Bookmarks for March 21, 2026

  • Better, Faster, and (Even) More – Rands in Repose
    The opening two sentence of this really resonated with me. "I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working Something” has never been lower thanks to Claude Code."

    Bookmarked to take a proper look at his tools later – but having made this note, I have to note that the gap between "quick tools I'm building for myself" and "working public software" is massive, and I still don't believe that non-professional engineers should be using these tools to make public software.

    Tags: ai, tools

Bookmarks for March 18, 2026

  • When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
    This is fascinating. I am pretty candid about making steady use of AI during my work day, but I don't generally try and multi-task with it. I could, in theory, juggle multiple work streams, pinging between agents on different projects as they report in. But that intuitively seems like madness to me – if I'm constantly context switching, I'm not going to be doing the required thinking (and there's still more than enough of it) well enough. I can use AI to make the task I'm doing faster, but I don't want to try and use it to do two tasks at once.
  • Flexibility boosts productivity, not office mandates
    I am completely unsurprised by this news. Working from home full time (I go into the office maybe once or twice a quarter) is a *huge* benefit to me, and I am disposed to a) stay with my employer and b) work hard to ensure my employer succeeds so I don't have to find a job that will make me go into the office even part-time. I know there are some people for whom it's not true, and some jobs where it helps to be in person, but I honestly don't get why employers can't just trust people to figure out their own best practice and let them get on.

Bookmarks for March 13, 2026

  • Dani Guindo
    Some absolutely gorgeous drone photography here – to the point that I find myself wondering about getting a drone. Not that I think it's easy or that I'd be a match for this chap, just that it might be fun to play about with, a bit.
  • Software proprioception – Unsung
    One of the frustrating things about working primarily in web development is that one's ability to know *exactly* where an element is on the page is quite limited. But it's still something to consider – we should generally be able to tell in rough terms, and it's worth using it as much as we can.
    Tags: design, ui
  • Digitalia – Alasdair Watson
    Another bit of back-patting self-referentiality – having got all my data into my own bookmark manager, I was able to hammer together a script to go back through all the old linkposts to this site, to standardise the format, add the semantic markup I now use, and add proper tagging and tag links, and generally make them cleaner and nicer.

Bookmarks for March 11, 2026

  • OpenIntel | Iran Conflict Dashboard
    No idea how good/unbiased this is, but it looks like a game stab at bringing a lot of relevant info together.
    Tags: war, iran
  • Bookmarks
    I spent ten minutes the other days upgrading my bookmark manager. Still entirely pinboard.in powered as a process, this is just my personal archive that gets auto-extracted from it, but it means I can do fun stuff like derive stats from it, and do some nice business finding related links.

Bookmarks for March 2, 2026

  • Noongar Seasons | The Six Seasons of Australia's South West
    It'd never really occured to me that that the "4 seasons" are probably as much a colonialist construct as, well, everything else, but it's not hard to see with a moment's thought. Further this this, though: I wonder if there's a more practical set of seasons that the ones the west came up with thousands of years ago. (See UK based jokes about "False Spring" and "Second Winter".)