"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become."
My new piece: The Sovereign Reader
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Transaction taxes discourage people who want to move homes. People with changing family needs, people who might need to move for work multiple times. Why punish people who need the flexibility to right-size where they live?
is there an html microformat way of signaling that a particular part of a page has been LLM-generated? I've got some sites like thicket.dev that are summary sites and want to signal explicitly that they're not of human provenance
If you have any questions about @playwright.dev , I'd be happy to help :)
I can also give a talk in your company if you are planning to use this technology
Manu presenting
Paddy presenting
Daniel presenting
Jamie hosting
Thanks to everyone who came along to our meetup last night - thanks to all our speakers: @emmanueldemey.dev , Paddy and @danielroe.dev and to our hosts and sponsors Perk! Hosted by @jamiemchale.com with @livetoair.uk streaming
We're on a break in April - back in May and June with more talks
Terrific meetup last night.
Nice to meet @danielroe.dev in person too đź‘‹
"Every layer of approval makes a process 10x slower
I know what you're thinking. Come on, 10x? That’s a lot. It’s unfathomable. Surely we’re exaggerating"
QA reduces quality.
@apenwarr.ca shows a way forward (of course mentions Toyota Production System) through modularity and, ultimately, trust.
I’m hosting this tonight 👇
Goeldi’s Monkey
Close up of a chimp
Wee zoo trip 📸
Thank you!
Added a wee "expired" flag to the @scottishtechnology.club Jobs board today:
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đź”— Agentic Swarms Are an Org-Chart Delusion, JA Westenberg
"The boundaries between “marketer” and “developer” and “analyst” dissolve, because those boundaries were never real boundaries in the work itself. They were boundari... micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/02/24/agentic-swarm...
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Pleased to announce that @nikkitaftw.bsky.social will be speaking at our March event 🙌
Register now on Luma:
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If you ever want to take a trip up to Edinburgh or Glasgow we'd be happy to host you at a @scottishtechnology.club or @edinburghjs.org meetup!
here is the uh, um, "for gordon" cut
The video jumps a fair amount, as I say "um" a lot, and I used an automatic de-umifier.
After a four year break I decided to start doing monthvlogs again to go alongside my month notes:
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Good morning, Yvette Young 🎶
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đź”— Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse, Chris Walker
"The difference is one of proportion: when AI handles the commodity work, tacit-knowledge-intensive problems go from being 20 percent of someone’s day to being 80 percent of it."
There was a range from "I vibe coded this" to "This uses this AI tool or technique". I think it's basically anything that's interesting in some way.
Book cover for The Running Ground
Just finished The Running Ground by Nick Thompson, a memoir and reflection on aging, relationships and endurance. Inspirational! đź“š
Grant, Tom and Lloyd organised it - Luma listing here:
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They don't have a calendar set up (I think they are going to do this) - event running every two weeks between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Requirement going forward is that everyone demos.
That said, the building blocks are here for people to translate their vision into working software, processes and business. I expect more software to be built; more niches served; more people having a go, even if it's just a side business to make a bit of additional income
I think there is a risk of slopification. AI means that both products and marketing messages, customised to various niches and platforms can be produced easily and at scale.
It's cool how an agent plus a few tools can produce novel processes and behavior. It can interpret "what does it mean to use these tools in this way that a user has prompted for?"
The demos that used voice control were impressive - the technology is really advancing. I particularly liked the combo of voice control alongside a Head Up Display of actions that were being taken, customised to the use case.
Obviously there are security and scalability risks - but with appropriate guardrails and underlying data and auth platforms I expect this risk to decrease going forward. (Most things don't need to scale, and simple CRUD apps can have simple CRUD security).
Picture of the audience watching a robot demo
I went to the AI Demo Night in Edinburgh last night. Interesting evening! A couple of thoughts:
First, the barrier to creating software has got much lower. Some folks had no idea about code, and yet had produced viable app prototypes (with customers!)
