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Braingasm
Everything written here since 2024, in one page. Notes on building things with bits — engineering, the odd argument, and whatever else was worth writing down at the time.
2026
Blog #0198: From Protocols to Platforms and Back
Blog #0197: The Expanding Pie (and the Cleanup Bill)
Blog #0196: Storytelling in a Post-Truth World
Blog #0195: Taste as Art
Blog #0194: The Time Cost of How Is Zero
Blog #0193: Learning and Dreaming
Blog #0192: How Tokens Talk to Each Other
Blog #0191: From Letters to Logits
Blog #0190: What If Numbers Could Remember?
Blog #0189: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Highlander Rule
Blog #0188: On Knowing What Code to Throw Away
Blog #0187: A Few Things I've Been Working On
Blog #0186: What We Let Machines Do
Blog #0185: (Almost) 52 Things I Learned in 2025
2025
Introducing Utilz: A Simple Script Framework for macOS
RLWRAP and Elixir: A Pragmatic Approach to CLI Readline Support
The CTO Review: Using Socratic Dialog with AI for Better Technical Decisions
Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions
Making Emacs Appear in macOS Finder's Open With Menu for Markdown Files
Kids and Smartphones
Why LLM-Powered Programming is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human
What if we taxed advertising?
Introducing Nether (ØNTHR)
I'm a software engineer ~ what next? Mid-Series Update and Next Steps
ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek vs Creativity (part 3)
2024
Blog #0173: 52+ Things I Learned in 2024
Blog 0172: After 3 months gardening leave and a 2,300 mile trip around the UK, Quantum Fax Machine Reading Lists are back!
Blog #0171: 20240619 Blog 0171 Will LLMs Ever Completely Take Over Coding from Human Software Engineers?
Blog #0170: Podcast: Imagine This...
Blog #0169: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Creativity (part 2)
Blog #0168: FinovateEurope 2024 Summary Insights Demos
Blog #0167: A few thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro after a 20 min test drive
Blog #166: Six Simple Questions to Ask to Ensure You Are Building a Great Product
Blog #165: Broad work vs deep work
Blog #164: Three Reading Lists (2023)
Blog #163: Elixir Reading List (2023)
Blog #162: Machine Learning Review December 2023
Blog #161: Machine Learning Review November 2023
Blog #160: Machine Learning Review October 2023
Blog #159: Machine Learning Review September 2023
Blog #158: Machine Learning Review August 2023
Blog #157: Machine Learning Review July 2023
Blog #156: Machine Learning Review June 2023
Blog #155: Machine Learning Review May 2023
Blog #154: Machine Learning Review April 2023
Blog #153: Machine Learning Review March 2023
Blog #152: Machine Learning Review February 2023
Blog #151: Machine Learning Review January 2023
Blog #150: Looking back month-by-month at everything that happened in machine learning in 2023
Blog #0149: 52+ Things I Learned in 2023