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For an AI agent, "using your website" has meant driving the browser: read the page, find the button, click, hope. It's often brittle, and very token-heavy. #WebMCP flips that around - your site hands the agent tools to call directly. 🧵

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Installing the full AWS SDK for #PHP just to perform a few S3 operations adds quite a lot of unnecessary weight. In serverless deployments and CI pipelines, that means more to package, upload, unpack and process, and can lead to less room within platform limits.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Back to Vilnius for Build Stuff this December! Always a highlight, and this year marks its 15th birthday. Also looking forward to seeing Dublin from the other side of the video portal again 🇮🇪🤝🇱🇹 #BuildStuff15 #buildstuffconf #AgeOfAgency

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On everythingisshowbiz.com we could always tell you what was said on What Did You Do Yesterday? But now the site can tell you who said it - every line in the archive is attributed to a #wdydy speaker. This turns "was X said?" into a much more interesting: "who said X?"

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Everything is Showbiz - What Did You Do Yesterday

Are they just normal cheeses? How do you make a good 3/4 flat white? Search the What Did You Do Yesterday archive to find out!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We've released laravel-mpp 2.0 🚀 Two big additions: 🔎 Better discovery for paid routes 💴 Payment negotiation - multiple payment rails on a single route! This makes it easier for agents to find a resource, understand the price, and work out how to pay. #laravel #php

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

MPP pricing doesn’t have to be static anymore! We’ve just tagged v1.2.0 of square1/laravel-mpp, adding dynamic pricing for MPP-protected #Laravel routes. Price at request time based on the user, account, subscription tier or your own application logic. github.com/square1-io/l...

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

With Agentic Commerce being a buzzy term at the moment, I wanted a small, concrete demo of the Machine Payments Protocol. So I built an API where your agent can pay for historic football scorelines (It's MVP - team names coming in v2...) Try it out at www.payforgoals.com

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Watford change their coaches more often than you change your socks. Hard to keep track of! 🐝 Has He Managed Watford Yet? The Game 20 faces - some did, some just look like they should have. Harder than it has any right to be, and probably outdated 5 minutes after launch! hashemanagedwatfordyet.com

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Has He Managed Watford Yet?

Watford have had ~15 managers in a decade. 20 faces — can you tell who actually had the job, and who just sounds like they did?

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

On calls Google Meet doesn't let you share a region of your screen - only a full window or tab. Every time you want to show one panel of an app - a design preview, a dashboard widget, a chat thread - you end up showing everything around it too. This can lead to over-sharing!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My talk at @phpukconference.bsky.social is now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZN.... If you're wondering what to do when your AI makes a homophobic transcription error, or how Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein connects to accurate text searching, have I got the talk for you.. #wdydy

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Everything Is Showbiz: Lessons from a PHP + AI Side Project - Paul Conroy

YouTube video by PHP UK Conference

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Jeroen Heijmans @jeroenheijmans.nl · 13/03/2026

After that I visited the talk by @conroyp.bsky.social on modern php features.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I recently spoke at the Stripe Dublin developer meetup, and the video is now live. The talk was "Stripe is my DNS provider." It’s about creative misuse - building a Stripe-powered DNS server as a way of exploring what can happen when APIs are consistent, composable, and deeply predictable.

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Stripe is my DNS provider now

YouTube video by Stripe Developers

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Only 2 weeks until this year's @phpukconference.bsky.social! My talk will be the story behind #wdydy site EverythingIsShowbiz.com - a side project that started as "search podcast transcripts" and spiralled into the good, bad, and ridiculous world of AI-assisted development in PHP. #php #phpuk

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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE A LIVE SHOW IN DUBLIN. March 3rd, baby. On sale now. Tickets on sale now: www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/56740...

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International PHP Conference @phpconference.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

🎭 When a #PHP side project turns into a full #AI-powered system… @conroyp.bsky.social talks about the real lessons from building PHP + AI beyond the hype. #IntPHPCon |📍BER | 📅 June 8 – 12, 26 The session: f.mtr.cool/nfztgkerhg #GenerativeAI #SideProjects

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tic Tac Toe (or Xs and Os) is a fun game, loved by small kids in particular. Though once you get the hang of it, it more often than not ends up in a draw. TicTacGoAway.com is a version I* put together which adds a small twist to cut down on draws and get more winners.

