Hacker News: tomwphillips

New comment by tomwphillips in "Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B"

tomwphillips — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:27:01 +0000

Yeah, me. I've used it every day for years. With a hybrid/remote team it is a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard. Whole team uses it.

I don't care for or use any of the AI features.

I hope the price doesn't go up dramatically.

New comment by tomwphillips in "Apple Watch Series 12"

tomwphillips — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:32:02 +0000

The video demo is so strange. A waitress spoke too fast - just act like a normal person and politely ask them to repeat themselves, instead of reading a transcription on your watch. My goodness.

British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

tomwphillips — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/31/british-museum-hosted-palantir-founder-peter-thiel-private-viewing-bayeux-tapestry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511929

Points: 24

# Comments: 27

The benefits of data lakehouses are overstated: open data != open platform

tomwphillips — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2026/08/the-benefits-of-data-lakehouses-are-overstated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456071

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Surge in AI-assisted complaints putting extra strain on councils and schools

tomwphillips — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:31:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dk6wzjw23o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429464

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

As AI guzzles water and energy, we are facing a choice: datacentres or homes?

tomwphillips — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:27:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/slough-famous-the-office-datacentres-locals-hub-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234126

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by tomwphillips in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

tomwphillips — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:43:31 +0000

Definitely not a bubble.

New comment by tomwphillips in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

tomwphillips — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:52:05 +0000

Can you elaborate what you mean by "won't let me fix"? What happens when you try to?

New comment by tomwphillips in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

tomwphillips — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:50:54 +0000

I was in a similar boat with my M1 Pro. I have an M4 Pro for work but rarely notice the difference.

Unfortunately the display in my M1 has failed and a replacement is £500-700. Very frustrating.

Worried Britons 'prepping' for major disruption with stash of tins and cash

tomwphillips — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:54:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/09/worried-britons-prepping-for-major-disruption-with-stash-of-tins-and-cash-survey-shows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076830

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by tomwphillips in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

tomwphillips — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:51:12 +0000

*All* my work as a solo consultant/contractor was from former colleagues who needed "trusted pair of hands" to deal with a project, or former colleagues introducing me to new people.

People hire you because they want something done with zero hassle. It is a risk to go with someone you don't know or haven't had someone vouch for.

New comment by tomwphillips in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

tomwphillips — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:23:39 +0000

I have this problem, but I just lock the front door.

New comment by tomwphillips in "Copilot Adverts in Pull Requests"

tomwphillips — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:36:59 +0000

A colleague sent me this search directly.

Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

New comment by tomwphillips in "Copilot Adverts in Pull Requests"

tomwphillips — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:23:29 +0000

Yes.

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

Copilot Adverts in Pull Requests

tomwphillips — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/search

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571663

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

How to Do the Work

tomwphillips — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-do-the-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479071

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomwphillips in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

tomwphillips — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:34:40 +0000

I'm not sure a staging environment would have caught it.

I often find Claude makes changes that _look_ reasonable, but it's only when I really dig in (e.g. when refactoring) that I realise there's insidious problems.

I can imagine the author making the changes in a staging environment, seeing that it _appears_ to be ok, then blowing up production anyway.

(AI aside, staging is a lie: https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2026/01/staging-is-a-wasteful...).

New comment by tomwphillips in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

tomwphillips — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:11:02 +0000

At $dayJob we use (user facing) IDs like this. Select a prefix then add a sufficient number of random alphanumeric characters for your use case.

New comment by tomwphillips in "GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again"

tomwphillips — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:19:03 +0000

In October they were talking about it taking 18 months.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

New comment by tomwphillips in "GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again"

tomwphillips — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:13:35 +0000

There were reports that they're migrating to Azure. Maybe it isn't going so well. I thought AI was supposed for have solved software engineering...