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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.
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Space to be human
A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.
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Hugging Bay builds a BitTorrent backup for open AI models as Nvidia buys Hugging Face
A volunteer-built BitTorrent index for open AI models went online in July, weeks before Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal.
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Why I left the Mac for Omarchy after 25 years
After 25 years with Macs, I moved my daily work to Omarchy. The switch showed me why openness and control matter more to me now.
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How developers organise and maintain agent skills
An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.
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Handing off the 60%
Planning is 40% of a task; execution is the 60% that eats your week. Plus vibe sourcing — finding the open-source tool instead of generating one.
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Perplexity brings hybrid frontier and local AI to your Mac
Hybrid compute runs a classifier on your Mac to decide what reaches the cloud. The admin rules and the record of what left are Enterprise features.
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The File That Fixes Your AI's Code Style
Fabien Sanglard wrote down the code-style corrections he kept repeating to his AI coding agent, and put them in the file the tool loads at startup.
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What a Climbing Harness Tells You About AI Agents
The word "harness" has been used in AI tooling for months without a clear definition. Earendil finally gives one.
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GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
The GCC steering committee will decline any legally significant contribution containing LLM-generated code — and put a number on 'significant'.
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The open-source argument I'd been missing
In June I wrote about Banco Santander open-sourcing its AI tooling — the bank published the code that tests whether its own models discriminate against people. I gave the usual…
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From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
Who's allowed to build software has changed hands three or four times in a decade. Grok Build is the latest handoff.
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The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
A $500 fine-tune of a 9B open model beat every frontier model on a catalogue-review task. I haven't trained anything.
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Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
2.8 trillion parameters, 1.4 terabytes of memory to run it. Open weights existing and open weights being usable have stopped being the same claim.
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Open Knowledge Format
This week Google Cloud released the Open Knowledge Format. It’s plain markdown files with a short labelled header — a few fields like type, tags and a link (they call it YAML…
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You Feel Faster. Are You?
A randomized controlled study found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower. They thought they'd been sped up by 20%.
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Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume
AI-generated code is hitting production faster than review processes can absorb it — that's a supervision problem, not an AI problem.
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Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
OpenAI launched 20 plugins to push Codex beyond coding. The move tells you everything about where the developer ecosystem actually lives.
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The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
The UK's NCSC warns that AI-generated code is creating security risks faster than teams can catch them. The fix isn't stopping — it's checking.
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Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
Claude Code's new auto mode sits between handholding and chaos. It's the first honest attempt at solving the autonomy problem in developer tools.
