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
Rahoul Baruah
Rubyist since 1.8.6.
I like hair, dogs and Kim/Charli/Poppy.
Also CTO at Collabor8Online.
Oh 25
I've never written an annual review before. Mainly because I have zero memory and everything passes by in a blur. But this year I'm going to give it a
Outside In: the return
Recently I've returned to "outside in" style development.
This used to be really popular ten to fifteen years ago, but kind of vanished. I suspect the reason for this
LLMs for Software Developers (notes from my talk at NWRUG)
I recently gave a talk at the North West Ruby User Group about how I use LLMs for software development. This was an update on a previous demo I had given on Claude
The Mongolian startup defying Big Tech
Egune AI, is part of a growing movement to build LLMs in low-resource languages to expand AI access for underserved populations. Despite a shortage of training data, compute power, talent, and funding, these