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...

I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on the time I’ve spent helping to run WhatDoTheyKnow, first as a volunteer and then as an employee, as is common during life transitions. To help me contextualis...

Disclosure logs My disclosure log scraping project is now well underway. Interestingly, the percentage of requests made to English local government via WhatDoTheyKnow is much higher than I’d previo...

Public authorities answer hundreds of thousands of FOI and EIR requests every year, but most of the information that is released is not searchable or available for wider use. Some authorities do pu...