Nathan J Field
@nathanjfield
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Building apps and taking photos @cast_alum
Oxfordshire
Joined July 2020
A beautiful website. Now I can not understand things while admiring pretty pictures. https://t.co/fEZkg12nGA
makingsoftware.com
A reference manual for people who design and build software.
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I've had to manually choose to use Claude 4 Sonnet in Cursor because the results I was getting from GPT-5 were so poor. π€¦ββοΈ Is it going to get better? π€ CNBC: GPT-5β²s rollout fell flat for consumers, but is gaining where it matters most https://t.co/PMoD1iUKPJ
cnbc.com
Since its debut, GPT-5 has more than doubled coding and agent-building activity and driven an eight-fold jump in reasoning workloads.
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In one instance, I got a client's bill down from Β£100/month to Β£10/year, just by cancelling and consolidating a myriad of different hosting packages and add-ons that they'd accumulated over the years.
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Over the years they layer on additional charges that appear essential to the untrained eye. - PHP Extended Support (rather than helping users to upgrade) - Email 'firewalls' (I don't even know what they're selling half the time) - Multiple hosting packages (when one would do)
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I consistently find myself coming back to IONOS as a hosting platform. Solid offerings, cheap prices. But as I've started to help friends & family out with their sites, I do wonder if their cheap pricing is supplemented by the number of money-making methods they employ...
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Just because it appears lots of people are failing this today π Wordle 1,460 4/6 β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨π¨β¬ π©π©π©π©π©
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Magic Mouse: comes in Black β« Magic Keyboard (with Numeric Keypad): comes in Black β« Magic Trackpad: comes in Black β« Magic Keyboard: White Only βͺ Why @Apple?
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Google Meet confirmation that yes, everyone can see your screen
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Next time you feel like a failure as a developer, just remember that it's 2025 and Instagram still doesn't scale properly on a desktop or tablet.
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Mac with Intel chip = MOST COMMON Really? Who are these people?
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It's crazy to me that WordPress haven't even bothered to change all of the references to ACF in the plugin. Even the help files point to the WP Engine-hosted documentation.
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When people ask if I'd like to jump on a call, why do they never mean this?
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My new most hated thing: 'Personalised' video messages from salespeople.
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Apple contacts see what your name is in their phone
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A nicely designed and thoughtful personal finance app called @lunchmoney_app. Inspiring to see products like this from solo-developers. https://t.co/rQQKicbLfu
lunchmoney.app
Lunch Money is a budgeting app with multi currency & cryptocurrency support for the modern day spender. Meet your biggest cheerleader in personal finances!
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Eventually I suppose, you get to a place where you can charge $100,000 for 10 lines of code. A short article that's well worth a read, and "the pool of potential buyers is tiny while the impact after implementation is huge" - sums up B2B perfectly.
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Not exactly 'imposter syndrome', but interesting to read about different ways of marketing yourself to companies:
ochagavia.nl
Since starting out as an independent contractor, Iβve always felt a tension between being a generalist software engineer, yet having to market myself as a specialist. Iβve been wanting to write about...
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