June 13, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, emacs, macos, finder, markdown, duti, symlinks, homebrew, launch-services, 2025
How to fix the issue where Emacs doesn't appear in Finder's Open With menu for markdown files on macOS
April 28, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, kids, smartphones, social-media, regulation, identity, verification, 2025
Why the problem with kids and smartphones is software, not hardware
April 21, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, llm, programming, ai, claude, code, mech-suit, 2025
How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them
April 08, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, advertising, tax, pigovian, economics, policy, attention, feebate, 2025
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead?
April 01, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, crypto, stablecoin, netherzero, nether, defi, 2025
Introducing Nether (ØNTHR) — The World's First Perfect Stablecoin
March 17, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, podcast, whatnext, software, engineering, career, 2025
Mid-Series Update and Next Steps for the 'I'm a software engineer - what next?' podcast
January 29, 2025
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, ai, generative, genai, creativity, gen-ai, test, dat, 2025
Part 3 in the ongoing discussion about the 'creativity' of LLMs
December 27, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, things, learned, til, twil, 2024
A big list of 52+ things that I learned each week in 2024
November 13, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, podcast, knwowledge, creativity, ai, gen-ai, generative, software, programming, engineer
I drove >2,300 miles around the UK from London to Land's End to John o'Groats and back to London in a VW Californian camper and lived to tell the tale.
June 19, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, podcast, knwowledge, creativity, ai, gen-ai, generative, software, programming, engineer
Writing software is 20% syntax and 80% wisdom. Which bit do you think LLMs are good at?
June 03, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, podcast, knwowledge, creativity, ai, gen-ai, generative
When AI comes for Knowledge Workers
March 13, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, creativity, ai, dat, claude, gpt
How creative are ChatGPT and Claude? I made them (re)take the “Divergent Association Task” to find out. The results are (again) surprising.
February 28, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, finovate, europe, fintech, banking
I went to Finovate and listened to 35 fintech demos so you didn't have to
February 23, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, apple, vision, pro, avp, ar, vr, mr, spatial, computing
I wore an AVP on my head for 20 mins and lived to tell the tale
February 22, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, product, engineering, design, framework, strategy
An intentionally simple framework to help early discussions about what to build
February 08, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, broad, deep, work, remote, hybrid
Finding a balance between remote and in-person work
February 07, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, reading, list, 2024
Announcing three new reading lists for 2024.
January 16, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, elixir, phoenix, software, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in the Elixir ecosystem in 2023.
January 15, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, december, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in December 2023.
January 14, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, november, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in November 2023.
January 13, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, october, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in October 2023.
January 12, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, september, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in September 2023.
January 11, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, august, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in August 2023.
January 10, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, july, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in July 2023.
January 09, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, june, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in June 2023.
January 08, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, may, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in May 2023.
January 07, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, april, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in April 2023.
January 06, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, march, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in March 2023.
January 05, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, february, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in February 2023.
January 04, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, january, 2023
A review of all of the interesting things that happened in machine intelligence in January 2023.
January 03, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, machine, learning, 2023
Looking back at everything I learned in machine learning in 2023
January 02, 2024
by Matthew Sinclair Tags: braingasm, things, learned, til, twil
A big list of 52+ things that I learned each week in 2023