The First Time I Was Almost Fired from Apple
3 Jul 2025 Me at Apple in December, 1995. I was hired on at Apple in October of 1995. This was what I refer to as Apple’s circling the drain period. Maybe you remember all the doomsaying — speculation that Apple was going to be shuttering soon. It’s a little odd perhaps then that they were […]
Larry (Cat)
Larry Official portrait, 2016 Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office Incumbent Assumed role 15 February 2011 Serving with Freya (2012–2014) Monarchs Elizabeth II Charles III Prime Minister See list David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer Preceded by Sybil (2009) Personal details Born c. January 2007 (age 18)London, England Residence(s) 10 Downing Street, […]
Fictional K-pop bands zoom to top of US music charts
A hugely popular K-pop musical animation has seen songs by its fictional bands top US music charts, beating real-life K-pop groups. KPop Demon Hunters is currently the most streamed movie on Netflix globally, clocking up more than 33 million views in just two weeks. On Friday the song Your Idol by a boy band in […]
DRM Panic QR code generator
This is a simple QR code generator, to display the panic data as a QR code. It is specific to the DRM panic use case, and supports only some parts of the QR code specification. Kernel panic traces are usually displayed on the screen, but then it’s hard to copy and paste them to a […]
As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn’t meet a seal
Before the outbreak of the pandemic, when my partner and I had started going for regular swims in the sea, I was heading out from the shore one day when I was overtaken by a dog. It was a Labrador, and it paid no attention to me as it swam past, seemingly intent on visiting […]
The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history
The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history and may not be done falling yet. The greenback is down more than 7% this year and Morgan Stanley predicts it could fall another 10%. A weaker dollar could make US exports more competitive, boosting Trump’s plan to rebalance US trade, but […]
WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser
One of the main barriers to a wider adoption of open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be run. In this post, we show how to write agents as HTML files, which can just be opened and run in a browser. Louis Figuier/ […]
Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
Satellite data processing algorithms developed by ICM-CSIC have played a crucial role in detecting this significant shift in the Southern Hemisphere, which could accelerate the effects of climate change. Thanks to data obtained from Earth observation satellites, an international team of scientists has detected an unprecedented phenomenon for the first time: a reversal in the […]
The Rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit. Back in the 00’s, if you wanted to move money between […]
Zig breaking change – initial Writergate
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