Timeline
- Reply scripting.com
Inside the big AI companies they are certainly AI-izing every app conceivable, and even teaching the AI's how to AI'ize, because AI inside a standard productivity app which includes social network software will be one of the basic UI tools, and that means hidden technology like SQL databases can now be end user products, so the vision of the designers of SQL that they would make a database a manager could program, would finally be realized.
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AI can do QA
Reply scripting.comI'm an independent developer working in Claude Code, we're in the endgame of a product cycle, where the core is working and it can be used for the thing it was designed to do (biggest consideration). This is the time when you need users banging on it and reporting problems. People who write good bug reports. The only time I really had that down was at Living Videotext, a small company, but big enough to have employees doing QA and tech support. They were really good testers, they had the right perspective and an incentive, = anything we caught before shipping wouldn't become a support problem once the product was out there in user land.
Fast forward to the 2020's where I have done three products and am working on a fourth, and I have nothing close to the kind of testing support I had in the 80s. That made the work more difficult, slower and I took fewer detours, and one time, awfully -- a serious design error was caught only after it shipped and I was ready to move on to something else.
The point -- this handicap for individual programmers without staff QA people, we now have something even better than what we had in the 80s. Claude can do extensive testing of the product in the browser, "seeing" what the user would see. And it never gets tired. You just have to think to ask it to do it. It is so liberating.
And by far the best people to create and manage it would be experienced QA people. They should design and run the tests and sign off on the quality of the software, so we can be sure users are getting something great. And we can do great QA in places we never could really do it before because no matter how good users are, a person who does it for a living with experience can't be replaced.
- Reply scripting.com
One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer.
- Reply scripting.com
Today's song: "July is dressed up and playing her tune."
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Snap – 2026-07-01 21:06
Reply prry.ukNot expecting to be back at Anfield so soon - My Chemical Romance last night.
Something very surreal about not feeling and being ok, while sitting in a stadium with 40,000 other people singing along to I'm not ok.
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Note – 2026-06-22 22:25
Reply prry.ukI created an extension of my indieBlog bundle for Pure Blog, to implement workout mapping, tracking and analytics on your own Pure Blog site.
Demonstration indieFit project is here: https://indiefit.prry.uk
Code is available from the repo here: https://codeberg.org/leeperry/indieFit
Watch out for config/secrets.php which should power the same mastodon/blusky/webmention functionality that I built in indieBlog, but with workout tracking and mapping. There are keys and secrets here to edit. Note that the workout emoji title structure is important for the analytics to work... if that bothers you!
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Note – 2026-06-21 08:17
Reply prry.ukMy wife struggled to get on with both bearblog and scribbles, I think that she will get on better with Pure Blog other than getting used to markdown - so here is another Pure Blog project for the indieWebverse.
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Note – 2026-06-14 22:27
Reply prry.ukThis update took a little time as the new Pure Blog menu broke how the sidebar menus worked on my custom content types. I could have left this alone, but really liked the focus mode - all is working again now!
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Snap – 2026-06-04 12:12
Reply prry.ukMr Leo at the wheel today!
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Note – 2026-06-04 07:51
Reply prry.ukWith media library and featured images, v3.3.0 of Pure Blog looks to be a big update - especially for non-technical users.
I'm going to wait till I get home at the weekend to test it locally, as featured images will interact with my first image approach, and I need to understand what will happen with other content types - but I can now use Pure Blog on a few sites I might not have done.
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Link – 2026-05-31 20:45
Reply prry.ukJournalism isn’t dying: it’s rebuilding in the ashes of the digital wildfire that has swept through the business model of the old, established media businesses. Emerging media will take a while to find its feet.
- Journalism isn’t dying Adam Tinworth
I enjoyed reading this article on the future of journalism from @adders @masto.onemanandhisblog.com, which I missed first time around.
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Note – 2026-05-31 20:36
Reply prry.ukInstalled Pure Blog 3.2.1 now I've found some interweb connection. The new admin layout does not seem to have broken anything - once I've looked at the construct, it might make sense for me to move my content types menus into the new sidebar.
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Note – 2026-05-27 20:39
Reply prry.ukRather than be sensible at renewal our fibre internet provider attempted to hike our bill by about 40%. So I'm pretty happy with our mobile internet replacement which is basically matching the download speed that my '1.1gbs' provider achieved.
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Vertical Panoramas of Churches
Reply kottke.org
From photographer Richard Silver, vertical panoramic photos of churches that emphasize their often incredible ceilings. (via ignant)
[This is a vintage post originally from Oct 2015.]
Tags: architecture · photography · religion · Richard Silver · timeless posts
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Heard It Through the Grapevine
Reply kottke.orgMarvin Gaye’s isolated vocals on I Heard It Through The Grapevine. The man has pipes.
[This is a vintage post originally from Sep 2014.]
Tags: Marvin Gaye · music · timeless posts · video
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TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness
Reply kottke.orgIn 1956, 96-year-old Samuel Seymour appeared on a game show called I’ve Got A Secret…his secret was that he saw Lincoln’s assassination when he was five years old.
Mind-blowing…the Civil War & Lincoln’s assassination directly linked to something as modern as a TV game show. Two years earlier, Seymour gave an interview about witnessing the assassination. His father, an overseer on a Maryland estate, and his boss Mr. Goldsboro needed to travel to Washington to check on “the legal status of their 150 slaves”. Seymour got to go along.
It was going on toward supper time — on Good Friday, April 14, 1865 — when we finally pulled up in front of the biggest house I ever had seen. It looked to me like a thousand farmhouses all pushed together, but my father said it was a hotel.
[…] When I finally had been rushed upstairs, shushed and scrubbed and put into fresh clothes, Mrs. Goldsboro said she had a wonderful surprise.
“Sammy, you and Sarah and I are going to a play tonight,” she explained. “A real play — and President Abraham Lincoln will be there.”
After Lincoln was shot, Seymour saw Booth fall from the balcony and run off.
[This is a vintage post originally from Aug 2011.]
Tags: Abraham Lincoln · Samuel Seymour · The Great Span · timeless posts · TV · video