I've lived a minimal life in many ways, but the last 16 years - and owning a large property and land - have given me the opportunity to accumulate an excess of physical goods, some of which are required to maintain the land and houses, but many of which are simply kept because we have the space and live by frugal/ecological rules.

I selected an option for the exit agreement from my previous contract today, and hopefully this process will resolve itself with 3 weeks - good to have that process one step closer to complete.

Sometimes we just have to wait and let things play out over time.

Sometimes we win big and sometimes we win small and sometimes we can't measure the size of the victory, or even determine what was won or lost.

Perhaps it's possible to be successful in the business world with a form of politics where you are not required to say things that you don't really mean or agree with in order to get ahead, instead you simply choose what not to say, astutely.

The idea of capturing a place that was once loved and then abandoned has been the central theme of all my photographic work for 30 years.

I searched for over 4 years to find my own broken dream tos hower love and attention on and always in the back of my mind I dreamed about how it might look one day in the future once it was abandoned again.

What sort of culture encourages people to lie, when it would surely make more sense to acknowledge that we're all beginners at anything new until we are not and work with that process openly, allowing others to support us correctly.

Sometimes we have to aim higher than we really want to go to achieve a goal, even if this makes up feel uncomfortable.

I am remote-first, I have worked remotely for 25 years - including 3 years in a campervan on the beaches and mountains of Europe using a 3G router (hot tip, coverage was much better when you parked up next to the city).

Email is a black hole at the best of times, and when you are dealing with an emotional situation where tempers are high and patience in short supply, it might be time to break the mold and go Physical First, because somethings might be best resolved in person, face to face, mano a mano.

As I get older, I've started to take less physical risks, stepped down where I might have once jumped, swam out less far, carried less weight, but when it comes to the crunch, can my body still take the same physical loads it once did?

Today while I was up on the roof cleaning the chimney I disturbed a wasps nest and was getting roundly stung - faced with two options, stay or jump.. I jumped - I had already considered the option before it happened and had the escape route in mind, but when needed, my body performed well, the landing was smooth and I learned to trust myself a bit more.

The stings sting, but the overall experience was positive.

When AI creates its own code, why would it use a programming language?

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/14jjptg/when_ai_creates_its_own_code_why_would_it_use_a/

If you live off the grid in a remote or even relatively remote location - like we do - you soon learn the importance of redundancy - that is having more than one way to do something important, such as make energy, store water or resolve some other problem that if not solved quickly would fundamentally make your lifestyle not viable.

Bureaucracy is something else I have spent a considerable amount of effort trying to avoid also, having lived in several different countries and having had to register, open bank accounts, join social and health schemes all in foreign languages, this has often been a stressful and powerless experience.

I'd like to buy a super tiny, but super high resolution camera which compares in quality to the lens and sensors in the pixel 8 pro phone, but which is tiny and can be positioned on the end of a flexible tripod with a clamp or even stuck on to the end of a stick to get almost impossible shots.

This concept applies to various fields, including music, mathematics, and even the way we perceive the world. In music, scales define the relationships between notes and intervals. In mathematics, scale refers to the size or magnitude of a quantity. In general, natural scale implies a fundamental or inherent size or proportion that something possesses, either physically or conceptually. 

Sometimes, life feels like you are pushing a huge boulder up an endless mountain, that's when it's good to have good people around you, who you can openly share with and discuss what you are facing.

Two weeks ago, I spent far too long trying to build an NPM package called Clauded, which aim to use the hooks available to control the output from Claude code to include a confidence score on suggestions and approach.

AI was not much use to me this week when one of the charge controllers on our off-grid energy system melted down - I knew how to fix the issue, and the system itself is so unique that no amount of AI summaries could really add consequential input and sadly I had no robotics to help clean up battery terminals, rewise machines and route cables.

Currently, I would count myself as a vibe engineer - I've build complex applications form hand for 25 years - I know the pitfalls, but I want to 'move fast and break things' and this stack is like rocket fuel.

Claude Code in the cloud, controlled via a cell phone.

In the AI coding arms race, much like in the cheap flights strategy it is probably a case of last one standing who takes the reward, meaning that these companies are eating that cost in order to retain their users, especially the paying ones.