The photo is not the apple: Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, and the lament of the AI interfaceIn 1972, two members of the Goon Show, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers, appeared on the BBC chat show Parkinson.Jun 12Jun 12
Vibe coding a Mac appVibe coding is an interesting phenomenon. Devised by Slovak-Canadian AI expert Andrej Karpathy, the definition is to lose oneself in the…May 26May 26
Looking back to 2024, and forward to 2025Last year, I posted a retrospective. Let’s see how I got on with some of my consolidated resolutions over the past two years, and consider…Dec 30, 2024Dec 30, 2024
Mikroverlag: publishing Europe’s technology storiesMikroverlag is an idea to publish new works that cover technology stories from the past few decades, particularly from Europe.Dec 24, 2024Dec 24, 2024
Charli XCX and postmodernismLast week, I went to see Charli XCX perform the Brat tour. Both Charli and her support act, Shygirl, were excellent. The audience held onto…Dec 5, 2024Dec 5, 2024
“Rivals” — a quick guideA new TV adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, for Disney+, has gone down extremely well with the critics and I finished watching the…Oct 23, 2024Oct 23, 2024
Mid-career artistryI picked up this month’s ArtReview last week. It’s easily the world’s greatest art magazine and this issue’s cover stars at Holly Herndon…Oct 22, 2024Oct 22, 2024
The AI infrastructure opportunities of Slough: a poemThere was an article in El Reg this morning entitled The role of Slough in AI infrastructure. Slough, for the uninitiated, is a town…Oct 15, 2024A response icon1Oct 15, 2024A response icon1