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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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202 from 1 Nov 2022 to 31 Oct 2026
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2026 82

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