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Principal software engineer, working with PHP, JavaScript, Laravel and custom-developed frameworks, Mobile Apps. Rescuer of Projects.

Joined July 2008
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I'm sure that five years from now we'll look back and realise that Snow Leopard was the best version of OS X. – at Highland, Scotland
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Thing I discovered yesterday: Because Claude artefacts are boring old HTML pages, Claude can also receive information about what you’ve changed in it: text you’ve typed, buttons you’ve clicked etc. and it can also listen for those changes.
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So it adds a whole new level to how you develop and control that development.
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End-to-end, complete:
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Why stop with single tracks?
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Fixed the normalisation. (Yes, there's a DSL for how the mixes are rendered.)
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Well this is fun.
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Laravel has opinions. Where do controllers go? We know. How do you queue a job? We know. How do you send an email? We know. 🧠 AI agents thrive on this. They stop guessing and start shipping code that actually looks like a human wrote it.
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This from @obie captures how I'm feeling about coding agents
Even if current LLM progress hits a brick wall at Opus 4.5 level (and I doubt that will happen) the next 12 months are still going to be a staggering time of change in this industry as decision makers start truly understanding the new reality we live in. obie.medium.com/what-happens…
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New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p…
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After making their biggest profit in a decade £2.6b after tax), the British government is bailing out Jaguar Land Rover because they didn't take out cyber insurance. They've made £11.6 billion profit over last 10 years. Fiscal rules my arse. Free market capitalism eh?
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Bravo Apple! Calculator app has a memory leak.
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1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used
Truth matters. Whatever your views on Lucy Connolly’s sentence (and I have said that I don’t think that immediate imprisonment was necessary), she admitted inciting serious racist violence. She then gave evidence on oath to the Court of Appeal and was disbelieved.
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Nick Clegg made a reported £100m from Facebook. And now the reputation laundering begins. Congrats to him on this magnificent PR coup. Nicely played, Clegg. A glossy magazine profile AND extract in the paper that created the Facebook PR crisis that led to his hiring. 1/
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The last time engineers panicked because software engineering changed from low level languages like C and C++ to languages like Java and VB, a bunch of people lost their jobs You know who didn’t lose their jobs? The people who were flexible and just ran with whatever came up
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