For all that people outside of Forest think that our owner is some kind of cutthroat gangster, there is a school of thought that he actually thinks more like one of us. Baz explains in our latest podcast:

6th February 2026 was the day the main part of my job became obsolete. Working as a software developer - early 2026 edition: theartandscienceofruby.com/wr...

In the last five days I've probably spent 3 hours writing actual code, yet I've shipped more features this week than the rest of the year. Give Opus 4.6 a decent (gherkin) spec - and ask it to generate screenshots while it's working - and the nature of my job completely changes.

I keep seeing these things saying whateverOS 26.x offers new options for solving the problems with Liquid Ass. But they all seem to be transparency options. Nothing solves the fact that the stupid fucking border radius and shitty spacing wastes acres of space (and makes my 11" iPad useless)

Driving Licences for your LLM theartandscienceofruby.com/do...

My inner voice always pronounces "git init" with a British accent: "git, innit?"

Just got Cher to run a quick test of Showboat and Rodney (great name) by @simonwillison.net (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney) and it is fantastic. I already have gherkin stories to follow so it's perfect for demo scripts and UI checks. Told Cher to do it automatically after

Times New Resistance. www.abbyhaddican.com/times-ne...

"Be sure to filter your analysis through a Marxist lens" blog.fsck.com/2026/02/05/prom...

Vibes. I'm a software developer. My job will be gone in a year/a few months/a couple of weeks. theartandscienceofruby.com/vi...

sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/wh... A Video menu in an audio-only app?!? FFS

"I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. " kottke.org/21/04/ted-chiang-f... I love LLMs. I think *we* should own them.

OOF - is this legal? The email has an unsubscribe link but it's white text on a white background (I had to use "Find" to locate it)

The incredible (and utterly terrifying) future of software theartandscienceofruby.com/th...

O what a night watching Forest on a Thursday night, Derby's watching cos they're fucking shite, what a feeling, what a night. #NFFC

Years ago my daughter plugged her phone into my car and CarPlay opened up. Her messages app had the bright red badge showing 250 unread messages and I said - unplug that now, I can't look at that. @@[email protected] explains why www.terrygodier.com/phantom-o...

I guess Anthropic have leaned on Peter Steinberger et al - Clawdbot is now called MoltBot

Meet Cher theartandscienceofruby.com/things-that-... She's like totally buggin'

This is a lovely bit of UI unsung.aresluna.org/fun-interfac...

“ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01... “It’s the kind of monumental engineering effort that the user is unlikely to ever notice, simply because of how obvious it is to use” I never used Aperture but this all fits - and what they call “shoebox interfaces” are generally much much worse. Also look at that icon!

I think it’s fair to say the football trend of 25/26 isn’t long throws. It’s managers “doing a Nuno” and forcing the board to sack them after a press interview. That’s Glasner, Amorim, Maresca and the OG, Nuno Espírito Santo now - a definite trend. #cpfc #mufc #cfc #nffc

You look like a soup sandwich

www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-debug... I like this

Seriously - this is utter dogshit; clicking into a text box and correcting a typo by keying in "serve -bg 3000" is something that was solved when I was a child. And I'm fucking old. www.loom.com/share/8e88c5... Absolute dogshit.

NEW PODCAST! Nottingham Forest's UEFA Cup run, 30 Years On: an 1865 Podcast Special (Part 1) Revel in UEFA Cup memories as Steven and Tom are joined by Bryan Roy, Mark Crossley, Steve Chettle, Central TV's Keith Daniel, and #NFFC fan Rich Fisher! eighteensixtyfive.football

theartandscienceofruby.com/things-that-... Things that happened

Everyone thought the football trend of the 25/26 season was long throws. Turns out it's "Doing a Nuno"

www.maxberry.ca/p/how-to-not... As AI commoditizes technical execution, your soft skills become your economic moat. Empathy, strategic judgment, and reputation management are assets that code cannot replicate.

THE GREATEST: A Tribute to John Robertson In this special episode, Steven Toplis talks to longstanding #NFFC supporter Pete Hillier, to remember the great man and the glory days, and the impact that Robbo had on him, and a generation of football fans. eighteensixtyfive.football

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Driving with the baby, he decides he doesn’t like our music, so we put on some nursery rhymes and he calms down. But then this song comes up. Why is pussy a swear word? But why isn’t it a swear word when used a second time?

Oh no Robbo - never saw him play but no denying he was one of the greatest. #nffc

Only found out Steve Cropper died yesterday. I knew of his music but only found who he was by watching the Blues Brothers (one of my favourite films). A true great guitarist.

My wife just said “my phone did an update - can I get rid of this new look because it’s utter gash” I shrugged.

This is a nice surprise - there’s a Girls Aloud Christmas album “Christmas round at ours”

Who knew that the World Cup draw was done using Kinder Eggs

#NFFC 🌳🔴⚪🔴 THINKING OF JOHN ROBERTSON "ROBBO" WHO IS IN THE HOSPITAL AT THE MOMENT, SERIOUSLY ILL THE GREATEST TO WEAR THE GARIBALDI RED

NEW PODCAST: YATESY MAKES HISTORY: The 1865 European Match Report It was a nostalgic and historic night at the WFCG as skipper Ryan Yates led the (all) Reds, with three academy graduates, to victory over Malmö. Listen and subscribe to the ORIGINAL #NFFC podcast: eighteensixtyfive.football

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We would LOVE your thoughts on this, #NFFC fans: In the The Athletic's 'Talk Of The Devils', Andy Mitten claimed that Elliot Anderson can "play for middling clubs ... or he can play for Manchester United", and suggests our number 8 could "agitate for a move" to Old Trafford. zurl.co/S2TtF

I was reading spyglass.org/nvidia-gpu-v... and realised I don’t like ChatGPT. Not AI in general - just ChatGPT. I use Claude a lot and it’s good. But ChatGPT sounds insincere and smarmy, like it’s got an underlying agenda. It’s creepy in a way that Claude isn’t.

NEW PODCAST! #LFC 0-3 #NFFC: The 1865 Match Report Even the most optimistic Forest supporters didn't see a result like that coming, as goals from Murillo, Savona and MGW secured the points (and should have been added to by Igor Jesus). Get our post-match thoughts: eighteensixtyfive.football

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