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Thanks Barclays. We’ve gone through the entire beta cycle and you’ve done this with the end in sight?

Every time I make my daughter a cheese toasty I wonder if the George Foreman marketing department physically attacked the product designers for missing the opportunity to brand everything cooked on their grill with the company name.

My family is hard on phones.

It’s like an episode of fucking Masterchef.

Anyone who doesn’t like LLMs hasn’t had to do mandatory training modules for their job.

#ChatGPT #llm

Is this ironic? It feels like it might be ironic.

#gravy #ai

Having finally started using Cursor properly, this blog post has inspired me to try agents a bit more.

https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents

So far so good. I am on the road with my wife issuing orders to a posse of eager junior developers to add simple but useful features to various projects that I would never get around to.

It’s actually kind of terrifying. Not sure I’m being the company Emma hoped for while we fetch this horse.

I don’t even have my laptop with me.

#cursor #ai

My Trmnl arrived and I’m in love!

Stayed up too late last night making a dashboard for my wife’s business.

Might be a little more impressive looking if I hadn’t finished after midnight 🤦🏻‍♂️

#trmnl

I've used Cursor for ages, but just for much more expansive autocomplete. I've never really embraced vibe coding until today.

I'm not 100% sure it's quicker than by hand but its more fun.

Like pair programming with an enthusiastic golden retriever who is simultaneously an incredibly knowledgeable developer and a complete idiot.

#cursor #development

Annual upgrade. Now using Django 5.1 and django-feed-reader 2

What's Changed

• Add test source option to the feedgarden. by @xurble in #33
• Bump django from 4.2.10 to 4.2.11 by @dependabot in #34
• Bump idna from 3.6 to 3.7 by @dependabot in #35
• Bump sqlparse from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot in #36
• Bump requests from 2.31.0 to 2.32.0 by @dependabot in #37
• Bump urllib3 from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 by @dependabot in #38
• Bump certifi from 2024.2.2 to 2024.7.4 by @dependabot in #39
• Bump django from 4.2.11 to 4.2.15 by @dependabot in #41
• feat: Upgrade everything by @xurble in #45

Full Changelog: v1.6...v1.7

It is now 11 years since I wrote my podcast catch-up service Recast. In that time I still haven’t found a podcast client that neatly handles listening to an existing podcast from the first episode. So I’ve given it its annual dust-off and upgrade and it will continue on again.

If you’re looking for something worth catching up on, I highly recommend Origin Story by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey.

Listen at your own pace by getting a Recast link here: https://recastthis.com/source/1511/

#podcast #rss

Went to cast my futile vote. Almost tactically voted Tory to try and keep Reform from winning but if we’re honest are they really any better? 🤷

#ukpolitics