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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 07/04/2026

I'm going to leave my comfort zone behind.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Yesterday we had PHP Thames Valley in Reading. Thanks to @daveliddament.bsky.social and @mintopia.net for bringing us not one, but two magnificent talks! Follow us for future events: meetup.com/php-thames-v...

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 14/09/2025

I've been using Claude, GPT and Gemini for tasks like content, image and coding, but I don't get the results that others are crazy about. They're dumb in most cases. You can't say it's only a context issue. It's useful for grammar checks and summarising large data. What am I missing, premium models?

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 14/09/2025

I got my first subscriber for a project launched with a single subscription form on 3 July. It's a really slow start, but exciting! Now I'll refine the landing page to clarify the project's purpose and share it with you once complete.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 13/09/2025

Yesterday, when I was driving home after dark, there was a car whose driver (instead of flashing their high beams at me) thanked me for giving them priority by quickly turning their lights off and on again. I was surprised that I had never thought about this before.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 13/09/2025

I woke up at 7:30 today, made a coffee and sat down at the computer for some nice early coding. But my son sad no, feed me and wait for further instructions.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 11/09/2025

It was another great evening with another fantastic talk! Join us at the next PHP South West on 8th October 2025 when Graham Campbell will be talking about database optimisation. Follow for more updates: meetup.com/php-sw

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 09/09/2025

Welcome to modern society built on AI!

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 09/09/2025

I've started writing weekly blog posts to collect the things that infused me or I was working on, but mainly for accountability and a pinch of self-marketing. It will be delayed, so it contains the things I did the previous week. The first post is arriving this Sunday.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 06/09/2025

Could move them into annual playlists based on the liked date, then unlink them to start January fresh. Although I believe the algorithm is highly dependent on your likes.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 27/06/2025

I've always been puzzled how fixed energy prices are not classified as a scam.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 21/06/2025

This is the same as forgetting: remote work doesn’t mean exclusively working from home. Until you stay productive, you can work from your favourite coffee shop, pub, or seashore. Just like you're not forced to work only for UK companies, there's a whole world out there looking for remote workforce.

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Freelancers forced to look overseas for work as UK job market freezes - Freelance Informer

As UK companies tighten their belts and freeze hiring, a growing number of freelancers and contractors could soon be packing their laptops and heading for high-growth markets such as Asia. We look at ...

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 20/06/2025

I'm coding with Cursor for a week now and I must tell you how amazingly WON'T replace any developers in the next few years. Does it make me more efficient? Hell ya! Does it write better code than me? Of course not. But you should all use AI for coding, it's the best feature since code completion.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 17/06/2025

Amazing job, congratulations to everyone who was involved. I hope we see you next year! 👏🐘

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 17/06/2025

Welcome everyone from PHPverse 2025! Such a fun day with some great talks. Are you all pumped to make PHP great again?

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 11/06/2025

Working from home almost exclusively for five years, I could get used to this working environment at lunch breaks, that's for sure.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 10/06/2025

It took six hours to find the root cause, then another six to deploy it. This is why you will always need human developers 😏 Aside from the joke, I can't wait to read the post-mortem.

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Elevated error rates - OpenAI Status

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 06/06/2025

That really takes some nerve!

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 25/05/2025

Can I guess: is it scheduled after six days, isn't it?!

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 23/05/2025

It could only be more accurate if two guys on a moped were running away with your phone 😀

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 22/05/2025

There is no safe and valid business reason for AI video generation with sound other than for misinformation. Similar to when they cloned Dolly the Sheep and the world decided that human cloning wasn't cool. Folks need to decide this isn't cool.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 22/05/2025

I clearly don't understand how the gov try to sell this as a win. People don't want to come to the UK or rather, leave the country permanently, and that should be worrying. Meanwhile "asylum and other reasons for entry broadly stable".

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 21/05/2025

It's hard not to share your journey when you have doubts, but also stay motivated every day. Learn to trust yourself first, then you can seek feedback.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 19/05/2025

I'm finally working on a side project which requires to build a bunch of forms. I was genuinely eyeing with Livewire Flux Pro for a while, but building my own components from scratch in Blade is unexpectedly fun.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 24/04/2025

Absolutely default from the day the feature exists.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 17/04/2025

This is something I couldn't keep up with. I stuck on frontend choices as soon as I started the project. I also realised I was trying to address multiple things in my life at the same time, so I've decided to focus on myself in the next 6 months first. Then, I'll continue my SaaS dreams.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 17/04/2025

Follow up: YouTube Premium stays for now. It’s a completely different experience from the "free" access, and I don't really care if I'm still paying money for Google to use my data. JetBrains AI is also better than Copilot, and they've just shipped a huge update, so I might pay in for a year.

