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Some ways of getting into space from the earth.

Different ways of getting to space and a view of how likely/mature they are.

British Army runs a war game in a disused part of a tube station in central London.

Some musings I had on what life would be like inside a rotating space habitat.

I had trouble getting a Ralph loop going, so I've written some notes in the hope they'll help other people get started faster.

Some thoughts on the novel: its strengths and weaknesses, why it's so different from other first contact novels. I'd love to hear people's views of the novel.

New trains for Amtrak in the US. Better than before, but still a long way behind the best in Europe and Asia. The manufacturing process seems crazily manual.

A blog post about what it was, how it worked, and the controversy surrounding it. It's a key piece of the modern AI story, but also a cautionary tale.

Some thoughts on why AI-assisted learning of APIs doesn't really work and why it's better to hand code stuff if you're learning. Love to hear what people think.

An opinionated blog post on using both Replit and Cursor to build the same app. Which one wins? Would love to hear people's thoughts.

A blog post about sirens. What they are, how they work, and where to go if you want to hear them.

Weather forecasting sites are unnecessarily hard to use. The NWS data is free and easy to access, so I built an app with AI that gives me what I want. If I can do this so easily, w…