tomblomfield

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by tomblomfield 1y ago
I recently started using Aqua and it's great. The team really improved the latency in the last few weeks.
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Ok it's mostly back online!
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Since I wrote the blog post, I actually added automated tests which Windsurf / Claude Code runs before committing any change. It saved me a lot of headaches when the LLM decided to make random logic changes for no reason.
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
I'm scaling the heroku database right now, which caused a little bit of downtime :-/
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Hmm it seems like recipe generation might be broken on Firefox. I'll look into it - thanks! It's working in Chrome Search is working fine, I just tried https://www.recipeninja.ai/search?name=lasagne
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Weird - sorry to hear that. It's working fine for me. I get this search result https://www.recipeninja.ai/search?name=Anti-inflammatory What browser are you using? Voice mode or typing?
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Hands-free voice control and being able to access recipe ingredients and steps without 5 pages of SEO-optimised prose.
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Afraid I have a day job, so I will politely decline your kind invitation
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Basically you declare to the AI which functions (tools) are available for it to call: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling?api... Then you handle those function calls in your javascript. ```
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Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app(recipeninja.ai)
126 points by tomblomfield 2y ago|242 comments
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
W
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
Yeah I think you have to change the traffic laws for that to happen. AFAIK, they strictly follow the speed limit, which feels too slow when everyone else is speeding.
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
My Ubers often smell very strongly of the food the driver has been eating. The driver is often on a call for the entire journey, which is annoying. It’s often much colder or warmer than I’d ideally like. An extreme case, but I once had a dr
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by tomblomfield 2y ago
I’m a big Waymo fan. Some of my thoughts; Waymos are one of the first things that my visitors to SF want to try. It feels like living in a science-fiction future. The ride and navigation feels very smooth - after the novelty of having no dr
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by tomblomfield 4y ago
Famously, the Traitorous Eight left Shockley to found Fairchild Semiconductor. This was essentially the origin story of Silicon Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight https://www.amazon.co.uk
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by tomblomfield 4y ago
Captured for posterity! https://vimeo.com/201364257
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
You should direct your custom towards companies with high-touch human customer service. And you should expect to pay substantially more.
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Incident.io raises $4.7m to help teams communicate during outages(incident.io)
4 points by tomblomfield 5y ago|4 comments
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
I have made 43 angel investments in the last 6 months, 90% at seed and pre-seed. 75% in the UK. The lowest valuation I've paid was £3m, and this happened exactly once. My mean valuation for seed is around £8-10m. It tops out at around
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
The downside in the extreme is that the original investor pulls the termsheet and you end up empty handed. I know of cases of this happening, but it's rare. More commonly, you develop a bad reputation in the VC community, which is very
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
I broadly agree, but weekly seems like the effort outweighs the benefit. It seems like fortnightly or monthly gets the same impact with 25-50% effort.
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
Thanks for reading :-)
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by tomblomfield 5y ago
Author here - happy to answer any questions
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How to Raise Investment(tomblomfield.com)
212 points by tomblomfield 5y ago|41 comments
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by tomblomfield 8y ago
That's great to hear :-) You can check out open jobs here - http://monzo.com/careers
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by tomblomfield 8y ago
Monzo loan book is currently about £10m. But it's true that we're intending to stay relatively balance-sheet light - the aim is to offer a "financial hub", plugging in third-party products to a central current account (o
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Inside the Ticketmaster breach(riskiq.com)
1 points by tomblomfield 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomblomfield 9y ago
See the difference in tone between London GM: "We are sure Londoners will be as astounded as we are by this decision. By trying to ban the app from the capital, the Mayor and Transport for London have caved in to a small number of peop
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by tomblomfield 9y ago
I don't think the Mayor of London or TfL really expect to shut down Uber. It would be a deeply unpopular move. There's an acceptance that Uber has improved things for riders, albeit at the expense of the Black Cab industry, and Lo
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by tomblomfield 9y ago
At Monzo (a bank), we have approximately 10,000 customer contacts a week. This would be valuable to us.

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