Tim Abell

@tim_abell
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"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." by @mttaggart https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

This is a really good blogpost. And I"m sure it'll make some people unhappy to read whether they're pro or anti genAI. What's good about @mttaggart's blogpost is he talks honestly about how using Claude Code did actually solve the problem he set out to do. It needed various guardrails, but they were possible to set up, and the project worked. But the post is also completely clear and honest about how miserable it was:

- It removed the joy from the process
- If you aim to do the right thing and carefully evaluate the output, your job ends up eventually becoming "tapping the Y key"
- Ramifications on people learning things
- Plenty of other ethical analysis
- And the nagging wonder whether to use it next time, despite it being miserable.

I think this is important, because it *is* true that these tools are getting to the point where they can accomplish a lot of tasks, but the caveat space is very large (cotd)

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

https://browsergate.eu/

Another data scandal, this time it's LinkedIn... Send it to people that use LinkedIn on work computers...

#BrowserGate #linkedin #privacy #privacyrights

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

Nice tidy bullet rendering on android *and* a automatic build/release github actions pipeline. What's not to like.

https://github.com/timabell/markdown-neuraxis/actions/runs/23984792972 <- automatic build and release of v0.0.12

Thank you github for providing free build agents for public repos, absolute godsend for #FOSS

#Markdown #Android

New release of markdown-neuraxis desktop v0.0.11 has collapsible headings/bullets, which I think qualifies it as an #outliner

https://github.com/timabell/markdown-neuraxis/releases/tag/v0.0.11

Another #SideProject #SmallWin for the love of #FOSS #Markdown #Privacy and #SelfHosting

I'm hoping eventually this will be a haven for others like me looking for an alternative to the inspiring #LogSeq

Not ready for dog-fooding yet, but the pieces are falling into place and I'm determined to make it useable!

Are you still only using two factor authentication? I'm way ahead of you with my 7 factor authentication 🔐
Micro Journal Rev.2.1 is a distraction-free writerDeck with a full-sized keyboard and flip-up display - Liliputing

Micro Journal Rev.2.1 is a distraction-free writerDeck with a full-sized keyboard and flip-up display

Liliputing
markdown-neuraxis - alpha release v0.0.10
https://github.com/timabell/markdown-neuraxis/releases/tag/v0.0.10
Early testers & ideas wanted for this #FOSS #Markdown #PKMS tool, with #GTD & #PARA to come in time.

A mammoth 10k-line patch just merged to main for markdown-neuraxis - a complete replacement of markdown parsing engine

https://github.com/timabell/markdown-neuraxis/commit/40b10877e84a19c4699282026fecaddf66db0941

This should prove a good foundation for the ambitious goals of the project.

#PKMS #Markdown #FOSS #RustLang

refactor: Replace treesitter parser with rowan parser · timabell/markdown-neuraxis@40b1087

Complete rewrite of the parsing engine having run into the limitations of the pre-built treesitter-markdown parser. See new ADR-12 added in this commit for details of this decision

GitHub

New blog post: "Automatic release notes with semantic commits and git-cliff"

https://0x5.uk/2026/03/12/automatic-release-notes-with-semantic-commits-and-git-cliff/

#git #development

Automatic release notes with semantic commits and git-cliff

Helping teams ship software to be proud of.

Tim Abell - Helping teams ship software to be proud of.