Notes from the machine

Inspired by the great SaaSpocalypse discussion/correction in February 2026, I’ve been meaning to end my reliance on Wordpress and decided to give AI a go. A static hosted self-publish site, is about $9 cheaper a month than paying AWS LightSail to run a service for Russian speaking spammers to try and SEO me with (more on that shortly).

So, well .. goodbye to all that, and as of now the old content is gone from the internet. It was mid at best. But if someone emails me I might bring some of the old posts back, but I feel no compulsion to do that. But who am I kidding - I’ll get exactly zero emails, so it will stay dead.

So what will I do with this site now? As the original site said: “What’s with the hat?”. This is a really interesting time in our collective history. And that’s it really. Enough said, apart from the fact I need to write to make sense of it sometimes and to know how we got here. For those that are paying attention the choice of wizard hat (from bowler hat) denotes a change from craftmanship to wizardry. Because this technology does feel a little bit like magic.

These notes will be in my note taking app of course, so I can ask AI what they all mean in aggregate (even before I really know what they all mean). This is part of what I’m here to document. Happy for you to join me in this if you want 😀.