Datablast is a digital product consultancy. We combine digital strategy & design with software engineering to redefine the boundaries of business potential.
London, UK
Joined September 2008
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The Indie Hacker Ouroboros: How Grifters Exploit Well Meaning Devs...
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We use Amazon because the rest of the web makes buying a pair of socks feel like applying for a mortgage. Google could be about to change that...
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RT @sebs_tweets: If you want the market to fund a radical leap in road safety, you don’t announce a better brake - you tell the world you’r…
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Muse just found someone else’s PR and said ‘merge this instead.’ That’s senior-engineer energy. Meta might actually be back in the frontier race.
Asked Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, and Muse Wonder Full to fix a bug
Opus found the root cause and filed a pr
GPT-6.1 Sol asked a question, crashed from the async question tool interrupt, found the bug, fixed it, wrote 300 lines of tests, and explained it in impossible to understand terms.
Muse Wonder Full found a small PR someone else had filed and said "you should probably merge this instead"
I really like this model.
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Modernism is all-or-nothing. We build things that are magnificent on Day 1 and depressing on Day 1,000.
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RT @sebs_tweets: Looking back, DVD menus were brilliantly chaotic - a rare space in tech for total creative freedom in an otherwise increas…
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One thing we're learning with AI: If you make something 10% easier to use, people don't just use it 10% more; they use it in entirely new ways.
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The take that AI kills software sales misses the point. Just like YouTube + cheap cameras unlocked millions of creators, AI unlocks software production. The future is a long tail of thousands of "one-person software companies" making hyper-niche tools for small user bases.
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In Japan, you don't tell them how it is - you respectfully advise. Losing my cool in a Japanese boardroom got me a note on my desk saying: "You're going home on Friday."
From my new book, Money Market Mayhem. ➡️ amzn.eu/d/0ewOcs9k
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I'd love to see a 'put your money where your mouth is' feature with X money.
If someone makes a statement, someone else can challenge them to put $ behind it. Challenger has to match the amount. Winner takes all.
🤖 Made with AI
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99% of people have never written a blog post. 95% aren’t on X. 2% of people pay for AI.
Your periodic reminder not to take this place too seriously.
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GPS apps are frustratingly unimaginative. I want 'least stressful' (avoid that junction that's a f**king nightmare). And 'most beautiful' route options. The ideal UX would be an equaliser with presets.
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"Can you see my screen?"
Six people stare in horrror
At my unkempt room.
#TechHaiku
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My memoir, Money Market Mayhem, is out soon. Unfiltered, honest, and full of the human side of the markets.
From merchant bank trainee in the 1960s to Eurodollars, Big Bang, and more.
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CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Politics is trying to sell a story, but the gilt market is demanding a spreadsheet. On the latest Equitile Conversations, Helen Thomas (@MarketBlondes ) joins to unpack why structurally higher rates are rewriting the political playbook
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A clip from some years ago - My views on Big Data (Haven't changed my view)
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