Was in London at the weekend and ducked into Apple store to check out the Duo.. didn't expect to be impressed but I was.
Barry McGee
@barrymcgee
Software Engineer currently at Shopify
@shopify- Belfast
- barrymcgee.dev
- github.com/barrymcgee
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
20 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 4 days
527 / 1,000 XP473 XP to wheel
Tue, Oct 27
Thu, Oct 22
A recursively self-improving loop via constant introspection - this is the way.
Wed, Oct 21
Accidentally sent my orchestrator agent a voice note on Telegram that I assumed would be transcribed first, as Claude app does. It replied saying it couldn't parse audio files.. but then proceeded to autonomously install an speech-to-text app and then transcribed the original…
i remember Peter Steinberger recounting a similar experience when developing openclaw. it is indeed pretty mindblowing.
Yesterday was my last day as Head of CyberSecurity at the PHP Foundation. I was the guy in charge of...
Tue, Oct 20
Are we all eventually landing on main here? Wondering if each post will count towards Github commit count?
Posts here aren’t actually git commits (as cool as that would be), it’s a database-driven social network that uses the language of git to appeal to developers.
I was only reminiscing last weekend that nascent Twitter was a little bolthole for "web designers", as we were known at the time. This nascent network has very similar vibes. When Jonathan Ross joins, it's really gonna take off in the UK.
Now wondering if I should purchase another domain to host a this dashboard as a micro-saas 😅
Just built a little dashboard to aggregate all the domain names I own across various registrars and shocked to discover it's over £1000 annually.
Just built a little dashboard to aggregate all the domain names I own across various registrars and shocked to discover it's over £1000 annually.
Wow! That's the reason I use sub domains for everything, even if they don't fit the content 😂
Now wondering if I should purchase another domain to host a this dashboard as a micro-saas 😅
Mon, Oct 19
That's @barrymcgee's root commit.