It’s a strange kind of heroism, the kind that leaves no statue behind. No medals pinned. No graves with names. Just silence. And a line in a declassified file. They called it the Cold War, but for the ones who lived inside it, it burned.
Supercharge Your Everyday Tools: Practical AI Augmentation for the Real World
Every bit of software has its secret basement. Bluebeam hides a scripting engine. Excel hides VBA and formulas that could pilot a drone. SharePoint has a labyrinth of Power Automate hooks that can do almost anything if you can stand the interface long enough.
Analogue Sheep : Vol 9 : Measure Twice
Hairline cracks in the plaster. Tiles that didn’t quite align. Doorframes with light bleeding through the edges.
No one panicked.
No one ever does when it’s just a millimetre off.
But millimetres add up.
They built the world fast. Too fast.
Free. Local. Yours. BIMChat Is Now Open-Source.
I built BIMChat as an experiment in building with AI and integrating AI into applications and now I want to share it with anyone that might make use of it. It’s a simple interactive web app that allows you to view information about your BIM model in a structured way that doesn’t need to render enormous 3D graphics, doesn’t need an expensive modelling program and can run on even a modestly appointed laptop.
Analogue Sheep : Vol 8 : The Parliament
We were never in charge, not really.
We watched.
We watched you crawl from the caves, all soft skin and sharp voices. Watched you discover heat in the belly of stone, watched the first ones strike spark from flint with such trembling joy.
Fictional Footnotes
This week, that story came from Australia. Deloitte Australia agreed to refund part of a £215,000 government report after it was found to contain AI-generated fabrications including made-up academic papers, false citations, even a fictional quote from a federal judge.
Not the 9 O'Clock News. Building an aggregator you can trust
I decided to build something different. Not a competitor to the big platforms, but a personal news system. Something that could filter stories on a granular level, pull out only what I actually want to know about, and then wrap it all in a bit of editorial framing so that I don’t just get the raw feed—I get perspective.
Check Your Settings: Anthropic’s Updated Terms
A few weeks back, Anthropic quietly rolled out an update to their consumer terms and conditions. Buried in the usual legal boilerplate was a line that’s actually pretty important if you’re using Claude for coding, writing, or just day-to-day problem-solving.
Halt and Catch Fire
And two quotes from the show’s lead engineer really hit me. “Computers aren’t the thing, they’re the thing that gets us to the thing.” and “The future [is] squarely in the hands of those who know computers, not for what they are, but for everything they have the potential to be.” Now, if you swap the word computers for AI, those lines could be dropped into a keynote today without raising an eyebrow.
Glitches, Hitches, and Fresh Fixes
If you’ve spent any meaningful time working with AI tools, you’ll know the feeling: you’re grinding away at a problem, tweaking prompts, reshaping the question, chasing that elusive answer. And sometimes it just… doesn’t land. No matter how many ways you phrase it, the output feels off, repetitive, or stuck in a loop.
Total Pixel Space: Finite Pixels, Infinite Debate
Maybe uniqueness is overrated. Maybe the pursuit of novelty for its own sake is less important than the pursuit of resonance, clarity, and meaning.
Untethered Thinking for a Tethered Swimming Problem
TetherSwim – the Apple Watch app built to solve the frustration of tracking distance in tethered swimming. Discover how a simple idea turned into a smarter way to measure your swim without fake turns or guesswork.
Eli5 Your AI: Beating the Context Window Problem in AI-Assisted Development
AI can forget your code as fast as it writes it. Learn how to beat the context window problem in AI-assisted development by treating your AI like a new hire and giving it an Eli5 brief every time.
Build with AI, Not on AI: How to Survive the GPT-5 Rollercoaster
Learn why building with AI is safer than building on AI. Discover how GPT-5’s changes highlight the risks of over-reliance on AI models and how applying API versioning lessons can futureproof your product.
Case Study: Slashing Proposal Creation Time by 80% - Toren x ikirugai
In mid-2025, Toren Consulting partnered with Ikirugai Ltd to explore ways of improving the efficiency and consistency of our internal proposal development process. The collaboration focused on delivering a working prototype that could reduce preparation time for pitch materials while maintaining the high standard our clients expect.
Is AI Search the end of click-bait?
So, what happens to SEO when the system ignores titles and descriptions and evaluates content instead? Well, the SEO tactics we’ve relied on - stuffing keywords, optimising headlines, crafting meta copy - matter a lot less. If a page claims to have an answer but doesn’t actually deliver, the AI will skip it.
Focus on Now, Not Next.
what’s the right approach? In a world where technology is adapting and evolving at an incredible rate, what’s the sense in a 5-year plan? Rather than spending time trying to predict the future you can instead re-focus on what’s important and what is now.
Analogue Sheep : Vol 7 : Eau Du Historique
The first scent arrived by accident.
He was cleaning out a drawer in the basement when he found it: an old wool scarf wrapped around a broken cassette. The moment he lifted it, the smell hit him.
Built to Tilt: Innovation Without the Budget
I miss snowboarding.
There’s something about being on the mountain, hurtling down the slopes with the edges carving into the snow. It’s a feeling that sticks in your bones, even when the season’s long over. So when I found myself daydreaming about mountains on a hot July afternoon in London, I did what any rational adult would do:
I went looking for a snowboarding simulator.
Broken Glass
I want to give a real-world example of using AI to solve a problem. You can then try it yourself and perhaps you can translate it to a real-world business need. For this example, I’m going to focus on the power of Visual Analysis.