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A live demo workshop — building a real feature from research to merged PR using Claude Code, Skills, and MCP.

I want to tell you a story about what I learned I should be building, and what I think it means for the future of AI development.

A live demo of Friday, my personal AI assistant, building a feature from scratch while I explain how it works.

Why settle for a fancy e-book reader, when you can use an impractically sized 35 year old device instead?

I love taking broken retro tech and fixing it up.

I wanted to play a retro couch-coop game with my friend, but they were too far away.

Web components are an underused superpower of the modern web.

I needed to teach a bunch of non-coders how to write JS, so I built a game engine.

Who is your favorite superhero?

Minecraft is a bit of a hidden gem when it comes to teaching.

I have been thinking about my dad this week, more than usual.

I was visiting a friend who had just moved house.

Some time ago, I created a JS port of Pico-8.

I came to find that the topics I want to talk about — the topics I can prattle on about, with no preparation — are topics that are difficult for organisers to justify.

One day, while staring out the window at all the async/await languages playing ball, I wondered what it would take to do the same in PHP.

The carpenter's chair is always broken.

Filament is an open-source admin builder for Laravel.

Many developers get lost in the hype of object oriented design.

Multi-tenant apps are cool because they can work for many brands, with a single codebase.

Going to conferences, while living in these remote areas, made me feel like I was wanted.

Read an interesting, albiet brief post about actually doing the thing I claim to be so bad at that I avoid it.

I needed to teach a bunch of non-coders how to write JS, so I built a game engine.

One of the reasons I got a 3D printer was to learn what it would take to run a small 3D printing side-hustle.

t's been about a month since I got my first 3D printer.

Seems I only wokr on this silly PHP pattern library thing when I'm in airports.

This talk is about the wonderful Monad pattern; what it is, where to find it, and how to use it.

These few introductory slides are for a workshop that I ran at PHPCon Poland 2024.

If you're building games on your own, you know how much effort is it is to make everything from scratch.

Got an idea for a product or service?

I have just been experimenting with importing source code from URLs in PHP.

I dig Deno, but probably not for the reasons you think.

It's been a heck of a week.

This talk covers the architecture of a multi-tenant sports media website, and the APIs that power their mobile apps.

Minecraft is played by more than 165 million people.

This talk is a hands-on introduction to hobby electronics, and how you can control them using JS.

When I saw Greg’s tweet about “friends you didn’t know you had”, I physically reacted.

I've come around to the idea that high school math is a gift.

Slither Deep was my third game.

I made Train Trouble for a Nokia Game Jam.

I made Sitch for a game jam (with the theme: Switch).

Multi-tenant apps are cool because they can work for many brands, with a single codebase.

I’ve just been down a rabbit hole.

Let me share a little secret with you, about Filament.

Invasion is a game about trying to stay hopeful in a hopeless situation.

Bouncy Cars is probably my favourite game, so far.

I used to work with a lovely fellow, named Riaan.

Gitstore was a project I built, with Jason and Shawn.

This old book is about building a CMS out of React components.

This old book was from a time before PHP didn't have strong typing and a million Composer plugins.

Writing this book was eye-opening.