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  I want to take stock of my current AI-assisted development workflow and compare notes with others. I mostly use Claude Code these days, locally. The flow looks like this (skills linked at the end): * Open Claude Code in the terminal * Call /tackle skill with a ticket/issue number * That pulls the task, gathers context, and /grill-me about it (a customised version of Matt Pocock’s skill) * I review the final plan, then the loop (mostly subagents):

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  Hokum was fun. Folk horror that does the job (there's always a bloody basement!)

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  "You're not fucking around, are you?" "Not since Kuwait." This kind of line is why I'm watching The Bear.

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  The State of Laravel survey is still open! https://stateoflaravel.com

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  Just watched Obsession. I peed myself a little

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  Finally submitted my talks for Confoo. The character limit is brutal though 😭

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  I may or may not have watched an entire documentary about Céline Dion tonight. And enjoyed it.

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  "Please send me your CV." I thought I was past that tbh 🙄

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  Look I was excited to give Dungeon Crawler Carl a go but that Amazon Kindle exclusivity kinda poured cold water on that

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  New domain reserved 🫣

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  AI hasn't changed the fact that I can still spend a couple of days on a single PR. No matter how good the latest models are, they still suffer from tunnel vision and it's still on us to know when to take a step back and refactor

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  Seeing software companies use yesterday's events to nudge worried businesses away from PHP... as if other languages don't have lurking security flaws. If anything, the response has reassured me. I feel more confident than ever building software with PHP for my clients.

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  My winter coat is officially out of the cupboard

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  Nocellara olives are the best

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  Interesting take on why the EU regulates Big Tech the way it does, and why the US doesn’t https://thebulletin.org/premium/2026-09/three-reasons-europe-learned-to-distrust-big-tech-before-america-did/

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  😬 https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

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  One reason I’m transitioning to the role of product engineer. Product engineers are accountable for outcomes, however they get there. I don’t want my value to be tied to specific inputs while AI is reshaping those inputs. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos?hide_intro_popup=true

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  I took part in the State of PHP survey by @thephpf and PHPStorm – join now too and help us map the herd! 🐘 https://jb.gg/stateofphp26 #StateOfPHP

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  Claude Code tip: To maximise the number of 5-hour windows I get per day, I set up a dummy routine that runs at 5:30 am. It starts my first session before I wake up, so when I begin work I have a fresh session with a couple of hours left, and can fit three sessions into the day.

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  If you're looking for a task for Claude to do semi-autonomously (and that you can monitor from your phone, for instance), try `/doctor`. It does a lot more than it used to, and will probably flag and offer to fix things currently flying under your radar

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  I understand some of the feedback around Opus 5 now. It definitely is more conservative, in an annoying way. Random directives it picks from elsewhere now seem to have as much weight as my own instructions.

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  I finally have some time to dedicate to PixelWatcher (I’m busy with a new contract, which is good!). I’m aiming for a public launch in the next few weeks (meaning there’s still time to join the private beta 👀) https://pixelwatcher.io

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  This is fine 📎 https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-ai-models-escaped-control-hacked-hugging-face/

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  Always interesting to see how these companies use AI. I'm still not completely sure how to approach the review/verification side of things, but I totally agree on how it allows companies to scale more slowly https://replit.com/blog/self-driving-company

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  I thought switching back to VSCode from Cursor would also mean fewer updates... I was wrong 🙄

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  I really wanted to like The Man in the High Castle, but I’m halfway through season 2, and I’m bored to death

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  caffeinate -d

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  I'm currently trying to test more LLMs for PixelWatcher. Turns out it's very hard to find reliable providers: Scaleway times out a lot, OpenRouter is even worse. I can't even create an API key on evroc. Looking into Hugging Face now, but their interface is hurting my brain

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  A great summary of the current geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, and how to navigate it from an investment perspective https://www.lynalden.com/june-2026-newsletter/

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  Guess who’s speaking at Laravel Live UK in June 😌 https://laravellive.uk