James Harris

Blog posts

• Hello, Complaint Department

  October 17, 2026

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  guides

  Making a music video with Claude

• Things are better than they seem

  September 6, 2026

  All humanity's living standards in one chart

• Should you buy an electric vehicle?

  May 17, 2026

  My research, let me show you it

• What are LLMs good for?

  March 2, 2025

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  Large language models: where they suck and where they shine

• Meta-advice

  February 17, 2024

  Context is king.

• How to block every cookie notice on the internet

  October 17, 2022

  guides

  Ad blockers save the day again

• Earning XP wisely

  February 22, 2022

  Primary skills, secondary skills, and the dangers of outsourcing

• Cheap, effortless backups

  October 1, 2021

  guides

  hardened-infrastructure

  Bulletproof peace of mind, on the cheap

• Infrastructure hardening: Password vault

  August 18, 2021

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  hardened-infrastructure

  Password security that answers to no-one

• Infrastructure hardening: File syncing

  July 20, 2021

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  hardened-infrastructure

  It's like cloud storage, but no limits and no bill.

• Hardening your personal infrastructure

  July 19, 2021

  hardened-infrastructure

  Digital independence is extra work, but it's worth it.

• Police, Principles, and Putin

  June 20, 2020

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  What does an unaccountable government look like? It looks like Russia.

• Community and COVID-19

  March 15, 2020

  politics

  The apocalypse is here, and it isn’t that bad.