I just built one of those DIY watch kit things and whilst I'm really pleased how it turned out, that was the most stressful 90 minutes of my life

So where is the accountability for the execs who've been pushing AI for two years, only to just now discover the world's most obvious rug pull? Everyone on the ground saw this coming. Will a single exec in any company pay a price for the short-sightedness?

I feel like this is intuitive if you've ever had any dealings with HR. Their entire job is to protect the king

It's so windy here that our boat broke free of its mooring and washed up on a neighbour's beach. Had to go rescue it whilst raining sideways. Just last weekend, it was so windy that the boat capsized on its mooring and we had to run out and right it. Why is my boat trying to kill itself?

I think this is the first year I've not watched the Google I/O keynote in maybe 20 years? Truly do not give a shit about the latest thing they're wedging Gemini into, or previews of features that are "coming soon" and never ship

Immediately chipped my good plane whilst cleaning up the other vintage wooden plane. Why does it have nails in it?!?

Me, last week: you know, I'm quite enjoying using Cursor and churning out code Me, today, after a requirements change: oh god oh fuck what have I done

I bid on a Stanley #4 plane on Sunday on a whim and collected it today - turns out it's from 1888. That is extremely cool. Can't wait to clean it up and sharpen it.

For 4 months of the year I wonder why the hell we live here, and then a single sunny day in May, spent on the water, makes me change my mind completely. Also possibly the effect of beer gardens being open again.

Lmao, Cursor news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4785...

I have a Number 5 jack plane arriving tomorrow and I'm super excited. I am old.

Project Hail Mary was frankly excellent. A really enjoyable film.

Get off the internet today, it's not worth it

I hope the oil crisis spurs more interest in solar here in Canada. I would love to set up some balcony solar panels.

Guess who drilled into two live electrical circuits today... Twice

Man, the AI bubble is going to pop so fucking hard thanks to... err... the Iran war? Not what I had on my bingo card but I'll take it

Two Pillars of (Engineering) Management www.zacsweers.dev/two-pillars-...

I wrote a long rant about "AI" today in which I described Jack as an "insepid Rasputin-drawn-from-memory and serial company-destroyer", but I'm not sure posting it on my blog is a good idea in this environment. Couldn't waste that burn, though.

Truly incredible the amount of damage Elon and Jack have done to the tech industry in a few short years.

This whole thread has made me quite sad. This industry is not what it was sh.reddit.com/r/Experience...

Today would have been a beautiful day for skiing but my skis are in the shop noooooooooooooooooooooooo

I was just talking about this with my manager and skip today. There's definitely a bit of a glass ceiling in these sorts of roles.

Not sure if unscrupulous business or North Korean espionage ops

New Epstein files = war in Iran after market close

It's incredible beautiful outside but far too cold for my cameras :(

I *despise* people using AI to write announcements at work. If you can't be bothered to write it, why should I bother reading it?

Please don't give your healthcare data to ChatGPT.

Watch product orgs that couldn't give a shit about KMP suddenly decide that cross-platform is the future docs.swifdroid.com/app/

Of course the real casualty in all of this is the integrity of the FIFA Peace Prize

Oh no I think I want a Leica Monochrom

And so begins my annual Christmas tradition of reading about Haskell, only to forget it all within a week of Jan 1st

Pro-res zoom is quite impressive right up until it creates Eldritch horrors

Remarkable that Spotify can't get something as table stakes as syncing changes in playlists between two devices right

Jesus this is a game changer, I had no idea this was being worked on. Thanks for the deep-dive, @skydoves.bsky.social!

"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. As software practitioners know, IT projects suffer from enough management hallucinations and delusions without AI adding to them." spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

Some snaps from Japan in XPan format

Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account. So that's nice.

Last day in Japan. Acquired a Fujifilm GFX 50R and a Mitakon Speedmaster 65mm f1.4. Pumped.

I have major FOMO about Droidcon London but I'm going to Japan next week so I can't be toooo salty

Onsite complete and cold acquired - I can't wait to go home and do nothing for the long weekend

Travelling for work feels very cool and grown up the first few times but eventually you realise it is absolute arse

We booked our honeymoon today 😊

I will never get tired of watching these little dudes. Fujifilm X-T5 w/XF70-300mm

Fuck no, Google android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elev...

Nine Inch Nails absolutely slapped, best show I've ever seen

Phones just aren't exciting anymore huh

We bought a 16ft sailing dinghy yesterday and I am ecstatic

Two hours after sunrise and the sun is still orange due to wildfire smoke. Who said the end of the world isn't pretty

Not really surprising. Yeah, it might get you 80% of the way there, but we all know that reading someone else's code and finding the issues takes much, much longer than just building it ourselves. It tracks that the last 20% takes longer than expected.