John Allsopp

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💿Veridis Quo//Daft Punk🤖 This melody is so nostalgic🥹🎶. And it's great fun to filter the sound of my Sewing-Gurdy with my mini Theremin! (Talk-Wha Filter this time 👌😎) #hurdygurdy #sewinggurdy #bardco... TikTok video by Gabriel / SingerSoundSystem

There's a chap on TikTok who has built a custom instrument out of a hurdy-gurdy and a Singer sewing machine (plus an attached theremin) which he uses for Daft Punk covers and they are genuine bangers www.tiktok.com/@singersound...

A Bit on the [geolocation] Element YouTube video by CodePen

A few min on <geolocation> in HTML/CSS/JS.

1. I like how explicit it is for users & how it helps "recover" from incorrect permissions.
2. It's *super interesting* how it checks the contrast accessibility and just makes the button not work if you dink it up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffX...

Trust me I watch more presentations in more detail that pretty much any one on earth. These are absolute momentum killers.

Also leave your intro to the MC and to your final slide. Think about how comedians work. They don’t start with ‘I’m x and…’ they finish with that. Nothing loses an audience more quickly than ‘as [the MC] said. I’m x from y. We are a…’. Folks aren’t here to hear about that or you.

Well you know mine: do not. Under any circumstances. Ever. Live code. Or live demo.

5 quick tips for giving better presentations I have been speaking publicly at developer conferences for over a decade and in that time I've seen plenty of other people giving talks. Everyone gives talks...

I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations!

None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end.

philna.sh/blog/2026/03...

Do you have any more tips to share?

A section of the OpenAI Symphony readme that says “tell your coding agent to build symphony in a programming language of your choice” with a link to a detailed spec

We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves

From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

I saw somebody talking about bad maintainability of LLM-generated software earlier and they're totally right, it's probably not easily maintainable as we currently think about it. The question is what "maintainability" means in a world where you feed the spec to the machine and it builds it again

what could it have been
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

As much as I hate to say it, but if you don't incorporate AI in your work as a web developer at all, it will be really hard to stay competitive.
And I'm saying this as someone who's absolutely not happy about the environmental, cultural, and socio-political consequences of this AI hype.

OpenClaw MCP-enabled benefits entitlement interview Here’s a video of a benefit entitlement conversation hosted by an AI Agent (OpenClaw Opus4.5) using my new MissingBenefit.com MCP server to do the calculations. The circumstances are fake. Th…

Over the weekend I played with using OpenClaw (Opus 4.5) and my new MissingBenefit.com MCP server to conduct mock benefit entitlement sessions.

The results were... well, have a look at the video my blog post.

loosemore.com/2026/03/02/o...

Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? One claim I see repeated widely on social media is that LLM-based coding tools are taking software engineering jobs. These are often accompanied by extrapolations that soon – any time now &#8…

Did you know the global software developer population's much *larger* than it was in 2022?

Did you know tech layoffs were in full swing when ChatGPT launched?

Did you know AI companies are hiring engineers in large numbers?

A quick fact-check:

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/i...

Deciduous - Your AI Assistant Remembers Every Decision Build decision graphs from existing git history. Track goals, decisions, and outcomes as you work. Recover context across sessions.

I make a free programming tool. It gives your LLM a living memory, and it can to dig into a codebase and build a deep understanding of how and why anything was done before doing beginning something new.

It also nudges you into better habits while coding with an LLM overall.

Learn more/try it out.

Writing a book on what it's really like to emigrate from the US.
(I moved to Australia in 2018.)

What aspect would you be most interested in and want me to include?

Wrote some thoughts on why on device agentic AI is proving so elusive: martinalderson.com/posts/why-on...

Grace Jones' concert on Saturday was a load of fun–incredible band, all the bangers, a real show, and Ms Jones' voice and game were strong. Get along and see her if you can.

One ‘better’. They’ll be buying stuff for you

War is peace. Football is life.

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If I complete a task I would never otherwise have done using AI how much productive increase does that represent?

As new methods come out doll combines the best of all worlds

Years ago Westfield web app for helping you find your parked car would let you put in any number plate in their URL and it would find that car if it was parked in that car park.

yeah appears you can't

These days they have a 2/5 chance of not making it to the weekend if you start Thursday! (Too soon? Though we split the 2 dayers 1/1)

As an Aussie with Saturday elections election night is like FA Cup day (trying to find the appropriate analogy). Huge spectator sport.

Was wondering where you can go back using urls? Later there would have been flood signs and the gate down, And no excuse. I swear I could see it rise as I watched. One driver just got through headed to bundeena before her car stopped. *Very lucky*.

No flood signs or gates down around 8pm. Completely dry and no sign of it happening 45 mins before.

I turned around at the weir coming out from bundeena. No flood signs or gates at that stage. Saw the traffic going south on the princes highway backed back to heathcote.

The train seemed to be out going south too. Dozens of folks huddled waiting for a bus.

Never seen a night like it

I was crossing there last night and it came up *incredibly quickly* (I stopped before I got more than half a car length on realizing It was rising feet a minute. But this person must have been behind me as they weren’t there when I turned around.