One of my latest projects involves using AI to classify Emails as Spam/Scam/Phishing etc. In order for this to work at any sort of scale, I need fast and cheap AI. Claude is my AI of choice but far too expensive for the task at hand, so we’ve elected to use OpenAI’s gpt-5.4-nano model. This […]
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InternetUsing Ai in Anger I finally did it. Found a really good use for AI that I can put to practical use, and who knows, maybe start a new business from it. So once again, my elbow is playing up! So I’m playing less golf, and you know what they say about idle hands… Anyway,
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Golf, Internet, SpainRecently I’ve been suffering with some elbow problems, which has prevented me from playing as much golf as I would like. So about a month ago, I took some time away from golf to recuperate and went and hid in my mountain house for a week to avoid the temptation of golf, and avoid distractions
Introduction I live in the south of Spain, and we just had a family holiday in a charming village in the far north called Ventalló. Here’s an account of my road trip as far as Barcelona (we continued on after spending a couple of days in the city). Hopefully it’ll provide useful information and ‘comfort’
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Electric Cars, SpainI recently was re-acquainted with an old software development term. Eating your own dog food. Here’s the story… At my work, which is the business of email services, we provide a webmail interface. This, I believed, was for emergency or occasional access to email when away from your normal devices. Not so for many people,
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InternetToday, as part of our effort to move people away from Outlook and onto Thunderbird, I thought I’d have another look into autoconfiguring it. We already have it working for email setups, but Thunderbird now supports Calendars and Contacts as well using CalDAV and CardDAV protocols. After some googling and much assistance from claude.ai, we
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InternetThink of this as a shortcut guide to getting along in the modern world. It is aimed at anyone from my mother to far younger people (sorry mum) running small businesses. It is UK based, but much of it can be applied in other parts of the world too. There is some bias here. If
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InternetMy Ai of choice these days is Claude. I use it a lot for help with coding (particularly Javascript which takes a lot of getting used to!) and I’ve paid the subscription so that I can use it a lot. Sometimes I supplement with Grok – Elon’s creation. Anyway, today I was putting the final
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