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Journal about work in progress.

Thick toast with red bean and cream beside a cup of coffee at Higashide Coffee

Adding SMS support

Porsche on a tow truck in Tokyo

Spring cleaning

An espresso at The Coffee Movement in San Francisco

Stripe Projects launches

A street in Nakameguro

Agent experience

A floating house in Tokyo

Sync, phone numbers, and webhooks

Superman by Mel Ramos at SF Museum of Art

A fresh coat of paint

Leaves Coffee shop in Tokyo

Three-ring binder

Under a bridge in Tokyo

Code as content, digital proprioception, and what's next

A fisherman in San Francisco Bay

Chroma for Ruby

Disembarking a sea plane in Vancouver harbor

Outage, tacit knowledge, and a new project

A forest outside of Oslo.

Digital gardening

Shinkansen conductor holding onto his cap as he speeds away

Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner

A bicycle in Copenhagen

Disaster recovery

Printed newsletter pages and envelopes on a desk with coffee

Snail mail

Rainy day on Orchard Street in Brooklyn

Maintenance

Golden Sardine in North Beach

Backup plans

Palace of Fine Arts in SF

GitHub syncing

Y Combinator

Hacking YC (again)

RIP, Chubby Noodles

Taste-skill gaps

No laptops sign on a cafe table

The joys of self-hosting

Golden Gate Bridge

Claude, Launching, and Tools

Deer brain omelette at noma

Adding a brain to my toolbox

Chicago

It's time to rethink chat

Coffee

Software is bread, not burgers

Philip Ilic Thomas

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