ChatGPT Codex vs Claude Code: Six Hours of Frustration, Twelve Minutes of Success
Four websites, two AI coding assistants, one very frustrating weekend. And a question about which subscription deserves my money.
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Concert Archive
Since attending my first concerts in 1997, I’ve always looked after my tickets; but what can I do with them? Find out about my latest online project and explore my interactive ticket wall!
So, you found my Guestbook
Long before Facebook comments, Instagram likes, Reddit threads or Discord servers, a guestbook was how visitors let you know they’d stopped by. You’d spend hours building your website, upload it over a painfully slow dial-up connection, then eagerly check your guestbook every morning to see if anyone had left a message.
Creating a local history website from a 94-year-old auction catalogue
I was chatting with one of my neighbours, Peter, when he mentioned that he owned the original auction catalogue from the sale of the Hunsworth Estate in 1932. The catalogue listed more than 170 houses, farms, cottages, fields and other properties across Hunsworth, East Bierley and the surrounding area, with original estate maps. I had to create an online archive to keep the historic catalogue safe for future generations.
Roads Through Time
I’m pleased to introduce Roads Through Time, a free interactive website that takes you on a journey through the story of Britain, from the earliest prehistoric settlements right through to the modern day.
How does Generative AI work?
The clever part is that nobody manually tells the AI where to put everything. During training it gradually learns these relationships by reading enormous amounts of text and constantly correcting itself whenever it predicts the wrong next word.
Hello World!
Back in the late 1990s, the web wasn't dominated by algorithms, influencers, or billion-dollar platforms. It was built by ordinary people with too much free time, a copy of Notepad, and an idea they thought was worth sharing.