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Principal Engineer at @IcehouseVenture

Auckland, New Zealand
Joined October 2009
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It's not a Lambo, but this is the car @laravelphp bought me. Couldn't get FACADE, but I got @github. It's been a year today, averaging 3 people a week who I see taking a photo of registration plate 🫣 #laravel #GitHub #buildinginpublic
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Only if you have this otherwise stay away from my laptop screen. 🤣
Keep your dirty dick beaters off of my MacBook's screen!
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Look, We just shipped App Intents in the @IcehouseVenture app, built with @expo. You can now search your IV portfolio and open funds right from Spotlight. Or just ask Siri. "Open Substack in Icehouse Ventures" 👀 Isn’t cool!!
Your app's content just became Siri AI context 👀 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘-𝚊𝚙𝚙-𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 lets you make your content searchable in Spotlight and gives Apple Intelligence context about what's onscreen.
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We just shipped App Intents in the @IcehouseVenture app, built with @expo. You can now search your IV portfolio and open funds right from Spotlight. Or just ask Siri. "Open Substack in Icehouse Ventures" 👀 @Substack @hamishmckenzie
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Thanks for joining Python, C++, nodeJS to PHP. Have a good weekend.
Evolving threat 🚨 CVE-2026-111497, previously known to affect Node.js (node2shell) and Python has evolved into “HTTP2Shell.” A significant blast radius. This vulnerability leaves many libraries and applications using HTTP vulnerable to pre-auth RCE via Brotli decompression. Please be aware. Fixes not yet available for all affected services. Look for Brotli (1.2.1) dependency upgrades when they become available.
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Ohh and Ruby!
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Can’t wait for that day 🫠
I eagerly await the critical HTML vulnerability.
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WOW. @expo SDK 58 upgrade and now expo observe shows app launch almost 2x faster on iOS
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Everything works, just like this 🫶
SDK 58 is out 🙌 This SDK is built for iOS 27. Apps on SDK 58 will be ready for Duo on day one 📖. The release also includes App Intents for Siri, 2x faster clean Android builds, faster Expo modules, and a CLI built for your coding agent. Changelog: expo.dev/changelog/sdk-58 Upgrade: 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘@^𝟻𝟾.0.0 --𝚏𝚒𝚡
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New Slop is coming!!!
ChatGPT just got a lot more visual—introducing Intelligent UI. Intelligent UI allows ChatGPT to answer quickly with fully interactive user interfaces that make everyday answers more visual. It makes learning complex topics easier, and it quickly creates tools to solve a task right in the moment. Oh, and also...GPT-6 is coming to ChatGPT. For everyone.
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Opus 5.5 is next level. I'm genuinely impressed by the motion design details. I made a product video for the @IcehouseVenture investor portal, with real UI, smooth camera moves, animated charts and an original beat synced to every click.
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See you in Goa!!
Hey, we are live :) laracon.in > 20 and 21 March, 2027 at the Novotel Goa. Beach Resort + Tech Talks + Holi + Workshops + 5 Star Food... What else you need? Tickets are coming soon. 🔗 laracon.in Join the waiting list now! lnkd.in/gQBACBwa RT = Support ✌️
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See @betomoedano what we did with it. Took the swipe panel idea and put it on the Icehouse Ventures Investor Agent. Thanks for the inspiration. @expo @IcehouseVenture
Want to recreate ChatGPT’s swipe menu in React Native? 🧠 I spent the morning building it. Here’s how it works: → Gesture Handler tracks the swipe → Reanimated handles movement, scale, and opacity → Codex helped me build a custom Expo module for the exact iOS screen radius → Older iOS and Android use hardcoded fallbacks The detail that sells the effect: the corner radius never changes, so it feels like you’re moving the physical display. Source code 👇
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What an incredible experience speaking at @LaravelLiveJP for the first time. Over the past three weeks, I’ve travelled through Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, and many smaller towns along the way. It’s been fantastic catching up with old friends, making new connections, and experiencing so much of Japan again. Time to head home to New Zealand, feeling grateful for the people, conversations, and memories made along the way. 🇳🇿
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Turns out my best office is a Japanese train. No distractions… except this Hokkaido beach outside the window. @LaravelLiveJP continues!!! – at Toyako-cho, Hokkaidō
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Second time travelling to Japan and I made mistakes again!!! “Travel Light Ian, Travel Light” 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Having famous Classic Sapporo beers at Sapporo. @LaravelLiveJP continues.
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Beautiful Shibuya Crossing! I see you down there @jbrooksuk
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Random selfie in a random elevator. It kept telling us in Japanese - that there were too many people, get out but who understands that 📣🤪 @harrisrafto @jbrooksuk @joetannenbaum @marcelpociot @DCoulbourne @LeahTCodes
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