Notes / July 2026
Short posts, useful discoveries and things I’m still figuring out. A little closer to the moment.
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11 notes · July 2026
When are we going to rebel against the lousy quality of services that “have one job”? For example: when a browser extension can easily use ChatGPT to read my appointment on 1177.se and create an event in my calendar, how much longer should 1177 get away with…
While we wait for the next #ensakidag episode, have a listen to the conversation between Mats and me. It’s about my favourite subject: AI in everyday life. Available wherever you get your podcasts. (and as usual, jump in if I’ve missed or misunderstood…
My AI team has just had another pay rise. Up 20% in five months. And I’m fairly sure the calculation still misses quite a few costs. Even so, this is unquestionably one of the best investments I make every month. Even at ten times the cost, the ROI would…
#ensakidag 504: 1X’s new robot hands, and the human behind the curtain A robot pouring tea and building LEGO. Cool, sure. But that isn’t why I’m recording this. 1X showed new hands for its home robot NEO: 25 degrees of freedom, tendon-driven (the fingers…
Always be building. Message from my son: “Could we add a table-captain feature to the website? Like pinning a little person at the table as the table captain?” Me: 🫡 #vicecodingislife
#ensakidag 503: China, fintech patents and the old maps we carry in our luggage China has overtaken the US in fintech patents. True? Yes. The whole truth? Not even close. I read the headline this morning and immediately felt it was too easy to swallow. So…
#ensakidag 502: Summer suggestions, five books and five podcasts (with a bonus) Five minutes a day won’t be enough this summer. So here’s the list I actually use to prepare my clients: a collection of books and podcasts. The books take a journey from systems…
#ensakidag 501: AI pluralism, and a conversation with Olof Palme Today I called Olof Palme. For real, sort of. Someone in the AI Party (whose politics I hardly share) has vibe-coded a site: turn “Ring Olof Palme” into one word and move the dot into the…
Once upon a time, Lovable received a lot of justified criticism for generating redundant and poor-quality code. That still happens sometimes. But generally, I think we’re now at the point where it produces better frontend code than most developers and…
#ensakidag 500: half a thousand episodes later, the next journey begins ... about nine years of thinking and 500 episodes becoming raw material for AI, new ideas and new services. About entering a time when the boundary between user and developer is…
