Your agent has GDPR rights… ustdoes.tech/posts/strate...

I built a hangman style game for Little O and you can play it too: last-letter.app

If copilot is anything to go by, those white collared jobs are safe. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Mustafa Suleyman plots AI ‘self-sufficiency’ as Microsoft loosens OpenAI ties

According to Little O, 67 is a naughty number and it shouldn’t be written down. Which sucks to be my parents, who are both 67 this year - they skip to being 68.

Someone please take replit off the sycophants

Just imagine what the world could have been if everyone had clapped…

What even is “centrism” these days? I consider myself to be a “centrist” and yet I would probably say that the Labour Party has many policies to my right… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m convinced that the government is in the bind that it is in due to its collective lack of imagination. They recognise that problems exist and try to address them in the very same systems that are producing the problems, rather than addressing that the systems themselves.

I actually don’t know why you would build a humanoid robot for a factory setting. Factories are still, largely, configured for humans to operate in. If you want to maximise efficiency, you redesign the factory to be robot-centric giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

BRIE: Bruyant Retrait Instantané Ensuite Just don’t look too closely at the sentence structure…

Got my children to eat Sprouts by telling them that by eating them they will sprout up (aka grow tall).

For Christmas I designed and built a story box, an open source version of Yoto or Tonie, for my children to use. They decorated it and enjoy listening to stories on it. Here’s the repo for others to use and make their own story boxes github.com/UstDoesTech/...

This trend is prevalent, especially near schools. It’s not OK and I will start recording and reporting drivers who do this.

New blog post and a new web framework (Astro) too. Feedback on either is welcome. ustdoes.tech/posts/strate...

I love the budget and the law of unintended consequences. Remove the two child benefit cap by increasing taxes on landlords. That increase in child support is going to go directly to landlords who will have put up the rent.

Since when has it been OK to not stop for pedestrians waiting at a zebra crossing? Just been ignored by two drivers.

Was wrongly delivered Lola’s Cupcakes. It was heartbreaking to give them back to the delivery driver.

Well BT, you’ve had two and a half weeks to sort out my broadband, you’ve not kept your promise and I’m going elsewhere.

Since coming back from France, the noticeable change has been that the cost of groceries in the UK is comparable with France. The quality, however… www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Just started this book, but I like it so far. It already aligns to my view of governance, and has given me many more ideas.

Little O hates learning phonics and reading, but we’ve recently discovered a game that covers all of that and he’s loving it. www.teachyourmonster.org/teachyourmon...

That feeling when you bring spare clothes for the children but none for yourself, yet you’re the one who gets submerged by a wave.

That’s a lot of statutory rights that they’re nullifying with this stupid legislation.

Why aren’t there any modified trains in the Mad Max world?

Really annoyed with BT right now. It’s been an entire week since my broadband has gone down and all they can do is say “that’s strange”. Replacement parts did bugger all and an engineer has been incredibly hard to get hold of. I am not sure that I will continue as a customer.

Great way to undermine already weak business confidence. This generation of Conservatives deserve to be relegated to the bin. Completely lacking in any intelligent thought.

This day calls for Gilmore Girls.

Totally unnecessary parentheses in an otherwise average article about AI. Tell me how you really feel about Sydney Sweeney… www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Mel Stride will need to take a long hard look at state processes and investment to get those numbers down. The world, and the UK, is more complex and underfunded than it was in 2016. on.ft.com/4mMYpuS Shadow chancellor underlines Tory commitment to ‘fiscal responsibility’

Ha! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’m not actually against Digital IDs, I just think that you’re going to leave people behind if you don’t also have physical cards. And after three years in France, I’m pro-ID cards - it makes interacting with the state so much easier (although a separate card for medicine is a faff).

Digital IDs.. what a joke. Physical IDs would be so much better

Let’s talk about productivity. There’s a group of people who are convinced that AI is the solution to the productivity crisis we find ourselves in but that’s only going to have some much impact before it faces the productivity constraints.

Here it is: redbox.ustdoes.tech

This is what happens when you interrupt - you miss out on a crucial information.

Rather unrelated to the article, but if companies in the US are no longer required to report cyber security breaches they should still report them if only in the interest of transparency and transparency creating trust. app.ft.com/content/6c34....

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

I thought cheques were end of life? If so, why has my bank sent me a new cheque book?

The Eiffel Tower is still visible from South London.

Ever since the CEO of a company I hold shares in crashed the price (it’s essentially worthless), I take great pleasure in voting against everything at the AGM.

The OBR is ruining politics, just like VAR is ruining football. Scrap both and have New Labour levels of growth again. They are levels of oversight that erode trust and stifles creativity.

It’s getting to the stage in Alien Earth where everything is starting to go wrong, and I love it!

Every time I read about an adult in a “relationship” with AI, I can’t help but think that this is on the same level as mechanophilia.

Little O and Little P enjoyed their first outing to a football match. Little P wanted to play. Despite having possession for most of the game, Croydon WFC lost to Chislehurst in penalties. FA Cup dream ended in rounded 1.

Hear me out: Football Manager but it’s the economy.

Palace have screwed up the Guehi transfer. He’ll now go at the end of his contract as a free agent as he won’t renew after how he’s been treated. Poor management by Glasner on that one.

Here’s what Football Manager taught me about Leadership: www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-d...

Brazil are unfortunate to be playing against France, as they’re not playing badly but they’re also not getting any points. But also, allez les bleus!

What is it with the St George’s Cross graffiti? I’ve seen a few examples over the last few days and it seems strange…

All I want from this season is to see Man Utd relegated. Not because I dislike the club, but because it would be funny.