Writing code is no longer the hard part of the job, so testing only for code tells you less and less about who will do well on your team. The Perfect Hiring System is how I hire software engineers now: for judgement, ownership and teamwork. It’s built ...

After half-full mugs of gritty soup, she was handed a scrap of wood shaped like a rifle. "Don't let anyone get a proper look," the man in the cap told her, "and if they get too close, whack 'em with the fat end.

Say it louder for the people in the back! 📢

I’ve opened a shop at shop.thechels.uk. For years I’ve made free things: iPhone apps, open data sites and a fair bit of writing about managing engineering teams. The shop is where I’m putting the things that took a lot longer to make, as instant downloads. Right now it has...

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