Saturday, 11 Jul 2026 Lately, I’ve heard several Apple related podcasters talk about how bad Xcode is, and how Apple needs to make vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps better by making Xcode less inscrutable. They’re not wrong, but also I … Read more
I had an idea when I bought Castro that human support based around actual user experience was an easy differentiator. I’ve rarely gotten useful answers from support from services I use. I thought if I used my own product every … Read more
In 2014 I came back from San Francisco with no plan and one useful scar: I had seen what small software teams needed from their tools. I had spent a year building SDKs at Joypad and TinySpark after shipping one … Read more
Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had mainstream support, this of course … Read more
Preclinical drug discovery is inherently complex and data-intensive. Researchers face the significant challenge of efficiently accessing and analyzing vast volumes of information generated during this critical phase. Traditional keyword-based search methods, often reliant on rigid Boolean logic, frequently fall short … Read more
[embedded content]The finished setup in action: setting up a chessboard via teleoperation. Visible are the different camera feeds, the human operator, and the sensed robot state; the operator can switch between cameras. Robotics research has become cheap and accessible enough … Read more
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it’s been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I’d like something that’s self-contained, … Read more
~250,000 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, enriched with AI-extracted name data This map visualises inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their praenomen, … Read more
Jun 10, 2026 This is a story of how building HTML-first doubled a company’s users literally overnight. My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem. To apply for their services, customers could either use an old … Read more
I spent ages 14–16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. I’ve wanted … Read more