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There's some more here [0] and here [1]. [0]: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV5JcALQoQ

I’ve been referring to it as “Dunning-Kruger As A Service” for quite some time. Interesting that other folks are coming to the same conclusion. There’s a subtlety here, tho. It doe…

I’ve had some pretty good results with Claude Code over the last 18 months or so, and “agentic engineering” (as opposed to “vibe coding”) is now very tightly integrated into my wor…

Now we’re into a conversation about degree, and not principle. Yes, it could be small, applied like a sales tax a percentage of the spend on advertising. The idea would be to creat…

I know this is controversial, and imperfect, but the longer this crap continues the more right I feel about this as a solution: What if we taxed advertising? https://matthewsinclai…

The enshitification will continue until morale improves.

As an Aussie, it’s always amused me that we managed to name a public swimming pool after a Prime Minister who (at least as the official story goes) died whilst swimming.

I went back about 2 years ago and speed ran all of them. Somehow the sequels seemed substantially better than I remember them. In fact, on the first watch I was _so_ disappointed w…

What? I thought the idea of running Linux in a PDF was pretty cool. Apologies if that bummed your day.

And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

“Siclair” or “Sinclair”?

Congrats! Nice work. I’m a fellow “Phoenix |> Elixir” fan and built something similar here [0]. I’m still ironing the kinks out of mine, but I’ve moved all of my personal sites ove…

And there’s also the Ash framework for Elixir.

Totally agree with this, too! The books are great and I’ve read all four a few times over, but the audiobooks are something else. The guy who reads them manages to strike a near pe…

100%. One of the genuine great writers.