So I read this anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas... about OpenAI capturing all your information for. ChatGPT's memory. Then I read this doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu... about Microsoft doing the same in Windows. **sigh**

Missed this: www.theguardian.com/world/202... My essay about the Chinese Room was the best thing I did at university, many years ago.

Fuck the App Store. "The sole purpose of Eyes Up is to document and preserve evidence of abuses of power by law enforcement …" Mark's response adds. Apple then replied and said the ban remains in place, according to another email Mark shared. www.404media.co/apple-banned-...

"Modern anthropologists look at a ritual from the sincere perspective, seeking explanations, like that the movements and words exist for a reason… With a ritual attitude, it's different… We do these things together in order to do things together" This sounds interesting jessitron.com/2025/10/05/ri

Going outside in (again) theartandscienceofruby.com/ou...

Daughter mentioned St Trinians which made me think of Sarah "Hardcore" Harding so now I'm making everyone listen to Girls Aloud

Europe again Ole Ole #NFFC

If I can't trust the leadership of Rails and I can't trust the people who look after Ruby (I'm not sure but it looks that way), maybe I should return to the only other language that ever made sense to me: small-js.org/Home/Home.html

I quite like Liquid Ass (in some places) on my phone but I'm not putting it on my Mac yet. And Liquid Ass on ipadOS pisses me off (as does the windowing). rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-b...

'These "Guess Stops" will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or "Guess-Stop-O" for short.' www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i...

Vote for me! (please) Our little podcast has been nominated for an award: footballcontentawards.com/bes... We don't do the "loud blokes down the pub" thing that lots of fan podcasts do; we don't make any money off it (well I think we got £20 each last year) so I'd really appreciate your vote #nff

For the flag wavers 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧 Last night's music listening reminded me that there's no better description of life in Britain than the Specials. Swap 2am for 4am and pies for shawarma and not much has changed in 45 years… (cont)

I also first saw it on a clip of some Korean TV show where the set is the inside of a school and everyone is wearing school uniform. But the female singers are all teenagers and the male presenters are all in their 30s or older. It is very very creepy.

I have the music from Lisa from Blackpink's "crab dance" in my head. This is not good

I'm going to see Johnny Vegas' Ideal (live) soon. It was a very funny sitcom. But what I'm most looking forward to is seeing Emma Fryer. In Ideal she played Tania, who was great. But her best role was Janine in Phone Shop.

Apparently Warwick Castle has a trebuchet. I think that deserves a visit … now who to throw?

At the wrestling again

https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/ "we clean up after vibe coding" Most of my first freelance jobs were rebuilding spreadsheets or Microsoft Access apps that someone had built and had become unwieldy and unfit for purpose. Apart from how easy it is to g

My daughter (who was 6) says she can't remember anything about 9/11. I've always liked Anil Dash's annual posts about it though:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ "As with all things AI, GPT-5 search rewards intuition gathered through experience … If it's something I'm certain it won't be able to handle then even better! I can learn from watching it fail."

https://crankysec.com/blog/modern/ need to deliver some report that makes no sense? Tomorrow? Just toss some Word file onto Sharepoint and enjoy 3-4 weeks of peace while people try to figure out how to access it.

A note I found stuck to my wall. My kids are (chronologically) adults, you know.

https://kottke.org/25/08/refusing-to-choose-is-a-choice You can say "all are welcome," but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you're only going to get wolves … Refusing to choose is a choice. It's a choice in favor of the people who prey on others and who refuse to acknowledge the humanity

Font of the day: handmadefont.com/shop/oniotyp... (made with real onions)

Funny how a blonde haired, blue eyed Danish guy remembers the 80s differently to me. I remember it as a time of sneaking around, avoiding violence because of my skin colour. I do remember Sabrina though - she "fell out" on Top of the Pops. And I'd take Clueless over 80s films any day.

