IP, technology & commercial law
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I realised today that this: … is the vibe I get when people put their name and face to AI-generated output, and publish it as if it’s their own work. Any 80s kids like me will recognise that as Microsoft Word 97, which was made 30 years ago this year, and came with WordArt functions that mesmerised a generation who were instantly convinced that they were design experts. Of course, we were wrong…
When my wife said to me “Let me show you a t-shirt I saw…”, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn’t an obfuscated bash script printed on the back designed to print a happy Easter egg message. I’m not in the habit of clickbaity headlines I’ve no idea at all how many views this site gets, but I’m willing to bet it’s not even double-digit humans per month. but I can see why subeditors…
I’ve just been reading Filippo Valsorda’s well-written post about why, in the age of LLMs and automated security analysis, Vulnerability Reports are not Special Anymore . It’s worth reading, and he also added to it to address several comments. But I think I disagree with his premise. To my mind, vulnerability reports are still special and the fact that they are more accessible to a wider range of…
I was using Claude to set up dotfile syncing before provisioning a new machine, and during the session I got this: > Updated plan User rejected Claude's plan: Plan: Exit accidental plan mode Plan mode was triggered accidentally mid-conversation. No implementation task is being planned. Simply exit plan mode and continue the planning session with the user. This is a very human sort of “accident”.…
I say on its Privacy page and homepage that BunTool doesn’t log any personal information. This is part of the point, because it’s a private tool and if it ingested information about everyone and their legal cases it would be worthless There is some logging though, and I recently posted about this on LinkedIn: As you see, it’s technical logging only without any personal info. Having posted that I…
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton I spent most of today debugging a senseless error. This morning’s flight of BunTool emails included a suggestion to include compatibility for Times New Roman and Arial fonts. That’s a great idea because some tribunals specify font types In fact it’s a minor access to justice issue that courts…
My side project has been entirely handcoded in the backend, until today. I’ve used Claude Code a great deal for frontend work — I am no web designer — but I’ve tended my backend carefully with my own hands. In fact using my hands is part of the point, being effective rehab while recovering from an injury. Today I decided to break that habit and try adding a feature using Claude to generate all the…
Working out the date of a web page can be useful (especially for prior art in patent cases, and for evidence in litigation), but it can also be difficult. Most of the time a useful page has a date on it of some kind which may be reliable. For others the Wayback Machine helps perhaps about half the time but it hasn’t got perfect coverage. There’s another tool that can sometimes This is mainly…
Whenever I find myself doing a task for a third time, it’s probably going to come up again and probably worth writing a script to get it done faster when it does. This is a pretty common habit far from unique, but mine were beginning to get out of hand so I was interested to see Evan Hahn’s post about handling the cutter. Ditching aliases Instead of using aliases in bashrc (or in my case usually…
I had a negotiation a while ago which very nearly derailed itself. I keep thinking back to what happened and what it tells me as a lawyer and a person. As lawyers, we’re usually advocating other people’s views. Our business is representing other people’s business, but sometimes it can be hard to keep track. This was the settlement stage of a long-running dispute. The contract had gone back and…