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I recently started using Aqua and it's great. The team really improved the latency in the last few weeks.

Ok it's mostly back online!

Since I wrote the blog post, I actually added automated tests which Windsurf / Claude Code runs before committing any change. It saved me a lot of headaches when the LLM decided to…

I'm scaling the heroku database right now, which caused a little bit of downtime :-/

Hmm it seems like recipe generation might be broken on Firefox. I'll look into it - thanks! It's working in Chrome Search is working fine, I just tried https://www.recipeninja.ai/s…

Weird - sorry to hear that. It's working fine for me. I get this search result https://www.recipeninja.ai/search?name=Anti-inflammatory What browser are you using? Voice mode or ty…

Hands-free voice control and being able to access recipe ingredients and steps without 5 pages of SEO-optimised prose.

Afraid I have a day job, so I will politely decline your kind invitation

Basically you declare to the AI which functions (tools) are available for it to call: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling?api... Then you handle those function…

Over the last 2-3 weeks, I vibecoded the recipe app that I always wished existed - recipeninja.ai . It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get you…

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Yeah I think you have to change the traffic laws for that to happen. AFAIK, they strictly follow the speed limit, which feels too slow when everyone else is speeding.

My Ubers often smell very strongly of the food the driver has been eating. The driver is often on a call for the entire journey, which is annoying. It’s often much colder or warmer…

I’m a big Waymo fan. Some of my thoughts; Waymos are one of the first things that my visitors to SF want to try. It feels like living in a science-fiction future. The ride and navi…

Famously, the Traitorous Eight left Shockley to found Fairchild Semiconductor. This was essentially the origin story of Silicon Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eig…

Captured for posterity! https://vimeo.com/201364257

You should direct your custom towards companies with high-touch human customer service. And you should expect to pay substantially more.

I have made 43 angel investments in the last 6 months, 90% at seed and pre-seed. 75% in the UK. The lowest valuation I've paid was £3m, and this happened exactly once. My mean valu…

The downside in the extreme is that the original investor pulls the termsheet and you end up empty handed. I know of cases of this happening, but it's rare. More commonly, you deve…

I broadly agree, but weekly seems like the effort outweighs the benefit. It seems like fortnightly or monthly gets the same impact with 25-50% effort.

Thanks for reading :-)

Author here - happy to answer any questions