Rob Lowcock
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Rob Lowcock
@robl.bsky.social
Building great teams who build great products. Blogging on hashtagwebscale.com
Spotify removing an album I've been listening to a lot recently and then emailing me about a price increase on the same day is certainly an interesting NPS strategy
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Apple servers seem to be doing OK with the #ios26 update as far as I can tell. Phone and laptop both updated and the iPad is speeding along. Pretty impressive given everything must be getting slammed at the moment.
September 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Good news! I've found something AI is terrible at – generating vector files. I asked ChatGPT to generate a simplified black-and-white logo involving a D20, and it decided the best bet was what can only be described as a bicycle wheel.

I mean I suppose you could still roll it...
August 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Wrote up yesterday's mayhem where both ChatGPT and Claude denied that the `prisma dev` command existed: hashtagwebscale.com/rob-against-...
Rob Against the Machine: When Claude Code and ChatGPT drove me spare and I learned about prisma dev
I've been trying to experiment a little with agentic AI when writing code. In principle it sounds incredibly cool –* ask a robot what code you'd like written, and it does the heavy lifting for you. A...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My adventures with Claude Code have taken a new turn. It set up a database URL in my .env which was based off running `prisma dev`. It works great, and I can run `npx prisma dev` myself.

Only problem is, I can't find any docs, and both Claude Sonnet and ChatGPT claim the command doesn't exist.
August 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I haven't seen the 2025 War of the Worlds, but the trailer uses the phrase "It's worse than you think".
August 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Messing around with Claude Code and tried to get it to implement some authentication with @authjs.dev and @svelte.dev. I can only conclude that either Claude isn't quite there yet, or I _really_ don't know how to use it properly. I suspect it's the latter
August 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A very Happy New Year to everyone!

I rarely make New Year’s resolutions, but I am tempted to experiment this year to see what would help me keep up with new projects and habits 🤔
January 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Our team was struggling with the awkward silence that occasionally affects the start of a meeting, so we played #DungeonsAndDragons. It went surprisingly well. hashtagwebscale.com/dungeons-dra...
Dungeons & Dragons as a team icebreaker
This post comes with a warning: what I'm about to describe isn't remotely close to the rules of Dungeons & Dragons. DnD purists would be horrified at the lax rules, meta-gaming, and rampant inconsiste...
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November 17, 2024 at 2:05 PM
It's a legal requirement to post ELO as your first post on Bluesky, right? I'm just assuming it's in the terms of service or something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUl...
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Official Video)
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November 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM