Tom Hackshaw

We started our monorepo at work roughly 18 months ago.

I was reading up on the Artifacts product on the Cloudflare Docs site yesterday when I came across the following page talking about a thing called git notes.

Just a short one.

I’ve been at a bit of a loss since the start of this year.

In my Twitter/X echo chamber over the weekend, I've been witnessing some of the craziest stuff being posted by tech/dev accounts with regards to Clawdbot, which I like to think of as being like Claude Cowork but for your entire life and very much targeted…

For the past six months I've been using Opencode very heavily for my own personal projects.

Over the Christmas and New Year period here in New Zealand, one of the largest and widely used healthcare portals used by doctors and health centres got hacked. 108GiB worth of personal health data, including (in some cases) passport scans, prescription i…

By now it’s pretty much everywhere, but I’ve started to get a very good eye for spotting when some piece of content has been written by AI.

Recently I created a hobby API service called schools.tom.so.

I've been using Linux distributions as my primary operating system since I was a teenager in highschool.

Note This is a bit of a whinge post sorry I am currently reading the book “Tell Them I Said No” by Martin Herbert, which is a collection of essays regarding different artists who have deliberately withdrawn from the art world (or, as I liked to think of it

I’ve migrated my site yet again 😬 This marks maybe the fifth or sixth iteration of me migrating to a new personal site stack in recent memory.

I don’t enjoying dealing with auth.

While I’ve been helping out on small pieces here and there on top of my normal day job, two months ago I “officially” became a software developer full time.

One of the things we do at work we writing new UI components is create unit tests and stories to validate + illustrate the functionality of what we’ve created.

After nearly 4 years of using 11ty as my static site generator, I decided to bite the bullet and give Next.js a try.

Before I forget, I wanted to reflect on a few key moments from 2023.

Some of us from Merveilles, a loose collective that I've been part of for a while now, recently released a compilation of noise/drone/ambient music inspired by the idea of "the land", released for free via Elmet Brae records and Beldam.

The past few months have been great.