The Most Expensive Sus4 in Music History
How a failed UPS, a pointless train journey and an unexpected moment at the piano helped shape one of my songs. There’s a moment in the creation of […]
The Journal
Thoughts on software, music, AI, bootstrapping, trust, craft and making things without turning the whole operation into a funnel.
The Security Scanner Found the Wrong Problem
Today I received two security-related enquiries. One concerned a vulnerability in software we don’t even use. The other concerned a decade-old SSH library that someone was apparently considering […]
AI Didn’t Invent Bad Code. We Did.
AI is making it easier than ever to build software. But writing code and engineering software have never been the same thing. I’ve spent more than 25 years […]
Dumb Internet Theory II: Three Seconds to Fuck Off
How sixty years of technological progress reduced the pop song to a single swear word. I recently wrote and produced a song that lasts four minutes and thirty […]
Dumb Internet Theory: The Internet Isn’t Broken. It’s Just Fucking Dumb.
Fuck It Thursday. Or how I made a clever video about the stupidity of the internet, and the internet proved my point. Yesterday, I declared Fuck It Wednesday. […]
16,400 People Watched an AI Man Call Noel Gallagher an Arsehole. Nobody Listened to My Song.
Or: Why I’ve Officially Declared Fuck It Wednesday. I have a confession to make. I’ve created a monster. His name is George. He’s an AI-generated character who offers […]
Cornwall Fucking Council IV: The Map Is More Accurate Than the Map
There’s something rather magical about modern technology. You can take a fuzzy old map, draw a line on it, feed it into a computer, and suddenly that line […]
My Wife Is a Walking Uncanny Episode, Yet She Still Doesn’t Believe
My wife, Kelly, is a walking episode of Uncanny. If you’ve never listened to Danny Robins’ excellent podcast, it’s essentially a collection of people recounting extraordinary experiences involving […]
I’m Not Vibe Coding. I’m Orchestrating.
There’s a lot of talk about vibe coding at the moment. And I understand the term. Someone who has never written software can sit down with an AI […]
Sometimes I Feel Like a Grumpy Old Man
Sometimes I feel like a grumpy old man. Why am I always having to complain or deal with the incompetence of others? Why can’t I just buy something, […]