Last night's #boardgames included Dominion. It's hard to refuse when someone has brought an absolutely enormous box with about eight expansions.
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Nik Silver 🇺🇦
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I help organisations and their technical teams work together better.
Some reflections on last week's #CTOCraftCon, and in particular the sensible conversations around AI usage in digital product teams - plus the empathy that was a big part of that. And then relating it to a social media kerfuffle about AI and #vim.
https://niksilver.com/2026/03/17/some-humanity-behind-the-ai-hype/
Chris PittsOnce again a reminder that there is a circle of hell reserved for web designers who insist on disabling paste for password fields
@justine Sticking with #vim. From what I can tell the maintainers are using AI to assist in a difficult job - more so now that so much more code is incoming. That tool use that's fine by me. And they've proved they can do the thankless job of progressing development over the long term. They've earned my trust and respect.
@thirstybear If this isn't cat-proof I don't know what is.
Matrix management sometimes has a bad reputation. But I've had positive experiences with digital product teams. More in this week's blog post:
https://niksilver.com/2026/03/10/when-matrix-management-works/
@beng It makes *a* difference, and that's good. Also, by talking about it you make it easier for others to do the same.
Simon WillisonThe chardet open source library relicensed from LGPL to MIT two days ago thanks to a Claude Code assisted "clean room" rewrite - but original author Mark Pilgrim is disputing that the way this was done justifies the change in license - my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/
@thirstybear "These are not the automated tests you are looking for."
@Andylongshaw, I don't subscribe to many blogs, but @annashipman's is one that I do - always great thinking.