Author: robert.adlington
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Coding With Claude Week 2: End of the Honeymoon?
This week, Claude helped me bring my son onboard to collaborate on our contract whist scoreboard and that worked very well. Then I began a new project – a link management system with rich categorizing, tagging and drag and drop support. I wanted to test Clause on more complex graphical interactions (and make something that…
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How Grok’s nudification tool went viral
As people slowly started to understand the full potential of the tool, the increasingly degrading images of the early days were quickly superseded. Since the end of last week, users have asked for the bikinis to be decorated with swastikas – or asked for white, semen-like liquid to be added to the women’s bodies. Pictures…
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Among the Agents – by Dean W. Ball – Hyperdimensional
Learning the basics of why computers work is extremely useful for making the most of coding agents; it will make you a better “prompter.” Learning the foundational aspects of programming languages similarly seems important. Understand how to think computationally now matters more. Understand the specific syntax of a particular programming language now matters less. This…
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Simon Willison LLM predictions for 2026
I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards […] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an…
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the philosophy of solvej balle – by Rebecca Lowe
can time freeze? can love be forever? — Read on endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/the-philosophy-of-solvej-balle I won’t read this until I’ve read volume three
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Molly Cantillon on X: “THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON. A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code.
This is the default now. The bottleneck is no longer ability. The bottleneck is activation energy: who has the nerve to try, and the stubbornness to finish. This favors new entrants. People who question unquestioned assumptions because they don’t know any better. The founders who sprint through walls and will their dogged pursuits into existence.…
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MTV Rewind
an interface through which you can watch music videos from the 70s to the 20s, organized by decade. There are also “channels” for 120 Minutes, MTV Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, Headbangers Ball, and the first full day of MTV programming. — Read on kottke.org/26/01/mtv-rewind
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These College Students Ditched Their Phones for a Week. Could You? – The New York Times
By midweek, students said they felt more immersed in the world around them. They met up to hand-write letters to family members and discuss “Self-Reliance,” the poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (“Oh what is Heaven but the fellowship / Of minds that each can stand against the world / By its own meek and incorruptible…
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How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? An Introduction | Open Culture
Unlike innovations today, which we expect to solve problems near-immediately, the innovations in mapping technology took many centuries and required the work of thousands of travelers, geographers, cartographers, mathematicians, historians, and other scholars who built upon the work that came before. It started with speculation, myth, and pure fantasy, which is what we find in…