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15 articles.

Spotlite: the modern CV template

The template this site runs on, and what I learnt rebuilding it with two AI platforms.

AI-dō: the way of AI, grounded in practice

I have written a book about working with AI well. It is free to read, and it argues that the model you pick matters far less than the work you do around it.

Hello Calc: a homage to every HP calculator

I have rebuilt thirty-five HP calculators, from the 1972 HP-35 to the HP Prime, as a single web app. Not an emulator, but a reimplementation in TypeScript.

Colossal Cave Adventure, rebuilt over breakfast

Colossal Cave Adventure ported to strictly typed TypeScript over a few breakfasts, and checked against the original's own ninety-five test transcripts. Then a second model laid out the cave map the first one could not.

APQC's process framework, and the section I wrote

We picked a global process taxonomy off the shelf, could not make our own work fit inside it, and were eventually asked to write one of its sections ourselves.

The HP 48, and two programs I wrote for it

I have loved HP calculators all my life, and the HP 48 was the first I bought with my own hard earned money. In 1991 I taught mine the foreign exchange market and how to price a bond.

A 6809 board that recorded MIDI and spoke SDLC

Five of us built one microprocessor board in 1987 and submitted it for two courses at once. It bridged a synthesiser and a VAX, and it was meant to be where Rubato came out.

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