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Zan Markan

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Developer enabler and travel/aviation aficionado. A somewhat diverse Londoner. Launched @potniq.com - business travel decrapifier

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Only if all you need to do is assemble it - not actually drive to hell that is ikea wembley in order to first procure it

06.03.2026 09:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a picture of a dog jumping over a hurdle with the words an attempt was made Alt: a picture of a dog jumping over a hurdle with the words an attempt was made
06.03.2026 06:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽGemini - direct access to Google AI Created with Gemini

Yeah in my experience various AI tools are better at deconstructing the input image and doing a systematic search - especially if you can narrow it down like you did with geograpic context

Here’s the prompt I used with gemini fwiw g.co/gemini/share...

05.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Asked a (robot) friend - it one-shot identified it as Le Massif de Charlevoix!

maps.app.goo.gl/bPU6eYPjptY8...

05.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Knowing the direction you are facing would help!

05.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

04.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 3969 πŸ” 1238 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 40

Because rebranding is popular right now, I have rebranded this project to WHENCE to match the actual tool used to record AI code provenance - git-whence

03.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's 6:45 in the morning and I'm being rate limited on Claude. The actual fuck

03.03.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well Brewdog is bust. Now to figure out if/how I can claim this loss back against my income tax.

02.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is #claude well?

02.03.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The missing layer in AI-assisted development We have SBOMs for dependencies and signed commits for authorship. Why don't we have provenance for AI contributions? Here's a thing that's been bothering me. Every engineering team I talk to is usin...

We write a lot of #AI code, but reviewing it has become a bottleneck.
I came up with AI Code Provenance (ACP): a draft standard & ref implementation for tracking intent behind AI-generated code.

markan.me/the-missing-...

#codegen #claudecode #cursor #codex

02.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If there was a Stockholm in Texas it could be a syndrome named after that city

02.03.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's an idea - treat anyone who gets evacuated from tax havens as UK tax resident.

02.03.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If building a new runway for Heathrow is so ridonculously expensive and we have no space for it why don’t we build a satellite luton sized terminal with a single runway for short haul flights somewhere further out west and repurpose the lizzy line infrastructure?

01.03.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Open Fire AI

28.02.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That clock is so cool!

I was doing lots of tech demo recordings during the pandemic - while living in Chiswick right on the LHR approach & kept flightradar open on one screen so I could time my shots for when it was quiet 🀣

24.02.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer starts his cabinet meeting by marking the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine War

24.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Groundwork | City Transport Intelligence Reference-grade city transport intelligence for business travelers. Search transit options, payment methods, operating hours, and airport connections across cities worldwide.

Yo dawg I heard you like sidehustles, so I put a sidehustle in your sidehustle... and Groundwork by @potniq.com was born.

Hopefully usable city transport insights - very alpha, very un-vetted for now - lmk what you think!

groundwork.potniq.com

#travel #cities #businesstravel #transit

23.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can save yourself some shovelling if you set it to cool your house

23.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What is this, a snow easyjet?

22.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The con artist formerly known as prince

19.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Andrew is the best thing that has happened to the British Republic since two Charleses ago

19.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In other news, I noticed today that the DPRK flag flies once again in the skies above Ealing. Lunar new year celebration?

18.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I took my son to RAF Hendon and all that the little philistine liked were the interactive battle and flying sims 🀣

18.02.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cak mal - to sranje se govori v ljubljani tudi? Jaz o londonu to poslusam ze vsaj 10 let πŸ« πŸ˜‚

17.02.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BRAZIL!

14.02.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Brazilian skier is in the lead of mens giant slalom in the first run

Brazilian skier is in the lead of mens giant slalom in the first run

For this year’s carnival, Brazil is dressed up as an alpine nation and pulling it off

#milanocortina #olympics2026

14.02.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a Slovenian, anything is better than seeing an Austrian at the top of the podium πŸ˜‚

14.02.2026 09:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s ex Norwegian, that tracks, but still explodes my european brain to see a southern hemispherian flag in the lead 🀣

14.02.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How is Brazilian skier in the lead in GS πŸ˜‚
#milanocortina #olympics

14.02.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0