Personal blog of Charles Williamson
TanStack Start is currently in beta - this blog post works, as of  20/4/2025 . I will aim to periodically return to this blog post and update it, if any braking changes have been released Why Workers instead of Pages? The Tanstack Start  hosting page  currently has
It's been a while since I published to my personal site, but I'm back and planning to post more actively in the coming days and weeks. With that, I bring an update... In just over a month, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (the musical) will be performed in
Excited to announce the latest production, led by Lambert Jackson and co-produced by my production company, Positive Sum Productions. The tale of hope, redemption and the power of love comes to the Royal Festival Hall for a one-night-only concert. The entrancing musical score features the hit songs
Announcing the latest production, led by Lambert Jackson and co-produced by my production company, Positive Sum Productions. Dancing fans rejoice as  Layton and Nikita  reunite for a brand-new LIVE dance spectacular!  Layton & Nikita – LIVE!   will be a fierce and fabulous dance extravaganza
Here are two demos of the latest in AI which have significantly impressed me, just from the past few days. I continuously feel with these demos that the majority of people don't understand the pace of development happening in the field, and regardless of your views on AI
Code, by nature, is modular. Every application that you use is a collection of functions and components, which themselves are just modular building blocks. Any algorithm can also be seen as a building block, that can be combined with any other with matching inputs/outputs With more and more of
Sunday March 3rd saw the one-night only production of Sideshow take place at the London Palladium, produced by Lambert Jackson and co-produced by Positive Sum Productions, my production company within my holding company. Here are some photos and videos from the event (photos by Danny Kaan )
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming concert production of Bare at the London Palladium on 7th April 2024, produced by Lambert Jackson and co-produced by my production company, Positive Sum Productions. Joining the already announced Jordan Luke Gage and Laurie Kynaston will be Cassidy Janson ( & Juliet
Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant announcement in the world of AI happening every day The latest, from today, is the announcement of Groq (not to be confused with the name given to the chatbot for X AI): Groq A GroqLabs AI Language Interface The inference
A perspective on AR/VR In this post , Brian Cho shared his thoughts on the present and future for AR/VR. I share them below for readability Video interpolation using Sora Source: OpenAI Source: OpenAI My posts I've been writing more actively again. Since I last shared a
Figma is the most widely used design tool for websites, apps and pretty much anything digital. At this point, I'd be hard pushed to find a tech company or startup that doesn't use Figma in some way, and that's evident in the $600m in
I've recently been digging into Dreams on PS4. At first glance, it's a video game, but I believe calling it such is a bit of misnomer. It is actually more akin to a game engine, but focused on maximising creativity, while trying to prevent the UI
This is a question that myself and the team asked ourselves often while I was working on Stairway. Not only did we ask ourselves, but we asked other people too; those who were actively engaged in education. We spoke to hundreds of students, teachers, parents, academics (researching education) and more,
I recently came upon this website, and found it to be one of the best resources for someone looking for a role in tech: Career-changing startups to join right now “The Michelin Guide for Startups.” It's great because I felt it was accurate in identifying
As technology becomes increasingly abstracted, generalisation becomes more important By this, I mean that as more and more generalised technical challenges are solved, it will become increasingly important for founders and software engineers to become generalists We've already seen this with the emergence of 'Full Stack Engineers&