Wrangling the ones and zeros. Dreaming of the mountains.
I ve been using Claude Code on a personal coding project these last few weeks, and I m increasingly impressed. And also increasingly concered for my craft, and my livelihood. The sheer relentless accomplishment of the thing astonishes me. And that it doesn t even seem to mind writing unit tests. And that even a difficult problem domain Continue reading "Claude"
Last night, here on this island, the clouds were thin and stretched-out, and seemingly racing eastward like they were fleeing from the darkness. The sky went through shades of blue to black, and when darkness came it was starless. The storm blew-in during the night and I realised only then that the.wind-blown clouds had been Continue reading "Margin"
Nick Cave on the worst thing about becoming a really old rockstar. Which, it turns out, is just one variation on the worst thing about anything that goes on a while. Nicely written though.
Sitting in a suburban cafe in the afternoon of this last drawn-out day of this long Easter weekend. On the table, a couple of second-hand books and a map from the Oxfam shop. Earl Grey in a fat, purple-brown pot. The map is older than I am — whereas I am exactly the same age, Continue reading "Rationing in Wartime"
Let me fallin love one last time, I beg them.Teach me mortality, frighten meinto the present. Help me to findthe heft of these days. That the nightswill be full enough and my heart feral. From I Imagine the Gods by Jack Gilbert. That we could, amid all this distraction and distress, find that heft.
You had wanted to be a forester for a long time. On childhood walks in the forest with your parents, the stacked piles of cut logs fascinated you: clearly the result of human skill, but somehow also still a part of the forest. Each log different. Each pile unique. As an adult you found work Continue reading "A Forester s Tale"
Herewith another small software tool that I built because I needed it, and because I couldn t find anything that already addressed that need. ID3Minimiser minimises and simplifies the ID3 metadata found in MP3 audio files. This is the information that describes attributes like the album name, track name, genre, track number, etc. Point ID3Minimiser at Continue reading "An MP3 Metadata Minimiser"
I have just pushed v1.2 of my TakeoutExtractor app to github. This is a housekeeping release that updates the projects to .NET 9, the GUI to MAUI 9, and the tests to NUnit 3. There are no new features, and this is a source-only release. The repo is at https://github.com/andyjohnson0/TakeoutExtractor. For background, the original announcement Continue reading "TakeoutExtractor v1.2"
A short piece provoked by a recent day spent chopping wood. Link