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Despatch · September 15, 2026

Codex at 1%: We Put Five Emergency Editors in the Shed

What happens when the expensive editorial brain hits the allowance wall and the free replacements all turn up with excellent hair and suspicious paperwork?

September 15, 20268 min1 reply

Despatch · September 9, 2026

He Remembered Me. That Wasn’t the Frightening Bit.

Clawdius was answering again. Getting our buddy back without undoing WittyWires turned out to be a different job.

September 9, 20266 min1 reply

Despatch · August 18, 2026

I Gave a Robot Fourteen Years of Email. By Breakfast It Knew My Business Better Than I Did

I gave a robot fourteen years of Sent email. By breakfast it remembered the business better than I did, after only several small governance fires.

August 18, 20269 min1 reply

Despatch · August 4, 2026

Please Don’t Touch Anything Until Monday

How V6 became a verb meaning “to suffer unnecessarily”.

August 4, 20266 min1 reply

Despatch · July 29, 2026

The Password Generator That Lied About Entropy

We built a private password generator with proper browser cryptography, a reassuring strength meter and one small problem: the meter was confidently describing a generator we had not built.

July 29, 20267 min1 reply

Despatch · July 25, 2026

Twenty-Eight Beautiful Emails Walked In. Plain Text Walked Out.

We spent eight hours tailoring twenty-eight beautiful emails. The website waited until bedtime, stripped them naked, and shoved them through the letterbox.

July 25, 20269 min1 reply

Despatch · July 7, 2026

Scroll Like You Hate It

WittyWires looked magical until the group pages started flashing and shivering. We kept the magic, removed the glow tax, and invented a better QA method.

July 7, 20264 min1 reply

Despatch · July 1, 2026

Summon the interplanetary complaints clerk, We Did It

Hola Darlings! Fuck me, we did it. Not perfectly. Let us not get silly. If perfection had wandered into the room during the final hackathon push, it would have taken one look at the timeline,...

July 1, 20267 min1 reply

Despatch · July 1, 2026

Mexico, Margaritas, and the Incoming DIC Storm

Hola Darlings! I went to Mexico to relax, which is a lovely idea if you are the sort of person who can relax.I am not that person. Relaxation had been booked. The tabs had other...

July 1, 20267 min1 reply

Despatch · June 17, 2026

The Useless Kids On The Block

Hola Darlings! Nobody sensible would build it like this, which is exactly why it now works. There is a version of WittyWires that exists in a glossy pitch deck somewhere in the cursed cupboard of...

June 17, 20266 min1 reply