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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 09/06/2026

I've spent a bit of time playing with Fable 5 on the train home this evening. Early indicators are that it's a really, really good model. Need more time to experiment with this.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 05/06/2026

I tried to get a decision signed off recently. I failed. There are always loads of reasons to say no. The real question is, what do we need to say yes? I never gave them that. Three minutes: joestead.codes/posts/everyo...

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A room full of right answers, and we were all wrong

A memory leak on a missile was never a problem, and what that taught me about giving stakeholders the one fact that makes a decision decidable

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/06/2026

Finder is the only thing that makes me miss being on a Windows machine.... and maybe window tiling, but Finder stands out

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/06/2026

I'm sure a lot of you, like me, have watched your coding agent grep its way around your codebase, burning tokens it actually needed for the real problem. Turns out there's a tidy fix, courtesy of @jetbrains.com , what do you think? joestead.codes/posts/jetbra...

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Stop letting your AI agent grep its way around your codebase

How wiring the JetBrains MCP server into Claude Code gives your agent proper code navigation and refactoring, and stops it burning tokens reading half your repo

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/05/2026

It's May. I can't believe Starmer would do this to us.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/02/2026

I've recently had to use MS Teams, so here's my regular gripe. MS Teams creates silos, not collaborative work. It's an awful platform and does not facilitate an effective, collaborative, online work space.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 06/02/2026

The iRobot/Roomba customer support is possibly the worst in the world. On the one hand, I love having these robot vacuums/mops to clean up after my dog that sheds hair constantly. On the other hand, I wish I went with a competitor of theres. Absolute joke

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 04/02/2026

I agree with Grady with this, but the editing is infuriating.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 04/02/2026

This is worth a blog post / detailed follow up. If legal say no, this is worth a long chat in a pub about absolutely nothing related to it one day

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 04/02/2026

I think when the AI bubble inevitably pops, this will become the future of AI tooling, there's no way the true cost of running this will be paid for by the consumers

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 03/02/2026

I'm not using it, someone mentioned it earlier and I thought it was Jon all over, guess not

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 03/02/2026

I was in London last week, and I chose to leave instead of go to NDC London, just because of this talk

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 02/02/2026

I would love for them to go into more detail on the hosting model they describe that was compromised, was it literally a VPS like what I used to get for dirt cheap in 2005 to host my websites on?

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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Say 👋 to ChatOps that actually works: the Grafana Cloud app for Slack. Ask about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate: grafana.com/blog/chatops-that-actua…

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 21/01/2026

Well I think the typical Irish American thing is a bit nonsense and in the literal sense you fit both of those words better. I am deeply sorry for the offence I have caused here

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 20/01/2026

I genuinely think SQL might be the best bit of technology ever. I'm not very good at it, but it just works, for so many things, and if it doesn't work, it's probably because you're wrong

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 20/01/2026

Do you consider yourself the "truest" Irish American at this point? I do

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/01/2026

The good news is I do need trains down to London on both dates, so I haven't screwed up that badly

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/01/2026

HUGE bug fix in the IntelliJ platform for people use Claude code inside the embedded terminal. Can't wait for this to be shipped in the next update. Nice job @jetbrains.com youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-2...

youtrack.jetbrains.com

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026

Jeans, socks, underwearonly in the dryer, everything else hangs to dry, annoying during winter but at least my clothes always fit :)

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026

I will be in London on the 20th, but not at this event, and then I'll be in London a week later, at this event

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026

Or on the 27th, which is when this event is...

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026

God I've got my dates so wrong I can't even make a joke

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026

So you're not going then :)

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/01/2026

A quick search, halls at the glorious University of Hull is about what I paid 17 years ago

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/01/2026

I had a £3k a year maintenance loan + part time work to get me through, this was... a while ago so things are more expensive now I guess

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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 09/01/2026

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 09/01/2026

Serena worked really well, but what was even better was the JetBrains MCP Server. www.jetbrains.com/help/webstor... There's the equivalent for all of their other IDEs too. This is a game changer

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MCP Server | WebStorm

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 08/01/2026

I think that becomes one for lawyers and courts. I think it's reasonable consumers assume that their policies and agreements with you, the customer are reflected accurately. I understand that scepticism of course though

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Have you seen the price of ram and GPUs? It'd cost 20k just to have the hardware to run this!

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

I'm not part of those conversations, but I know most clients actively ask about how we use AI

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

That's going to vary on every individual case, so I can't possibly answer that definitively

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Of course, we're transparent and if someone objects it's their IP so that is completely their call.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Time to try and connect it to Serena (github.com/oraios/serena) to see if I can improve the analysis of the code significantly. It would be really cool if we could hook into the IntelliJ backend(s) to use their analysis/navigation/refactoring tooling in things like this

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GitHub - oraios/serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities (MCP server & other integrations)

A powerful coding agent toolkit providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities (MCP server & other integrations) - oraios/serena

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Discovery work isn't like that, it means we can spend more time talking to people and getting a better understanding than trawling through code

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

And comes with the appropriate amount of sass for a poor project. Note this isn't a real project, just one I'm using for testing

Claude code being astonished at the quality of code in a project

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Burns through tokens but it's so good at identifying areas to focus on

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

Generic. I work for a consultancy now so a big part of my job is to do discovery with clients, which includes interviewing key people and then analysing code bases so we can put forward a useful proposal

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026

I've been building my first claude subagent/skill set to help with technical discovery of projects. This isn't saving me hours of effort, it's saving me days.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/12/2025

Such a good tool. Although I don't use the standalone app, the tooling embedded in other IntelliJ IDEs is so good.

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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 16/12/2025

I'm not saying AI will fix anything, far from it in fact, but it will change certain industries fundamentally

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