If you are not visually impaired, chances are you may never have come across a screen reader or text-to-speech tool. So in this post, I’ll explain how they work. How they sound, as you will find it…

“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.” OpenAI recently released 350+ proofs of mathematical theorems, all in one go. “I imagine many mathemati…

The term “no-brainer” refers to a suggestion that is so compelling that it would be foolish to even consider not doing it. I came across a no-brainer recently, thanks to Matt Hobbs: Make al…

I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets, not replies or retweets) into this WordPress site as a proper Custom Post Type: https://chriscoyier.…

I totally would love to go to ffconf, but sadly I am building up an event that help running on the 13th, which takes place on the 14th. Well, I can…

Link: Margaret Hamilton on Software Engineering NASA software engineer Margaret Hamilton passed away th…

I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the…

My Fujica with the wide-angle lens on Wells beach. Following our evening with The Hu, we woke early-ish in a Premier Inn off the A47. We grabbed some bad coffee and drov…

When I first heard about Secretary of War Defense and human tribal tattoo Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the jihadist mass-murderer Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and it would be…

Lord, but I’m tired of recommendation engines. Tired in my bones. I watched a video of a musician I listened to obsessively in high school, but not much since then. He was playing an old favo…

Hello, My Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪡 Came across Valeria Duque’s series of embroidered photographs and…

The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Str…