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Pb @philbooth.me · 24/09/2026
My suggestion to fix climate change is asking Atlassian not to send notifications across email, Slack and various browser tabs every time the status of a Jira ticket changes from "in progress" to "in progress" 🙄
An email thread from Jira to me, telling me that the status of various Jira tickets has changed from "in progress" to "in progress".A Slack DM channel with Jira telling me that the status of various Jira tickets has changed from "in progress" to "in progress".The notification area in Jira, telling me that the status of various Jira tickets has changed from "in progress" to "in progress".
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Pb @philbooth.me · 19/09/2026
The only thing more annoying about modern football than VAR is that giant screen Sky make their presenters loiter in front of now.
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Pb @philbooth.me · 18/09/2026
You'll never win anything with kids #totp #hansen
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Pb @philbooth.me · 18/09/2026
Hands, Bloodhound Gang #totp
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Pb @philbooth.me · 11/09/2026
Jesus wept, have we done something to upset the person in charge of BBC4 or something? #totp
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Pb @philbooth.me · 11/09/2026
Very niche software, part 2: philbooth.me/blog/very-ni...
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rob pike @robpike.io · 05/09/2026
Sometimes error messages create endorphins.
Screen grab: Are you sure you want to delete "Twitter"?
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Pb @philbooth.me · 30/08/2026
The dahlias are happy
A glorious pompom dahlia dominates the foreground, its petals showing pink, peach, orange and yellow. In the background, the sun shines on my fruit bushes.A bumblebee collects nectar from the flower on a Bishop of Leicester dahlia. The flower has petals that are pink, purple and white while the stamen in its centre are a rich golden colour.Another pompom dahlia, same variety as the first but a different plant. The petals on this one are a touch darker in their shade of pink, but the yellow and orange are stronger too. Just beautiful, intricate and endlessly fascinating to look at.
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Pb @philbooth.me · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Andrew Weatherall Aphex Twin The Beta Band Fat White Family Kruder & Dorfmeister Lee "Scratch" Perry Lemon Jelly Orbital Radiohead Slayer
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Pb @philbooth.me · 28/08/2026
Surprising no-one, Legs & Co win the evening. It's like watching Boris Becker in his pomp. #totp
Screenshot of Blue Friday, a Bluesky #totp client, showing Legs & Co as the most popular meme of the evening with 20 posts.
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Pb @philbooth.me · 28/08/2026
"When Legs & Co leave the tower, England will fall" #totp
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Pb @philbooth.me · 28/08/2026
A young Gérard Houllier on vocals there #totp
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Pb @philbooth.me · 28/08/2026
Jog on Straussy, don't let the door hit you on the way out #totp
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Pb @philbooth.me · 28/08/2026
Needs more Legs & Co #totp #proms
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Pb @philbooth.me · 15/08/2026
"Hmmm? Oh nothing, we're just destroying these books so we can feed them to AI." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the cliamte crisis?New Labour MPs take over £45k from oil and gas lobbyists
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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Pb @philbooth.me · 10/08/2026
Hmmm? Oh nothing, just the forest burning on our dog walk last night. 😞🔥
A chalky footpath runs through heather and gorse in the New Forest. Two black labradors are walking along the path away from the camera. On the horizon a huge cloud of smoke billows from left to right as the forest burns in the distance.
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Pb @philbooth.me · 07/08/2026
Beethoven giving off distinct Lemon Jelly vibes with his Fifth #proms
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Pb @philbooth.me · 04/08/2026
Witness the triumph of my beetroot harvest (tennis ball for scale)
4 beetroots lie on a garden bench, their leaves resplendent and fresh soil falling from them onto the bench below. A tennis ball next to them, somewhat incongruous, but there to measure size apparently. Three of the beetroots are roughly tennis ball sized (let's be generous) but the fourth is a mega-beetroot, dwarfing the puny tennis ball with ease. Look on my works ye mighty and despair!
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Pb @philbooth.me · 17/06/2026
If a coworker dumped a 5k-line code review on you, you'd tell them to come back when it's broken down into smaller reviewable chunks. It should be no different with agent harnesses. Get them to break that stuff down, then review each part independently.
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Pb @philbooth.me · 11/06/2026
I wrote some words about agentic coding and mental models: philbooth.me/blog/agentic...
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Agentic coding and mental models
Personal website of Phil Booth
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