You could see in the keeper's eyes, she knew she was going to save Chloe Kelly's penalty. But then she thought it was job done. Just like the Italy team as a whole, in normal time. #eng #ita

Michelle Agyemang's performances really remind me of Chris Wood over the last year. She plays on the shoulder of the defender, then at the crucial moment makes space and is ruthlessly efficient with the shot #eng #nffc

I just read an article saying some people are claiming that those floods in Texas were not natural, they must be man-made. Isn't that what the scientists have been saying for the last 40 years?

Anyway, if you love pop music, plus you like hunting and/or being a demon, I can highly recommend KPop Demon Hunters. #Jinu

Kpop demon hunters

At least twenty years since I last wrote any AppleScript (and of course I didn't actually write this - I got an LLM to do it for me). I'd totally forgotten that Mac OS did not use "/" as the folder separator. The file system must still have some compatibility layer for dealing with ":".

TIL Claude Code has a commands folder. Put common prompts in there and they become slash commands available in the terminal. So I wrote one to do a Code Review for me, reading the issue description from Linear, comparing the PR to my Style Guide and more …

When I used to go to conferences regularly, I'd invariably post "95% white male, 4% non-white, 1% female" First impressions at #BrightonRuby 10% female, 15% non-white

It's here! Our interview with the actual Son of God - Forest legend and top-scorer Nigel Clough. Talking about working for the great man, how good that side was and being cheated out of European football. Have a listen here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1865-the-nottingham-forest-podcast/

About half way through the Pragmatic podcast with Kent Beck. Apart from the revelation he's a Spurs fan, I love that he calls AI "genie" (grants your wishes but in ways you might not like) …

I've never used one but this thing changed my life: https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html Not just the GUI and IDE, but after *reading* about Smalltalk, the language, I understood programming (never really got it before). And that's why I only use Ruby (the cl

As a teenager I bought the album Freaky Styley by RHCP. The sleeve notes said Produced by George Clinton. My favourite song was "If you want me to stay", written by Sylvester Stewart. Didn't find out who they were for ages although I noted the names. #RIPSly (Sly's version is still a favourite)

@markdinero.bsky.social Happy Wednesday

My dad was given a PC by work - for him to use at home. It had software called “Autoroute” installed - you would type in your start and end points, it would whir away for around 15 minutes and then print out 30 pages of directions.

At the Babymetal show, on Friday, Bambie Thug (first support act) got their dancers to raise Trans and Palestinian flags (to great cheers) and my first thought was "wow, that's brave" What a world we live in.

Still utterly blown away by Babymetal from Friday night. It wasn't a gig, it was just … spectacular. I guess that's what Taylor Swift or Beyoncé shows feel like. But with 20,000 English people with weird haircuts singing along in Japanese.

Only a single data point for a particular audience but I thought it interesting. Saw Babymetal last night (Poppy was amazing Babymetal spectacular) and after they played a video with tour dates. "…And next Babymetal take Metal Forth to the US" Cue mass booing.

Are you going to get up or are they going to keep you down? GET UP #poppy

Got new headphones. Bowers & Wilkin's - very good sound quality. Now listening to "Ooh Stick You" by Daphne & Celeste

I just put these emojis into my RSpec test outputs (for 401 and 500 responses) and they make me surprisingly happy

I did some writing. About LLMs and how they have made your software feel antiquated. Via an episode of Black Mirror. https://theartandscienceofruby.com/eulogy/

Now that Big T has been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, I feel no-one is talking about the fact that the injury was entirely preventable. Elanga was miles offside when he received the ball - if linos could flag immediately the collision would never have happened. The rule is stupid.

ChatGPT O3 deep research is quite impressive - it summarises your question, searches the web, uses those results to trigger further searches, then presents me with answers in a useful table, with conclusions and options. Then it ruins it with that final sentence.

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Me and my brother were saying it's almost a shame we beat Luton in the third round. Imagine winning the cup on penalties in every round. Maximum shithousery #NFFC