Clean install of macOS on my personal laptop - a lot of chaff built up over the past few years so good to free up some space and try out some new apps.

Spent some time today getting Claude to upgrade an old Laravel 8 project to Laravel 13 - pretty flawless upgrade, ready to dive back into some feature development.

So glad I decided to move away from iCloud sync/collaboration for my side-project app. A day with Claude, Codex, and my experience with building sync architectures (plus a $6 Laravel VPS server) and I have a fully working and 1000x more reliable sync service.

I’ll write all about it once this app launches.

Throwing the towel in on CloudKit sharing for the iOS app I’ve been working on. Too buggy and unreliable. Going back to the drawing board and building out my own cloud sync service - something I am much more familiar with.

Happy with that. First long run of my ‘official’ Gold Coast marathon training. Aiming for zone 2 and 3 in my training - keeping my heart rate down rather than pushing for speed. My target for the main event in July: to finish. #gcm26 #farnotfast

After buying a license well over a year ago, I'm finally getting to use Flux UI in a project.

Taking advantage of those free #claude extra usage credits to build out some personal software I’ve been thinking about for a while.

Time to get serious(ish) about marathon training. 13 weeks to go until the Gold Coast Marathon. Since I'm not too concerned about speed, my main training protocol is around distance at low-intensity. Three runs a week - parkrun (5km) on Saturdays, an easy/recovery run on Mondays, and then a long run on Wednesday. Got Claude to do the math on optimum distances for each - let's go!

Looks like there has been some bad bots on the loose in the last 24 hours, probing my blog for common exploits and security leaks. My homemade analytics may be basic, but it sees all...

Everyone else is writing about how they use AI for development, so I figured I would too: https://philstephens.com/blog/how-i-actually-use-ai-coding-tools