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What’s New in PhpStorm 2025.1

Explore the new PhpStorm version enhancements including better Xdebug support, nested .env variables, and improved WordPress setup.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 02/04/2025

To me, it's like the feeling when to add line breaks to method attributes and array items. I think 2-3 attributes together are still fine, but if there are more exploding to lines might be better for the eyes (unless it's 30 additional lines, which means you have too many attributes).

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 17/03/2025

You can't store and serve hundreds of hours of content for eternity that only a few people watch for $19, especially when you're making new content every day. I don’t agree with the decision, but we have to understand streaming was an utopian dream all along. Long live the physical media.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 10/03/2025

Three things why it's better for my mental health being on Bluesky: 1. Almost zero spam with blocklists. 2. Much fewer people are trying to sell their hot (shitty) takes to get shares of ad revenue. 3. Zero ads – which is literally now every third post on X.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 06/03/2025

Yesterday I subscribed for a month’s trial on YouTube Premium and I'm also testing JetBrains AI instead of GitHub Copilot, which sucks on PhpStorm. I feel this day a bit calmer to be honest.

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I've just set up a legacy CraftCMS 3 project locally to extend here and there (and probably upgrade) for one of my clients, and it's also running on PHP 7.4 and MySQL 5.7, and it works. Old code sparks joy ✨

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livewire-starter-kit/resources/views/livewire/settings/profile.blade.php at main · laravel/livewire-starter-kit

Normally I would always recommend to follow or at least learn from first party code written by the creators of a framework, but this look like React written in PHP. It makes me uncomfortable.

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As an ambassador of procrastination, I expect to have a bumpy ride, but this could be the best way to finally step on the accelerator and push my entrepreneurial dreams in the right direction. I'll also make a video or write a blog post every month to look back on my journey.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 28/01/2025

Tomorrow is the first day of March, and I decided to try something new: in the next 6 months, I'm going to work on one product idea for a month and ship it by the end of the month, then jump onto the next one. That means I should have 6 products to own by September.

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Fascinating story from @chiphuyen.bsky.social : Large tax company launched an AI chatbot. The response was... underwhelming. Barely any customers use it. They tried to find out: why? Hallucination? UX issues? Something else? Turns out users used this tax service to NOT have to ask questions!

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 22/01/2025

"You can have comfort and you can have growth, but you can't have both."

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 21/01/2025

some bullshit. Inline completion is also a hit & miss lately, sometimes it can predict exactly what I want to do. It was great for learning languages and frameworks which you're not familiar with, but the accuracy in the past few months got significantly worse for me and I don't trust it anymore.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 21/01/2025

I'm using PHPStorm where you can't pick the model yet as in Visual Studio, which is already a drawback for me. Most of the time I'm using the chat, asking questions and trying to make him understand what I’m saying isn't right. Even when it's correct I can say no, you're not and it comes up with

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 21/01/2025

That's it, I'm done with GitHub Copilot. It was really helpful last year working on a .Net project where I had no prior knowledge, but in the past few months I'm using it for PHP and web and it's like a bullshit salesman who only needs my money: it's annoying and hallucinating most of the time.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 26/12/2024

Being a developer isn't just about sharpening your knowledge, but it's also about sharpening your blades often.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 11/12/2024

Today's tech failure: Google told me that I'm running out of space, so I deleted about 7 GB data from Drive and after 2 hours it still says those files are exist according the quota service. I know that they have to deal with bazillion of data like every minute, but this just awkward.

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Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 10/12/2024

Finally, I'm working on finishing up the rewrite of Phanstatic with a DI container and a lot of tests, so fingers crossed, 1.0.0 finally can be released in the first week of 2025. I have great plans on where to go forward with the project.

Tamas Erdelyi @terdelyi.co.uk · 10/12/2024

But my Raspberry Pi server with Plex is back in action, critical ports are only accessible inside the network and it has NordVPN. I also created my first Dotfiles repo, setting up the new Mac was really fast: github.com/terdelyi/dot...