Tom Harvey
tombuildsstuff.bsky.social
Tom Harvey
@tombuildsstuff.bsky.social
Founder @locally.build

Previously @hashicorp.com on #Terraform for #Azure and @OpenTable

#buildinpublic
Earlier /this year/, a Berlin bar asked people to come more often because they were struggling with increased costs

They allow smoking inside, I suggested that some dedicated smoke free nights would increase footfall - as I’ve lost count of the number of people who won’t go because of the smoking
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There’s so many LAP Coffee’s in Berlin these days

At what point should we start calling it LAPland instead? 🤔
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Every now and then I browse my "downloaded apps" page in the App Store and come across this gem

What a moment in time that was #ukpol
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Whilst waiting for @phoenix.tapbots.com I figured I’d try and add a native iOS translation sheet to @bsky.app

It’s interesting much better the dev UX is for the translate related gubbins is when using SwiftUI vs not (bsky uses react native)
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Hallöchen, dies ist ein Test
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Tom Harvey
Accepted! Go 1.26 will include a SECRET package. Don't tell anyone about it 🤫

Just kidding. The package wipes the memory to keep secrets safe — hence the name.

antonz.org/accepted/run...
Go proposal: Secret mode
Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.
antonz.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Really gotta hand it to government bureaucracy for innovating on the circular dependency front.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something new appears.

“Can’t innovate, my ass”
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Arriving at BER 36 minutes before departure and still making it onboard
a man wearing glasses and a red jacket is saying i also like to live dangerously
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a red jacket is saying i also like to live dangerously
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@geofftech.bsky.social just seen this, not sure if this would be of interest, but figured I’d pass it along 😊 old.reddit.com/r/Nebula/com...
Creators: let us know you’re interested
Posted in r/Nebula by u/dwiskus • 97 points and 19 comments
old.reddit.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
As someone who uses Apple Pay, it’s interesting to see people use Google pay

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it work the way people expect it to, there’s always some confusion about whether the app is ready, if the phone is in the right place, etc

Half the time people give up and use a card instead?
October 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A while back I stopped giving out my email unless it was absolutely necessary (I dislike email)

So many modern systems arbitrarily require an email, when the process itself doesn’t

Like checking into a hotel - the machines need an email but just chat with someone and it’s by-passable

#datenschutz
October 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Tom Harvey
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Search engines should be compelled to show a list of _why_ a particular result has been removed, ala the way GitHub's DMCA repo works
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
[to the tune of The Automatic - Monster]

🎵 what’s that coming over the hill, is it a rapture, is it a #rapture? 🎵
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@theguardian.com my kingdom for a mute filter on push notifications?
September 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
That's a fun IDE autocompletion 😬
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Getting compensation right is hard.

But when people are incentivised to do things that actively harm the business/product because it’s the easiest way for them to get a promotion?

Wild.
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Tom Harvey
Owning code in production changes how we write it. ‘You Build It, You Run It’ isn’t asking too much of developers, imo. It’s a great way to build reliable software.
September 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Spent a little bit of time adding a small but useful feature to @locally.build that I've wanted for ages - filtering the request logs, super handy for debugging 👌
September 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Genuinely ridiculous that in 2025 roaming packages can max out at 10MB of data per day

(This was the only package for this destination, and yes you can get a local sim..)
September 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Reposted by Tom Harvey
Hello, world.
Or to put it another way:

$ locally build
September 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Unexpected water leaks can really throw a wrench in your plans 😬

Finally caught up to where I wanted to be yesterday, at least.
September 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Finally writing the announcement post for @locally.build

On the one hand, it's exciting to be announcing soon.

On the other, there's a lot of moving parts that I'm sure I'm going to forget something.

Either way, curious to hear what folks think. #Azure #DevOps
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Just seen a group rock up, cover one Billie Eilish song (far enough back that few could hear) with two cameras and a mic boom recording the band and their friends in the crowd, then leave

Mauerpark am Sonntag, was gehts? #berlin
September 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love CSS
August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM