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I'm a senior tech lead, writing about tech, volunteers, public safety, and collective intelligence. This blog contains articles, tools, code and ideas.
- Presence (tool) (in dev)
- ListSky (tool) (in dev)
- The Epistolorean (service)
- Consensus Games (service) (in dev)
- JSON to Smart CSV (tool)
- Escape the Review (profile)
- In this house... (calendar)
- A chat with Lewis (call)
There’s a bug in the Sky Hub that stops you from changing a whole bunch of settings. It’s a genuine mistake that Sky won’t fix. Here are some workarounds to help you control your home network…
In earlier posts we set up a dev environment and a Git repository. Now we’ll create a small prototype from scratch using Streamlit.
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TLDR: I’m enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl. It’s amusing and poignant. It has several themes, they’re layered, and it takes a while for them all to warm up, but it’s worth it.
Use git to keep a full history of your coding project and track changes. It’s a commonly used tool to help manage your work.
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A short tutorial to help you set up a lightweight AI assisted-coding environment, with free tools. It’s a modest solution but, if you have a computer, you can get started for nothing.
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Google’s Gemma 4 wrote an unintentionally hilarious one-act play, given a very simple prompt. It would have been wrong not to publish it here…
When it’s not being a television with a very awkward user interface, the Samsung Frame 55" is touted as being optimised for art. Imagine spending money on it, just to learn that if you want to access the art itself you need to buy a subscription.
number-jam detects, tracks, and obscures vehicle number plates in video clips - and was an experiment in AI-assisted development.
Browsers rule with an iron fist when it comes to the things your web app is allowed to do, and video playback is a complex topic. This post breaks down some advanced solutions for developers implementing embedded video.
Conversational deliberation is hard to get right, and even harder to scale. Here’s how we’ve been lowering the barriers to both…