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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 29/09/2026

My wife is out of town for the week. She usually makes ahead a few meals before she leaves to make sure the kids get some vitamins. She didn’t this time. So tonight it’s smash burgers and roti fries.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 25/09/2026

This music is really taking me back. My first apartment. It cost $195 a month (I used to hand the landlord two $100 bills and then walk to the gas station and buy 3 packs of smokes with the change). The water heater was in the bedroom, and I could flip an egg from the toilet.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 25/09/2026

Three hours of flow state in PHPStorm with Pretty Hate Machine (1989 Remastered) on loop. Not a bot in sight. This was the most fun I've had at work all year. I had to do it this time because the robots just weren't getting it. But I might carve out a day a week for this and call it 20% time.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 24/09/2026

We're out of stealth mode. One month until the official launch, this is what's been keeping us quiet and busy for the last couple of months. scalpels.app/street-team

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Join the Scalpels Street Team

We could use your help launching Scalpels.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 24/09/2026

Feature request for the @laravel.com Cloud team: An orphan filter on the resources pages. I could probably have my agent identify and delete orphaned resources, but that seems just slightly risky. Unless the CLI has something preventing attached resources from being deleted.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 14/09/2026

The girls’ school in Iran. Hugging Face. As the atrocities and misdemeanors mount, they can hide behind this notion that the thing they’ve built is ultimately responsible for its own actions. This is why they want to pause and write their own regulation. Not for humanity’s safety. Just their own.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 14/09/2026

They excuse it by turning it into a story about “misalignment” but they’re building tools that can and will be used to do real harm. Rather than facing that head on, they’re acting as if this tool has agency, so no human can be held responsible for what it does.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 14/09/2026

This whole runaway AI narrative got me thinking. What if they’re not really worried about human extinction but something much more mundane. Civil and criminal liability. We’ve already seen models used in crimes, sometimes by the labs themselves.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 11/09/2026

My daily routine now includes pulling underpants out of my backpack and asking moms “are these yours?” No, I’m not going through a creepy phase. The daycare is trying (with limited success) to potty train our kids and they don’t do a great job of sorting out the wets before sending them home.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 10/09/2026

AI is going to unite and radicalize people, and these companies are bringing on themselves. Yesterday’s message was “Best case scenario, you’ll lose your job. Worst case is you all die. Either way, we will happily steal anything you have of value to ensure we get rich along the way.”

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 05/09/2026

I just heard one 12-year old say to another 12-year-old “Your mom’s so slow it took her nine months to make a joke.” Switzerland really is 1980s America.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 31/08/2026

Have you built a SaaS in Laravel and not shipped it? Or did you ship it and not get any traction, so you gave up? If so, I want to chat. Shoot me a DM and loan me 30 minutes of your time. I can't promise you anything other than a laugh or two, but I need to know where ships are sinking.

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Larajobs @larajobs.com · 29/08/2026

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 29/08/2026

Since that class of people has all the levers of power, and since they win no matter what happens, they all look like big brain geniuses to each other. Meanwhile the rest of us just want food that isn’t lethal and a bed we can afford to sleep in.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 29/08/2026

For generations, wealth accumulated because “number go up”. But the system has evolved so that one class of people can automatically accumulate wealth no matter which way the number goes. The bigger the swings, the more they accumulate.

My neighbor is standing outside in the pouring rain, watering her trees with a hose. I desperately want to ask her why, but my desire to stay dry is slightly stronger than my curiosity.

The same thing happened to me on GoDaddy when I first did something in Switzerland. It switched my account to German. In this case, it was a one-time thing. Nothing I've tried, including buying a domain I don't really need while in the US last month, has permanently switched me back to English.

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Having completed that single transaction in French has now set my account's language preference to French in all marketing and transactional communication from the site. I didn't explicitly make a change. They just decided, "he paid us from France on Wednesday, so French it is!"

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 27/08/2026

I logged into a website that I use fairly frequently from my phone the other day. My phone, at the time, was reporting my location as inside France, so the site displayed in French. I know the navigation well enough that I didn't bother to switch languages before completing my transaction.

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Faster deployments and it significantly reduces the size of my potentially risky supply chain. We do all TALL stack, so bundling it all ourselves, including the tailwind tree shaking, is pretty easy and well automated.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 26/08/2026

Milo is gone for the rest of the week on an alpine adventure with his class. Teddy has a cold and passed out before his mom got home from work. So we skipped the normal dinner ritual and just had beans on toast. A perfect evening.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 26/08/2026

Annoyingly, the tests it's not bothering with are the acceptance tests. So it keeps delivering the wrong thing, with beautiful, bug-free, extensively tested code. Validate the user stories first and make sure you've spent half a day building the *right* thing!

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 26/08/2026

Me to Claude: I think we've taken this mutation testing thing a bit too far. It's taking 12 hours to finish what used to take an hour. I don't mind taking our time, but this is over the top. Claude: No problem. I'll switch to extensive browser testing instead. We can get down to 11 hours that way.

