Who was asking for this? 🤨

Keep people reading your blog by offering related articles with the @astro.build Related Content integration. philna.sh/blog/2026/06...

Had a lovely time presenting about MCP Apps at #AgentConPerth2026, showing how you can make AI chats less boring and more interactive with UIs inside the agent. #AAAmbassador

I am absolutely loving the absolutely unhinged formatting of this email I received from a hotel I'm checking into soon.

Got some lovely news this morning, I'm joining the first cohort of @aaif.io Ambassadors. As part of this, I'm going to be speaking and writing about the open-source AAIF projects, including MCP, AGENTS.md and Goose. #AAAmbassador

Want to generate related posts for your @astro.build site? All powered by local embedding models? Then I’ve got a new package for you. Check out @philnash/astro-related-content and how to use it here: philna.sh/blog/2026/06...

Want to generate related posts for your @astro.build site? All powered by local embedding models? Then I’ve got a new package for you. Check out @philnash/astro-related-content and how to use it here: philna.sh/blog/2026/06...

Wow, time zones will never not be a problem www.crunchydata.com/blog/british...

This, but every 5 hours it presses "Resume goal" in Codex

How do you feel about not writing much code anymore? philna.sh/blog/2026/05...

I'm running my presenter workshop on Zoom next month, on a West Coast / AU / NZ friendly (well, friendlier) schedule. It is AWESOME, and you should TOTALLY JOIN IT and LEARN HOW TO DO KICK-ASS PRESENTATIONS. £50 off tickets with the code BSKY50: www.eventbrite.com/e/1987043570810/?discount=BSKY50

Ok, it’s right, but for the wrong reasons 🤷‍♂️

This is the little app I've been working on. Need to find what time it is for cities around the world on any date, so you can organise a call or meeting? This is for you. Check it out at time.philna.sh 🕙

I built a new app and I don't know how to feel about it philna.sh/blog/2026/05...

I built a new app and I don't know how to feel about it philna.sh/blog/2026/05...

Life is good

Heading off to San Francisco for Twilio SIGNAL this week. Who am I going to see there?

Got an interesting phishing attack today: a link to a take home coding test for a job I hadn't applied for. It seemed innocent, pointing to a GitHub repo, but cloning and running the repo would definitely have done bad things. If you're expecting coding tests, check they're from the right company!

This is the ideal user interface. You may not like it, but this is what peak UX looks like.

Yes Teams, my microphone is muted. It’s because I’m in a noisy space, not because I’m talking. You could have figured that out after the 4th or 5th notification, I’m sure. 😡

I submitted an online talk for the AI Engineer Europe event last week, check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxO...

It was such a pleasure to share a stage with @cybette.bsky.social at #OpenSearchCon, and even more so to share the work of the #Docling team and how it can be integrated with #OpenSearch. Check out the video of the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqUJ...

I'm simultaneously proud and ashamed. Ashamed to find out that I've been using a password from a data breach for my RubyGems account. I have 2FA enabled too, don't worry! But seriously 🤦‍♂️ I am proud though, because I know that this feature used my pwned gem (rubygems.org/gems/pwned) to check.

Remember that article "Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up"? mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the... Turns out the observations were too early. App releases are on the up! I just spotted this graph of iOS app releases. Domains are ticking up too.

Cumulative Layout Shift has finally been recognised by sketch comedy, thanks to SNL UK. youtu.be/YQYtnkvMtL4?...

Just popping to Shanghai for a few days 🛫

Congratulations to everyone who has worked on Temporal to get it to this stage. And hooray for all the developers that can confidently use Temporal in their apps and never deal with Date again! 🎉

Nothing amuses me more than asking LLMs for a joke. Because they are so so bad at them. Today's I asked for a joke about sausage dogs: "Why don't sausage dogs ever play hide and seek? Because good luck hiding when everyone knows they're always being "sausage-ed" in the park!"

All my tips for giving better presentations are condensed into one five minute musical lightning talk at www.kryogenix.org/days/2022/10... :-)

I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations! None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end. philna.sh/blog/2026/03... Do you have any more tips to share?

My coding agent is using console.log debugging and I've never felt more validated.

I updated an npm package to publish using @npmjs.bsky.social /@github.com trusted publishing, but it took me a few goes to get it right. These are the things that I needed to do to get trusted publishing to work for me: philna.sh/blog/2026/01...

A React app that has a useEffect that listens to the window resize event and returns whether the screen is mobile or not so that different images can be displayed? These are the lengths that React developers will go to to avoid learning about the <img> tag's sizes and srcset.

Discovered the contact form on my website was broken and ended up learning how to set up trusted publishing to npm. So that was quite the rabbit hole of an evening.

Hurrah for Temporal now shipping in Chrome! Better update this blog post already.

I really enjoy speaking at conferences and trying to share what I've learned. It's really nice to be recognised by @sessionize.com for doing it quite a lot. I guess I need to get some talks accepted for 2026 now!

On 9 January 2026 mine and my family's lives changed forever. I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...

Wrote a new blog post. This is the story of how I tried to add one month to a JavaScript date and discovered the result was 9 months earlier. Yes, the problem was time zones. Even though the time didn't matter. philna.sh/blog/2026/01...

Excited to see the AI Engineer conference is coming to Melbourne next year! webdirections.org/ai-engineer/

This might be the simplest Langflow flow I've ever built, but it's still really cool. It uses Docling to parse PDFs and return Markdown. You can choose between Docling's standard pipeline, using OCR and other models, or use a vision language model. And you get great results!

I built a @langflow.org workflow and bookmarklet to help me summarise and categorise articles for the AI++ newsletter. It saves me time, so I thought you might like to see how I built it. www.langflow.org/blog/langflo...

Ever wanted to build your own coding agent? I just built one in @langflow.org using 3 components and 2 MCP servers. Sure, it's no Cursor, Codex or Claude Code, but it's a start! See how to build your own here: www.langflow.org/blog/ai-codi...

Just had a cold call from an AI career coach. It refused to coach me on how to bake a pie, even though I emphasized that it would both help with stress and improving my career. Kept it on the line for 4 minutes before the AI decided it no longer wanted to speak to me.

Power cut on my street. I can’t prove it, but it feels like this has something to do with us-east-1.

Hey! Did you know you can expose your Langflow flows as MCP servers? It's as easy as: 1. Create flow 2. Get MCP server details and install in MCP client 3. There is no step 3 Or in more detail: www.langflow.org/blog/build-m...

We will be having a friend visiting London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @philna.sh in two weeks giving a talk on #WEBAI builtin browser that is brilliant! Register now lnkd.in/dG28rb9Z

This view doesn’t get old.

📣 @langflow.org 1.6 has been released 📣 There's a bunch of new features that will help you build incredible AI-powered applications, including: 🔐 OAuth for MCP 🤝 OpenAI responses API compatibility 📄 Docling-powered parsing 👀 Traceloop observability 🎨 Better UX

Ooh, I got a new email! 😐