So it's out there that - with great sadness - I'm winding down my training business & looking for a new challenge
But it's not quite over yet. I have 3 *final* workshops for developers (and, in one case, non-devs, too) coming up - all on special offer 2day
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/
The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.
Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.
#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb
Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).
And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.
If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!
The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into your company. The first couple of years, students love your program. Positive feedback, extraordinary student outcomes, employees love the mission. You are quite literally […]
A little story based on a dream last night.
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We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.
Mia drove. I was still sweating out nicotine when we passed the first hand-painted sign: “NO DRONES. NO CLOUD. NO EXPLAINING.”
We were looking for machines, but not those machines.
@NanoRaptor Humility is a superpower.
Not saying this in the rainbows-and-unicorns humanistic sense, but in a very practical one.
If you recognize that you don’t know everything and approach life as such, you:
1. Get along with people better.
2. Don’t become stuck in your ways.
3. Learn new and better ways to approach even things you’re good at.
4. Don’t feel nearly as bad when you realize you’ve been doing something wrong.
Being humble isn’t just nice, it’s _liberating_.
Today is Lack Of Awareness Awareness Day.
I would ask you to spread the word, but I’m not sure that would help.
https://xkcd.com/3110/ is one letter away from presenting a nice example of Russell’s paradox.
The alt text is:
“Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.”
If that was “any online leaderboard” then the meta-leaderboard would include itself and its members would be excluded from being members of itself (because ranking highly on this leaderboard of low rankers would mean they are not low rankers on a leaderboard), but being excluded would mean that they would not rank highly on the meta-leaderboard which would qualify them to be included, which would therefore exclude them and so on.
I’m no expert, but I believe that Russell’s answer to this was to declare that meta-leaderboards are a different category (or “type”) of thing than ordinary leaderboards, making it not a member of itself by definition.
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