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It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things. Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System to make everything better. If a department wants to buy…
You can still discover stuff, I promise
In adult and gambling markets, even routine work gets harder: hiring, payments, ads, fundraising, and explaining what you do.
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has been on …
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third wife has a skincare
I was lucky enough to witness the beginnings of social media, working on the platforms that made it happen. I’ve also seen the decline of its first iterations and products. Currently I am witnessing the idea of a social web being perverted, weaponised and automated out of any trace of human or social aspect…
Of all the LLMs I’ve used and driven daily, Claude is the one that absolutely contradicts my instructions.
(BI) Software is dead, apparently
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
No, you're not going to code your own Jira
A simple personal website and blog
A personal note for the non-tech people in my life on what AI is starting to change — why it's moving faster than you think, and what to do about it.
TLDR: Spanish traders in the 1600s did not want to count their thumbs, which influenced GnuCash's database design choices in 1997. Much like a horse's arse set the standard for railways . How seemingly odd design turns out to be a genius solution that serves people pretty well.
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
A single online order now generates ten emails. A look at how retail email got this far out of hand.
And why you should ignore demo videos
DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation.
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
It started off a few months ago, when my iPad suddenly couldn’t play videos any more that it had recorded. It would show the first frame, but hitting the play button wouldn’t do anythin…
Washington has taken equity stakes in 26 companies across nine sectors since January 2025. It has $181 billion left to deploy. Here is every deal, every sector, and where it's going next.
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
