Introduction

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Airwave - an ATC Sim-Game

Flight sims have been my thing for decades. It might be fun to play at being the voice on the other end at some point.

CrashAtlas - Aviation Accident Database & Crash Map

I didn't know I needed an atlas of aircraft accidents. I'm not sure I do, but now I know there is one.

Snowflow

Someone's vibe-coded gaming experiment which, weirdly, is kind of satisfying to mess with.

Terminal graphics protocol

I should really get this into my Textual applications; there's a couple where this could work well.

Losing my heart to the rogallo smolnet browser

Someone had nice things to say about Rogallo.

The team is the product

A good take on something I've thought for a long time, and which is more important now than ever. The idea that a team of people is an unfortunate requirement to get stuff done is wild and short-sighted.

Whitby's Whale Bone Arch to be replaced by bronze replica

It turns out that I've walked through two different sets of whale bones at Whitby, and some time soon I'll encounter my third (albeit replicas this time).

Apple brings AppleCare One to the UK

I'm going to have to look into this, this might save me a couple of quid.

Don't be a meat proxy

I'm going to remember the phrase "meat proxy". In fact, I'm tempted to ask the question "Are you being a meat proxy?" the next time someone sends me something, a question or a reply, that is so obviously just a copy/paste from their chatbot.

LLMs reward expertise

Too many people who are pushing for LLMs and agents in a business environment seem to fail to understand that you can't replace expertise with them.

I feel many organisations will find this out too late.

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com

I do believe that AI is a bubble. I guess the question is: is it a crypto/NFT kind of bubble, or a dot-com kind of bubble?

Grid Bike

The first game I ever wrote, and the first bit of code I ever got paid for, listed on some random Vic20-oriented website!