I made a little forms + AI experiment 🤖

It takes an image of a document form and generates a GOV.‌UK style web form from it.

The cycle will begin again.

The danger will remain.

And the words of Robin Cook will continue to haunt me.

If you are a civil servant being “ordered” to do this then say that you want a signed written direction from your Perm Sec first.

Project complete!

3d printed headphones from Variable Static.

Sound pretty good to me - need more time listening to be sure, and I also need to modify the headband to make it fit my giant head for greater comfort.

I'm considering calling them 'on-prem employees' versus 'cloud employees' to see if that helps make things a little bit more clear to people who are struggling to grasp remote work. I want to see people make the argument that on-prem is better.

Sophia, daughter of Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer, of the Coutts family who founded the private bank, and granddaughter of Bill Deedes, former editor of the Telegraph, 'hustled' all hours to build her career at the - checks notes - Telegraph.

This is brilliant.

Pay attention Rishi Sunak and anyone else glibly saying we should ‘get rid of’ the European Convention on Human Rights.

#ECHR

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With all due respect to all the very highly educated pundits the UK does not need a EU strategy, an industrial strategy, a farming strategy, a housing strategy, a defence strategy…

It needs to put all its energy into urgent firefighting to keep the UK from going under.

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So weird that the papers spin the UK recession as a blow for Sunak, when you might possibly have thought that it's actually more of a blow for the sixty eight million people who live here and don't have a billionaire father in law.

If your CISO's response to a cyber attack is to mutter 'it's when not if' and then double down on perimeter security and patching then they've not thought all the way through what they've said.

Steve was in attendance at the Hillingdon Council planning meeting in which they heard an application for a fish and chip shop in Uxbridge town centre.

He voted against it.

Hey, Steve Tuckwell MP, did you know that you don't need a petition to start a business!

You could do it yourself!

Maybe after the election, eh?

The only downside of Dune reestablishing itself as a part of the cultural zeitgeist is having to hear people repeatedly butchering the pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve's name.

Stop procuring 'more modern' versions of the same software system!

Who'd have thought that a floating hotel would cost more to operate than one on dry land?!

As we're seeing huge productivity increases from developers using generative AI to write software then it's because as a species, we're writing the same or similar software to that which we wrote previously.

Our real question should be 'why are we writing it again?'

I believe that for at least the last 25 years most organisations have been doing IT incorrectly and the spate of failures that are cropping up are the proof of that.

'Cyber attack' is not a risk, its a risk category.