March 25, 2026 · Code Projects

But only if you want to...

I'm working on a new project and just re-architected things so that everything still works if you have Javascript disabled.

Why do this?

PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading

Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.

Via (Stuart Breckenridge)

Disabling Javascript isn't such a crazy idea. I'm using a light sprinkling, just a soupson, but if people want to disable it, they should be able to.

March 23, 2026 · Art

Title taken from the Reuters article.

The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan — and uncovered much more than a name.

A great tale and an enjoyable read. A little surprising that the two most long time rumoured Banksy candidates were both involved in the Ukrainian paintings.

Robin Banks. I'll say no more. It's well worth the read.

March 18, 2026 · AI Apple

If they can make Apple Intelligence a first-class agentic AI by relying on Gemini, paying only $1 billion per year, it sure looks like genius. But given their track record with Apple Intelligence to date, that is an enormous “if”.

Only time will tell if this is really genius strategy, a happy accident, or a big miss. Or maybe a happy accident will be indistinguishable from genius strategy and we'll never know.

What I do know is that if we can get intelligent Siri, with all the intelligence of Gemini, but with the privacy of Apple's cloud and on-device models, that'll be a big win for customers and I'm excited about that.

March 18, 2026 · Movies Reviews

My goodness Timothée Chalamet is good. It's hard to believe that Marty Mauser, Paul Atreides, and Bob Dylan were all played by the same actor. I understand that it's acting, and that's the definition of the job, but most good actors manage to pull of a different version of themselves for a role, only a very small number make you entirely forget who you are watching.

That aside it's a pretty wild and entertaining story. Who doesn't want to hear the story of a table tennis hustler from New York in the 1950's. It's not a story you hear every day and Josh Safdie has a knack for telling interesting stories.

4/5 stars

March 16, 2026 · AI

I don't trust the predictions that software developers will be obsolete. The culture of Silicon Valley encourages this kind of chest thumping. On the other hand, the predictions for PCs and the web, the big things of my career in tech, were similarly bombastic, but they were wrong. The web was huge, just not in the ways people thought it would be.

This matches my own thoughts as well. The people closest to the tech have historically been very bad at predicting its impact and adoption.

While software development has undoubtedly been changed forever I don't see it going away.

March 16, 2026 · Movies Reviews

One Battle After Another is simultaneously terrible and amazing. Or rather it narrowly avoids being terrible while trying its hardest to stink. The script is absurd, the subject matter is clique and it's far too literal to be traditionally good. Somehow though it's very very good.

It's almost made better by the fact that it is constantly pushing at the edge of being bad. I could easily see it being a B grade cult classic if it had a smaller budget or less skilled actors.

Instead it's nominated for best picture and manages to pull off a death defying dare devil act.

4/5 stars