Vibes and Engineering

The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies [1] or on my

The future of software

Now, when it comes to technology, I'm actually pretty conservative. There have only really been two key moments where I've got excited about technology. * Seeing a Mac for the

Things that Happened - January 2026, Week Three

More family stuff to deal with. And work has mainly been a mixture of frustration and LLMs. Sporadically For Site Manager I took great care setting up Capybara/Selenium tests. I put in

Things that happened - January 2026, Week Two

(Published a few days after week two). I've been reading the Murderbot books and I've been pretty hooked. My wife started reading them, then the series came on Apple

Things that happened - January 2026, Week One

Claude builds a UI I did a sketch on my iPad, showing a dashboard in both desktop and mobile layouts. I gave it to Claude, with a short description (for example "the
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