Do you need a driving licence?

The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I

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
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