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TicTacGoAway - Tic-Tac-Toe, Evolved

You only get 3 pieces-place a 4th and your oldest vanishes! A fresh twist on the classic that keeps every game exciting.

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International PHP Conference @phpconference.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

⚡#ModernPHP offers tools that make your code cleaner, safer & more expressive. @conroyp.bsky.social highlights the features many devs miss and how they elevate your everyday workflow #IntPHPCon|📍 BER | 📅 June 8 – 12, 26 🎓The session: f.mtr.cool/pvchkoxnuo #CleanCode #DeveloperExperience

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Expanding your business internationally has never been easier - more demand, more channels, more global customers. 🌍 But the payments side hasn’t always kept up. Multi-currency pricing still creates pain: unpredictable FX, messy reconciliation, transfers landing a few cents off - no fun!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

When I’m watching longer YouTube videos, I usually bump the speed up to 2× or 3×. Recently though, YouTube’s UI has gotten a tad erratic. Some videos have the full speed menu. Others only show the menu, but stick at 1x with no way to change it.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Over the past couple of months, "Average Position" in Google Search Console has shot up across loads of sites. Normally great news! Except impressions and clicks are often down. 🤔 So what's going on under the hood here?

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at @phpconference.bsky.social today, "Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be)". Great to see so many familiar faces in the room, and also to talk to some new ones afterwards! The slides are up now at speakerdeck.com/conroyp/mode...

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International PHP Conference @phpconference.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

💡 What happened at #IntPHPcon Munich? ⚙️ @conroyp.bsky.social – Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using 🏗 Thiago Cordeiro – #DDD & Clean Architecture A great mix of modern syntax and solid structure — showing how PHP keeps evolving for scalable, maintainable apps 💪 #PHP #SoftwareArchitecture

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

LinkedIn have taken to sending notifications warning you of notifications you may have missed. Potentially useful! In practice, not so much. They're not warning of useful ones (connection requests, post responses), but "person you don't know is playing game Y/posting in group Z you're not in" etc.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm excited to be speaking at Build Stuff in Vilnius this December! "Digital Cat & Mouse: Strategies to Outsmart Phishers, Scrapers, and Thieves" covers the (mis-)adventures that taught me how to protect digital assets in the wild (selling 10 Downing St, moving the Eiffel Tower to Dublin, and more)

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We've all done it - testing on staging, click send… suddenly a real user replies to your test email. Laravel has a one-line feature that prevents that from ever happening again: Mail::alwaysTo() It quietly redirects every outgoing email to a single, safe inbox. Tiny feature. Big sigh of relief!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Lately, Google’s been hitting us regularly with copyright violation notices. The alleged crimes? Posting photos like... a traffic sign, a Dublin statue, and some houses under construction. Apparently we stole them from OnlyFans creators.

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International PHP Conference @phpconference.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

📐 Build PHP apps that scale and adapt! Explore DDD, microservices, SOA & serverless in the Software Architecture & Design track. Learn from experts like Sebastian Bergmann, @conroyp.bsky.social‬ & @spriebsch.bsky.social‬. 👉 f.mtr.cool/cwrjurbywy

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the International PHP Conference Munich @phpconference.bsky.social 2025! 📅 October 27–31, 2025 | 📍 Munich, Germany 🗣 Topic: Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be) 🔗 Details: phpconference.com/php-core-cod...

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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

An incredible ‘What Did You Do Yesterday?’ resource

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Gary Neville was ahead of his time

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Hey @phlaimeaux.bsky.social, throwing my hat in the ring for the data nerds group in the broader wdydy-verse, thought you might get a kick out of a recent side project of mine, everythingisshowbiz.com

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Everything Is Showbiz - What Did You Do Yesterday?

Are they just normal cheeses? How do you make a good 3/4 flat white? Search the What Did You Do Yesterday archive to find out!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Looking forward to @phpconference.bsky.social in October! My talk is “Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be)”. It’s about moving past a PHP 7.x mindset, and using the powerful features PHP has added in recent years. Enums, match expressions, readonly classes - we'll do it all!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I recently gave a talk, "Avoiding Déjà Vu: Building Resilient APIs with Idempotency". I've published a summary of the session, going over practical techniques to build resilient APIs. It covers 🧠 What idempotency really is 🧪 How to design safe retries 🔒 Locking and TTL advice

