@philna.sh - Phil Nash

30 Apr 2026 11:13 +0000

This is the ideal user interface. You may not like it, but this is what peak UX looks like. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

22 Apr 2026 06:39 +0000

Yes Teams, my microphone is muted. It’s because I’m in a noisy space, not because I’m talking. You could have figured that out after the 4th or 5th notification, I’m sure. 😡

13 Apr 2026 14:11 +0000

I submitted an online talk for the AI Engineer Europe event last week, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxOBhDRRCM

02 Apr 2026 06:21 +0000

It was such a pleasure to share a stage with @cybette.bsky.social at #OpenSearchCon, and even more so to share the work of the #Docling team and how it can be integrated with #OpenSearch. Check out the video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqUJVGyI5to

31 Mar 2026 04:12 +0000

I'm simultaneously proud and ashamed. Ashamed to find out that I've been using a password from a data breach for my RubyGems account. I have 2FA enabled too, don't worry! But seriously 🤦‍♂️ I am proud though, because I know that this feature used my pwned gem (rubygems.org/gems/pwned) to check.

26 Mar 2026 07:05 +0000

Remember that article "Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up"? https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding Turns out the observations were too early. App releases are on the up! I just spotted this graph of iOS app releases. Domains are ticking up too.

24 Mar 2026 01:28 +0000

Cumulative Layout Shift has finally been recognised by sketch comedy, thanks to SNL UK. https://youtu.be/YQYtnkvMtL4?t=80

15 Mar 2026 13:40 +0000

Just popping to Shanghai for a few days 🛫

11 Mar 2026 22:46 +0000

Congratulations to everyone who has worked on Temporal to get it to this stage. And hooray for all the developers that can confidently use Temporal in their apps and never deal with Date again! 🎉 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Mar 2026 23:43 +0000

Nothing amuses me more than asking LLMs for a joke. Because they are so so bad at them. Today's I asked for a joke about sausage dogs: "Why don't sausage dogs ever play hide and seek? Because good luck hiding when everyone knows they're always being "sausage-ed" in the park!"

06 Mar 2026 01:23 +0000

I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations! None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end. https://philna.sh/blog/2026/03/05/talking-tips/ Do you have any more tips to share?

17 Feb 2026 05:25 +0000

My coding agent is using console.log debugging and I've never felt more validated.

16 Feb 2026 19:51 +0000

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31 Jan 2026 03:56 +0000

I updated an npm package to publish using @npmjs.bsky.social /@github.com trusted publishing, but it took me a few goes to get it right. These are the things that I needed to do to get trusted publishing to work for me: https://philna.sh/blog/2026/01/28/trusted-publishing-npm/

29 Jan 2026 06:02 +0000

A React app that has a useEffect that listens to the window resize event and returns whether the screen is mobile or not so that different images can be displayed? These are the lengths that React developers will go to to avoid learning about the tag's sizes and srcset.

28 Jan 2026 11:55 +0000

Discovered the contact form on my website was broken and ended up learning how to set up trusted publishing to npm. So that was quite the rabbit hole of an evening.

14 Jan 2026 08:36 +0000

Hurrah for Temporal now shipping in Chrome! Better update this blog post already. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

14 Jan 2026 07:53 +0000

I really enjoy speaking at conferences and trying to share what I've learned. It's really nice to be recognised by @sessionize.com for doing it quite a lot. I guess I need to get some talks accepted for 2026 now!

12 Jan 2026 03:34 +0000

Wrote a new blog post. This is the story of how I tried to add one month to a JavaScript date and discovered the result was 9 months earlier. Yes, the problem was time zones. Even though the time didn't matter. https://philna.sh/blog/2026/01/11/javascript-date-calculation/

09 Dec 2025 23:29 +0000

Excited to see the AI Engineer conference is coming to Melbourne next year! webdirections.org/ai-engineer/ https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/

28 Nov 2025 03:49 +0000

This might be the simplest Langflow flow I've ever built, but it's still really cool. It uses Docling to parse PDFs and return Markdown. You can choose between Docling's standard pipeline, using OCR and other models, or use a vision language model. And you get great results!

14 Nov 2025 05:47 +0000

I built a @langflow.org workflow and bookmarklet to help me summarise and categorise articles for the AI++ newsletter. It saves me time, so I thought you might like to see how I built it. https://www.langflow.org/blog/langflow-ai-workflows-ai-newsletter

10 Nov 2025 23:52 +0000

Ever wanted to build your own coding agent? I just built one in @langflow.org using 3 components and 2 MCP servers. Sure, it's no Cursor, Codex or Claude Code, but it's a start! See how to build your own here: https://www.langflow.org/blog/ai-coding-agent-langflow

24 Oct 2025 00:47 +0000

Just had a cold call from an AI career coach. It refused to coach me on how to bake a pie, even though I emphasized that it would both help with stress and improving my career. Kept it on the line for 4 minutes before the AI decided it no longer wanted to speak to me.

21 Oct 2025 01:39 +0000

Power cut on my street. I can’t prove it, but it feels like this has something to do with us-east-1.

10 Oct 2025 11:25 +0000

Hey! Did you know you can expose your Langflow flows as MCP servers? It's as easy as: 1. Create flow 2. Get MCP server details and install in MCP client 3. There is no step 3 Or in more detail: https://www.langflow.org/blog/build-mcp-server-langflow

02 Oct 2025 12:41 +0000

This view doesn’t get old.