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Similarly to previous years, it’s time to share my musical habits throughout 2024. Around a month ago, I published my Spotify Wrapped 🎁, but, as usual, I don’t trust it completely. If they’re sharing it before the end of the year, how can it successfully show the statistics for the whole year? Here I am again, with my (almost) complete data from Last.fm. 📊 Statistics Just like in previous years, …

In 2014, I talked with my friend and mentor Jason Santa Maria about an idea I had for a book about pricing for designers. I was 12 years into freelancing and 2 years into running my own agency, and I had learned a thing or two about the business side of design that allowed me to make more than triple the amount of income I had made prior. Coincidentally, Jason, …

La semana pasada del año pasado que se nos fue, quedé para comer con unos amigos en Badalona. Lo que ocurrió después te sorprenderá (no ocurrió nada). Leer más. Badalona. Cámaras: Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar este post · Me gusta

What’s going on, Internet? I came into 2024 with a taste for West Coast IPA’s (WCIPA) as a continuation of 2023. My love for the WCIPA stemmed from disillusionment of the Hazy craze that has captivated the beer industry for the past half decade. Ramping up at Beervana 2023 I actively sought out WCIPA’s and shunned Hazy’s [1]. This trend continued into 2024 where I continued to hunt down WCIPA’s …

It’s that time of summer holiday again: reading and reflecting on books read in the past year, having blogged reviews on and off since 2012. For this year, I’ve selected only two books, but I’ll spend a few more words on them: Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford (2021) FOCUS – The ASML way. Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth by Marc Hijink (2024) (original …

The Ethiopian volcanic situation keeps escalating. A viral video is circulating of an eruption from the Dofen volcano: https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1875137887160672670 To me, it’s an eruption because it’s throwing rocks and it’s on a volcano. It could be phreatic or magmatic. It’s phreatic if it’s driven by heated groundwater, or magmatic gasses from an intrusion, without fresh…

I want to get back into writing more regularly this year, so in light of that, here’s my last year in review. Evaluating LLMs Like many of us in tech, I spent a large portion of 2024 thinking about and working with LLMs, but I was lucky enough to do it for work. I spent the year designing, building, open-sourcing, (and naming! 🐊) an application to evaluate LLMs, Lumigator. In …

Hi. Happy New Year!I'm sure many blog posts today will start with a 'I haven't posted in a while' mea culpa, and mine is no different.But this is a post I've been thinking about, really, for months. Since I visited my family in Adelaide last March/April. Back then, my Dad was moving into a full-time care situation, and Mum was staying at home. Dad's vascular dementia and Alzheimer's had become

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/02 Blaming, Elizabeth Taylor 01/04 THE CONVERSATION 01/05 PREDATORS, AMERICAN GREED 01/06 THE CURSE 01/09 THE CURSE 01/10 BREAK POINT (3) 01/11 BREAK POINT (3), Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson 01/12 CURRY & CYANIDE: THE JOLLY JOSEPH CASE 01/14 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA …

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Those we know about Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out (10th January) Sophie Jamieson - I still want to share (17th January) Anna B Savage - You & i are Earth (24th January) Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (7th February) Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (28th February) The Tubs - Cotton Crown (7th March) The Horrors - Night Life (21st March) Those …

After having thought about this for a while, I finally decided to start sponsoring some of the open source projects I regularly use. I set aside a monthly budget and I evenly divided the amount across the projects. Who am I sponsoring? So far I’ve started sponsoring these projects / people (in no particular order): iTerm2 - a terminal for MacOS I’ve been using for years Sebastián Ramírez - author …

“Shame I didn’t bring my tools” said Tony, the semi retired Peterman. The Bank of England museum was always on the list of geezers places to do! Turns out they watched us like we were

The riddle of steel So that was Christmas. The auditing fury of December gives way to new projects launched, ideals dusted off, promised resolutions, and a renewed drive to make life better, cleaner, more focused, efficient, slicker, or otherwise optimised. If you’re a hustler psychopath that is. For normal folk it just means a fucking hangover. There are many things I have considered doing with Hate Meditations in 2025. Stepping …

Microsoft's dream of a Windows computer running entirely in the cloud is finally about to come true.