Weeknotes for week 40, 2025: On Osaka, a three day week and hitting a milestone alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 38, 2025: On the Expo. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 37, 2025: I’ve been bad at posting these on time, but I’m nearly caught up! On doing some strategy work, playing counter strike and listening to loud music (again). alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 34, 2025: No, not on that kind of carding. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 33, 2025: On Sonic Mania (the good one), being in a smoke filled room and looking at pretty things. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Belated weeknotes for week 31, 2025: On doing things I'd meant to for years. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

A fun mental math trick: Mentally calculating cube roots

Weeknotes for week 30, 2025 alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 29, 2025: On food, and what took us there. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 28, 2025: On journeys. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 27, 2025: On the three serves - Tennis, Tea & Chips. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 26, 2025: The Meal Deal is the string which holds together the British economy. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 25, 2025: Yes they’re late, and yes I’m sorry. Wasn’t that pretty big of me to admit? alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

By far the best article I’ve read on AI assisted software development recently: open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...

Last year we started filming a Community Documentary but I put it on pause as I wasn’t convinced of the narrative Now, I have a great narrative and restarting it! Who wants in? Shoot me a DM and let’s figure it out 😉

Stop believing that your brain peaked in your 20s... it's not true but it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy if you stop challenging it www.ft.com/content/5d47...

Weeknotes for week 24, 2025: On the three Rs: Reading, Running and Ordaining. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 23, 2025: On speaking, loving machines and my third-favourite deadly sin. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

Weeknotes for week 21, 2025: alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 20, 2025: alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

it's encouraging that the author has recognised this process in his own mind and might be able to slow its advance but good lord is this a depressing paragraph dcurt.is/thinking

Weeknotes for week 19, 2025: On walking, raining and cheering. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 18, 2025: On food, mold and more food. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 17, 2025: On moving, appliances and a really big candle. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 16, 2025: On eggs. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I just scored 4,904 on a game of at://2048. Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue

ChatGPT DeepResearch outperforms every other model. ChatGPT asks clarifying questions whereas other Research agents don't. For me this seems to be where all the "Deep Research" performance gains (perceived and real) come from. How come only ChatGPT is doing this?

Editors: I've created a starter pack of trans writers and journalists I follow. go.bsky.app/NoBfRE7

What did we learn from Section 28?

Weeknotes for week 13, 2025: On the cherry blossom and a few other things. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Well, we finally did it folks. We finally found the exception to @ianbetteridge.com's law.

Would anyone like a free code to grab "music in the key of acid"? 9nlv-6agf zwp6-k7rm 3j62-gjh6 593d-ukpy gtxe-jkur Head to randomelements.bandcamp.com/yum to redeem. Please reply stating which one you have used if you do.

📝 New Blog Post: Poisoning Well I have started publishing nonsense content on my blog, to mess with LLM crawlers. Here is the article, all about it: heydonworks.com/article/pois... And here is the nonsense companion article, all about *whatever*: heydonworks.com/nonsense/poi...

Weeknotes for week 12, 2024: On travel alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes (Yes published late!)

Weeknotes for week 11, 2025: On HCMC and at least six types of noodle. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Hong Kong sure is beautiful this time of year.

Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today? Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

see, here's your problem. you let a cat get in there.

Are you an American living in the UK right now? Give me a nod if so... (it's for a work thing)

Ah, so *that's* why Truss backed them. It all makes sense now.

Weeknotes for week 9, 2024: On AI, Paperwork and Kraviz. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

18F thanklessly improved the lives of countless people by applying technology to streamline bureaucracy, and by enabling government more broadly to do the same. Wow, what a powerful legacy.

If only there were an analogy for a thing which is simultaneously a race-to-the-bottom, and a game of chicken.

Weeknotes for week 7, 2025: alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

This is a phenomenal attack chain by @brutecat.com, to get the PII of any individual YouTube user (patched before publication through responsible disclosure): brutecat.com/articles/lea...

Just published my annual "What I learned managing people last year" blogpost: mattandrews.info/writing/thin... Short version: 👋 1. Sacrifice your team members 🫠 2. Just have the awkward conversation 🙈 3. Get out of good peoples’ way 💔 4. Step in early when things fall apart

Weeknotes for week 6, 2025: On hand-cranking these I guess. And something about problem solving. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Just a note to say that I need 10K subscribers on Youtube to enable services like Teemill to integrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbjx...

twitter announces vine is shutting down on october 27, 2016