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I actually find that the less I fuss over a steak, the more optimal the result. I do use a thermometer, but apart from that, cooking it with salt and pepper or some steak spice on …

A significant number of phishing attempts would be thwarted if email apps had the option to expand the links next to URLs on platforms without mouseover, like mobile.

The phishing in Australia came from uncontrolled SMS gateways which allowed for sender impersonation, not physical phones with SIM cards. They've recently partly closed the loophol…

I still find people trying to run sprints when working with agents, but then saying things like "my sprint length went from 10 days, to 5 days to 3 days", but they balk at the noti…

2016: "the median developer is too stupid to do FizzBuzz correctly" 2026: "the median developer is a craftsman whose work is being replaced by AI slop"

I'm not from the UK, but the soft power of BBC Radio 4 in the late 90s and early 2000s (the Real Player era) made the UK seem like an advanced nation to my young and intellectually…

Holy crap, I didn't realize that some many people had been killed, over 200 according to a New York Times report: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/us-boat-st...

Am I missing something, but given that it flows through Anthropic’s servers I would have thought the US would just have used it to Hoover up the data of foreign users? Now overseas…

Don’t legally serious second Amendment supporters regard “arms” as things that can be carried, and are evolved from/analogous to their 18th century hand-carried guns? It would be h…

Something I hate about ChatGPT is that it assumes I want my text to be rewritten instead of engaging with the content. I like my writing style. Sure it may leave some sort of lingu…

I know this is going to. be contentious, but US mainstream discourse seems to have completely eliminated the distinction between illegal and legal immigration, in the last 10 years…

Tesla’s Solar Roof uses string inverters rather than micro-inverters or power optimizers, which means that partial shading on any section of the roof can shut down production for t…

The clean linear history thing is something I never really got, despite using git for 12 years now. I worked with some smart developers whose rule was "rebase if you want, but if t…

Engineering has always been about more than writing code. That's true, but it's interesting how FizzBuzz as said to be the bete noir of the average dimwitted software developer, an…

I suspect that the goalposts for AI-assisted coding will be moved the same way they've been moved for the Turing Test. The Turing Test used to matter until it didn't (does anyone e…

For something that was supposedly always unimportant, huge amounts of energy were spent recruiting developers based on how they produced and interacted with code. FizzBuzz was a li…

A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.

In my experience, managers don't have to be hands-on, but they need to be able to recognize people with talent and unblock them do their jobs, to be able to spot process improvemen…

I think they simply just haven't figured out that the barrier to entry is so low, that no one really cares what their app can do, even if does something genuinely useful.

I've done a ton of low-effort vibe-coded projects that suit my exact use cases. In many cases, I might do a quick Google search, not find an exact match, or find some bloated adwar…

I caught myself structuring a comment like an LLM on another site. It's expected that people who chat heavily to LLMs will start to mirror their styles.

I'm surprised how many of my technical team use free ChatGPT in their personal lives. The rest have Claude subscriptions. I'm the only one with ChatGPT and Claude subs and I'll be …

I'd used both CC and Copilot Agent Mode in VSCode, but not the combination of CC + Opus 4.5, and I agree, I was happy enough with Copilot. The gap didn't seem big, but in November …