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PostAITwo AI Skills Everyone Should UseThe humanizer skill stops your writing sounding like AI slop, and i-have-adhd makes AI replies easier to digest while you iterate.22 Oct 20266 minPostAIAI's Environmental ImpactTraining a model has a huge one-off energy cost and a single prompt barely registers, but billions of prompts a day can still outweigh the training. There's a calculator to try your own usage too.17 Oct 20265 minPostAIAI Hero's Grill and Wayfinder SkillsWhen I reach for grill-me, grill-with-docs and wayfinder, three of Matt Pocock's AI Hero skills.10 Sep 20262 minPostProductivityMy Opinionated MacBook SetupEverything I change on a fresh machine, in four parts: the settings anyone benefits from, the habits to unlearn if you're coming from Windows, the next level up, and the bits that only matter if you write code.10 Aug 202615 minPostProgrammingBuilding Chinwag, a WhatsApp Chat AnalyserParsing WhatsApp exports into a timeline, running lexicon-based sentiment over it, and keeping every byte on your own machine.7 Apr 20265 minPostAIWhat Are World Models in AI?My notes on what people mean by "world models" in AI: models that predict what happens next, explained with chess and driving.1 Apr 20263 minPostProductivityParallel Claude Code with Git WorktreesHow I run several Claude Code sessions at once, each in its own git worktree with its own Docker containers, so nothing ever needs stashing.23 Jul 20255 minPostProductivityMy Development Workflow in 2024How I develop in 2024, from Docker for PHP and Go to why I still host on DigitalOcean rather than AWS.9 Nov 20245 minPostAIHow I'm utilising ChatGPTHow I use ChatGPT for programming, from answering questions that used to send me to Stack Overflow to parsing web pages.13 May 20231 minPostSystemsGitlab CI - Commit & Push in a JobHow to make a GitLab CI job commit and push files back to master, using a deploy key and an SSH known hosts variable.26 Jul 20222 minPostPersonalReflections on 2021What I got into in 2021, mainly Flutter app development and crypto, and why I'm learning Solidity to contribute to Klima DAO.31 Jan 20224 minPostSystemsCheat Sheet: ScreenA cheat sheet of screen's commands, for running long jobs on remote servers and switching between several shells in one terminal.6 Sep 20211 min