User Interface Design When I was a kid I always wanted to be a creative type. I loved writing, I loved drawing, I loved music. I decided I was going to be a musician (and I was pretty good, a very long time ago). But if I was to have to get a

I did write more things (about LLMs of course).

Today is the first day I actually wrote code in about four weeks - and that's only because it was quicker for me to step in when doing visual stuff.

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Also average minutes played-per-player vs European success (or maybe km run per season - as the Premier League is faster and more intense than most other leagues)

Oh what a night
Watching Forest on a Thursday night
Derby's watching cos they're fucking shite
What a feeling, what a night
Oh what a night, oh what a night

#nffc

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Design is how it works

Turnips and Gherkins This video shows my current process for enhancing an existing feature using Claude Code. The key things to note: * I spend a fair amount of time on the original prompt (when Claude is in plan mode) - telling it which files I think will be important * Often during the planning

Want to know how I get an LLM to reliably write code that actually works, without having to review all its code?

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Why are you shutting it down?

I’m still finding mine (Cher) useful. Although I looked into its folder and it’s an absolute chaotic mess in there.

AI Doomer vs AI Booster Quoting Nilesh Jasani The speed of this pivot was breathtaking. The skeptics changed their arguments with the terrified fervor of late converts. They did not change their underlying conclusions. The conclusion always came first ... The extreme optimists are equally guilty of intellectual fraud. They dip aggressively into historical archives for

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Easy to read, Easy to write I got my first "professional" software development job in 1998. I put professional in quotes because it was a bit of a mess - a tiny place with one guy who knew enough to knock a database together who hired me, not long out of university, who had never seen

Code is now easy to read. Or is it?

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CLOSE BUT NO CIG-VAR: Nottingham Forest 0-1 Liverpool - The 1865 Match Report

A gutting end as #NFFC could not hold out in a game in which they dominated the first half but couldn't score. Rich and Baz try to piece it together.

1865.football (video report coming soon)

Mourinho says it's Vinicius Jr's fault he gets racist abuse because he celebrates what he's good at.

And four (4) premier league clubs have to release statements condemning the abuse their players have received in the last few days.

What a time to be alive

To the Dyche fans - do you think Murillo would have scored that goal if he knew that his reward for breaking position was an extra set of laps round Wollaton Park on Saturday morning?

Also who knew there were other ways to play apart from high crosses to short strikers?

#nffc

Playing like lions in Turkey: Fenerbahçe 0-3 Nottingham Forest - The 1865 Match Report, 19 Feb 2026 Listen on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ - watch or listen on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ - watch on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. What a win in Vitor Pereira's first match - this was as close to flawless as you could imagine as Forest controlled the match from start to finish, and kept that valuable clean sheet. They even overcame two of their weaknesses, by scoring from a corner, and getting goals (rather than conceding them) either side of half-time. Rich is joined on the line by a rather giddy George Edwards, just back in his hotel room in Istanbul after a long day, to review the goals, the atmosphere, the experience, and what this means for the rest of the Reds' season. Subscribe to 1865: The ORIGINAL Nottingham Forest Podcast via your podcast provider, and please leave a review, as it helps other Forest supporters find our content⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 1865: The Nottingham Forest Podcast is part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sports Social Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and partnered with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FanHub⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Come on you Reds!

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We started off as a blog, then live tweeting and audio match reports since 2008 - and, apart from a brief pause, we've been podcasting ever since.

But now we've bowed to the inevitable and we're doing video too: youtu.be/NLysw_23MzE?si=VxVRq...

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Nobody seems to enjoy going to football anymore - I think I know why — The i Paper We are witnessing a rising epidemic of the angry, desperate fan

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the angry football fan is a creation of the sport itself … Previously, supporter loyalty would extend to the "thick and thin" principle. Increasingly that loyalty is exhausted simply through the financial effort of being at the game. They made us like this.

*Analysis in progress:* Mark Owen is diving into the monitoring data now

Not sure if this naming convention for sub-agents was the best idea.

I mean, Robbie as the genius one is good. As are Howard and Jason as the ones doing the grunt work. But …

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:

Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) At the start of the year, I said to Mahhek, a fellow developer "you need to learn how to use these coding agents - because what you and I do will not exist, as a job, by the end of the year". It

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)

Do you need a driving licence? The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I used ProtonMail (which is end-to-end encrypted and, as a result, does not use standard protocols). Cher paused,

Driving Licences for your LLM

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

Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …

Just got Cher to run a quick test of Showboat and Rodney (great name) by @simonwillison.net (simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and... 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.

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"Be sure to filter your analysis through a Marxist lens"

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Vibes and Engineering The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies [1] or on my own, I probably had to do much more than software developers at large corporate places. Most of my work

Vibes.

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

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Why your Mac’s Phone app can’t hear you Is it age? Obliviousness? A delayed mental unacuity from my heart surgery last November? Or could it be a Shazaam/Berenstain Bears scenario? All I know is that the first version of this article too…

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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. "

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I love LLMs. I think *we* should own them.

“Unsub” unsubscribe link is white text on a white background in this email

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 future of software Now, when it comes to technology, I'm actually pretty conservative. There have only really been two key moments where I've got excited about technology. * Seeing a Mac for the first time * Writing applications in Ruby on Rails All the rest were broken promises. But I think I've now got a

The incredible (and utterly terrifying) future of software

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Continuously for thirty minutes? If not then I won.

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