I built a programming language you're not supposed to read, veralang.dev. Vera is designed for machines to write. No variable names. No style choices. Compiler errors are instructions for the model, not diagnostics for you. Go and point a model at it, negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/28/a....
First signal for the end of what I’ve always called “the platform problem” for #AI. It’s not about the platform anymore, it’s about actions. It’s about AI acting, not chatting. venturebeat.com/technology/o...
"The web just got a second audience," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. Google shipped WebMCP in Chrome. Cloudflare shipped Markdown for Agents. Both quiet. Neither made the front page. But the web just forked its audience. negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/18/t...
"The valley and the monomyth," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. Every pitch deck is a Hero's Journey. Silicon Valley's greatest export isn't technology, nit's storytelling. The facts don't change the world. The stories do. negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/09/t...
"The Ghost in the Statistical Machine," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. We anthropomorphise #AI agents, give them names, identities, "souls." If we anthropomorphise them enough, do they start acting more like us? At what point does it matter? negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/06/t...
Someone watched the Mac vs PC ads back in the day. @anthropic.com have gone on the offensive with adverts against ads, and they just buried OpenAI without even mentioning them. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...
"The new programmers? ," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. What does a programming language built for #AI look like? No syntax, no variable names, and no text, just components composed under formal contracts. Less like coding, more like hardware design. negroniventurestudios.com/2026/01/12/t...
"Technology does not solve problems," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. The best technology becomes invisible precisely because it's fundamental, it dissolves the old interaction model entirely. The worst adds friction while demanding attention. negroniventurestudios.com/2025/12/03/t...
"We need a new Turing Test," by me for Negroni Venture Studios. The real test for artificial general intelligence isn't fooling humans, it's demonstrating flexible real-world competence that our token-prediction architectures fundamentally can't deliver. negroniventurestudios.com/2025/11/30/w...
AI is an assistive technology. It'll be a long time, if ever, before it's anything more than that. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
Resurfacing something I wrote for Hackster.io last year, "Dividing the Stack into Thirds," talking about the ongoing trade wars the splintering of our global approach to technology. www.hackster.io/news/dividin...
"Don’t build platforms, solve problems," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. It turns out that #AI will commoditize the mediocre and automated, but amplify the value of the obsessive and hand-crafted. negroniventurestudios.com/2025/10/29/d...
On this day in 1971, the U.K. successful reached orbit using the Black Arrow launch vehicle lifting the Prospero satellite to orbit from Woomera, Australia. The U.K. remains the only country to reach orbit after already cancelling their launch programme. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_A...
Nobody will ever have nostalgia for the nGage.
Anyone else getting nostalgia for the Nokia 3650? www.theverge.com/news/793136/...
In Amsterdam for this year’s #thethingsconference. It’s fascinating to see how things have evolved in the LPWAN space over the last few years. It’s a very different conference than their first which one I keynoted in 2018. aallan.medium.com/teaching-a-n...
Oh! Now I'm interested, ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-.... I far preferred the design of the Pebble Time to the original #Pebble. Always considered the death of Pebble as a real waste of potential. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPz...
Yes. Entirely normal to grieve its loss, even as it comes into the world... and congratulations.
"Commercial fusion is now just 20 years away…" yes, for about the last 50 years. 🤦♂️ hackaday.com/2025/03/05/c...
[Alexa] will know "almost [everything] in your life — your schedule, your smart home, your preferences, the devices you’re using, the people you’re connected [to and] the entertainment you [enjoy]…" they understand that most people don't think that's a *good* thing? techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/a...
Flash generally won’t start to loose synchronisation till you push past 260 to 270MHz.
Should just be a rebuild of the MicroPython binary with SYS_CLK_MHZ=200 set shouldn't it?
The RP2040 has now been certified to run at a system clock of 200Mhz! See github.com/raspberrypi/....
Released into the wild in April last year, the Humane AI Pin, that's a $699 device, is dead less than a year after launch. Although the reality is that it's really been dead for six months or more. www.hackster.io/news/the-dea...
The only shocking thing here is that the dead carcass of the company was worth $116 million. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/h...
By me for @hacksterio.bsky.social, “The return of Pebble: you can’t keep a good watch down!” Some thoughts on @ericmigi.com’s announcement and the return of #Pebble. www.hackster.io/news/the-ret...
I genuinely sorta scared about what Apple is going to do to my favourite image editor. The precedent of the Dark Sky weather app fiasco looms large. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/11/a...
So I'm unsurprised by the news that we're now seeing a drop in average CPU performance after 20 years of increasing benchmark results. Most people don't need more performance, and manufacturers know it. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
About a decade ago I talked about what I called at the time capable computing, that is to say, computing that is “good enough," aallan.medium.com/capable-comp....
