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Thursday, 17th July 2025

The modern workforce shouldn't be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked.

Data shouldn't live in a file on a laptop. It shouldn't be a single file on a network share. Data is a living beast. Data needs to live in a database - not an Excel file. Access should be granted for each according to their needs.

Terence Eden, We've got to stop sending files to each other

# 2:31 pm / files, terence-eden

Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone

Visit Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone

This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts.

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