Using Ledger, plain text accounting and a touch of AI to fill in my UK tax return (6 mins read).
How I'm using the Ledger plain text format for managing my finances for my UK tax return.
Using Ledger, plain text accounting and a touch of AI to fill in my UK tax return (6 mins read).
How I'm using the Ledger plain text format for managing my finances for my UK tax return.
What I've learned building an agent for Renovate config (as a cautious skeptic of AI) (11 mins read).

As an opportunity to "kick the tyres" of what agents are and how they work, I set aside a couple of hours to see build one - and it blew me away.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself

Almost every time I share a new example of an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle a variant of this question pops up: how do you know the labs …

Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs (6 mins read).
Some concerns I have with moving towards "don't use Open Source, get an LLM to generate the code you want" and where it'll take us.
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste #GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.” https://www.smh.com.au/technology/every-time-you-use-chatgpt-half-a-cup-of-water-goes-to-waste-20241128-p5kubq.html
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