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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

If only there was a job suited to my core skillset of working with internal and external stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes. Such a shame. My dream will surely never be realised.

Emails from management this morning asking us all to make sure we write clear and accurate work and closure notes in our support tickets to make things easier for the "AI" shit they're feeding it into.

Apparently this is for our benefit as it will let us focus on "more meaningful work" and not at all result in a reduction of staff when they make everyone talk to a chatbot instead of a person for level 1 support.

Hooray! Everyone wins!

Me last night: I'll fire up Brilliant Diamond quickly to make sure it works and leave feedback on the eBay listing.

*ten seconds later*

Me: Cool, got my first gym badge! Wait why is it dark outside now?