I've lived in Japan a total of eight years this week. I forgot to stay curious and interested in Japanese culture, the reason I came here in the first place. Easily remedied, but important not to forget again.

i don’t think people outside the UK truly get what’s happening here. muslims/brown ppl & black people are being targeted. a muslim woman had acid thrown in her face. a black man was attacked & a brown man who tried to help. mosques/hindu temples are being vandalised

UK looking in good shape these days eh

Napoleon movie is physically painful to watch. Down bad.

This year I went from 100kg down to 85kg. On track for 70kg by about February. You can probably guess how.

Whatever happens on Tuesday, a new season of 愛の里 drops on Netflix 🍿

My Twitter friends Who are the speculative SF authors who are guiding us through the LLM era? I feel like Charlie stross was our best effort but what now? Who is it?

My advice to junior software developers: ignore the advice from senior developers. Smack us over the head whenever we say “simple!” (We just mean “familiar”). Explore ideas, go down rabbit holes, over-use patterns, make mistakes. There’s no better way to learn in depth.

Lol Nadia Odunayo seems to have broken the Hacker News

Sandman author stuff just popped up on my feed. Ugh.

Using LLMs to write code is a given in 2025... But what exactly are you going to make that isn't going to be subsumed by LLM based tools in the near future? Think of any SaaS product or software tool. Surely LLMs are going to be able to do whatever that is in a few months time?

「英語話せるようになりたい」と言う人に 「今週、何分英語で会話しましたか？」と聞くと →「ゼロです」 泳げるようになりたいのにプール行かない ギター弾けるようになりたいのに練習しない それと同じ TOEICの点より “英語で何分話したか”が一番大事だと思う

I regret nothing! (Yet). fly.io/blog/youre-all…

Claude code is like rocket fuel for programming. Things I wouldn't even attempt because they would take weeks I can now put together in hours. This is not vibe coding. I'm talking well tested, security audited, refactored, readable code that I'd be happy to put my name to.

Drunk on power.

If you are: - Experienced in some hard skill involving knowledge work - Have good judgement in that skill - Are good with words Then the opportunity here is obvious and huge. But those three together are rare enough that the average person won't see it.

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