He saw her somewhere between one forgettable stop and another.
Not in the carriage. Not in the reflection. Not in one of those half-dreams commuters drift into when the train is warm and the morning is grey and everyone is trying not to be alive too early.
He saw her on a stranger’s phone.
Prince Halden lay in the centre of the Orchard, not in a bed but in a cradle of cloth webbing designed to imitate weightlessness. The webbing was pale and clean, as if cleanliness might persuade the body into compliance. It held him the way a spider holds a fly: carefully, reverently, and without mercy.
I have now created several empty repos on my GitHub which are labelled “On-The-Go-1”, etc. just like those annoying playlists from 20 years ago! But, unlike those useless things these repos are now “idea portals” [trademark pending] waiting to be filled.
A collection of pieces that juxtapose the harsh, clinical schematics from old technologies, with the messy, personal lyrics of some of my favourite songs - added via an old typewriter.
Every year - and especially at Christmas - there is a push or new toys, new technology and more STUFF. Well, while I’m a fan of all things “new”, I also see so much functionality in last year’s [or even as is my case 5 year old] technology. I really believe that our everyday hardware is wildly under-used.
It’s creating opportunities where there were previously none. Now, creatives of all levels and backgrounds can leverage the tools to get paid for a job that didn’t exist even six months ago. The rapper can potentially attract more people to their music because they have a compelling video that punches way above what their budget “should” allow.
A very clever ad I thought, and one that was created by creative company Ace of Hearts for the Save the Children campaign. but aside from the clever storytelling I was left thinking, did Save the Children just spend more on a Christmas advert than Coca Cola?
Introducing custom sneakers, from Catford.
Your next pair isn’t custom, it’s one of one.
CatfordCreps creates one-of-one kicks with enough drip to stop traffic..
DM for orders.
After what seemed like half my life, but what was probably in fact an hour or so, I got fed up of the different suggestions and was about to rage-quit it all until I remembered to go back to basics - what was it I was trying to do - lock down the browser. The browser being the issue, and as Firefox on Linux didn’t provide the flexibility or heightened restrictions required, I needed a browser that did.
It’s a strange kind of heroism, the kind that leaves no statue behind. No medals pinned. No graves with names. Just silence. And a line in a declassified file. They called it the Cold War, but for the ones who lived inside it, it burned.
Every bit of software has its secret basement. Bluebeam hides a scripting engine. Excel hides VBA and formulas that could pilot a drone. SharePoint has a labyrinth of Power Automate hooks that can do almost anything if you can stand the interface long enough.
Hairline cracks in the plaster. Tiles that didn’t quite align. Doorframes with light bleeding through the edges.
No one panicked.
No one ever does when it’s just a millimetre off.
But millimetres add up.
They built the world fast. Too fast.
I built BIMChat as an experiment in building with AI and integrating AI into applications and now I want to share it with anyone that might make use of it. It’s a simple interactive web app that allows you to view information about your BIM model in a structured way that doesn’t need to render enormous 3D graphics, doesn’t need an expensive modelling program and can run on even a modestly appointed laptop.
We were never in charge, not really.
We watched.
We watched you crawl from the caves, all soft skin and sharp voices. Watched you discover heat in the belly of stone, watched the first ones strike spark from flint with such trembling joy.
This week, that story came from Australia. Deloitte Australia agreed to refund part of a £215,000 government report after it was found to contain AI-generated fabrications including made-up academic papers, false citations, even a fictional quote from a federal judge.
I decided to build something different. Not a competitor to the big platforms, but a personal news system. Something that could filter stories on a granular level, pull out only what I actually want to know about, and then wrap it all in a bit of editorial framing so that I don’t just get the raw feed—I get perspective.
A few weeks back, Anthropic quietly rolled out an update to their consumer terms and conditions. Buried in the usual legal boilerplate was a line that’s actually pretty important if you’re using Claude for coding, writing, or just day-to-day problem-solving.
And two quotes from the show’s lead engineer really hit me. “Computers aren’t the thing, they’re the thing that gets us to the thing.” and “The future [is] squarely in the hands of those who know computers, not for what they are, but for everything they have the potential to be.” Now, if you swap the word computers for AI, those lines could be dropped into a keynote today without raising an eyebrow.
If you’ve spent any meaningful time working with AI tools, you’ll know the feeling: you’re grinding away at a problem, tweaking prompts, reshaping the question, chasing that elusive answer. And sometimes it just… doesn’t land. No matter how many ways you phrase it, the output feels off, repetitive, or stuck in a loop.
Maybe uniqueness is overrated. Maybe the pursuit of novelty for its own sake is less important than the pursuit of resonance, clarity, and meaning.
