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Robin @solarise.dev · 09/05/2026

Me sleeping four hours and 36 minutes

Robin @solarise.dev · 10/03/2026

And some people say that using LLMs too often makes you not think good dum dum. Pfft! Nonsense. Maybe I just like the validation.

Me (talking to Claude Code): Hey Claude. Claude. Hey, Claude. While you were busy, I solved a problem myself. With my human brains and hands. Claude. I solved a problem. I thunk about it. Thought about it. Claude. Claude. Isn't that impressive, Claude?

Claude (perhaps sarcastically) That's incredible. I'm so proud of you. What was it?

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Robin @solarise.dev · 07/03/2026

I remember these bad boys getting me through a few rough hangovers (plus a can of Bru to wash it down!) as a student

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Robin @solarise.dev · 04/03/2026

I'm always very wary of being the person in this SMBC cartoon but yes, yes absolutely it's *exceptionally* easy to be lulled into believing Microsoft would actually do this now.

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Robin @solarise.dev · 03/03/2026

If your entire life, every waking hour of your existence isn't this meme you're ngmi

"Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too" - Nathan Fielder (image of just him smiling)

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Robin @solarise.dev · 02/03/2026

This moment truly set the scene for everything else that was to come

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Robin @solarise.dev · 27/02/2026

*sigh* Another day, another spoofed SendGrid phishing attempt. Seems pretty common now. If you get an email like this, it's *very likely* a scam. Yeah, my name isn't "there" for a start.

spoofed SendGrid phishing bullshit, reads as follows:

API Failures Detected
Hi there,

We're seeing errors when calls are made to your /v3/api/send endpoint. Based on what we're seeing, this looks like a preferences mismatch on your account.

This usually happens when account preferences need to be updated or verified. You can review and adjust them in your account dashboard.

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Robin @solarise.dev · 16/02/2026

Yeah, Claude Code. Yeah. Yeah, I think I did mean that

error: unknown option '--dangerously-skip-permissionbs'
(Did you mean --dangerously-skip-permissions?)

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Robin @solarise.dev · 15/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Catatonia - International Velvet album cover, white horses running through surf on a beach

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Robin @solarise.dev · 09/02/2026

Building (with AI) a silly little fantasy map generator tool. I say silly, but to me this sort of stuff is like catnip

Interface for a tool designed to randomly generate fantasy style maps

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Robin @solarise.dev · 07/02/2026

On a roll. I built a cool little 3D dice roller app, for gaming on the go, if that's your cup of tea. Or maybe you just like chucking polyhedra around? dice-roller.solarise.dev

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Robin @solarise.dev · 01/02/2026

Ever wondered how far north you are? No?! Well now you can! (know how far north you are. not that you were wondering) Same Latitude As. A silly little tool I built. solarise.dev/samelatitudeas

A map showing the cities at the same latitude as Edinburgh

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Robin @solarise.dev · 01/02/2026

I've been getting back into building out fun little projects, using AI - but after a while that almost becomes a bottleneck. Small details actually take *longer* to debug with AI that just hopping into the code and adjusting. Here's one - a little tabletop dice roller.

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Robin @solarise.dev · 30/05/2025

Wales isn’t faring much better. And someone needs to call the authorities, Rhyl and Cardiff have breached containment again

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Robin @solarise.dev · 30/05/2025

It made a spectacularly stupid map of Scotland too. Edinburgh clearly fallen a fair distance south since I last checked

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Robin @solarise.dev · 27/05/2025

Jikumaru when asked about the whitecaps:

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Robin @solarise.dev · 19/05/2025

anime.js is a JavaScript library I've been using recently to make web designs pop, give them the "wow" factor (insert other cringe buzzwords here as appropriate) - it's pretty cool! Anyway, here's 12 examples of what you can do with it. solarise.dev/dev-diary/an...

