I accidentally spammed a year of calendar invites
A calendar sync went sideways, people across my past and future started getting meeting invites from me again, and I spent the afternoon replacing the whole setup with a safer read-only tool.
Matt Farrugia
Founder and tech enthusiast
Latest posts
Selling Agents as a Service
A working playbook for pricing and selling agents as a service in a post-SaaS world.
Experiments in blueprint-driven development
Vibe-coding doesn't make me happy as an engineer. Can we come up with a better approach to AI-assisted coding for software engineering productivity?
Startup CTOs: stop building satellite doors
A rocket builder explains why they stopped building the satellite doors on their new rocket. Building satellite doors is the number one mistake I see early stage software startups making.
The right fractional CxO can speed up your startup
An increasing number of technical and non-technical ex-founders are pimping themselves out as fractional CxOs. What does it even mean... and why might you be interested in hiring one if you're a startup founder yourself?
The case for a national language model
The machinery of the state will undoubtedly be using LLMs at scale in the coming years. Who should develop that LLM and how might it be an important part of a national industrial policy for Scotland?
Apple's vision for spatial computing
The core ideas embodied by the Apple Vision Pro that will go on to define the spatial computing paradigm.
The promise and peril of web3
What is web3? What potential does it have, how might it be realised and what are some of the potential pitfalls of the technology?
AirPods Max sucked for me
The noise cancellation had issues; they didn't isolate my voice from event noise; wireless calls on the Mac were 8kHz and I couldn't use a cable to fix any of this.
Stats are the new analytics
I set up self-hosted Plausible Analytics on this site so that I could count the number of visitors without spying on people.
More books but less reading
How I managed to greatly increase the number of books I consume by listening to them instead of reading them.
Is GPT-3 a giant leap?
The launch of GPT-3 has caused quite a stir in the AI community. This new natural language processing model represents a seismic shift in capabilities. So much so, that it provokes questions about the nature of intelligence itself.
Will AR or VR ever go mainstream?
From the hype days of the early 2010s, we've seen AR and VR technologies evolve, fail, resurface, and somehow cling to the fringes of mainstream tech culture. But, where are we truly headed with AR/VR?