I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategie...

AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communit...

Pupdate The New Year had barely begun and we had a cold snap and some snow. Miniature Dachshunds Max and Milo running along a snowy path Milo's back in remission thankfully, though there have been a few hiccups with his treatment this time around. Some of that's expected (low neutrophils), but the vets struggling to get canulas in due to vein scarring is new and unwelcome 😦

After previous trips to The Three Valleys and Espace Killy, Paradiski felt like a way to complete the set of long established multi location French ski areas. Inghams again Having organised the last few trips with Inghams, they were where I looked first, and in the end the provider I chose. Getting there Another flight to Chambery, though an earlier start than previous occasions.

Monday I wrote about how multiclaude and GasTown converged on nearly identical primitives for multi-agent orchestration. The key insight wasn't about prompts or models or agent personas. It was about ...

TL;DR Coding is no longer the constraint. It's now cheaper than ever to make software. But there are supply side constraints on innovation, and getting apps to market. Who dreams up something worth making? How do apps get in front of users? There's also a demand side constraint on adoption - how do people learn about the new possibilities available to them?

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

CHOP #4 has worked, and Milo's scan today shows that he's in remission again (before even getting his Epirubicin). Milo outside NDSR (with patches of snow on the ground) with a purple compression bandage. This cycle of chemo seemed to go better than previous protocols, until we got to the planned Epirubicin last week, and his neutrophils were too low. So we were back at North Downs Specialist Referals (NDSR) today for another go, and things were in better shape.

Pupdate It's been quite dry over the Christmas break, which has encouraged some longer than usual walks that the boys have enjoyed. Max and Milo wearing their blue fleece coats on a woodland path After a scan at the start of the month Milo has now almost completed the first cycle of his 4th modified 'CHOP' chemotherapy protocol. As before, low neutrophils mean we're a little behind the ideal schedule; but also he's never made it through the early cycles without some delay.

TL;DR Nvidia have ended Linux support for my 'Pascal' GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I've been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I'm still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W. Background When I upgraded my silent PC…

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…

Fear is actually a pretty good signal that you are pushing into the unknown, that real growth doesn’t happen without a bit of that associated discomfort, and that it’s worth becoming aware when it hap...