Now

Doing

Still doing research for my Master's degree. If you see me around the University of Essex, feel free to say hi!

Dusted my motorcycle off and brought it out of a winter slumber. Once I've sorted its irritating misfire out, it'll be my summer steed.

It's kayak season once again. Time to hit the water!

Reading

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence by Hans Moravec, 1998.

Driven by Compression Progress by Jürgen Schmidhuber is another banger read. 35 pages including footnotes make it a bit chunky though.

Using

OpenCode works really well. I use the MiniMax model. No wonder Anthropic's scared. As an experiment, I asked the then-current Big Pickle model to port this site over to eleventy and Bun, and while it didn't oneshot it, it took what would have been probably at least two hours of head-scratching and turned it into about twenty minutes of head-scratching.