Weeknotes for week 3, 2026: In which I procure a doll, stay indoors a bit, and then go to see a superstar DJ. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Weeknotes for week 2, 2026: On climbing, drilling and interesting facts about drinking habits alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

AI writing detection is getting _really_ good these days. I hadn’t been paying attention to this part of the industry and I’m surprised (in a good way) to see how good it has gotten! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Weeknotes for week 1, 2026: In which we ring in the new year and ruin a pan. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 52, 2025: On christmas, karaoke and morning toast alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I am so sick of ChatGPT's patterned speech showing up in nearly every new piece of marketing I see. Folks, if your marketing reads identically to that of your competitors and every other promo, pamphlet or junk email: You're just blending in!

Migrating to the Next.js App Router doesn't have to be a nightmare. This team used a "dual-running" strategy to move incrementally while keeping new features shipping. { author: @alexwilson.bsky.social } dev.to/alexwilson/m...

Recently we overhauled one of our products to make it faster, more secure and more reliable. We achieved this by consolidating logic & moving rendering to the server, which was made possible by migrating to the Next.js App Router. This is the story of why and how we did it: global.moneyforward-...

Weeknotes for week 49, 2025: On setting up a new team, Zootopia and assembling furniture. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 48, 2025: On kagi, a release and tacos but *not* turkey alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 47, 2025: A year since I left the FT, I visited Nagoya for the first time alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I want to jailbreak my iPhone just so I can make all my screenshots always show <10% battery

Weeknotes for week 46, 2025: On deleting social media, karaoke and making pizza. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I'm sick of Doom Scrolling and I'm sick of shadowy algorithms trying to hijack my mood for ad dollars 👎 So, I've built UpBeat to try and tackle all of that, and give people back the control over what they want to see. 😎 Check it out! ✨ upbeat.mitchelltechnologies.co.uk

Weeknotes for week 45, 2025: On what happens when you combine wagyu, sushi and doritos. And some other stuff. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 44, 2025: On walking, gawking and talking. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 43, 2025: Late but at least I remembered the milk. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 42, 2035: On some exhibitions and some other stuff. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 41, 2025: On being sick, cooking and the 40th year of DMC alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

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

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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