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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

imagine going back a couple of years and saying that in the future, people would be clamouring to pay multiple $200 per month subscriptions

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

do you ever go to product hunt other than if you or someone you know is launching a product that day?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

i feel like you could run a successful premier league football club by just buying the rejects from man city and chelsea’s academies

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

i think it’s funny when you see two celebrities have written a kids book. it really took two of you to write this book? 😂

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

new rule of thumb: always scope component ids, even if you think it will only ever appear once on the page

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

i wonder which podcaster will be the first to successfully pull off a prompt injection attack?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

there’s a whole class of software that was basically a wrapper to some secret sauce that has now become obsolete thanks to ai

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

what makes you choose using zed’s ai stuff over claude code?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

feels like apple is getting cooked in the court of public opinion right now. i hope they turn it around, i can’t imagine using the alternatives

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

it’s crazy to think back to the lull between the crypto boom and the ai boom

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I love seeing UK startup founders announce they're working on a new "stealth" startup. I go straight to Companies House to see what the craic is 👀

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

When I get an LLM to write Elixir, I usually rewrite it all to fit my taste. When I get an LLM to write anything but Elixir, I think it looks amazing on the first pass.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Pay-to-play LLMs have disproven the notion that developers don’t pay for things.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

*writes a tiny bit of code* Fuck it, let’s make it agentic

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Claude is amazing on the 5-9 shift when you’ve only got enough energy to describe the problem.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I used Claude Code to write a couple of complicated js hooks that would have taken me like a week to write on my own. I can’t understand AI doomers, this is incredible.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

When Claude is cooking I feel more like a tastemaker than a developer.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Having an option to pay more for a Claude Opus 4 to get it right first time is 100% worth the extra money

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

When Claude is knee-deep in a massive refactor and I get the Anthropic credit recharge email

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A problem with AI code is that if there’s an existing incorrect assumption, the AI will just persevere with what you asked it, rather than fixing the underlying problem.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The AI dev tooling that has been launched in the last 12 months is insane. Software development is a complex field, so it's not like these tools have started with a simple job. It feels inevitable that every job is going to be changed.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Europa League final is more interesting than the Champions League final this year.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'd love to know who has the higher lifetime earnings between Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

What happened to Elm? Is anyone still using it?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

AI note-taking during meetings is actually a godsend if you’re a chronically bad notetaker like me. So many times I’ve gotten off a call and totally blanked on what I’m supposed to do.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I love seeing people claim AI will take everyone else’s job, but not theirs 😂

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's a total bloodbath in the AI IDE space right now. Every week, someone new has $100m in revenue or talk of an acquisition offer in the billions. Yet every week, there's a new tool or service that is looking to become the new wedge. It's an incredible time to be alive 🍿

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is a great post on simple (yet effective) things you can do with SVGs fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art

fuma-nama.vercel.app

Fuma Nama | Some Nice Things with SVG

Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Using AI to write code feels a bit like playing a one-armed bandit. You don't always win, but the occasional hit of dopamine makes it worthwhile.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When I'm deep in the weeds of a gnarly, nuanced problem that has a lot of edge cases and gotchas, all I can think of is: 💡 "this should be a standalone service" 🤑

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There should be a “Hollywood Homes” type tour of Grand Design houses in London. Surely someone is doing this?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I’m starting to see more traffic from LLMs 🤖

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s weird seeing someone who is terminally online IRL but you don’t actually know the person

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Does anyone use private Hex packages for the random stuff you use in different projects? I kinda want to do that, but I’m not sure if it’s overkill.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Happy “day you can’t believe anything you see on the internet” day to those who celebrate.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s so annoying when you ask Claude to create the implementation to make a unit test pass, and it just hardcodes the correct value. Am I lazy, or are you lazy?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As much as it’s magical when the LLM can do a perfect job, it’s painful when you have to reset it all and just do it yourself anyway.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Claude code is really good. I think this has saved me from using a VS Code fork 🙏

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can’t wait for an LLM that can actually produce good design.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m happy to spell it “color”. But I draw the line at saying “zee index”.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Apple should sample voices from phone calls and then use an LLM to narrate iMessages via car play in the sender's voice 💡

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It’s crazy that Microsoft had GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and their investment in OpenAI. And yet Cursor came along and ate their lunch.

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This Stratechery interview with Bobby Healy about Manna Aero is really great 🚁 It's nice to see Europe leading the way for once 🇪🇺

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Are you even an Elixir developer if you haven't wildly abused sticky LiveViews?

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What's your Elixir stack? 🥞 What packages do you use in almost every project? Here's mine: Phoenix + Ecto + Req + Floki + MDEx

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I got a lock-picking kit for Christmas, so I've been picking different types of locks. My takeaway is... NOTHING IS SECURE 😱

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Philip Brown @philipbrown.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The slow feedback loop of SEO is killing me “trust the process” 🧘‍♂️

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