Paul Conroy

CTO at and transient fad enthusiast

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@alexdaubois This is fantastic news, thanks a mil @alexdaubois! 🙌🎉🐘

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@alexdaubois @phptek @coopTilleuls Zerodium 🐘🐘🐘

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@LiamHammett

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

At Stripe sessions this year there was a lot of talk of agentic commerce. In one talk there was a demo of something like this, with the caveat "of course, this doesn't exist yet, but will soon." 10 days later, here we are. The pace of change in this area is phenomenal

[Des Traynor @destraynor]

We've just released @Fin_ai for E-commerce solving one of the biggest pain points for buying online.

We've finally broken free of the limited land of faceted filters and actually recreated a great in-store experience.

The biggest reason buying online sucked was the UI was just too limited.
You couldn't search for "an easy to clean couch for a kids room".

You couldn't say "my boss likes high end whiskey, find me something great that he couldn't easily buy in London".

You can't upload a pic and say "I want an outfit like this for an Italian wedding in the summer"

And now you can.

It's one of our coolest products to date, and it's live for Shopify stores everywhere today.

[API Conference @api_conference]

💎 Retry Without Regret: Idempotent APIs

Stop duplicate charges! @conroyp explains how to use idempotency keys, locks, and middleware to build resilient APIs that handle retries gracefully. 

🫵 Learn from cases like Spotify.

Read more:
🔗 https://t.co/Zbwvmqeav5

#APIConf

[George Dumitrescu @geodro]

Laravel Herd is great on macOS, but Linux devs deserve a first class option too.

Meet lerd: Podman native, rootless, automatic HTTPS, per project PHP isolation, PWA web UI.

https://t.co/6TdFdm7fY6

#PHP #Laravel #Linux #SelfHosted #OpenSource

[George Dumitrescu @geodro]

Built an open source alternative to Laravel Herd for Linux and macOS.

Podman-native, rootless, automatic .test domains, per-project PHP and Node isolation, built-in web UI. No Docker. No sudo.

https://t.co/6TdFdm7fY6

#Laravel #PHP #OpenSource #Podman #Linux #DevTools #WebDev

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

You can run this as a Chrome extension, or direct from source. Try it out and let me know how it works for you!

🔗 Chrome extension: https://t.co/B2ffEJNpJe

🔗 Source: https://t.co/ZlzdMhlqFF

🔗 Full writeup: https://t.co/QzKRiR9Xh3

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

On calls Google Meet doesn't let you share a region of your screen - only a full window or tab.

Every time you want to show one panel of an app - a design preview, a dashboard widget, a chat thread - you end up showing everything around it too. This can lead to over-sharing!

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

I built Screen Portal: draw a rectangle on your screen, and it portals just that area live into a Chrome tab you can share.

In the latest edition of "Wait, the web can do that now?!?", it's built using the Screen Capture API + canvas. ~200 lines of JS, no external dependencies.

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@LiamHammett @PHPUKConference Ah @LiamHammett you've made my day 🙂 that's very kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it! I've been telling anyone who would listen about how great your dpc talk was. I'm looking forward to getting the videos of that one to share with the team here

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

My talk at @PHPUKConference is now at https://t.co/az6nme3BIo.

If you're wondering what to do when your AI makes a homophobic transcription error, or how Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein connects to accurate text searching, have I got the talk for you.. #wdydy

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

Only 2 weeks until this year's @PHPUKConference!

My talk is the story behind #wdydy site https://t.co/BHnwgdawGo - a side project that started as "search podcast transcripts" and spiralled into the good, bad, and ridiculous world of AI-assisted development in PHP.

#php #phpuk

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@destraynor On the school run this morning they had this one blaring out over the tannoy. Don't think most of the kids had a breeze what it was all about, but the chorus got them going
https://t.co/zKBQdiWrPf

[Sergey Alexashenko @SAlexashenko]

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz.

https://t.co/mxaa226GUu

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

running claude code with --dangerously-skip-permissions is sudo coding

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

It's like a real life https://t.co/yl18Ckh0fr

[BEDROOM MEDIA @BEDROOMMEDIAA]

wait hol up that's lowkey amazing it removes the draw and it allows you to random queue where you get one twin

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

We've also a thread connecting Victorian railway bridges to modern platform design, and how well-built systems often take on second lives beyond their creators’ original vision.

Big thanks to the Stripe team for hosting a great night!

https://t.co/xAFIqIsaS8

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

I recently spoke at the @StripeDev Dublin meetup, and the video is now live.

The talk was "Stripe is my DNS provider." It’s about creative misuse - building a Stripe-powered DNS server to explore what can happen when APIs are consistent, composable, and deeply predictable.

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

a SaaS company reached out to us after OpenClaw-style agents are sending ~50k requests per hour (wayyy above normal site usage). the company now wants to charge agents small amount for reads and writes with @stripe machine payments.

if this is also you (or may soon be), say hi.

[Paul Conroy @conroyp]

@gcooney93 We'd a good one at Derby over the weekend. Center half busted his nose open after 30s, sent to the sides to get patched up. 2 mins later, nose is streaming again, ref sends him to the side while Ipswich are ready to launch a free long. 3 minutes into the game, keeper's got cramp