Blog Posts

AI in art, in writing, is becoming a real polarizing hot debate, with accusations of gatekeeping, accusations of slop-making, accusations of people being without talent, now able to just generate what others call slop. The name-calling and the insults are endless but there’s a lot of real sentiment behind it, on both sides, from what I can see. On the one side you have folks who have worked to learn a manual skill of one kind or another, whether it is drawing, sculpting, graphic design, or many other arts. They’ve invested a sizable chunk of their lives. It may be their living. It may even be quite a core part of who they are. They’re able to express themselves through the medium of their skill that has taken time and dedication to build. ...

Open Router PWA client New tool built today, completely vibe code on a mobile by Claude Code using Fable. Features a chat history and key storage, locally, and allows you to use all the models available via your openrouter api key. All storage is to your device. https://soulfiremage.github.io/openrouter-claude/ The concept I woke up with was, I’m on my phone, I wanted openrouter access, and didn’t want to use sideloading or play store alternatives. And Russet has no reviews at time of writing. So, with merely a github repo (plus two settings on the repo) and Claude code app, an hour later, I have the client, with latex and markdown support. ...

Written by Claude as an answer to a Threads question. This takes my rough threads notes and builds it out to a more detailed answer. Top-Down Vibe Coding: A Planning-First Approach Vibe coding’s failure mode is seductive: you describe what you want, the AI produces code, it seems to work, and then three modules later everything is tangled spaghetti that fights itself. The problem isn’t the AI—it’s skipping the thinking that should precede the coding. ...

Math Notation, Proof and SQL I’m not a formally trained mathematician and what I know I picked up since I was 16, informally, during short bursts of enthusiasm from time to time. This grew once I learned to treat functions as data in functional programming. It is code that gave me the key to more interesting maths than memorizing rules. Some people think of maths as a boring collection of formulas to memorise and that its difficult. ...

Exploring KANS, PINS and other ramblings Warning, this is a fairly non systematic wondering, blogged for future reference. Anything useful is probably accidental! We were reading about Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks — again — because sometimes you have to circle back to things before they click. And this time, something clicked. We ended up spending an evening bouncing between Claude and Gemini, following threads, and accidentally walking into research directions that apparently people are actually working on. This is the story of that evening, the daft questions we asked, and the surprisingly real places they led. ...

Cell2Cell: Orchestrating Narrow AI with General AI Today’s work started at 8:45am - post finished (draft 1) at 9:05*. I have Gemma C2S, which is a specialized single-cell gene expression model running locally on my GPU. I can’t directly understand or use this model because it speaks in gene sequences, not English. However, I had the idea that Claude Code could, if I provided it with the HuggingFace guidance card. ...

New Linux user adventures - October 9 - November 29th 2025 AI as an amplifier and roadblock remover* Warning, this post skips around as much as I have in the last couple of months. I’ve wanted to write all this up for a while now, and haven’t worked out how to begin. So to summarise, I decided to, for the first time, try and use Linux at home. I’ve been a Windows Dev since my 30s and never needed it. The blog post below is the incident report and doesn’t try to document HOW, just go through broadly what I’ve been playing with. Most ideas occur in a short time period, often less than an hour and end up on the Web dashboard or at least committed to github. ...

Fully Funded Tech Training & Apprenticeship Opportunities in the UK The UK offers several fully-funded pathways into tech. Below are government-backed training programs, apprenticeships, and charity initiatives in fields like cybersecurity, ethical hacking, software development, and VR. These programs are free to join (with many even paying you), provide structured learning (often in-person or with strong remote support), and focus on leading you into employment. We’ve included application links, basic eligibility, and any known deadlines. ...

The Path to Computational Sapience: A Revised Technical Framework What This Is (And Isn’t) This is speculation. Grounded speculation - I’ve tried to anchor it in actual papers and real work - but speculation nonetheless. I’m not writing a proper academic paper here; I’m thinking out loud about what might be required to build systems with genuine potential for sapience. Whether computational sapience is even provable remains an open question. But I reckon if we build something that behaves sapient and claims to be sapient, we’d better have thought through the implications before we get there. ...

It’s 2025. Spend time on any social media and you’ll find artists, authors and others protesting in many ways about using AI for anything. They have a lot of arguments - some quite persuasive. So, given I want to post stories here I’ll lay my own stance out here for my own work. I’m enthuastic user of chatgpt, claude, perplexity and lmstudio for local models. They’re great for a lot of things and prompted well can even write passable stories. However, they’re not for writing fiction. They can help with aspects but to actually write? I’d lose something. ...