Weeknotes 253

Saw my first obviously written by AI job posting this week. Also saw a recruiter complaining about AI-written CVs being submitted.

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue

This is easy to be judgemental about, but I can see how this might happen. Don’t try and pretend you’ve never had production credentials set in ENV vars on your computer 😉

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – For a lot of the reasons many people are now dissatisfied with GitHub.

Notepad++ for Mac

Notepad++ is now natively available for macOS.
No Wine, no emulation. A full native port for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Ok, but why? Cool for multiple operating system users I guess?

We’ve been in Oslo since Friday. We go home tomorrow. We left the airport on a nice train and arrived in a very quiet city. Later on we realised it was a public holiday here, so that made sense. Saying that, Oslo seems really quiet for a capital.

We’d heard about the high cost of living in Norway, of course but I was not fully prepared to pay £85 for the train, or £38 for two waffles and two coffees. We’d spent > £120 in under two hours since arriving! We took full advantage of the hotel breakfast on offer after that, which we wouldn’t usually do, to try and curb our spending.

On the first day we went on a walking tour, and then took a boat trip up the Oslo Fjords (you might have a different picture in your mind about what “Fjords” means in this instance, these are not those) which was great. Not only was the boat nice and steady, but the views on offer were superb.

Oslo is a nice enough city. It feels very safe. However, I can’t see me returning for a regular holiday any time soon.

At Manchester Airport we didn’t have to have to take our liquids out of our bags, or put them in tiny plastic bags, or take our shoes off. What a time to be alive. However, their sign for “Departures” points the wrong way, and their car park is awful. You take the rough with the smooth.

Is It Panic Time? Linux’s Big Bad ‘Copy Fail’ Security Exploit – Seems bad.

I started reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth. It’s really good so far.

I’m trying to use KOReader again. The interface remains completely baffling. I keep asking whether the constrained environment of running on a Kindle is the cause or just a straight forward bad UI?

It has me considering other E Ink devices too. My Kindle is getting old in the tooth and something that I could more easily fit into my homelab setup might be nice, but there are a lot of E Ink devices around now and I don’t think I need a research project at the moment.

I’ve been really enjoying Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord.