Thomas
@thomasmcinnis.com
curr: Sydney 🇦🇺, enterprise software, accidental frontend architecture lead,
prev: non-technical bootstrapped founder… got on the tools and never looked back
prev: non-technical bootstrapped founder… got on the tools and never looked back
manager: “how are you feeling about the project?”
me: “have you read the opening passage from Moby Dick?”
me: “have you read the opening passage from Moby Dick?”
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
manager: “how are you feeling about the project?”
me: “have you read the opening passage from Moby Dick?”
me: “have you read the opening passage from Moby Dick?”
I removed saying “umm” and “err” when presenting almost entirely years ago
but listening to myself i now speak with weird distinct pauses between words in sentence
sounds more unnatural to me 😑
but listening to myself i now speak with weird distinct pauses between words in sentence
sounds more unnatural to me 😑
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I removed saying “umm” and “err” when presenting almost entirely years ago
but listening to myself i now speak with weird distinct pauses between words in sentence
sounds more unnatural to me 😑
but listening to myself i now speak with weird distinct pauses between words in sentence
sounds more unnatural to me 😑
A blog I used to read was shuttered by Typepad going out of business with basically no notice. The owner scrambled to harvest their content and re-platform - only partially successful. A couple of decades of links in the web gone. Hundreds of guest posts, niche reviews, art commentary now erased.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A blog I used to read was shuttered by Typepad going out of business with basically no notice. The owner scrambled to harvest their content and re-platform - only partially successful. A couple of decades of links in the web gone. Hundreds of guest posts, niche reviews, art commentary now erased.
Touching sand and salt and sea
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Touching sand and salt and sea
Be a min… got to set up my new dev environment
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Be a min… got to set up my new dev environment
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so linux is Fine if you absolutely stay to the rivers you're used to. the problem is everyone has *at least* one waterfall to chase.
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
so linux is Fine if you absolutely stay to the rivers you're used to. the problem is everyone has *at least* one waterfall to chase.
uh oh I just learnt about guix
pray for me
pray for me
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
uh oh I just learnt about guix
pray for me
pray for me
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Why do they call it model view controller when you view the controller viewcontroller model control the view model?
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Why do they call it model view controller when you view the controller viewcontroller model control the view model?
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a directory called 'docs/' filled with markdown files is 1000% better for internal documentation than notion
September 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
a directory called 'docs/' filled with markdown files is 1000% better for internal documentation than notion
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Someone should invent a house where your furniture doesn’t get absolutely coated in dust after like two days
I reckon they’d sell a bunch
I reckon they’d sell a bunch
September 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Someone should invent a house where your furniture doesn’t get absolutely coated in dust after like two days
I reckon they’d sell a bunch
I reckon they’d sell a bunch
after another week thinking about RDF here's where I'm at
September 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
after another week thinking about RDF here's where I'm at
insanely funny meeting tech bros who genuinely think being “alpha” matters to getting women to pay them attention. amazing self own - faang salary and still no one wants you
like yeah no shit dawg you suck
like yeah no shit dawg you suck
September 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
insanely funny meeting tech bros who genuinely think being “alpha” matters to getting women to pay them attention. amazing self own - faang salary and still no one wants you
like yeah no shit dawg you suck
like yeah no shit dawg you suck
You would think that LLMs would actually crush setting up a gitlab pipeline to azure static web apps... yet here I am with a commit history like
fix: try ubuntu
fix: pin node version
fix: correct env key
fix: try ubuntu
fix: pin node version
fix: correct env key
September 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
You would think that LLMs would actually crush setting up a gitlab pipeline to azure static web apps... yet here I am with a commit history like
fix: try ubuntu
fix: pin node version
fix: correct env key
fix: try ubuntu
fix: pin node version
fix: correct env key
yup I felt bad for asking an AI question off the bat - but an super interesting to unpack because at first pass many smaller firms are seeing LLMs as a possible equaliser. Great answer from Jeroen
Right into the AI questions! Jeroen thinks that smaller teams might struggle to take advantage of agentic coding assistants because they will quickly run out of the expertise to review all the suggestions appropriately. #sydtechleaders
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
yup I felt bad for asking an AI question off the bat - but an super interesting to unpack because at first pass many smaller firms are seeing LLMs as a possible equaliser. Great answer from Jeroen
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First speaker tonight is Inga Pflaumer talking about the graveyard of tech debt. How do you know what to save or bury? Does it block customer revenue? Does it get worse if you leave it? Will it unlock speed elsewhere?
September 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
First speaker tonight is Inga Pflaumer talking about the graveyard of tech debt. How do you know what to save or bury? Does it block customer revenue? Does it get worse if you leave it? Will it unlock speed elsewhere?
Been scheming so much I forgot how to write a basic loop and panic wrote a recurse
Took ages to rewrite to a loop and instantly got off-by-one-errored into the sun
Took ages to rewrite to a loop and instantly got off-by-one-errored into the sun
September 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Been scheming so much I forgot how to write a basic loop and panic wrote a recurse
Took ages to rewrite to a loop and instantly got off-by-one-errored into the sun
Took ages to rewrite to a loop and instantly got off-by-one-errored into the sun
my greatest fear is being absolutely bodied like this at work
August 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
my greatest fear is being absolutely bodied like this at work
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
chat what does this mean?
just been asked to attend an off-site for people managers
...but I don't manage any people
just been asked to attend an off-site for people managers
...but I don't manage any people
August 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
chat what does this mean?
just been asked to attend an off-site for people managers
...but I don't manage any people
just been asked to attend an off-site for people managers
...but I don't manage any people
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"You see, iterables are objects that implement the iterable iteration protocol (Symbol.iterator), and iterators are objects that implement the iterator iteration protocol." My eyes are visibly unfocused; there is a small trickle of blood from one ear.
August 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"You see, iterables are objects that implement the iterable iteration protocol (Symbol.iterator), and iterators are objects that implement the iterator iteration protocol." My eyes are visibly unfocused; there is a small trickle of blood from one ear.
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It’s been 11 months since I joined a “grown up” company and started using Jira and Confluence instead of Linear so I reckon I’ve got a good sense of the pros and cons of each…
Anyway you should check out linear.app
Anyway you should check out linear.app
July 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s been 11 months since I joined a “grown up” company and started using Jira and Confluence instead of Linear so I reckon I’ve got a good sense of the pros and cons of each…
Anyway you should check out linear.app
Anyway you should check out linear.app
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Boss Baby is my Doctor Daddy
Was doing some reading on the Chinese Microdrama phenomenon — it's mostly a site called ReelShort where you pay ~50 cents to watch 90-second long episodes of slightly pornier Hallmark movies — and I'm losing it at these show titles.
July 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Boss Baby is my Doctor Daddy