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Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog22 Mar 2026
“When art critics get together they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — attributed to Pablo Picasso I’ve...
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog17 Mar 2026
I’ve learned over the years that shipping fast compounds exponentially only if you’re also learning fast.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog14 Jun 2025
Coding agents have crossed a chasm Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted for me with autonomous AI coding agents.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog14 Aug 2024
This project began as a quick hack to make use of the cool Pimoroni Inky Pack. I was quickly nerd-sniped into exploring the depths of micropython and power optimization on the Pico.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog7 Jan 2024
Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog2 Jan 2024
Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done. This was my second year completing Advent of Code live during December.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog20 Jun 2023
Irish stew There are many recipes for irish stew on the Internet, but not a single one that comes close to the stew my mum makes. This is her recipe.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog19 Jun 2023
Lamb al asador is a classic Patagonian method of barbecue with a whole lamb flayed and hung on an asado cross over an open fire.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog14 Jan 2023
The contest Advent of Code is an advent calendar of programming puzzles made by Eric Wastl. It’s been going since 2015 and really gained popularity in 2020.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog17 Oct 2022
I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog31 Aug 2022
As you’ll know if you follow me on Twitter, I’ve been kindof obsessed with the text-to-image GPT models OpenAI released as DALL-E recently.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog30 May 2022
If you’ve ever enjoyed a Luau in Hawaii, chances are that the pièce de résistance was delicious melt-in-the-mouth Kālua Pork which is often served as the centrepiece of the Luau feast.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog3 Jan 2022
TLDR? You can find the code and a bunch of examples on GitHub at dps/rust-raytracer. Over the holiday break, I decided to learn Rust.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog24 Nov 2021
I’ve had an idea kicking around at the back of my mind for years and finally spent a few hours over the last couple of weekends building it. It’s a probabilistic spreadsheet. In a rush?
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog8 Feb 2021
Visicalc, the world’s first spreadsheet, was also the original killer app. Steve Jobs said that Visicalc “propelled the Apple ][ to the success it achieved”.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog31 Jan 2021
I have a Computer Science degree. I attended a whole course of lectures on compilers (and have a certain fondness for “the red dragon book” as a result).
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog1 Aug 2020
Bagels, the way they make them in the Big Apple. Recipe makes 8 bagels. Ingredients - 500g bread flour - 23g baker’s sugar - 7g packet of instant yeast - 297g water at 32C/90F - 6g salt - 1 egg -...
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog28 Jun 2020
I asked my son what he wanted to do for his fourth birthday and he said “make concrete”! I suppose this was to do with my having waxed lyrical about how incredible concrete is. Stone!
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog18 May 2020
When COVID-19 hit, my kids’ school, like many others around the world, moved over to a fully remote/online learning program.
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog11 Apr 2020
This is #NotAnAd - Duolingo is my favorite app of the year. Duolingo is an app for learning a new language at your own pace and in your own time.
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