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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 10/12/2025

I was wondering what Apple's release cadence is for the M series chips. They have perfected the tick-tock cadence.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 10/09/2025

Just me that's seeing MacOS `contactsd` and `Autofill` processes regularly hold the CPU hostage for arbitrary reasons?

screenshot of macos' activity monitor showing contactsd process using >300% CPU, with lots of AutoFill processes

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 04/07/2025

This direction was such a surprise to me, but I love it: Using coding agents where you are, instead of just in the IDE: First Slack and now web and mobile. Building software is no longer just tied to being hunched over a keyboard for endless hours.

Screenshot of Cursor's update notification talking about using agents on web or mobile

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 05/06/2025

Cursor Background agent is borked for me - you too? I just updated to 1.0 and it's stuck on this now ☹️

Tooltip saying "Failed to start Background Agent. [internal] internal
error - Try Again"

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/05/2025

This week's fun test - which model can identify these people ❌ Claude 4 ❌ ChatGPT 4.1 ❌ ChatGPT 4.5 ✅ Gemini 2.5 Flash

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 18/05/2025

"A theoretical squish velocity can be calculated from the instantaneous displacement of gas across the inner edge of the squish region..." TIL "squish" is a technical term in the design of combustion engines

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 16/05/2025

This is the image you need to use on your website if you are in financial services. All the best companies are using it. It's a winner.

bird's eye view of a kayaker alone in the ocean

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 13/05/2025

Building out a little RAG test with Langflow - pretty handy!

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 09/05/2025

Is there a subreddit keeping track of dark mode as a siren call to unfocused product teams?

Screenshot from google cloud console showing a tooltip informing the user about "Dark mode Public Preview"

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 28/04/2025

Clearly someone's coming for the king. It only just occurred to me how much inspiration OpenAI is taking from Google. You see it right on the homepage.

Screenshots of ChatGPT and Google's homepage showing the similarity of their UX.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 31/03/2025

I had high hopes for the Stripe MCP with Claude. They were not met 😅 It did a fine job querying Stripe's API but completely borked the actual numbers. I definitely think having a python interpreter like ChatGPT would make a big difference.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 24/03/2025

I don't know why this gives me so many feels

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 24/03/2025

Is there a name for the feeling of "I'm looking at this media feed and it grosses me out because everything is so tailored to the algorithm, overproduced and unauthentic"? Exhibit A, YouTube:

Screenshot of thumbnails from the YouTube feed

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 03/03/2025

🧼 Improved UX Adding new users on agency plans is now easier than ever! Invite your team to join your FluidSEO account!

Screenshot of the "add new user" screen in FluidSEO (the Webflow SEO app)

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 25/02/2025

First month with the new pricing. It's too early to tell if revenue will be up or down longer term, but here's a couple of takeaways: - People don't totally hate the one-time-fee (even though it's >80% of the cost of 2 months) - The Agency plan already has a customer bsky.app/profile/tome...

Graph showing monthly revenue broken out by pricing categories

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/01/2025

Finally, pictures: I've been making the most of my time in Aus by trying to find the best office

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/01/2025

Updated pricing for FluidSEO launching Feb 1st: - New $39 one-time fee for 14 days. - Unlimited-seat "Agency" monthly plan. Goal: Boost conversions for one-time users, and improve LTV for agencies.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 30/01/2025

Hmm - is there something I'm missing @asura.dev?

Screenshot of the Buffer API docs saying they no longer support new applications.

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Tom Elliot @tomelliot.net · 19/01/2025

I don't usually post status updates, but I was just looking at Stripe and felt pretty proud of the last year! I'm not ramen profitable yet so the absolute numbers aren't huge, but looking at my work on FluidSEO last year through this lens makes me pretty happy!