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Recipe websites are about the worst in packing adverts and junk around their recipes, so this is brilliant. But I think you're having difficulty in listing available recipes from t…

I've made a new rendering engine for Mermaid flowchart diagrams that aims to remove the need for manual adjustment of layout. Mermaid is a popular text-based language for describin…

I like this. I have manually operated blinds and the automated kits were expensive, but not more than about £60 each from memory. Anyway I've occasionally thought of doing somethin…

Line9 is a new rendering engine for Mermaid flowchart diagrams that aims to remove the need for manual adjustment of layout. Mermaid is a popular text-based language for describing…

There are no barriers to creating software. There are no barriers to copying software. But there are still moats around some software businesses: non-technical which AI does not di…

This might be useful for my son! But he has Android, not iOS. Is Android on the way?

This is a well-presented website and looks like a good set of features. I always thought of creating one of these for myself, but I don't think it's a very easy market to make mone…

What would a new social media platform offer that existing ones don't? Important to me: my time and the value I get from spending it. To move off X to a new platform the signal-to-…

It's increasingly common to have fascinating discussions with LLMs, and they do come out with some good insight. (It would be nice if they could vary the ubiquitous stock terminolo…

My goto approach would be to ask an AI to investigate. They can get a surprisingly long way in troubleshooting networking, doing web research, etc. and will even decompile Claude C…

No, certainly not necessary in all cases. It's a marketing approach: companies want to find an edge and a way to indicate they're progressing and leading, so they find a way to att…

I no longer write code. In fact I develop in languages I'm not very familiar with. I use Claude Code, Grok Build and Pi as AI coding agents. I use Linear for issue / task managemen…

I'd suggest MCP agent mail https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail I haven't tried it on a raspberry pi at all, but I have used it on my PC and Mac and it enables agent…

Whether or not your analysis is correct (I'd say not), the root problem is Chinese manufacturing dominance and unfair competitive advantage when it comes to EVs. It saddens me to s…

Agree! But there are almost none on the roads in Europe so must have been costly for Honda. Price was too high.

I love the Honda E and it's not mentioned in the article for some reason. However it must certainly have been a costly flop; they are so rare on the roads in the UK,

Often suggested by optimistic podcast guests these days: the as-yet-unknown new careers that will replace the familiar old ones and thus give employment in the AI era. I think your…

Claude not playing, so resorted to watching television with my wife. Turned out well, actually - history of Henry II and Thomas Beckett :)

I've enjoyed SW engineering always. It started as a hobby and I'm fortunate to do what I enjoy as a profession. Do I still enjoy it? I find the rise of AI mesmerising. It's delight…

I find that communicating with AIs is enhanced by using Mermaid diagrams, which the AIs love to write and can convey quite a lot of complexity in an easily consumable format. It's …