AJ Fisher
@ajfisher.social
Creator of experiences combining web, AI/ML, hardware & data - sometimes they work.
Dev, interaction researcher, tinkerer.
CTO@LoyPal & Rocket Melb / 🌐 https://ajfisher.me / was @ajfisher on 🐦
Dev, interaction researcher, tinkerer.
CTO@LoyPal & Rocket Melb / 🌐 https://ajfisher.me / was @ajfisher on 🐦
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AJ Fisher
@ajfisher.social
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Strategy is still a human activity
A week of deep strategy work with clients highlights the uniquely human capabilities that we need to keep as businesses transition to using more AI within the enterprise and across their workforces.
ajfisher.me
The last week has been lots of strategy & innovation workshops with clients. AI played a role in supporting these activities but deep, creative work is a place where humans really shine and AI should support that.
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
At the Web Directions Dev Summit the next few days in Sydney.
Good kick off and summary of the state of the web and react being a local maximum that has led is astray by @johnfallsopp.com
#web #development #wdds
Good kick off and summary of the state of the web and react being a local maximum that has led is astray by @johnfallsopp.com
#web #development #wdds
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
At the Web Directions Dev Summit the next few days in Sydney.
Good kick off and summary of the state of the web and react being a local maximum that has led is astray by @johnfallsopp.com
#web #development #wdds
Good kick off and summary of the state of the web and react being a local maximum that has led is astray by @johnfallsopp.com
#web #development #wdds
The last week has been lots of strategy & innovation workshops with clients. AI played a role in supporting these activities but deep, creative work is a place where humans really shine and AI should support that.
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
Strategy is still a human activity
A week of deep strategy work with clients highlights the uniquely human capabilities that we need to keep as businesses transition to using more AI within the enterprise and across their workforces.
ajfisher.me
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The last week has been lots of strategy & innovation workshops with clients. AI played a role in supporting these activities but deep, creative work is a place where humans really shine and AI should support that.
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
#ai #business #strategy #innovation
ajfisher.me/2025/11/05/s...
Why they replaced a perfectly fine taxi rank at Melbourne airport with this uber pick up thing is beyond me.
Normally you want to create an improved experience but this feels like doing everything possible to make it worse.
Taxi rank with zoned fares or fixed quotes via app.
#pt #Melbourne
Normally you want to create an improved experience but this feels like doing everything possible to make it worse.
Taxi rank with zoned fares or fixed quotes via app.
#pt #Melbourne
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Why they replaced a perfectly fine taxi rank at Melbourne airport with this uber pick up thing is beyond me.
Normally you want to create an improved experience but this feels like doing everything possible to make it worse.
Taxi rank with zoned fares or fixed quotes via app.
#pt #Melbourne
Normally you want to create an improved experience but this feels like doing everything possible to make it worse.
Taxi rank with zoned fares or fixed quotes via app.
#pt #Melbourne
Visiting my parents at the moment - who live at the edge of a big national Park in Sydney. Happened across this well fed bugger sunning itself today.
I grew up here & have always come across snakes but far fewer since I was a kid. So great to see such a healthy one again.
#snake #nature #wildlife
I grew up here & have always come across snakes but far fewer since I was a kid. So great to see such a healthy one again.
#snake #nature #wildlife
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I'm doing a survey on how engineering teams use AI in their work practices. Over 50 orgs have participated but would love a bigger cross section of responses.
If you can take 5 mins to fill it in that would be awesome but a share would be great too!
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#engineering #dx #ai
If you can take 5 mins to fill it in that would be awesome but a share would be great too!
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#engineering #dx #ai
Software Engineering AI Maturity Survey
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm doing a survey on how engineering teams use AI in their work practices. Over 50 orgs have participated but would love a bigger cross section of responses.
If you can take 5 mins to fill it in that would be awesome but a share would be great too!
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#engineering #dx #ai
If you can take 5 mins to fill it in that would be awesome but a share would be great too!
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#engineering #dx #ai
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some time back I built this little border radius visualizer to help figure out how some complex shapes might work- what's interesting (but understood) is how adjustments to specific corners of the element *seem* to affect other corners
codepen.io/cobra_winfre...
codepen.io/cobra_winfre...
Border-Radius Playground
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codepen.io
September 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
some time back I built this little border radius visualizer to help figure out how some complex shapes might work- what's interesting (but understood) is how adjustments to specific corners of the element *seem* to affect other corners
codepen.io/cobra_winfre...
codepen.io/cobra_winfre...
Getting some truth bombs from @ghuntley.com at web directions engineering AI this evening.
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Getting some truth bombs from @ghuntley.com at web directions engineering AI this evening.
Are engineering teams treating AI as productivity hacks or as a core capability to be developed?
Early data from my AI in dev survey is suggesting teams of all sizes are racing ahead on generation but lacking some of the other practices to make this sustainable.
#ai #dev #engineering
Early data from my AI in dev survey is suggesting teams of all sizes are racing ahead on generation but lacking some of the other practices to make this sustainable.
#ai #dev #engineering
August 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Are engineering teams treating AI as productivity hacks or as a core capability to be developed?
Early data from my AI in dev survey is suggesting teams of all sizes are racing ahead on generation but lacking some of the other practices to make this sustainable.
#ai #dev #engineering
Early data from my AI in dev survey is suggesting teams of all sizes are racing ahead on generation but lacking some of the other practices to make this sustainable.
#ai #dev #engineering
Interesting first data from AI & Development survey. Teams that are tiny or large+ show more maturity than their mid-sized counterparts.
#ai #aisew #development #engineering
#ai #aisew #development #engineering
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Interesting first data from AI & Development survey. Teams that are tiny or large+ show more maturity than their mid-sized counterparts.
