Computing

2024-05-28: Seems it is impossible to delete your old Google Gemini chatbot chats if you have a Google business …

2024-05-21: The randomizr package for R (and apparently Stata) provides some nice simple functions to help …

2024-05-12: Some services that help transfer your music library and playlists between different music streaming services

2024-05-10: Happy to see that even the Norton anti-virus homepage totally acknowledges that their prices get …

2024-05-02: Happy 50th birthday to SQL! Structured Query Language is an incredibly popular computer language …

2024-04-27: Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle books with Calibre

2024-04-14: The 'mother of all breaches' saw billions of confidential data records leaked earlier this year

2024-04-11: Started learning how to be a ‘Full-Stack Developer’ with Mimo.

2024-03-14: Bash script to delete local git branches that haven't been updated for a long time

2024-02-25: The layers of the Internet

2024-02-06: NearbyWiki.org is a fun site that plots Wikipedia encyclopedia entries over an interactive map. You …

2024-02-04: Neuralink implants a chip in someone's brain

2024-01-29: 143 companies want to know that I visited the Teen Vogue website

2024-01-20: Computerphile takes us through some of the technical issues found with the Post Office Horizon …

2024-01-18: NewsGuard identifies 634 entire websites full of generative-AI-created content farm nonsense

2023-12-29: Some books about Artificial Intelligence I'd like to read - updated

2023-12-24: (Nearly) new year, new URL. I’ve kept this blog up long enough it’s time to give it its …

2023-12-19: Good news, it looks like federating is still in fashion. Flipboard has starting federating a few of …

2023-12-08: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator I don’t …

2023-11-26: In 2019 OpenAI was too scared to open GPT-2 to the world

2023-11-25: 📚 Finished reading The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross.

2023-11-15: 📚 Finished reading We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins.

2023-11-13: Meta-owned WhatsApp confirms (once again) that adverts are coming to its app. Code to enable this …

2023-11-10: Expect lots of fun new pun-ridden URLs to show up soon. Starting December 5th everyone can purchase …

2023-11-07: Jennifer Daniel shares what we can expect for official new emojis in 2025. Just seven this time, …