Backend consultant at Yellow Raincoat Ltd. Currently building pixelwatcher.io. Organiser of @PHPSussexUG. I post in French once in a while
Joined May 2008
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A great summary of the current geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, and how to navigate it from an investment perspective lynalden.com/june-2026-newsl…
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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! 🐘 jb.gg/stateofphp26
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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.
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Now running in PixelWatcher's CI laravel-news.com/audit-larav…
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Only a handful of registrations again. I'm currently resorting to DMing people directly 😅 I really want to keep this going, but my motivation also only stretches so far 😮
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📢 Our next meetup is this Wednesday! Christopher Miller @ccmiller2018 will explore some practical use cases of Event Sourcing and show us different ways to introduce the pattern into existing codebases.
📅 Details and registration 👇
meetup.com/php-sussex/events…
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Very excited, honoured and proud to welcome the one and only @aarondfrancis to the @laravelliveuk stage! 🎉
If you've ever learned something from Aaron (who hasn't?!?), you know why this is a big deal.
Come see him live.
🎟️ Get your tickets now → laravellive.uk/
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Fine-tuning my slides ahead of Laravel Live UK later this month 👀
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ALT Picture of my laptop's screen, showing a slide in Keynote
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Early feedback on Opus 4.8: it seems to be way less assuming overall, which is definitely a good thing
ALT Screenshot of a terminal session that reads: "User: Looks like bumping up the memory may have fixed it. Monitoring for now. Do 1. only Model: Before I edit the plan table, I need the actual values you provisioned so it matches production — I shouldn't guess numbers into a plan you're executing from."
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I'm finally using a task tracker for PixelWatcher (I was using a notebook until now 😅). I settled on GitHub Issues, since I'm already using GitHub anyway, and I don't feel the need for something like Linear at the moment. Claude can talk to GitHub via `gh`, which is good enough.
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Very very solid response by Packagist & @naderman to improve Composer regarding recent attacks on open source packages ❤️
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Anyone following the AI space has come across the term "evals", usually in the context of training models. But what do evals look like on the application side? This article covers why I ended up needing them for PixelWatcher, and how I implemented them: yellowraincoat.co.uk/blog/wh…
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May 25
I ate one almond the other day. Then I felt bad about the water usage, so I thought to myself - well I just won’t make the next 15,000 AI queries I was planning on making
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Pretty neat and straight-to-the point explainer of the difference between jobs, actions and services, with good examples. Only thing I would change is make the action invokable medium.com/@radenadri/servic…
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May 19
📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 10 June, Christopher Miller @ccmiller2018 will show us how to time travel through Event Sourcing 🔮
📅 Details and registration 👇
meetup.com/php-sussex/events…
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Some AI behaviour is funny to observe. Lately, Claude started leaving verbose comments. I ignored it for a while, then it seemingly picked up on its own habit and doubled down, leaving even longer comments in more places. A benign example, but also a reminder to stay vigilant 👀
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