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Aer Lingus has announced a lot of new routes to the States. I suspect this particular plane won't be the first choice to make the transatlantic trips though.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🌐 Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now (or "When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas") Inspired by @quinnypig.com's famous post about Route 53 being a database, I wondered what's the opposite? If DNS can be a db, what's the most absurd way to implement a DNS server? By building it using Stripe metadata, obviously!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The New Zealand high commissioner to the UK fired for remarks made at Chatham House. He must be wishing that there were some kind of established Rule that prevented comments there being made public. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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New Zealand’s high commissioner to the UK loses job after Trump comments

Phil Goff questioned Donald Trump’s grasp of history at a Chatham House event in London, prompting the foreign minister to say his position is ‘untenable’

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I've been sceptical in the past of no-code/low-code tools - burnt once too often by WYSIWYG tools in the early 2000s! But tools like Stripe checkout, Zapier, and Hubspot workflows have brought a sea change in the quality and quantity of these tools, as well as huge time and money savings.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🎉 Excited to announce that I've been accepted to speak at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam on March 21st! 🌐 I'll be giving a talk on idempotency – what it is, why it’s so useful, and how big players like Stripe and AWS leverage it in production. 🎟️ On sale now: egeniq.paydro.com/dpc-2025

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Struggling to get local LLMs like Deepseek or Llama running smoothly on Ubuntu with an AMD GPU? You're not alone! Ollama is great for running LLMs locally, though needs a few tweak to add support for older AMD cards when running Ubuntu www.conroyp.com/articles/run...

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Running Ollama on Ubuntu with an Unsupported AMD GPU: A Performance Guide

Ollama is a great tool for running local LLMs. However, if you're using an older AMD graphics card in Ubuntu, it may not be making best use of your resources! Find out how to speed up your local LLMs ...

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There's a small part of a larger post by Byrne Hobart that's stuck with me for a long time, about managers having two types of people when delegating: * send an item, tick it off your list, it'll be done * send it, then add an extra item to your list, reminding you to chase them for results

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🎤 Thrilled to announce I’ll be speaking at CyberWiseCon in Vilnius this May! My talk covers the cat-and-mouse game between website owners and some of the internet’s more enterprising characters - scrapers, phishers, & content thieves. 🎟️ Grab your ticket here: cyberwisecon.eu

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CyberWiseCon Europe - IT Security Conference

CyberWiseCon Europe - IT security conference for all professionals seeking to stay ahead of the curve in industry.

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We recently had a project with tricky APIs - slow responses, CORS configuration issues, and heavy rate limits. Enter Cloudflare Workers! ✅ Caching - faster responses, avoid rate limits ✅ CORS proxy ✅ Serverless ✅ Generous free tier www.conroyp.com/articles/ser... #webdev #serverless #apis

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Serverless caching and proxying with Cloudflare Workers

Using Cloudflare Workers we can effectively cache API responses, without spinning up any additional hardware. Whether its needing a CORS proxy, or rate limit management on Google Sheet APIs, this serv...

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My daughter recently got very into puzzles, particularly simplified Sudokus. The problem was that she loved the puzzles in her comics, but they only come out once a week - a limited supply! In an exceedingly-rare case of "developer actually finishes side project", I put together www.kidssudoku.com

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Kids Sudoku - Fun and Easy Sudoku with Emojis for Kids!

Discover Kids Sudoku: A fun, educational puzzle game using emojis! Perfect for kids to learn logic, problem-solving, and have a blast. Try it now!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Did you know you can use Google Sheets to power a JSON API? And you can do it without using any additional servers? The Apps Script built into Sheets can be used to power a simple API - perfect for building quick, simple apps and prototypes! www.conroyp.com/articles/usi... #webdev #api #serverless

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Using Google Sheets as a RESTful JSON API

Save time by not building backends for simple CRUD apps. Use Google Sheets as both a free backend and JSON API endpoint!

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Paul Conroy @conroyp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I look forward to these end of year lists by Tom Whitwell, always full of interesting stories - haunted Chinese apartments available at a discount, horseback raves, sanction-busting cheese, Mikel Arteta's pickpocket squad - it's all in there! 52 things I learned in 2024: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

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52 things I learned in 2024

This year I took a sabbatical, recorded a podcast with Freakonomics, designed and shipped a tiny modular synthesiser, and learned many learnings. Tom Whitwell designs open source music electronics as…

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