Mike Hadlow

New look menu for Guitar Dashboard. The old-style text now replaced by icons and the scale family drop down moved to the control panel, which means that the current scale type is now visible. guitardashboard.com

This is scary!

Excellent Lenny's Podcast interview. My favourite quote: "Mix things up for a few billion years with a survival reward function and you get jazz." 😀

Supergrass! I knew it!

I guess we'll have to wait a few tens of millions of years before deciding whether it's the Anthropocene Epoch, or the Anthropic Boundary event.

I'm revoltingly self-satisfied about the fact that I've been to see the tapestry multiple times in Bayeux over the years. It was never crowded, and Bayeux is a beautiful town just a short distance away across the channel.

This is fantastic: tiny.london

Hey, it's a boring Friday afternoon. Let's shake things up a bit with a fumble-finger error!

I've had this Lowe Alpine number for at least 15 years, maybe longer. So comfortable and practical. I wish they still made it because it's starting to fall apart.

One little trick I picked up was to create a dummy user in production with a UUID password and then set up a cron to grep the logs for that string. Cheap and easy to implement; every system should have it.

Another day at my favourite working spot in Lewes, The Depot.

Trying out Yazi, the TUI file explorer. It's great, but doesn't play nicely with Zellij for image previews unfortunately. Works great with Ghostty though.

Super interesting discussion about Jev with some excellent examples. Jev very much living up to its name (Jevon's paradox), showing how so many previously too-expensive LLM use cases now become possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAII...

Typesafe.ai 's Jev showing it's utility in this Mastra workflow categorizing 100 business products into a category tree. The whole batch took less than two seconds compared to the (not good N+1) 26 seconds it took to write and publish the results back to our API.

It would be great to have a follow (but no retweets (unless quoted?)) button on BlueSky. So disappointing when you see someone you'd like to follow, but then find their timeline is almost exclusively retweets.

Being able to understand, operate, and effectively use the cutting edge technology of your time has _never_ been a bad career choice. I would encourage any young person to ignore the FUD and join the party.

The world is just moving too fast. I just took a deepish dive into Typesafe.AI's Jev, and Firecrawl's Alexandria today, and it's made me think I should just rip up and start again on some of the Mastra workflows I've been working on for the last couple of months. Hey ho.

Not a good film. Plays fast and loose with history, and the characters are all totally unbelievable. "nul points"

I've been using zed.dev almost exclusively as my main IDE for most of this year, with a brief diversion to Cursor. It's really good as a traditional IDE, but the agent harness is very nice to use too. The main thing I'm missing now are good database tools.

I've changed from using Cursor to Zed for agentic coding. Using the Zed built in agent harness which displays all the "thinking" output from the LLM. One interesting observation is how often the LLM has repeating thoughts: "I'm noticing ..." over and over.

Enjoying this excellent blog on agentic engineering: www.agent-engineering.ch

Very cool video on getting the new GPT-6 Astra to drive Blender for 3D model generation. Crazy what's possible now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUk...

This is excellent! A wonderful antidote to anyone who thinks things were better in the old days. anyhumanever.com

I had no idea that C# didn't support polymorphism before this!

Currently experimenting with creating an AI generated corpus of business information. We're starting from a large curated list of business "challenges". We will then index it and use it as input into an agentic chatbot. The hunch is that this will provide more value than a straight chat-with-GPT.

Pevensy Castle this weekend. Crazy that I've not visited before. A Norman Castle inside a massive Roman fort. It must have been very impressive in its heyday.

Crazy having a national-news-story trail derailment just a short distance from my house. I walk up and down the riverside footpath next to where the train came off the track, between Lewes and Offham, all the time. I guess I won't be going to London any time soon!

Sitting a cafe "working", watching Claude generate code for me. On another table, two middle aged gents are discussing AI: "It's all a complete scam, it doesn't work, and loads of people are being swindled by it."

There is a huge amount of "cope" among arts people who claim they can spot AI prose (for example) and that it's sub-standard, but then pay $2m for a crime novel that later turns out to be AI generated. I'm tempted to ask if it really matters if a book is AI generated so long as you enjoy it?

"Meat Proxy" that's a great term. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

Amazing how many of my late 50s / early 60s friends rail against being called middle-aged and insist that they are still young, as if by sheer force of will they can magic away their greying hair and wrinkling skin.

This is a good read. I do think people misunderstand what humans are actually designed for - we're highly optimized survival machines. Survival and reproduction in the physical world is not the same as being good at maths or coding, which are probably by-products. www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-...

Adult content?

I had a very interesting time at the Typescript AI conference in London on Thursday. It was hosted by Mastra, the TS agent framework that we're using to build an agentic experience over a CMS. Lots of interesting stuff, especially around running agents in production.

I tried running Firefox in Firefox in Chrome, but it didn't work 😢https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/

This is great. I too owe my life to an early home computer, a TRS-80 in my case.

We need a word for non-AI computing. You know, the old thing with deterministic programs. I wonder how long it will be before most people can't discern the boundary between AI and non-AI computing?

What's the estimated event horizon for _everything_ to be rewritten in Rust? It's going to end up as _the_ language. bun.com/blog/bun-in-...

lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

1. Binary size went down, performance improved. 2. 19 regressions; all fixed. 3. 100+ bugs fixed by memory safety. 4. $160,000 in cost, took 1 engineer 11 days

Current iteration of my Raspberry Pi desk clock. Based on wtfutil and some custom scripts.

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

My current project is hooking up an agent (based on mastra.ai) to a Strapi CMS using a RAG and the Strapi MCP. Mastra is very easy to work with and we've been able to hook the whole thing up in just a matter of days. With lots of help from Claude of course.

What's the word for non-AI computing? I can imagine that it'll be a thing soon where people say their computer system does not have any AI integration. I wonder how long before the average person can no longer discriminate, or even understand that you can use a computer without AI?