Blog posts

2025

Structuring my research notes2025-08-09
Writing tests with Metaphor2025-06-01
Introducing Metaphor commands2025-04-24
The importance of context in AI-assisted coding2025-04-04
Initial thoughts on Google Gemini 2.52025-03-28
Vibe coding2025-03-20

2024

commit-critic: An AI-powered, AI-built code review tool2024-11-15
Code reviews using Metaphor2024-11-06
Introducing Metaphor: An AI-first software development language2024-11-01
Maximal Instruction Prompting: a strategy for software development with LLMs2024-08-06
Can my tools build tools? Pre-rendering web pages with help from ChatGPT2024-07-15

2020

Understanding other people's code2020-01-27

2017

What IoT history reveals about blockchain's challenges2017-01-06

2016

A market for Bitcoin transaction fees?2016-02-03
Behold mighty exahash, hammer of the blocks!2016-01-05

2015

Bitcoin traffic bulletin (redux)2015-12-20
Waiting for blocks2015-12-19
The myth of the megabyte Bitcoin block2015-01-18

2014

Pool wars?2014-12-05
The future of Bitcoin transaction fees?2014-11-12
Bitcoin traffic bulletin2014-11-11
7 transactions per second? Really?2014-11-02
The gambler's guide to Bitcoin mining2014-06-30
51% of the network2014-06-23
Finding 2016 blocks2014-06-15
Lies, damned lies and Bitcoin difficulties2014-06-10
Strange spikes revisited!2014-06-05
Reach for the ear defenders!2014-05-24
Hash rate headaches2014-05-20
Prisoner's dilemmas?2014-04-30
Megawatts of mining2014-04-28
The rewards for a Bitcoin miner2014-04-03
Where next for Bitcoin mining ASICs?2014-03-23
Chickens and eggs?2014-03-17
Strange spikes in the Bitcoin price2014-03-12
The Bitcoin runaway mine train2014-03-09