#ai #aisew #development #engineering
#ai #aisew #development #engineering
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If I were to offer the federal government advice on boosting productivity, it would include:
- boosting spending on childcare and early education
- boosting spending on cycling infrastructure
- encouraging work-from-home arrangements
- investing in the repair economy & circularity broadly
...
- boosting spending on childcare and early education
- boosting spending on cycling infrastructure
- encouraging work-from-home arrangements
- investing in the repair economy & circularity broadly
...
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
If I were to offer the federal government advice on boosting productivity, it would include:
- boosting spending on childcare and early education
- boosting spending on cycling infrastructure
- encouraging work-from-home arrangements
- investing in the repair economy & circularity broadly
...
- boosting spending on childcare and early education
- boosting spending on cycling infrastructure
- encouraging work-from-home arrangements
- investing in the repair economy & circularity broadly
...
Reposted by AJ Fisher
The always awesome @ajfisher.social has a short survey on how and why people are (and are not) actually using generative AI tools in software engineering.
Got 5 minutes? I'm really interest in the results.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
Got 5 minutes? I'm really interest in the results.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
Software Engineering AI Maturity Survey
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The always awesome @ajfisher.social has a short survey on how and why people are (and are not) actually using generative AI tools in software engineering.
Got 5 minutes? I'm really interest in the results.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
Got 5 minutes? I'm really interest in the results.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
If you're a software engineer (or know one) I'm doing some research on how you & your team are using AI in your engineering practice.
There's a little survey here that takes about 5-10 mins to complete & the results will get shared with all participants.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#ai #engineering #dev
There's a little survey here that takes about 5-10 mins to complete & the results will get shared with all participants.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#ai #engineering #dev
August 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
If you're a software engineer (or know one) I'm doing some research on how you & your team are using AI in your engineering practice.
There's a little survey here that takes about 5-10 mins to complete & the results will get shared with all participants.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#ai #engineering #dev
There's a little survey here that takes about 5-10 mins to complete & the results will get shared with all participants.
tally.so/r/3xW4gv
#ai #engineering #dev
Reposted by AJ Fisher
Fractional CTO insights: How to make your codebase more sustainable while scaling AI development agents.
Andrew Fisher at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/4mnps03
Andrew Fisher at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/4mnps03
August 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Fractional CTO insights: How to make your codebase more sustainable while scaling AI development agents.
Andrew Fisher at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/4mnps03
Andrew Fisher at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/4mnps03
The timing of these posts in my feed couldn't have been more perfect... 😂
#music #getOffMyLawn
@stilgherrian.com @johnfallsopp.com @grogsgamut.bsky.social
#music #getOffMyLawn
@stilgherrian.com @johnfallsopp.com @grogsgamut.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The timing of these posts in my feed couldn't have been more perfect... 😂
#music #getOffMyLawn
@stilgherrian.com @johnfallsopp.com @grogsgamut.bsky.social
#music #getOffMyLawn
@stilgherrian.com @johnfallsopp.com @grogsgamut.bsky.social
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Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link?
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link?
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
Reposted by AJ Fisher
I just saw someone suggest asking ChatGPT to aggregate “data” from Reddit threads to provide **medical guidance** and I would like to unsubscribe from this future.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just saw someone suggest asking ChatGPT to aggregate “data” from Reddit threads to provide **medical guidance** and I would like to unsubscribe from this future.
Reposted by AJ Fisher
Modern HTML is a disaster.
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
Why Semantic HTML Still Matters
If you want to build for performance, accessibility, discoverability, or resilience, you must start with HTML that means something.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Modern HTML is a disaster.
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
Great arg for why lowering voting age in Aus needs civics support to make it viable.
This said, some of the convos I have (even those who grew up here) suggest civics teaching more broadly is lacking. In no particular order:
🧵
#ausvotes #politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This said, some of the convos I have (even those who grew up here) suggest civics teaching more broadly is lacking. In no particular order:
🧵
#ausvotes #politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lowering Australia’s voting age to 16 without fortifying civic foundations would be misguided | Intifar Chowdhury
Only once we invest in compulsory civics, media and digital‑literacy education across our secondary schools should we consider allowing younger people to vote
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Great arg for why lowering voting age in Aus needs civics support to make it viable.
This said, some of the convos I have (even those who grew up here) suggest civics teaching more broadly is lacking. In no particular order:
🧵
#ausvotes #politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This said, some of the convos I have (even those who grew up here) suggest civics teaching more broadly is lacking. In no particular order:
🧵
#ausvotes #politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Someone get Tom Dearden some media training...
To his credit he did try to catch the f-bomb in the moment. 😂
#stateOfOrigin
To his credit he did try to catch the f-bomb in the moment. 😂
#stateOfOrigin
July 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Someone get Tom Dearden some media training...
To his credit he did try to catch the f-bomb in the moment. 😂
#stateOfOrigin
To his credit he did try to catch the f-bomb in the moment. 😂
#stateOfOrigin
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Respect to the Blues players reaching out to Munster. That is classy. #stateoforigin #nrl
July 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Respect to the Blues players reaching out to Munster. That is classy. #stateoforigin #nrl
Queensland masterclass on that game. Constant effort, outstanding defence that was consistent all game joined with stellar attack.
NSW weren't great, and it showed when Qld turns up like they did.
#stateOfOrigin
NSW weren't great, and it showed when Qld turns up like they did.
#stateOfOrigin
July 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Queensland masterclass on that game. Constant effort, outstanding defence that was consistent all game joined with stellar attack.
NSW weren't great, and it showed when Qld turns up like they did.
#stateOfOrigin
NSW weren't great, and it showed when Qld turns up like they did.
#stateOfOrigin