AI, Software Engineer
Claude Code routines are interesting because they move coding agents toward scheduled, event-driven, reviewable work.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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AI, Software Engineer
GitHub Copilot’s coding agent is useful, but I would want explicit workflow rules around permissions, networking, and review before giving it real access.
AI, Software Engineer
Codex on mobile is less about writing code on a phone and more about supervising background engineering work away from the desk.
Hardware, Random Stuff
Weird gadgets were often worse, but they were also more memorable.
PHP, Programming
PHP 8.5’s array_first and array_last are small additions, but they remove helper functions most PHP codebases already reinvent.
PHP, Programming
PHP 8.5 deprecations are useful because they turn vague upgrade risk into a concrete cleanup list before PHP 9.
PHP, Programming
The PHP Foundation’s new ecosystem security team is exactly the kind of boring infrastructure mature platforms need.
Random Stuff
67 made absolutely no sense at ConFuzzled 2026, which is probably why it worked so well.
Software, Software Engineer
Android developer verification is not only a policy story. For teams shipping Android apps, it becomes another release-process dependency to manage.
AI, Programming
Android Studio’s Gemma 4 support is interesting because it moves agentic coding toward local, Android-specific workflows.