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Gareth Simpson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:14:40 -0000

Vibe coding is a bit like I imagine crack to be. Enjoyable, addictive and very bad for you.

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:01:41 -0000

Child 2 doing her patriotic duty

#RaiseTheColours

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:00:24 -0000

Child 1 doing god’s work.

#RaiseTheColours

Gareth Simpson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:38:21 -0000

I love my @trmnl and I am very much looking forward to my X, but having an order tracker that shows less than 1 order a day progress is a bold move.

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:05:06 -0000

From time to time my wife will ask me “do you have ADHD?” And now with #ai coding tools and the revival of every side project I’ve ever done we finally have an answer.

Yes. Yes I do.

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:37:16 -0000

Tik Tok woke up and chose violence.

#seniors

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:06:38 -0000

If this is happening to @siracusa, I can only assume it's driving him insane.

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:16:42 -0000

Thanks Barclays. We’ve gone through the entire beta cycle and you’ve done this with the end in sight?

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:29:34 -0000

Every time I make my daughter a cheese toasty I wonder if the George Foreman marketing department physically attacked the product designers for missing the opportunity to brand everything cooked on their grill with the company name.

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:48:31 -0000

My family is hard on phones.

Gareth Simpson — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:50:06 -0000

It’s like an episode of fucking Masterchef.

Gareth Simpson — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:04:22 -0000

Anyone who doesn’t like LLMs hasn’t had to do mandatory training modules for their job.

#ChatGPT #llm

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:59:30 -0000

Is this ironic? It feels like it might be ironic.

#gravy #ai

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:48:25 -0000

Having finally started using Cursor properly, this blog post has inspired me to try agents a bit more.

https://allenpike.com/2025/coding-agents

So far so good. I am on the road with my wife issuing orders to a posse of eager junior developers to add simple but useful features to various projects that I would never get around to.

It’s actually kind of terrifying. Not sure I’m being the company Emma hoped for while we fetch this horse.

I don’t even have my laptop with me.

#cursor #ai

Gareth Simpson — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:16:12 -0000

My Trmnl arrived and I’m in love!

Stayed up too late last night making a dashboard for my wife’s business.

Might be a little more impressive looking if I hadn’t finished after midnight 🤦🏻‍♂️

#trmnl

Gareth Simpson — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:00:18 -0000

I've used Cursor for ages, but just for much more expansive autocomplete. I've never really embraced vibe coding until today.

I'm not 100% sure it's quicker than by hand but its more fun.

Like pair programming with an enthusiastic golden retriever who is simultaneously an incredibly knowledgeable developer and a complete idiot.

#cursor #development

Recast 1.7

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:03:02 -0000

Annual upgrade. Now using Django 5.1 and django-feed-reader 2

What's Changed

Add test source option to the feedgarden. by @xurble in #33
Bump django from 4.2.10 to 4.2.11 by @dependabot in #34
Bump idna from 3.6 to 3.7 by @dependabot in #35
Bump sqlparse from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot in #36
Bump requests from 2.31.0 to 2.32.0 by @dependabot in #37
Bump urllib3 from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 by @dependabot in #38
Bump certifi from 2024.2.2 to 2024.7.4 by @dependabot in #39
Bump django from 4.2.11 to 4.2.15 by @dependabot in #41
feat: Upgrade everything by @xurble in #45

Full Changelog: v1.6...v1.7

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:38:40 -0000

It is now 11 years since I wrote my podcast catch-up service Recast. In that time I still haven’t found a podcast client that neatly handles listening to an existing podcast from the first episode. So I’ve given it its annual dust-off and upgrade and it will continue on again.

If you’re looking for something worth catching up on, I highly recommend Origin Story by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey.

Listen at your own pace by getting a Recast link here: https://recastthis.com/source/1511/

#podcast #rss

Gareth Simpson — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:14:21 -0000

Went to cast my futile vote. Almost tactically voted Tory to try and keep Reform from winning but if we’re honest are they really any better? 🤷

#ukpolitics

Gareth Simpson — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:32:37 -0000

Enjoy it, but accept that you just lost it.

Courtesy of my daughter.

#thegame

Gareth Simpson — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:07:38 -0000

I’m listening to @siracusa compare LLM vibe-coding to 4GLs on @atpfm

Hard to believe 4GLs were going to be the next big thing. My (admittedly very bad) university course was filled with 4GL and CASE talk. I think the only thing I learned at uni that I still use today is SQL. Everything else was a future that never came or already on the way to being the past.

Gareth Simpson — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:16:14 -0000

I don’t have favourite children but if I did, this is the kind of behaviour that would get you bonus points.

Gareth Simpson — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:41:29 -0000

My internet service is undergoing denazification.

I’m not a big fan of school uniform but Hunter makes it work

Gareth Simpson — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:06:21 -0000

Gareth Simpson — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:03:19 -0000

My eldest, Maddie, has completed her cabin crew training and is doing her first flights today. FlightRadar is the new Find My.

#EasternAirlines #cabincrew