Not sure if this counts as building in public, but iCloud Drive + Git = pain. iCloud placeholders confuse Git, my prompt sat on “loading” & git push stalled. Lesson learned 🫠

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall was the best of us.

Claude 4.5 - where did @anthropic.com even pull this from?

Three Claude Code panes in iTerm across three repos and it’s just cruising. Add GPT-5 + GPT-5-Codex via Zen MCP = dream team.

Devs: what’s your daily stack right now?

The simple & solid power of lazy loading - I added LL content scripts to PaletteKit (an extension in the works), cutting initial load by 60%. Only inject what users need immediately, save the rest. 👌

What's your go-to extension performance optimisation?

If there’s one book I’d recommend to new vibecoders & AI devs, it’s Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows.

Start with the loops, not the code:

1. Map the feedback loops
2. Spot the leverage points
3. Decide where AI accelerates, smooths, or self-corrects

GPT5 discourse is fascinating. Half the community: 'It's broken!' Other half: 'It's revolutionary!' Me: 'It's January.'

All new models/tech need space: give it time, collect & action feedback, and watch them fly.

Until then, I'll stick with the incredible Claude 4 🙌🏻

TIL: I can use MutationObserver in content scripts to react to dynamic page changes without polling. So much cleaner than setTimeout loops. Why did it take me so long to discover this?

Me on a Monday knowing API changes can't corrupt my production data with working schema drift protection, staging tables and validation engines 👌

That moment when your schema validation works first go, so you spend another hour adding tests because something must be wrong. I'll take the wins I can get.

Been analysing my own writing patterns with NLP. Turns out I say "mate", "actually" and "like" way more than I realised.

"Could actually" is apparently my signature phrase.

Kinda wild seeing your writing behaviours quantified by code you wrote.

RIP Ozzy 🤘

Day 2: the first Chrome extension is planned and the build starts today.

After years of project planning, the amount I *don’t know* about project planning still surprises me - what’s your approach to effective planning?

At least Melbourne brought out the weather to celebrate ☔️

That moment you realise you've been attacking the same problems manually for years.

Time to finally build the solution: Little Bear Apps is officially happening 🐻🐶

What daily manual tasks should disappear first?