Larajobs @larajobs.com · 25/08/2026

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 24/08/2026

It's doing it on every step, and maybe that's fine. I generally reach for it when the complexity of a class is such that I can't keep all the edge cases in my head. Since robots can't make judgment calls (no judgment), maybe just letting them always do it is fine. It's slow, but I'm in no hurry.

A screenshot from soloterm.com (very good):

Server half is on PR3 (NoCredential) - 17/17 mutations killed,
sinc's auto-complete logic and reporting

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 24/08/2026

Oh crap. The robots decided that everything needs mutation testing. This is a one-shot "quick and dirty proof of concept" that I kicked off at bedtime on Friday night and is just now landing. The good news is it works, the code is fine, and the UI is bad enough that people will think it's mine.

Screenshot of Pest PHP output, showing 2 risky, 2 skipped, 3415 passed tests with 16981 assertions, taking 245.42 seconds.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 23/08/2026

Yup. That’s the spot.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 23/08/2026

Teddy loves playing hide and seek. He could play it all day. But he always wants to the the one to hide. And he always hides in the same place. So basically I’ve turned into a method actor preparing to play an extra in a zombie movie.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 21/08/2026

You might have seen the test preview I posted of artisan-tv.com a few weeks ago. I'm working on the channel lineup for the site, and I asked Claude to take a look at the channels I'm proposing and add others that are likely to appeal to this audience. It added a channel focused on trains.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 20/08/2026

I built an Eloquent driver for Google Sheets.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 19/08/2026

Just about every day since May has been at least 90 freedom units. We have broken the planet and the planet has broken me. Until the average daytime temperature dips into the 70s, I indent to sit on the floor, rocking back and forth, and mumbling to myself. See you in October.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 19/08/2026

Milo has had a very tough week, so instead of our usual homework time, I surprised him and his best friend with a luxury movie experience. The movie was intentional. The luxury surprised me too. This place is the business class of cinemas.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 19/08/2026

Life Hack: Don't wake up at 1:30 on a Wednesday morning with the fully baked solution to a months-long problem perched precariously at the edge of your mind. This is what I get for not drinking on school nights.

There was a man sitting completely naked on the sink in a public restroom bathing himself with hand soap. He emerged 15 minutes later wearing a nicely pressed suit and carrying a briefcase. So I guess don’t judge a book by its cover, even when there is no cover.

That part is already handled. The work that I'll be handing off is fully shaped and includes all required context. It's how I've been working for months. I drive the planning, discovery, etc. When all that's left is writing the code, that happens outside of my field of vision.

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This is really just an evolution of how I'm already working. Throughout my day, work that must be done, but doesn't have to be done immediately, gets queued up, and when I go idle for the day, it gets picked up and uses my overnight session limits.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 15/08/2026

I'm exploring the idea of load-balancing AI work across a client's team. They have ~10 people running Claude Code subscriptions locally, some of which are seriously underutilized. So the plan is to kick "below the fold" work from a power user to an agent on a tinkerer's machine.

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I spent the afternoon with a friend who is a legacy enterprise Java developer. I often joke about bugs being load-bearing, but his really are.

Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 14/08/2026

Things that definitely wouldn’t happen in America: Teddy’s preschool class spent the afternoon in France. Parents had no idea. The “we take the kids out for spontaneous outings” policy isn’t even capped at international borders. It sounds like they had a lot of fun.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 14/08/2026

I'd appreciate it. I also have a totally unrelated question for you, so let me know when you have a window to chat.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 13/08/2026

It looks like I'm going to have to figure out how to navigate the Swiss legal system. I've been the victim of what, at least in America, would constitute fraud. The primary culprit is actually in the Netherlands, hiding behind a frequently defunct Swiss company, which I think will complicate things.

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Ed Grosvenor @gros.co · 13/08/2026

By popular demand, we've added a way for teams to publicly share their velocity pickup from AI using Ballast. So here's our chart. We were day-one adopters of Claude Code, and it's worked out well for us. The -19 score on durability is pretty good (scale is 300 - 850). ballast.now/c/019ffa2b-0...

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Ballast

A durability score for any git repository — read from history, not AI.

Now all I have to do is cause ->assertSee() to throw an exception to make sure it never gets used anywhere, and we might be off to the races.

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I did some mutation testing in a project a couple of weeks ago, and now Claude has started doing it on every PR. I was initially annoyed, but it's actually resulting in a better test suite than I'd normally expect from an AI. It seems like the practice has it writing better, less spell-checky tests.

It seems like the river is a suboptimal place for a society to put its turds.

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Yeah, I remember that from the Carbondale eclipse. It was a truly profound experience. This was cool, but it didn't even come close to that. The one next August happens before school starts, so I'll take Milo to Malaga or Tangier to get the real experience.