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Where was desktop search when we needed it? Did you know Win XP and 2000 have a half-decent full text indexer built in?

Posted 25th January 2005 at 4:11 pm

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What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles? - 13th November 2025
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican - 9th November 2025
Video + notes on upgrading a Datasette plugin for the latest 1.0 alpha, with help from uv and OpenAI Codex CLI - 6th November 2025

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