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  1. Agents & Tooling

    Steam saved a 60 fps cap for 112 games. The Performance panel still showed 144

    An AI agent changed a setting on my Legion Go, and Steam's config file showed it saved. A screenshot of the settings panel showed it hadn't taken effect. Anything new or recently adjusted needs oversight.

    2 min read

  2. Agents & Tooling

    Give a shared AI assistant a weekly checkup, and keep what it adds terse

    Once a week, ask the assistant your team shares what would improve its instructions. Keep any rules it adds succinct, and give the bot two human owners.

    2 min read

  3. Working with AI

    Ask your AI to save its work as files

    I've kept a daily log in a file since the early days of using models, so I can switch models or start a new chat and pick up where I was. Ask for your work as files, and keep them in named folders.

    3 min read

  4. Agents & Tooling

    Plan big, do small

    A big model should plan the work and find the tools, libraries and free databases that already exist. Smaller models, or programs on your own computer, do what I like to call the donkey work.

    5 min read

  5. Agents & Tooling

    School family knowledge base, part 2

    Part 2 of a build log about a school family knowledge base: what information each of the eight sources holds, and the format it arrives in.

    4 min read

  6. Agents & Tooling

    School family knowledge base, part 1

    Schools send us information in eight places. That's a lot of channels for parents to coordinate and understand. Part 1 of a build log: the main issue, and how the tasks have to be broken down.

    2 min read

  7. Agents & Tooling

    Logo.dev Returns a Company's Logo From Its Web Address, and Its MCP Server Lets Claude Fetch It

    Logo.dev returns a company's logo, colours and brand details from its web address. Here is what it does, how to connect it to Claude, and what to use it for.

    3 min read

  8. Agents & Tooling

    When Gemini Runs Claude, What Are You Buying?

    Google’s workplace agent can use models from more than one provider. I want to know what happens to my instructions, files and work history when I switch.

    3 min read

  9. Security & Risk

    An Agent Needs a Stopping Point

    A failed connection or a missing file should have a defined outcome. My inbox cleanup and Anthropic’s latest report offer a practical way to specify it.

    2 min read

  10. Agents & Tooling

    The 3,848-Message Sieve

    What It Takes to Let an Agent Clean Your Inbox

    3 min read

  11. Agents & Tooling

    The Infinite Sandwich and the Made Bed

    Why Systems Thinking Is Your Real AI Superpower

    5 min read

  12. Working with AI

    Hey, That's Not the Real Batmobile!

    Why "You Are A Marketing Expert" Isn’t A Prompt

    4 min read

  13. Agents & Tooling

    Gems Are Becoming Skills, but I Can Find My Gems, Not My Skills

    I am using Gemini more and more for editorial and creative work. I like it for developing ideas and roughing out illustrations, while I tend to use other tools for purely operational jobs. That has meant spending quite a bit of time playing with Gems.

    2 min read

  14. The Industry

    OpenAI's DevDay is a pile of announcements, for now

    The Decisions API looks good, a few things need testing, and Pro 500 set the cat amongst the pigeons.

    1 min read

  15. Agents & Tooling

    OpenClaw versus Paperclip

    I tried OpenClaw to coordinate agents from a Rabbit R1 and it turned into engineering for engineering's sake. I went back to Paperclip, and it is getting a lot better.

    3 min read

  16. Building

    I prepared my Q3 tax pack on a £6-a-month server

    I prepared my Q3 tax pack with Actual Budget and Invoice Ninja, self-hosted on a £6.05-a-month VPS, and my agents did the reconciling.

    1 min read

  17. Agents & Tooling

    The difference between skills and context

    A skill is the reusable instructions for doing a job. Context is the material that goes into this particular job. I use my one-panel cartoon Gem as the example.

    1 min read

  18. Agents & Tooling

    The Importance of Being Jev

    TypeSafe's Jev and Cloudflare's Clef return a yes or a no, a one or a zero. They are for questions with a fixed set of answers, such as whether an email is urgent.

    2 min read

  19. The Industry

    Everything That Was Announced During Cloudflare's Birthday Week

    Cloudflare published nearly 40 posts for its 2026 Birthday Week. Here is which ones change something for a business that runs a website or pays for AI, what to do about each, and which you can skip.

    10 min read

  20. Agents & Tooling

    Stupid Gemini Tricks: One Panel Comics

    A quick and dirty Gemini Gem demo on creating one-panel comics.

    1 min read