For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those advocates. The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it … Read more
Iain Cambridge Home Blog Categories Sep 27, 2026 One of the good features of Go is that you namespace your code with the location to fetch the code. This means if you host your Go code at http://github.com/thetrueares/boneclone then you … Read more
A few months ago I was dragged into a call with my engineering counterpart and their boss (who happens to be our SVP of engineering). Something had gone wrong that shouldn’t have. Nothing catastrophic, but important enough that I was … Read more
People who rarely produced original writing are suddenly producing extensive design proposals, business plans, documentation, presentations, tickets, pull requests, blog articles, and meeting summaries, all generated by AI. It is all unreadable. AI is helping me write better and faster, … Read more
Articles Writing requires thinking, don’t let an AI do the thinking for you. August 13, 2026AI Tools like Claude, Codex/ChatGPT and Gemini are great. I use them all day (both at work and personally) for coding, research, digging through data, … Read more
For the past few years, the tech industry has kept pushing passkeys as the ultimate solution to logging in. Many Big Tech companies “helpfully” inform you every time you sign in how much easier and effortless passkeys are. The only … Read more
Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization. You hand your learning algorithm a pile of training examples and use them to fit a model. But the goal is not to perform well on the training examples — … Read more
September 13, 2026 So I’ve been meaning to write about something, but got sucked into this rabbit hole, and now I’m kinda scared if I’ve been a subject of propaganda that worked on me. A common theme in software development … Read more
Matrix calculus pops up on social media from time to time, primarily due to the increased popularity of machine learning. It lets you differentiate functions of vector or matrix variables even if you are not a fan of automatic differentiation. … Read more
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find … Read more