Morning tunes from The Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation 🎶

Barclay Viewforth Church in the autumn light 📸

Evening reading: 1177 BC, Eric H. Cline

Wee wander with the family up at Midmar Paddock to enjoy the afternoon sun 📸

Just posted a couple of reflections to my website on one month of two boys.

Went to the Lothian Bus Depot Doors Open Day yesterday. Lots of family fun!

First visit to the bike park at the Crags Centre with the boy - will hopefully graduate from a balance bike soon 📸

Listening to a lot of AC/DC Powerage this week ⚡🤘

That was good ⚡🤘⚡

It’s been a hot day in Kirkcudbright ☀️

Some garden colours 📸

Fresh blueberries and strawberries.

Wee visit to see the Capybara at the zoo this morning

Went for a walk in the Dales yesterday near Reeth, up past the Old Gang Smelting Mine. It got pretty misty at the top!

Spent the afternoon at Parliament talking to MSPs about the Scottish Technology scene and what I thought could be done to improve the ecosystem. Thanks to Gordon Guthrie for organising!

Solstice segement run with Interval Running up Arthur’s Seat. Gordon and I put in one segment each. Incredible effort from some other folks doing loads more!

Lots of interesting wee tools and workflows being built with Claude Code, e.g. convert code change history to a markdown presentation

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Morning 7km run in Regents Park 📸

Lunch date at Scarlet Green, followed by a short wander in the Enlightenment gallery at the British Museum

Morning at the Hunterian Museum

Good to catch up with so many familiar faces at Tectonic Night Summit yesterday.

“The German army in 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with somewhere between 600,000 and 750,000 horses. The horses were not for riding. They were for moving guns, ammunition and supplies. Weeks prior to the invasion, 15,000 Panje carts were issued to the infantry units that would trail behind the fast-moving Panzers. The vast majority of Germany’s soldiers marched into Russia, as they had into France, on foot.”

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction

Glorious morning run around Liberton and the Braids ☀️

Software eating the world was predicated on zero marginal cost. Cognition eating software brings back a metered bill. The firms that thrive will treat compute as COGS, UX as moat, and rapid iteration as life support. Everyone else will discover that “AI shaped holes” can also be money pits: expensive, probabilistic, and mercilessly competitive.

from Strange Loop Cannon

11km around Parkrun and back with the boy in the buggy, so a wee treat from the new Toscano sandwich place in Bruntsfield for lunch. Recommended!

There was a turtle at the loch!