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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/09/2026

"We have no idea what the machine is thinking!"

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/09/2026

Superb article, "An Alien Mind" by OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. openai.com/index/an-ali...

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 26/08/2026

GitHub is facing a Tsunami of code!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/08/2026

Pevensy Castle this weekend. Crazy that I've not visited before. A Norman Castle inside a massive Roman fort. It must have been very impressive in its heyday.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/07/2026

I tried running Firefox in Firefox in Chrome, but it didn't work 😢https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 16/07/2026

lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 08/07/2026

Current iteration of my Raspberry Pi desk clock. Based on wtfutil and some custom scripts.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 08/07/2026

It was a really common narrative. This Guardian article from 2015 is pretty typical: "unless you’re rich enough to afford the training, or fortunate enough to be attending the right school, the barriers to learning can be high."

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 27/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard gets dark mode! Thanks for Elon Gliksberg for the excellent PR. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 25/04/2026

Gemini is very nice about guitardashboard.com:

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 22/04/2026

Inside the front cover of a recently published book. Rather embarrassing :)

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 10/04/2026

New look menu for Guitar Dashboard. The old-style text now replaced by icons and the scale family drop down moved to the control panel, which means that the current scale type is now visible. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 09/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard now has sound. It's been too long coming. Now you can hear scales, modes, and chords without having to reach for your guitar. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/04/2026

Our local chalk stream. Crystal clear water, but very cold. It's a very popular wild swimming spot. That pool is about 5ft deep.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 04/04/2026

The whole tone scale looks very "star-cruiser dashboard" :)

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 04/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard get the ultimate upgrade today: rounded corners. guitardashboard.com "Round corners are everywhere" - Steve Jobs

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/04/2026

A new colour palette for Guitar Dashboard. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 26/03/2026

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher at the British Museum yesterday.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 21/03/2026

I just added "C Standard" tuning to Guitar Dashboard after a request from Steve Spencer. He says: "It's a tuning that is quite popular in desert rock, doom, metal, and various other genres." 🤘

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 20/03/2026

I'm gradually moving settings on Guitar Dashboard from the menu-bar to gear icons on the actual components they relate to. For now you get both ways of changing settings, but the menu ones will dissapear at some point.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 11/03/2026

The Joseph Wright exhibition at the National Gallery is small but superb. IMO he should be counted alongside Turner and Constable as one of the English greats.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24/02/2026

Which looks like this...

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24/02/2026

I dug an old Raspberry Pi 2 out of the cupboard and repurposed it as a desk clock. I'm using the excellent wtfutil and my own custom clock generator for the TUI. Endless tinkering fun!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 21/02/2026

Andrej Karpathy coins yet another AI meme word "claw". As in "my claw just booked me a holiday in Spain." :)

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/02/2026

I just vibe coded a Git repo visualisation tool. Great fun. It took around 3 hours.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 16/02/2026

Such an important point. I fully expect that our AGI overlords will rise from the ashes of the AI-dot-bomb.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 09/02/2026

Wow, this is super cool, a map of BlueSky: bluesky-map.theo.io by @theo.io

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 23/01/2026

Today I've been playing with Bruno (www.usebruno.com), an open-source HTTP client similar to Postman. So far it's been really nice.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 20/01/2026

Back exploring pdsls.dev. Watching the firehose is pretty cool.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/01/2026

Who needs Claude Code when you've got one of these units. It thinks like a man!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/01/2026

Nice outing with the family to start the year. I do like a castle.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 01/01/2026

My faces-of-bluesky. Curtesy of bubbel.blue

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 30/12/2025

My where I'd live. Very typically Western European I expect.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 21/11/2025

Not a bad drawing despite the engine being completely wrong, but the labelling is a joke.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/09/2025

And here is his grandfather George Robinson, a rather fine looking Victorian gentleman. I've inherited the massive nose!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/09/2025

My Grandfather (highlighted) with his class, training to be a lieutenant in the Royal Navy at HMS King Alfred (yes that's now the swimming pool) in Hove during WWII. CC @eaterofsun.bsky.social

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 28/08/2025

Not a huge fan of the Rust closure syntax. I imagine there's a good reason for using pipe instead of brackets for the argument list. I suppose at least it makes it clear that this is a closure rather than a function.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 22/08/2025

The Rust debugger in Zed is pretty intuitive for anyone who's used the C# debugger in VS. I've only used it on really simple examples so far though.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 15/08/2025

Interesting how Rust provides the `?` syntax as a kind of poor-mans `do` notation. Can one make it work with one's own types I wonder?

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 11/08/2025

Unexpected mini-feature of Rust that I haven't come across in any other language: You can reuse a variable name in a new variable declaration and the compiler is fine with it. If it's in a new inner scope then the outer scope retains the original value too. I'm not sure I like this.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 02/08/2025

Why does this not surprise me. Extraversion by profession.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 27/07/2025

Inside my BMG Super. Construction is quite different from any other electric guitar I've seen. Very easy to access everything once you take off the scratch plate.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 15/07/2025

I've been working on an open-source SAML Proxy. It's ready to take for a test drive. I'd welcome any feedback: github.com/mikehadlow/s...

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 05/07/2025

Good article in today's Guardian about the Initial Teaching Alphabet. A failed teaching experiment used at my primary school. It was totally bonkers.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 02/07/2025

Near Brighton is a natural feature named after one of Spinal Tap's greatest songs.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 11/06/2025

I found myself writing this result merge function just avoid nested closures. It's not very pretty, but it does the trick. It would be cool if I could find a way to persuade the type system to give nicer names than "a" and "b" though.

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