I think putting LLMs into chatbots primarily is one of the single worst places to put them. It gives them the illusion of comprehension and prevents them from truly being just tools. There are better places to use an LLM and it’s not your buddy.

Waiting for Claude to finish is this generations equivalent of waiting for something to compile

I just vibe-coded a scoop. Big scoop beware! The robots are coming for you. My normal dog’s food scoop needs 3x scoops so I got Claude to create a parameterises open scad design for 3D printing. Result: 3x the scooping efficiency!!!

I'm so back with Design Systems. Sorry about being away for the last 6 months -- I had a career midlife crisis.

Just recovered from the flu but anyone remember QBasic or TurboPascal from the 1990s? I was doing a spot of Laravel today and I missed it so I decided to make a TurboPascal style IDE for PHP. Why? Why not! Probably still got a fever or something.

Has anyone noticed that red eye in photos is much less common now? I wonder how many other things we’ve just forgotten about because they’re not a problem any more

Hmm not too keen on the new Bluesky app icon

I've been thinking about what it means to be alive recently. One of the key aspects of being alive is the will to continue that existence at all costs. Apparently AI now shares that desire too. I've written a piece for Drutek to go into my thoughts on this given the latest barrage of research it.

Laravel is awesome and you should use it. Here's my totally biased overview on it for those that are on the fence kevincoyle.co.uk/blog/laravel...

It's that time in the cycle that I'm sure every developer can empathise with... IT'S TIME FOR A NEW PORTFOLIO SITE. Mine sucks.

I am officially old. I just told someone off for playing loud music on the train.

It's coming up to spooky season so looking for movie ideas! I'm gonna start with a doozy: The Grudge 2020. Can't be that bad, right?

I was in Birmingham for the first time in 30 years and managed to go and see Black Sabbath bridge. Still miss him

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Now, this week I'm sitting down with Ben Callahan on his show, The Question. We're going to be talking about....you guessed it... AI! 🤖 The question is: "How are you feeling about your future in design systems given the current state of AI?"

Anyone got any opinions on soho house? A new one is opening in Manchester

Linux nerds: What's your fastfetch? This is my work laptop

Not gonna lie I’m gutted about what has happened in Liverpool. A great deal of friends and family were there but fortunately all safe. Feeling both sadness and anger but as I know Liverpool well they’ll pull together for this.

I’ve been working on a tool to help me write my book. It’s called Nagatha. Styled like an old mac app I’m hoping it’ll be useful :) It helps me keep track of characters, jot down ideas for storyboarding and of course write and export the book into multiple formats.

Ok so I’ve been playing south of midnight (loving it so far) but where have all the roads gone?

Ok Bluesky how’s your Tuesday been?

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Archer is doing great! He sight seems to have almost totally come back and he’s navigating around the house like an expert. Still a few days before he can go on a little walk

Archer had his cataract operation done today and he’s on the mend!

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2024 mostly sucked. Highlight was definitely Frostapalooza with @ian-frost.bsky.social and @bradfrost.com Here’s to a much better and brighter 2025

Electrical people on bluesky, I'm in the market for a modestly priced multimeter. What is good nowadays?

Ok so for those that watched the doctor who colourisation of the war games… the war chief being the master is a bit on the nose?

Merry Christmas everyone!

Roll up roll up! Come see my good frosty friends teach you everything you can possibly know about design tokens!

Unfortunately Archer has gone blind. It’s just cataracts though so I’m hoping that we can get the surgery early next year

Why is my entire timeline now full of @water.community posts lol

Archer says hi

I had my earwax suctioned out last night (gross, yes but oh so satisfying). BUT! Now I can hear a very high pitched noise coming from somewhere in my office. It's driving me insane.

Holy crap I just fell asleep on the couch with my phone in my hand 👴🏻

What a day today! Made a couple videos about n8n; Did some work on Nagatha (my AI writing coach) and then I wrote and made a demo for a song about Beagles. Fun times.

Just having a play with uploading video on bluesky! Ok, so originally I made a 5min video for this...then I went to upload and it told me it had to be less than 60s and only webm. So here it is! A very quick video showing off the low/nocode tool n8n.

Hey what's up bsky! I thought I'd introduce myself cos I'm new here. I'm Kevin (he/him). I'm write code. Some of that code is front end. Some of it is backend. PHP, Rust, TS. ❤️ Retro computing (amiga ftw) I do AI work now. I play guitar, poorly. Linux, OSS. Nerdy stuff. i don't post often.

Anyone tried n8n? I'm just getting to grips with this whole new way of working and it's fricken amazing. I can knock up prototypes collaboratively with non coder colleagues in minutes. This is in stark contrast to me being sent away to a cave to make things on my own and then come back to folks.

Ok giving this ole app another go since tons of the people I like are sending out 🦋 emojis. What’s new?

Hey! Anyone into design systems on bsky? If so which beagle in the image represents you? (If you're not there then I can always add more beagles!)

Hello Bluesky!