The collection of @willsh.bsky.social Artefact Cards I have in the kitchen for mini recipe reminders.

It's Friday #weeknotes time again! mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/02/27/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

#weeknotes time: mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/02/20/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

My 767th set of #weeknotes after what has been quite a long week… mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/02/13/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

You might find this happy, @adamleventhal.bsky.social isedstillwatfordcoach.com

Thought you mind find this useful @watfordpodcast.bsky.social isedstillwatfordcoach.com

In case you need to keep up... isedstillwatfordcoach.com

Welcome to the 766th edition of my #weeknotes: mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/02/06/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

A busy week. Here are the #weeknotes: mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/01/30/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Seeing all this stuff about polygamous working crack downs in the public sector and can't help thinking "how many jobs does Farage have?" www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

Another Friday set of #weeknotes reflections: mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/01/23/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Just imagine having a family that dislikes you so much that they'd allow you to have your mental decline happen in the full glare of the world's media. Tragic.

It's Friday, and so time for this week's #Weeknotes. This week containing Art, LLM coding and fluff. mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/01/16/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Saw this and thought "wow, an estate agents inspired by jazz legends". Turns out it's just the founders' names.

Here's a fucking idiot.

Back into the swing of it - here are the first #weeknotes of 2026... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2026/01/09/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Actually, @theguardian.com, no thanks. This is so grim. Snuff news.

3 Es is an accurate summary of half of my A-level results.

I have a general rule that any presentation based on words starting with the same letter is bollocks. I once asked a famous CEO who gave a presentation on the "10 Cs of business" what the chances were of the ten most important things all starting with a C. He wasn't pleased.

Just about to watch the last episode of Stranger Things. But hey, that's enough about US Foreign Policy...

I thought the Orange One wasn't in favour of illegal immigration?

The US is terrifying.

Pre-orders for Random the Book are now open: securityblendbooks.com/products/ran...

Random the Book pre-sales go live tomorrow morning...

Penultimate #weeknotes of the year... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/12/19/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Some #weeknotes at the end of a very sociable week... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/12/12/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Friday’s World Cup draw saw randomness in action. Or did it? randomthebook.com/2025/12/07/h...

Another window opens on Random the Advent Calendar experiments.randomthebook.com/adventcalend... Today's window is number 2, and it comes with a free snowflake simulator!

Here's a thing that @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social and I made. Pre-orders open soon. More details at randomthebook.com

A very fun week. Here are the #weeknotes mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/12/05/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Day 2 of Random the Advent Calendar, and we open window 11... experiments.randomthebook.com/adventcalend... If you squint, 11 is 2 in Roman numerals. These kinds of coincidences are what happens when you really get into randomness. Anyway, today we explore why we stick cash into Christmas Puds!

From Monday the windows of Random the Advent Calendar will be opening in, obviously, a random order. Get ready for tales of chance and serendipity that happen at Christmas... experiments.randomthebook.com/adventcalend...

My 758th set of #weeknotes: mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/11/28/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

@cbgb72.bsky.social NOTE:

Another week passes... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/11/21/w... #weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Blaming increased racism on migration is itself racist. It places the blame on some of the victims.

Interesting observation from one of my dinner guests last night: how baby British people can accurately draw the British flag? It's not like it's got complicated animals on it. Yet I'd bet most people can't. We are a very strange nation. All these ideas of patriotism, and yet...

Is Labour trying to follow the Conservatives into oblivion by right-winging itself? I cannot think of a way that this strategy makes sense electorally.

An uplifting week... mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/11/14/w... #weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Well the first version of RandomTheBook.com is now with our proofreader... Given our deadline is still 3 weeks away, I think this amounts to "ahead of schedule". Well done to @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social and me!

An odd week, but at least there was cake. hweeknotesitii.mattballantine.com/2025/11/07/weeknote-755-still-waiting/ #weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Which one is more English?

This is not normally what's involved in being detained at His Majesty's pleasure. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A week in which, for one reason or another, there's been lots of waiting. #weeknotes mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/10/31/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Tell you what. That Andy Windsor bloke seems to be losing an awful lot of stuff given he maintains he didn't do anything wrong...

The format of the book about Randomness that @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social and I are writing forces readers to do some work. It's slightly depressing how many people are mildly horrified by that idea. That somehow books should be frictionless insight devices. Randomthebook.com

It’s #weeknotes time again… mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/10/24/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

#Weeknotes time mmitii.mattballantine.com/2025/10/17/w... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

I think sometimes it needs reiterating that the Neural Networks used by computers are metaphorical Neural Networks, and not actual biological ones.