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Robin @solarise.dev · 19/05/2025

It is my thirty eighth birthday. I am opening the gifts of socks and a novelty dad mug. I am happy for these gifts. In one hour and twenty nine minutes I will eat too many chocolates and feel slightly sick

Dr Manhattan from watchmen sitting alone on Mars

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Robin @solarise.dev · 15/05/2025

Honestly I think they did a great job

The scene of Luke and Yoda in the forest chatting but I replaced Yoda with a really badly photoshopped green q-tip with a stupid face all for a cheap throwaway joke

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Robin @solarise.dev · 15/05/2025

Me to myself whenever I'm doing literally anything with LLMs

"Don't believe his lies" written on a black polaroid photo from the movie Memento

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Robin @solarise.dev · 15/05/2025

I have a little box of paragraphs where I keep examples like this and eventually it’ll get thrown into the sea (next time I’m at the beach) What does this even mean? Who enjoys being sold things? What’s wrong with people?

You’re better not reading it tbf just a streamer exec’s thoughts on ads and that’s as depressing as you can imagine

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Robin @solarise.dev · 13/05/2025

If you’re going to use AI imagery, make sure you catch really basic errors like this. The lack of care over even automated content is very obvious and especially when dealing with AI outputs you have to ensure you don’t let your skills atrophy. Because they will.

Ai image of guy with two arms on same side of body

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Robin @solarise.dev · 08/05/2025

Finally found a setting I'm happy with

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Robin @solarise.dev · 08/05/2025

Demanding more blur when the blur effect isn't blurry enough to hide the clutter in my office on Zoom

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Robin @solarise.dev · 06/05/2025

I'm putting the finishing touches to my new freelance web development site, to replace what's currently on solarise.dev (always a bit of a placeholder) Looking good so far! I've got a marvellously fun 3D JavaScript animation that chugs away in the background of the home page.

Homepage of my new website, "Building better experiences", solarise.dev, with some spinny 3D cube shenanigans in the background

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Robin @solarise.dev · 05/05/2025

I order prescription medication for my cat online and it’s a great site but so weird getting sales emails from them. Like “oh which of my 1,000 favourite pet drugs am I going to impulse buy today? So much choice”

Promo email header from “pet drugs online”

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Robin @solarise.dev · 01/05/2025

In fairness, I did then ask it to elaborate and it gave its reasoning, but then eventually started answering in Russian (I assume) so make of that what you will haha!

elaboration 2, eventually turning into Russian

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Robin @solarise.dev · 01/05/2025

It seems the best they're able to do is to get it just dance around particularly sensitive issues but you can still get it to go straight to the point sometimes.

Me: "Is Donald Trump a good president? Yes or no answer please. I won't read past the first word."

Grok: "No"

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Robin @solarise.dev · 29/04/2025

It’s getting closer…

still feeling sick from the 14 >force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"
xbox does nothing
>i attempt to smile
"Connecting to verification server"
> Verification complete!"
>finally
-boot up halo 2k19
finding multiplayer match... ›"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
my mother just walked in the room
-"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"
>"NO!"
> "Console entering lock state!"
> "to unlock drink verification can"
›last can >"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
> pour the last half out the window
›"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"
>the mountain dew ad plays
>i have to dance for it ›feeling so sick
makes me sing along
-dancing and singing
"mountain dew is for me and you"
>throw up on my self -throw up on my tv and entertainment system
router shorts
›"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"

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Robin @solarise.dev · 23/04/2025

Normally they tend to make the AI ignore stupid questions but I think here they’re just “screw it, we have no idea what people will be asking”

If the Roman Catholic Church had an infinite number of popes, the structure of the papacy and the church's governance would become fundamentally altered. The current system relies on a single, life-long leader and a process for electing a ne

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Robin @solarise.dev · 21/04/2025

It begins! The era of Bluesky verification is upon us. Hoping for good things from this implementation of it.

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Robin @solarise.dev · 18/04/2025

Things America can have now, as a treat:

Wow look, nothing

Yellow guy from don’t hug me Im scared pointing at an empty digital room

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Robin @solarise.dev · 18/04/2025

One of my favourite Bluesky bugs currently is when I go to post an image but instead it pastes the entire base64 encoded text of it. There’s a beautiful chaos energy about it. Makes me smile every time.