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woodylondon

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About woodylondon

I am nearly 50 years old, my first computer was an Amstrad 464. A tech, travel, food, movie enthusiast currently living in London.

I have managed tech start-ups around the world and now work in digital transformation and tech consultancy. I started working in tech back in 1992 with DOS, Clipper, Visual Basic, and Delphi, then moved into the first .COM boom, followed by mobile technologies.

I skipped the crypto and web3 boom, but I believe AI is the new internet, and it feels like 1999 all over again!

Recent public activity

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    I have a longer version of this, but in summary So my understanding of the differences between chat, code and co-work; but may well be wrong! Chat is the human, talking directly to…

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    Sky Garden is really the only one that does not make it hard. No need to book - just pop up there for with your sandwiches for lunch, and I think it's the best roof garden in city.…

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    Comment #48334087

    I prefer the skill/CLI approach, but with Claude, I have found that building skills or plugins using CLI tools or bespoke code connected to external APIs runs into a problem with w…

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    Comment #47795924

    I would pay for Cloudflare Workers Paid ($5) in a heartbeat and currently use the free version of cloudflare for all my DNS / Hosting etc. Where it does not meet my needs i have Do…

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    Comment #47603450

    Reading the comments below, have we all fallen for a 1st April Fools' joke? Actually, rebuilding WordPress without the ecosystem is kind of the point. For example, would Divi or th…

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    Comment #47548919

    jokes on them - all the code in all my repos are written by AI :)

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    Comment #46910777

    So no 1m context window on Claude Code still 200k. Only on the API. they missed that from the marketing.

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    Comment #46822278

    My biggest issue with this whole thing is: how do you protect yourself from prompt injection? Anyone installing this on their local machine is a little crazy :). I have it running …

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    Comment #46690870

    It should be that when you sign up with an ISP AND have children, you should be required by law to install software to monitor and track your children's usage. It needs to be done …

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    Comment #46161204

    100% agree. Sadly, I have realised fewer people actually give an F than you realise; for some, it's just a paycheck. I am not sure what has happened over the decades regarding actu…

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    Comment #45963878

    my cloudflare pages website is down - 500 server error :( cannot login to get to workers to check - auth errors I thought this was the point of a cached CDN!

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    Comment #45549310

    I feel old - remember watching this when i started out, later went on to use Delphi before moving to the web.

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    Comment #45389443

    We already have multiple forms of identification. The National Insurance number, passports and photo ID such as driving licences, which we must provide when starting employment. If…

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    Comment #45210684

    Interesting - just updated my rabbit which has not been turned on in a year :)

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    Comment #44692756

    Once signed up and wanted to test once says no credits so this post is really just an advert

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    Comment #44683323

    This is really cool - I recently worked on a tool that I installed on my iPhone, which extracts all health data nightly to CSV and then to a cloud database. This was quite straight…

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    Comment #44549531

    Good idea, and I also explored this idea and a year ago and also started building one, recognising a gap in the market for a solution that supports multiple LLMs, but also provides…

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    Comment #43147892

    I have never seen this before, and it is both interesting and generally useful to see how others put this sort of content together, but it got me thinking: is there a UK version of…

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    Ask HN: Crypto payment gateways and the new travel rule advice?

    In the UK and EU, the new crypto "travel rules" are now in full force across almost all exchanges. When transferring any cryptocurrency to another party, you must provide their nam…

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    Comment #42900776

    A great video tool for windows, which often is overlooked for other tools. There is also a Mac version https://www.ffworks.net/ . A great swiss army knife of video tools as a GUI f…

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    Ask HN: Looking for a AI Web Scape Research Tool?

    Has anyone come across any good tools (free or paid) that allow me to enter a URL and scrape the site, capturing the core content and providing a summary with AI? I am looking for …

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    Comment #42515131

    Really nice to see - also, It would be great when filtering if there was a tabular view at the bottom as well.

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    Comment #42296280

    I spent 90% of my 30-year career in this way. What I learned over time is that you become much more self-sufficient in problem-solving and learning. Having only worked in a couple …