Blair Wadman
@blairwadman.com
Indie developer & business/marketing automation. Combining code and no code. Kiwi in London. Likes gravel bikes, running & travel.
blairwadman.com / automationsprints.com
blairwadman.com / automationsprints.com
I'm increasingly convinced that I am going to switch my personal site to @ghost.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm increasingly convinced that I am going to switch my personal site to @ghost.org
Cancelled my Cursor subscription. Going to be using Jetbrain's Junie (in PHPStorm) for the foreseeable for AI assistance
July 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Cancelled my Cursor subscription. Going to be using Jetbrain's Junie (in PHPStorm) for the foreseeable for AI assistance
Don’t outsource your writing to AI. If you do, you are outsourcing your thinking. If you outsource your thinking, the robots have already won
Writing is thinking. Don’t let the robots win
Don’t outsource your writing to AI. If you do, you are outsourcing your thinking. If you outsource your thinking, the robots have already won.
blairwadman.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Don’t outsource your writing to AI. If you do, you are outsourcing your thinking. If you outsource your thinking, the robots have already won
Hoovering! No, I’m not hovering
There’s rugby on & I’m hovering. 🙃
June 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hoovering! No, I’m not hovering
There’s rugby on & I’m hovering. 🙃
June 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There’s rugby on & I’m hovering. 🙃
Every day I'm bouncing between PHPStorm and Cursor. Cursor (or rather VS Code) isn't good enough to replace PHPStorm as an IDE and PHPStorm's various AI integrations aren't as good as Cursor at assisted AI.
June 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Every day I'm bouncing between PHPStorm and Cursor. Cursor (or rather VS Code) isn't good enough to replace PHPStorm as an IDE and PHPStorm's various AI integrations aren't as good as Cursor at assisted AI.
Ulysses is for any note or article that I intend to make public. It doesn’t mean that everything in there will necessarily be made public, but that’s the intention for each piece. Reflect is my private log. I log projects I’m working on, ideas, thoughts and anything else. Some of these turn into…
The line between Reflect and Ulysses
Ulysses is for any note or article that I intend to make public. It doesn’t mean that everything in there will necessarily be made public, but that’s the intention for each piece. Reflect is my private log. I log projects I’m working on, ideas, thoughts and anything else. Some of these turn into notes and...
blairwadman.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ulysses is for any note or article that I intend to make public. It doesn’t mean that everything in there will necessarily be made public, but that’s the intention for each piece. Reflect is my private log. I log projects I’m working on, ideas, thoughts and anything else. Some of these turn into…
Cursor is insanely good at debugging Drupal problems. Which is no mean feat
June 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cursor is insanely good at debugging Drupal problems. Which is no mean feat
Also looking at micro.blog again, and have that embedded on my website. Post there, and push there to Bluesky, and Mastodon (and maybe Threads if I can be bothered with that).
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Also looking at micro.blog again, and have that embedded on my website. Post there, and push there to Bluesky, and Mastodon (and maybe Threads if I can be bothered with that).
Got a strong urge to restart my personal blog. For no reason other than to share notes publicly as they might help others.
June 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Got a strong urge to restart my personal blog. For no reason other than to share notes publicly as they might help others.
I did my first ever half marathon today. My legs almost gave up towards the end, but I made it!
May 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I did my first ever half marathon today. My legs almost gave up towards the end, but I made it!
I’m just added a custom entity to hold event attendee data from Salesforce in Drupal. Sometimes I take for granted how powerful and flexible Drupal is
May 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I’m just added a custom entity to hold event attendee data from Salesforce in Drupal. Sometimes I take for granted how powerful and flexible Drupal is
Very surprised to wake up to news of a US-UK trade deal! Fingers crossed it's a good one.
May 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Very surprised to wake up to news of a US-UK trade deal! Fingers crossed it's a good one.
I’ve been using Cursor in recent weeks, and really enjoying it as an AI assistant. But I miss PHPStorm. I wish @github.com copilot was as good as Cursor, then we could have the best of both worlds.
May 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’ve been using Cursor in recent weeks, and really enjoying it as an AI assistant. But I miss PHPStorm. I wish @github.com copilot was as good as Cursor, then we could have the best of both worlds.
I’ve never owned an iPad. That changes tomorrow
February 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’ve never owned an iPad. That changes tomorrow
Really cool video with @dries.bsky.social creating an AI agent to edit one of this articles. Great to see some good technical AI content (rather than just promoting). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlV...
I gave an AI agent edit access to my site
YouTube video by Dries Buytaert
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Really cool video with @dries.bsky.social creating an AI agent to edit one of this articles. Great to see some good technical AI content (rather than just promoting). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlV...
I really like the way Tom Critchlow does his library section. It’s like a Twitter feed of links and thoughts, but on his personal site. Tom Critchlow’s Library
Tom Critchlow’s Library
I really like the way Tom Critchlow does his library section. It’s like a Twitter feed of links and thoughts, but on his personal site. Tom Critchlow’s Library
blairwadman.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I really like the way Tom Critchlow does his library section. It’s like a Twitter feed of links and thoughts, but on his personal site. Tom Critchlow’s Library
Don’t tell anyone, but my headshot is probably 10 years old
January 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Don’t tell anyone, but my headshot is probably 10 years old
Been working on my Airtable based Client Hub today, and building an interface for clients to access what they need - sprints, invoices, calendar, upcoming projects etc. It's shaping up nicely
January 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Been working on my Airtable based Client Hub today, and building an interface for clients to access what they need - sprints, invoices, calendar, upcoming projects etc. It's shaping up nicely
I’ve added the Autoblue WordPress plugin to this blog, which will automatically share new posts with Bluesky, and show replies in Bluesky as comments in the blog. I’m excited to...
Sharing to Bluesky via Autoblue
I’ve added the Autoblue WordPress plugin to this blog, which will automatically share new posts with Bluesky, and show replies in Bluesky as comments in the blog. I’m excited to...
blairwadman.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’ve added the Autoblue WordPress plugin to this blog, which will automatically share new posts with Bluesky, and show replies in Bluesky as comments in the blog. I’m excited to...
There is so much "the world is about to rapidly change" & "we are all going to be out of work" stuff out there about AI. For me, I'm going to keep building, use AI only where it makes sense, but also relax. We can't control the future, and don't let the unpredictable future distract us
January 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
There is so much "the world is about to rapidly change" & "we are all going to be out of work" stuff out there about AI. For me, I'm going to keep building, use AI only where it makes sense, but also relax. We can't control the future, and don't let the unpredictable future distract us
These days I'm focusing my email newsletter on clients (past and present) and people I know/meet. I'll serve those first.
January 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
These days I'm focusing my email newsletter on clients (past and present) and people I know/meet. I'll serve those first.
I wonder what the user count is for the UK, where a higher percentage have probably abandoned X.
January 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I wonder what the user count is for the UK, where a higher percentage have probably abandoned X.
Trying to decide what to do with my X account between:
1. Keep it active but ignore it (current)
2. As above, but also delete all tweets
3. Delete all tweets and lock it down
1. Keep it active but ignore it (current)
2. As above, but also delete all tweets
3. Delete all tweets and lock it down
January 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trying to decide what to do with my X account between:
1. Keep it active but ignore it (current)
2. As above, but also delete all tweets
3. Delete all tweets and lock it down
1. Keep it active but ignore it (current)
2. As above, but also delete all tweets
3. Delete all tweets and lock it down
One of my favorite things about London is travelling by train off peak. Has a real sense of freedom when you can go anywhere without needing a car
January 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
One of my favorite things about London is travelling by train off peak. Has a real sense of freedom when you can go anywhere without needing a car