July 6, 2026

Mexico 2-3 England: World Cup Round of 16

“In a breathless encounter that will surely go down as an instant classic, England survived for more than 40 minutes with ten men following Jarell Quansah’s red card early in the second half.”

A Speed Limit for Computers

“Above this threshold, energy grows at the expense of equity. Further energy affluence then means decreased distribution of control over that energy.”

AI Has Torched the Market for Junior Programmers

“The career on-ramp for professional software engineers used to work like this: you got hired to write mediocre code, a senior engineer reviewed it, you slowly absorbed judgment through repetition and correction, and a decade later you were the senior engineer. That chain is now broken.”

July 3, 2026

No LLM code in dependencies

“I’ve spent about 100 hours of work over the past month to make sure git-annex can build without dependencies that contain LLM generated code.”

July 2, 2026

Artificial Adventures

“Reviews, refactoring, and one-off scripts are consistently useful. Well worth the money for that alone.”

Rise of the Cheap Robots

“These are finally, finally starting to look like something that could be made very capable.”

This blog is written in en-GB

“It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use.”

July 1, 2026

On Description

“Most of a description goes unsaid rather than said; most everything is tossed into the pile of the unvarying, the uninteresting, the unremarkable.”

Why I Stopped Arguing With People

“I stopped arguing not because I stopped caring about being right, but because I finally wanted something more than being right: I wanted to keep getting better.”