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AI: Apple Intelligence

13 Mar 2025 1 min read Adventures in AI

So when I started my little series on AI stuff, Apple Intelligence wasn't out. That was in about July 2024, about a month before iOS 18 came out. Now its March

How people are using LLMs for development

13 Mar 2025 1 min read Adventures in AI

Quite a few people writing about it at the moment - my thoughts are still forming, but there are some good bits, and common themes, in these. Simon Willison - Here's

Firebase Dynamic Links is going away. What now?

19 Jan 2025 8 min read

Firebase Dynamic Links is a nice way to go from a short link, to a deep link in an app, with or without the app already installed (aka Deferred Deep Link). The one

Code review summaries

05 Dec 2024 4 min read Adventures in AI

Code reviews are always "fun" to do - you have minimal context of what the person was trying to do (without sitting down with them), but you are the gatekeeper of

Building a small ISP: a thought experiment

10 Nov 2024 6 min read

In writing the post earlier about Chorus Fibre Lab, and because it's raining outside now, I thought I might go thru the thought process of building a small ISP, including the