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Philip Ilic Thomas

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Philip Ilic Thomas is an engineer living in New York City, working at the intersection of math, software, and business.

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206 from 1 Nov 2022 to 5 Nov 2026
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2026 86

  1. Turn 17
  2. Race day
  3. F1
  4. What I'm up to - November 2026
  5. Guinness
  6. Rainbow
  7. Béarnaise
  8. Dining room
  9. Sitemap
  10. What I'm up to - October 2026
  11. Cooking class
  12. Cycling
  13. Copenhill
  14. Greenhouse
  15. Lamps
  16. What I'm up to - September 2026
  17. Copenhagen sunset
  18. Kaffe
  19. Subway
  20. Third time's the charm
  21. Last evening in SF
  22. Morning fog
  23. What I'm up to - August 2026
  24. Jackknife
  25. Swivel
  26. Borscht
  27. Open-sourcing Booklet
  28. Swing
  29. Essays and projects.
  30. Introducing Tidbits
  31. Cable car
  32. Sunrise in Chinatown
  33. Adding SMS support
  34. Sfmoma
  35. Farewell
  36. More Geisha
  37. Leaves Coffee
  38. Bamboo
  39. Bamboo Forest
  40. Torii
  41. What I'm up to - July 2026
  42. Koffee
  43. Pourover
  44. Avant-garde coffee
  45. Record bar analog
  46. Library
  47. Morning coffee
  48. Vinyl
  49. Espresso
  50. Introducing Tsundoku
  51. Dt suzuki bench
  52. Reflecting pool
  53. Hallway
  54. Toast
  55. Hi fi
  56. Listening
  57. House
  58. Stationery store
  59. Spring cleaning
  60. Downpour
  61. Wild boar shrine
  62. Weekenders Coffee
  63. Pop-up photo journal.
  64. Whiskey tasting
  65. Shinkansen
  66. Carrera
  67. Roastery
  68. Geisha
  69. Nakameguro
  70. First photo
  71. What I'm up to - June 2026
  72. What I'm up to - May 2026
  73. Stripe Projects launches
  74. What I'm up to - April 2026
  75. Agent experience
  76. Software in the AI era
  77. Sync, phone numbers, and webhooks
  78. What I'm up to - March 2026
  79. A fresh coat of paint
  80. Three-ring binder
  81. OpenClaw is my new coworker
  82. What I'm up to - February 2026
  83. Code as content, digital proprioception, and what's next
  84. Chroma for Ruby
  85. Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost
  86. What I'm up to - January 2026

2025 43

  1. Outage, tacit knowledge, and a new project
  2. Digital gardening
  3. Print edition
  4. Introducing the print edition
  5. Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner
  6. What I'm up to - December 2025
  7. Disaster recovery
  8. Snail mail
  9. What I'm up to - November 2025
  10. Introducing Workshop
  11. Maintenance
  12. Backup plans
  13. GitHub syncing
  14. MCP and the future of AI
  15. What I'm up to - October 2025
  16. Hacking YC (again)
  17. What I'm up to - September 2025
  18. Taste-skill gaps
  19. The joys of self-hosting
  20. Claude, launching, and tools
  21. Adding a brain to my toolbox
  22. It's time to rethink chat
  23. Software is bread, not burgers
  24. My favorite tool for making email less stressful
  25. Welcome to Workshop
  26. What I'm up to - August 2025
  27. Postcard is now open source
  28. What I'm up to - July 2025
  29. What I'm up to - June 2025
  30. An app of one's own
  31. How I built a chatbot with my dog
  32. What I'm up to - May 2025
  33. How to host web apps on a Mac Mini
  34. What I'm up to - April 2025
  35. What worked for finding a software engineering job
  36. What I'm up to - March 2025
  37. Why Ruby on Rails still matters
  38. A mini data center
  39. What I'm up to - February 2025
  40. Joining Chroma
  41. Craft in the digital era
  42. Lost and found
  43. What I'm up to - January 2025

2024 28

  1. Archetypes of LLM apps
  2. Behind the scenes of the Find AI API
  3. What I'm up to - November 2024
  4. Having a TJ
  5. Innovation versus distribution
  6. Internal tools of Find AI
  7. What I'm up to - October 2024
  8. Wine craft
  9. How I use data to optimize AI apps
  10. Is fractional work the future?
  11. How to self-publish a programming book
  12. The next iteration of Contraption Company
  13. What I'm up to - September 2024
  14. What I'm up to - August 2024
  15. The opportunity of tech talent agents
  16. Before and after Almost Perfect
  17. What I'm up to - June 2024
  18. Coding a Booklet AI feature
  19. Talking shop with Ben Weiss
  20. What I'm up to - May 2024
  21. What I'm up to - April 2024
  22. How I build multiple products
  23. Talking shop with Aaron Cohn from realnice
  24. What I'm up to - March 2024
  25. Rethinking work beyond the factory
  26. What I'm up to - February 2024
  27. Digital product studios
  28. What I'm up to - January 2024

2023 21

  1. Digital quiet
  2. Engineering over enforcement
  3. Community-powered media companies
  4. Booklet's architecture
  5. What I'm up to - December 2023
  6. The transition from indiehacking to micro companies
  7. One year of dependable software
  8. What I'm up to - November 2023
  9. What I'm up to - October 2023
  10. Launching Booklet
  11. Introducing FRCTNL
  12. What I'm up to - September 2023
  13. What I'm up to - August 2023
  14. What I'm up to - July 2023
  15. What I'm up to - June 2023
  16. What I'm up to - May 2023
  17. What I'm up to - April 2023
  18. Slow Travel in Paris: Discovering Substance Cafe
  19. What I'm up to - March 2023
  20. What I'm up to - February 2023
  21. What I'm up to - January 2023

2022 6

  1. How to replace social media with a personal newsletter
  2. Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to social networks
  3. What I'm up to - December 2022
  4. Launching Postcard
  5. Introducing The Contraption Company
  6. What I'm up to - November 2022

Undated 22

  1. What I'm up to.
  2. Photo journal.
  3. Photography
  4. 2022 10
  5. When are low code prototypes useful evaluating startup market and implementation risks
  6. 2022 09
  7. 2022 08
  8. 2022 07
  9. 2022 06
  10. Sharing a project i built postcard
  11. Advice for marketplace startups
  12. Moonlight s pitch deck
  13. Buyers define marketplaces
  14. Audio
  15. Blogroll
  16. Colophon
  17. Find ai
  18. Media
  19. Stargazing
  20. Text messaging
  21. Diction
  22. Contraptions