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Talking Databases, Magical Thinking and Bad Tools: Have Anthropic Lost The Plot?
Two Scots and and some Wes Anderson cosplay are too much for a Tuesday morning.
 • David Thomson
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Post-Production Workflows* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Production to delivery: Gantt charts, bin systems, why your DIT is unnecessary and other opinions nobody asked for.
 • David Thomson
The 8 Things You Can Actually Sell (None Of Them Are Your Film)
Your film is tap water. This is how to make a bottle and sell like Fiji.
 • David Thomson
26 File Formats, 5 Notarized Documents, and Proof You Didn't Steal Someone's Face
What you actually need to deliver to distributors, what distributors will pretend to need, and what you'll actually use.
 • David Thomson
Post-Production Tools I Swear By (and Swear At)
My end‑to‑end post‑production workflow for motion pictures, distilled into a software stack gear review.
 • David Thomson
Writing Tools I Swear By (and Swear At)
Years of trial and error distilled into one writing and pitching software stack.
 • David Thomson
The Hitchhikers Guide to Large Language Models: Part 2 - The Big One
This time we're going deep, deep, deep undercover.
 • David Thomson
The Hitchhikers Guide to Large Language Models
A simple way to think about LLM's and how they actually work.
 • David Thomson
Behind The Timeline: Battle Tested Film Editing Gear
A deep dive into the hardware and settings for more fun and efficient video editing.
 • David Thomson
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