Recently I made a data export request to Spotify for a copy of my listening data. I also asked for the technical logs, that dwarfed the streaming history thirty to one. What came back was 12,500,87...

I’m continuing to make progress and have added a processing step to extract verbatim text for each exemption argument and conclusion from the Decision Notices to allow the summaries to be “fact che...

I’ve continued working on guidance pages. I looked into some existing themes for the generator I’m using, but most had too many dependencies for my liking. I don’t really want to faff with node or ...

I’m making steady progress. I’ve got everything talking to Cloudflare and a holding page up. Pushing to the repo now triggers a build and deploys to the dev site, which is a step up from “it works ...

I’m not going to write something every day, but today has been quite productive, so I wanted to capture a few lessons for my own benefit. I tweaked the project plan earlier and let Claude Opus 4.6...

No click-bait title today, only the optimism that comes with properly starting work on a new project. More on the what later. Today was mainly about planning, which feels somewhat instinctive at t...

As part of a new project that I’m working on, I’ve gathered every decision notice published by the Scottish Information Commissioner. I’ve extracted nearly 10,000 public interest arguments for and ...

Redecorating I spent the weekend redecorating my workspace to remove the last few reminders of my last job - do not believe the claims that white tack doesn’t mark the walls. I think the sun must h...

Testing frontier AI models is getting harder as they are now able to ace practically every task that used to rely on to benchmark performance. The pace of innovation still feels to be accelerating,...

I’ve been spending some time making things with clay recently, both to unwind and to finally use up some of the stash of sea glass that we have accumulated over the years. There are only so many co...