Tall, dark, black-clad, atheist, skeptic, vegetarian, SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
Liam Proven
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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys
danq.me/2026/06/09/f...
F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
A really good article about creating a website for its intended users, rather than an exercise for the developer to use the latest client-side gadgets that need huge amounts of JavaScript.
Liam Proven
Liam Proven
Liam Proven
Tom Cox
The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.
But those answers are in fact statistically generic.
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science
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It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home
MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd
www.theregister.com/software/202...
Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
<- by me on @theregister.com
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and…
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are…
shkspr.mobi
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
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For 10s of 1000s of yrs, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took me up close
Liam Proven
Liam Proven
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home
The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took…
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My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
