Category: Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some links recommendations, a good meme and more.
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Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually
I think judging an LLM on it’s writing output is a complete category error. It’s what they possible with language that is important.
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Easter 2026
Over Easter I hung out with my parents, went for walks, participated in a chaotic church raffle, and did a bunch of odd jobs around the house.
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Creative Loop
All a scene really is, is just people just prompting each other in a tight feedback loop.
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Try Our Best
At the time of writing, we are about thirty hours from finding out whether the current global settlement is still to be or not.
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Writing for the Machines
Maybe I should just admit to myself that all I really want, is for some small trace of me to live forever in the mind of the machine god?
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The Launch and the Climb
The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.
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Up In Flames
This evening I just junked the whole thing and went with with a SaaS tool. So that was 12 solid hours spent this weekend totally up in flames.
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The Firehose and the Feed
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer to me.
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Resale Realism
The size second hand economy is growing super fast in the UK, about 11% a year.
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Large Language Numbers
I’ve been trying to get a better grip on what kind of world I’m actually living in right now.
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Prompted to Panic
All week I’ve been thinking to myself ‘I’m not going to write about Moltbook, I’m not going to write about Moltbook’. But I’ve found a work around! I’m going to…
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Nice To See You
I went to a friend’s birthday at the weekend and had a lot of conversations with people I haven’t seen since my early 20s.
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Dirty Looks
On Saturday I went to the ‘Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion’ exhibition that’s currently at Barbican until the 25th of Jan.
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Back From Sri Lanka
It already seems hard to belive that only a week ago I was sitting on the golden yellow sands of Negumbo Beach in Sri Lanka
