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If you're using AI in your work, are you finding it to be too intense sometimes, even exhausting? I'm finding I can get a lot done, but that I'm also sometimes resisting even thinking about using an AI for anything until I am fully rested and have stepped awa…

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Rick yesterday

Stayed at the Daiwa Roynet Shimbashi

ダイワロイネットホテル新橋【公式】

Daiwa Roynet Hotel SHIMBASHI[Official]

This is the official website of the Daiwa Roynet Hotel SHIMBASHI. The hotel is ideal for business and tourism.

and was pleasantly surprised. No BS about handing over my id at check-in, room was small but well designed, shower was great, breakfast good.

Rick 2 days ago

I feel a little vindicated, having always thought key rotation is ‘security theater’. Thanks Linus

Making sure you're not a bot!

Rick 4 days ago

Thought-provoking essay on systems thinking. Of those 3000 tangled systems they mention, imagine how many are only understood by 1 or 2 people and you start to see how politics factors in cleaning up techical debt. Via (Hacker News)[https://news.ycombinator…

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Thought-provoking essay on systems thinking.

Thought-provoking essay on systems thinking. Of those 3000 tangled systems they mention, imagine how many are only understood by 1 or 2 people and ...

Rick 4 days ago

I'm planning a new feature in one of our security monitoring systems, and so far, Anthropic's just-released Opus 4.6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 model is just outstanding in its ability to suss out every detail. Color me impressed, Claude!

Rick 1 week ago

Who needs research

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How AI Impacts Skill Formation

AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects...

showing AI assistance won't really help novice coders? AIs are great at executing fast but don't yet reason well and cannot replace human experience.

Rick 1 week ago

Shiori writes about doing a digital detox

Tech It Easy Blog

Small Digital Detox Habits

Introducing simple and sustainable digital detox tips practiced by an IT professional—find your perfect balance with technology.

in eSolia's Tech IT Easy blog. Stepping back and taking a breath worth a try, sometimes!

Rick 2 weeks ago

I love Cloudflare Radar "The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weather, technical problems, and more." Via The Cloudflare Blog h…

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I love Cloudflare Radar > "The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity.

I love Cloudflare Radar "The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the i...

Rick 2 weeks ago

Which AI lies the best? So long sucker

So Long Sucker

Which AI Lies Best? Gemini 3 Manipulates Weaker Models, Cooperates With Itself

162 games analyzed: AI deception is strategic, not intrinsic. Watch Gemini 3 create fake

might help determine that. "(the game) was designed in 1950 by four game theorists including John Nash (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame). The game has one brutal property: betrayal is required to win."

Rick 3 weeks ago

Love this essay from Ploum

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

about use of chatbots during exams! Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever) when doing research and investigating a subject. You have the choice to…

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Love this essay from Ploum about use of chatbots during exams!

Love this essay from Ploum about use of chatbots during exams! Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever) when doing res...

Rick 3 weeks ago

We had an old vacuum cleaner battery, and several old mobile phones and portable recharger batteries, which you cannot simply throw out in the trash. I took them to Totsuka ward office 9th floor and deposited them in the recycling receptacle.

Rick 0 months ago

Cloudflare is in the process of merging Pages into Workers, so I am migrating a bunch of apps now.

Rick 0 months ago

If you like design and thinking about design, User Friendly

Hardcover

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play - Hardcover

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK 'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly rese...

by Cliff Kuang is a home run of a book. Just fantastic. You could follow its threads to study further, for a year. 📚

Rick 1 month ago

We at eSolia are leveraging Sveltekit for a platform of dynamic sites and a client site, and it works really well. See what's new on the Svelte blog https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-january-2026. <i class="ph-duotone ph-code text-red"></i>

Rick 1 month ago

The AI vs Creator Dilemma The AI Creator Dilemma: Value Extraction, Attribution, and the Fight for Fair Compensation

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The AI vs Creator Dilemma

The web runs on a fundamental bargain: creators publish content, readers consume it, and somewhere in between, value flows back—through advertisi...

Rick 1 month ago

Beginner devs it goes without saying, because even a seasoned pro software dev will benefit from roadmap.sh

roadmap.sh

Developer Roadmaps - roadmap.sh

Community driven roadmaps, articles and guides for developers to grow in their career.

It's stunning how much knowledge they've packed in their website. <i class="ph-duotone ph-robot text-fuchsia"></i>

Rick 1 month ago

The latest version of Rogue Ameba's Audio Hijack

Audio Hijack - Record any audio on Mac

Record VoIP calls from Zoom, web streams from Safari, and much more.

is fantastic. You can really do a lot more with it, but I am using it to make recordings for podcasts, with a chain of processing automation. Good stuff! <i class="ph-du…

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The latest version of Rogue Ameba

Rick 1 month ago

Cloudflare eating their own dogfood at their 600-odd data centers globally. Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges by…

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Cloudflare eating their own dogfood at their 600-odd data centers globally.

Cloudflare eating their own dogfood at their 600-odd data centers globally. Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built...

Rick 1 month ago

My staff made a blog about a point I got confused when I first started using M365. See our post on the Tech It Easy Blog

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Make the Most of OneDrive! Clearly Understand the Difference fro…

A beginner-friendly guide that clearly explains the differences between OneDrive and SharePoint. From the basics to practical tips for improving wo...

Rick 1 month ago

A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu on Jan 7th marks the "Jinjitsu no Sekku" (人日の節句)—the Festival of Humanity, one of the five sacred seasonal festivals in Japan.

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A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu

A Bowl of Renewal: Nanakusa-gayu on January 7th Today marks Jinjitsu no Sekku (人日の節句)—the Festival of Humanity, one of the five sacred ...