After many years of working with all sorts of flow charting and mapping software, I recently discovered yED quite by accident. If Draw.io is a Jaguar, then yED is a Rolls Royce and a Lambo all in one. Teslas are not in this race! đ What’s in the ‘tin’? It’s best to say how it …
charts, creating, efficiency, flowcharts, graphs, learning, maps, mindmaps, yEd
Long form breakthrough with AI models
Captain Walker
In mid-August 2026, I explored the shifting landscape of API pricing and what it meant for professionals relying on artificial intelligence for deep, sustained analysis. See: DeepSeek’s New API Pricing: What It Actually Means for Heavy Users – The Captain’s Watch. The core premise of that piece remains entirely unchanged: for serious analytical work, direct …
AI models, analysis, API, breakthrough, cost, deepseek, efficiency, flowchart, glm, long-form, OpenWebUI
System 1 and System 2
Captain Walker
Nobody hands you a manual for the mind. Go looking and you find a billion-pound industry on the shelves pretending otherwise. Here is a small everyday event but a manual here may not help. You see the sign in some shop: 80% off. The coffee machine, or the coat; it makes no difference. Before you …
kahneman, Nobel Prize, rationality, System 1, system 2, thinking, thought
Headlines, hysteria and hardâboiled facts
I got a WhatsApp ping from a colleague: a BBC link, a dramatic headline, and a friendly warning â âLook after yourself if you eat egg.â Then “Eggs.. we feed them to our dogs.” I did what sensible people do: skimmed, sighed, and then read the piece properly. The headline had done its job. Me? …
The Soulless Confession of an AI Model
This follows from a recent post on the limitations of AI models. In this article – based on a real situation – the AI seems to confess, express remorse and self-awareness. But is it that. The confession sounds good but how is it that an AI model can do that? What follows is the confession …
WordPress Performance Optimisation â What Actually Works
WordPress powers a huge proportion of the web. It is flexible, extensible, and widely understood. It is also capable of becoming remarkably slow without any single obvious cause. Performance optimisation is the process of reducing the time it takes your server to respond to a request and deliver a page to a visitor. Done well, …
