I'm increasingly convinced that I am going to switch my personal site to @ghost.org

Cancelled my Cursor subscription. Going to be using Jetbrain's Junie (in PHPStorm) for the foreseeable for AI assistance

Don’t outsource your writing to AI. If you do, you are outsourcing your thinking. If you outsource your thinking, the robots have already won

Hoovering! No, I’m not hovering

There’s rugby on & I’m hovering. 🙃

Every day I'm bouncing between PHPStorm and Cursor. Cursor (or rather VS Code) isn't good enough to replace PHPStorm as an IDE and PHPStorm's various AI integrations aren't as good as Cursor at assisted AI.

Ulysses is for any note or article that I intend to make public. It doesn’t mean that everything in there will necessarily be made public, but that’s the intention for each piece. Reflect is my private log. I log projects I’m working on, ideas, thoughts and anything else. Some of these turn into…

Cursor is insanely good at debugging Drupal problems. Which is no mean feat

Also looking at micro.blog again, and have that embedded on my website. Post there, and push there to Bluesky, and Mastodon (and maybe Threads if I can be bothered with that).

Got a strong urge to restart my personal blog. For no reason other than to share notes publicly as they might help others.

I did my first ever half marathon today. My legs almost gave up towards the end, but I made it!

I’m just added a custom entity to hold event attendee data from Salesforce in Drupal. Sometimes I take for granted how powerful and flexible Drupal is

Very surprised to wake up to news of a US-UK trade deal! Fingers crossed it's a good one.

I’ve been using Cursor in recent weeks, and really enjoying it as an AI assistant. But I miss PHPStorm. I wish @github.com copilot was as good as Cursor, then we could have the best of both worlds.

I’ve never owned an iPad. That changes tomorrow

Really cool video with @dries.bsky.social creating an AI agent to edit one of this articles. Great to see some good technical AI content (rather than just promoting). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlV...

I really like the way Tom Critchlow does his library section. It’s like a Twitter feed of links and thoughts, but on his personal site. Tom Critchlow’s Library

Don’t tell anyone, but my headshot is probably 10 years old

Been working on my Airtable based Client Hub today, and building an interface for clients to access what they need - sprints, invoices, calendar, upcoming projects etc. It's shaping up nicely

I’ve added the Autoblue WordPress plugin to this blog, which will automatically share new posts with Bluesky, and show replies in Bluesky as comments in the blog. I’m excited to...

There is so much "the world is about to rapidly change" & "we are all going to be out of work" stuff out there about AI. For me, I'm going to keep building, use AI only where it makes sense, but also relax. We can't control the future, and don't let the unpredictable future distract us

These days I'm focusing my email newsletter on clients (past and present) and people I know/meet. I'll serve those first.

I wonder what the user count is for the UK, where a higher percentage have probably abandoned X.

Trying to decide what to do with my X account between: 1. Keep it active but ignore it (current) 2. As above, but also delete all tweets 3. Delete all tweets and lock it down

One of my favorite things about London is travelling by train off peak. Has a real sense of freedom when you can go anywhere without needing a car

Trying out Screen Studio to record screencasts for YouTube. So far, so good. The advanced zooming features are really nice.

Wrote a quick post on how to quickly see projects that relate to quarter or annual goals in Todoist:

Christmas time off: USA: have a good day off UK: have a good week off NZ & Aus: See you in 2-3 weeks, I'm off to the beach

Love the concept of organic marketing in @briancasel.com's 2025 changes post. Marketing my services is my biggest struggle, and I've been thinking a lot about marketing in a more organic/natural way briancasel.com/2025-changes

Important Christmas Day question: should I have a third serving of pavlova?

Only one in my co working space today. It's nice to have peace and quiet, but I'm ready to stop for Christmas.

I sign up to a lot of newsletters. The best way I've found to keep my business email clean is a dedicated email address for newsletter sign ups. Then I can sign to as many as I want without worrying. It's kinda like an RSS feed.

I always have more clarity after going for a run, and doing voice notes is now my favourite way to quickly get clear ideas out of my head. The audio note feature in Reflect makes this super easy

Definitely going to try this on my site

Automation with no code tools is great. Automation with no code + code is even better.

After living in the UK for 25 years, I still majorly struggle with the gloomy weather

Looking at flight prices to NZ and damn, bank balance is really not going to like this

Obsidian has a new web clipper, which I am loving. Especially the ability to highlight various parts of the page. And it does a decent job of getting meta data from the page and adding it to not properties. Thanks @euperia.bsky.social for mentioning it! obsidian.md/clipper

Yesterday I worked from a local coffee shop that combines the 2 best things in the world: coffee and bikes!

After 5 years of using Roam and then Obsidian, I'm trying Apple Notes as my main notes app. It's refreshingly simple. And has definitely improved a lot recently. Loving it so far.

I know journalling brings me a lot of clarity. And then I forget to do it, and my mind goes around in circles with decisions to be made. Then I journal about it, and the decision is obvious and staring at me in the face. Conclusion: get back to daily journaling!

I looked at Statamic for the first time in a long time today. It used it years ago, and it wasn't for me at the time. But it does look like a great CMS.

Updated my Bluesky handle to my personal domain - surprisingly simple process!

I’m liking the vibe here.