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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kenny Loggins starts playing in my head every time I see one of these

Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If @edmilibandmp.bsky.social is running for PM, then there’s only one possible campaign slogan he can use, right? “It’s time for chaos with Ed Miliband”

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I'm a big fan of Claude, which works great. Occasionally I see a PR on GitHub that uses Copilot and I take a look at what's happening Every time I open a Copilot PR there's a message along these lines 🫠

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Today's "what if I asked #Claude to build something absolutely ridiculous" - a Remote Desktop server that plays Snake (no Windows required). All deployed onto @railway.com to keep things simple. Try it yourself: rdc.ibuildstuff.eu

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Current status: Deutsche Bahn’d

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Today in, "here's a crazy idea made [quicker] by #claude" I really dislike email spam - so I thought to myself, could I avoid that problem altogether? What if you had an SSH contact form, instead? Terrible idea? Probably 🤔

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Naturally I've incorporated one of the best multiplayer game modes of all time

Claude saying 'let's add Slappers Only mode'

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Today in #claude experiments, what happens if we tried to make a multiplayer 3D web-based shooter in the browser (entirely without coding)?

A 3D web-based multiplayer shooter game, entirely generated by Claude Code.

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Today's question/investigation: what if your #IaC could propose resolutions to common issues?

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yep. Having experienced it briefly first hand last summer, I’m blown away by their resiliency. There’s an exhibition in the middle of Kyiv which compared some events to the Warsaw uprising, which I hadn’t made the connection to.

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

End-to-end demo video after ~5h of prompting - it's not a bad start at all tbh

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Did I just vibe code (a very simplified version of) @systeminit.com by accident? 😬

A screenshot showing the infrastructure map view of the prototype I'm working on, with the right-click menu for a virtual network and the background worker thread as showing the resource group was created

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Next with a dynamic infrastructure dependency map, we could create/delete/inspect resources and their dependencies - and trigger any operations (e.g. restart/rotate a key) on that resource type) Creations/Deletions happen in a background queue, this is super neat.

A screenshot showing a dynamic infrastructure map, with 2 Resource Groups and a Virtual Network visible, including the dependency chain. This also includes the state of the queue, showing the second resource group as having been created.

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Of course, these are usable in a browser environment too, so what's stopping us exploring our infrastructure there too? 🤔

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So now, just for the lolz, can we wrap this new style of plugin into a #Terraform Provider? You betcha.

Wrapping the new style plugin into a Terraform Provider, run via OpenTofu

The Terraform Configuration for the Terraform Provider, which is wrapping our plugins

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This approach intentionally uses a new plugin model (where each Resource Type becomes it's own plugin, so that we can iterate more rapidly). So we can deploy a Resource Group or Virtual Network. Easy. (The Test CLI will be replaced, purely for validation right now)

A screenshot showing creating a Resource Group using a placeholder CLI and the Resource Group Plugin

A screenshot showing creating a Virtual Network using a placeholder CLI and the Virtual Network Plugin

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Today I'm continuing experiment with #Claude, but in the #Infrastructure space. I've opted to include this prompt, because I'm a lil salty about all of the unnecessary renames over the years

Asking Claude to account for PMs renaming their products, somewhat sarcastically

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A friend requested I add sniper players, so now you can 'buy' snipers/rocket launcher infantry units

The 3D web arena, now with infantry units with snipers and rocket launchers

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

At this point we've got one pretty good map, so naturally I asked Claude to add support for multiple maps. So the logical next step is to ask #Claude to create another map.. not bad for a first attempt?

A screenshot of the terminal prompting to create a new level, telling Claude to go wild

A screenshot of the newly generated 'The Divide' map, by Claude

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Continuing on from yesterday, reworked the 'home' page with the intention of open-sourcing it - also updated the HUD styling and added capturable bases at the top and bottom Again, this is all entirely done by #Claude. Wild.

A screenshot of the updated home page for the game - showing the leaderboard

A screenshot of the updated 3D web-based game, showcasing the updated HUD and capturable bases at the top and bottom

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Attaching a video, not bad at all considering it’s entirely vibe coded

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Now with a single player against AI too - this has been a really fun experiment, super impressive to see what's been possible in ~ a day of prompting from scratch All I've done manually is the prompting, configuring the repo/deployment in @railway.com, picking out sounds and changing 1 variable

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

With sounds it really comes together too - just got the about/credits screen left to do Feel free to try it yourself: arena.ibuildstuff.eu

A 3D game arena, with tanks, planes and turrets - in spectator mode

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Now we've got both GitHub & BlueSky SSO and spectator mode, and a proper leaderboard 🥹

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Tanks and turrets now shoot each other and show health bars, in 3D For ~4 hours of AI prompting - and not a single line of code written - this is ✨ wild ✨.

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Add in some more walls and turrets and this is starting to look like a real game and everything, this is awesome.

A screenshot showing a 3D rendered arena game with turrets, built entirely by AI

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Invited a friend to join me, works in a "real" environment - even with physics!

A screenshot showing 2 sets of tanks firing at each other

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A little further along still (and we're now up to where I'm at) - and we've got a real world game system going on, with tanks, helicopters and turrets. We need some more walls to make this realistic (lol) but this is genuinely impressive for ~3h of prompting

A screenshot showing the updated arena, with player bases indicated by shading, turrets (embedded in walls)

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

~1.5h later, and it's looking way more like a real game than an empty arena. My intention (out of curiosity) is to try avoiding any code for this project, tbh.

A screenshot showing a 3D game arena with tanks and airplanes

A screenshot showing the arena with some more items in it (walls)

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Something something humble beginnings

A screenshot showing one tank per player launching from their home base

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Every now and then I browse my "downloaded apps" page in the App Store and come across this gem What a moment in time that was #ukpol

A screenshot showing the "Matt Hancock MP" app in the App Store (no longer available)

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

That's a fun IDE autocompletion 😬

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Spent a little bit of time adding a small but useful feature to @locally.build that I've wanted for ages - filtering the request logs, super handy for debugging 👌

After - now with filtering on HTTP methods, status codes, uris, and the source

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Genuinely ridiculous that in 2025 roaming packages can max out at 10MB of data per day (This was the only package for this destination, and yes you can get a local sim..)

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Spent a little bit of time polishing the UX whilst updating the docs for @locally.build It's a small change, but it makes it far more approachable.

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It's kind of amusing seeing how different AI tooling predicts what @locally.build is tbh

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

You've got to have a little bit of fun with the custom error pages, right?

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Kinda gimmicky, but it's also nice to see the culmination of a lot of work finally coming together at the same time

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Feature-toggle driven development

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The quality of commit messages has always varied wildly, but this is something else

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sometimes I feel like every Google API I'm looking into is deprecated in favour of something else (with the deprecated API being the top search result, and the deprecation seemingly unclear) tbh

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Germany does “strong and stable” #depol

A CDU election poster stating “Stabilität statt Chaos” which is reminiscent of the Tories “strong and stable” poster

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For /years/ now Apple Music has had a bug where tracks end up duplicated in albums over time. I get this might be a painful one to repro, but given the number of engineers at Apple and the percentage internally that must use Apple Music - I'm amazed this one hasn't been fixed already. Just me?

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Happened to pick up one of the good ones I mentioned yesterday - this clicks in, so you can fully lock the cap at the side and then click it down to seal the bottle

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Tom Harvey @tombuildsstuff.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A few days ago I replied to a message about re:invent with a hastily made iMessage sticker of @quinnypig.com (for the lols) Fast forward to this morning (where I’d forgotten all about it) - when the iOS keyboard provided this autocomplete suggestion

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