Phil Nash

@philna.sh

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🥑 Developer relations engineer for ...?

A view from behind me, presenting to a lecture theatre full of people.
The email says: "The property has only 4 covered car park with 2.3M height restriction Left. Pre-booking is a must prior to arrival and at the rate of $35 per vehicle per night. . If you have already booked parking, proceed to the Hotel guest gated car park on the first left and ring the intercom with your reservation name." But, the number 4, the words "Left", "Pre-booking" and "prior to arrival" are all in different, much bigger, sizes than the rest of the text.
I'm an AAIF Ambassador Supporting developers across the open agentic AI ecosystem.
An animation (originally from The Simpsons) of a drinking bird toy pressing a key on a computer keyboard.
The code isn't the output, the application is.
Asking Google “how many ps in phil nash” The AI overview answers correctly that it’s 1, but says it’s the last letter in the first name.
A demo of Phil's Time, a web app for comparing time zones. It shows a user: adding a city, adjusting time to dynamically change and sync the time across all listed locations, resetting the time & deleting a city, sharing the URL that preserves the selected cities, date, and time.
Two cocktails on a table at a beachside bar looking out at a sunset behind palm trees.
I'm giving a talk titled "Knowledgeable voice agents made easy with OpenRAG and ConversationRelay"SIGNAL is on May 6th and 7th in San Francisco.
A screenshot of the point and click game The Secret of Monkey Island from the Scumm Bar, there are a lot of pirates all over a tavern. At the bottom is the interface, a bunch of actions, including Open, Close, Walk to, Pick up and so on.
A page from RubyGems.org that says "Password found in data breach". It tells me that it has sent a password reset link to my email.
Two graphs showing iOS app releases each month year on year. The graphs tick up meaningfully after June 2025.
Morbius, with the text “it’s morgin’ time”
A banner that says "Congratulations, you are in the top 3% of most active speakers in the year 2025" with a picture of me.
A Langflow flow, on the left is a File component with advanced parsing switched on. It connects its Markdown output to a chat output so you get the Markdown output.
The gif shows two browser windows. One is an article on the Langflow blog and the other is an empty Notion document. I click the bookmarklet on the article and a summary of the article, along with the link, appears in the Notion document.
A view out of a plane window, over a jet engine. There are clouds below and the horizon is orange/yellow.
An email from Microsoft 365 that says I mentioned myself in a document.
A room full of people watching the opening of the conference CascadiaJS
A selfie of me, sitting in a business class seat, raising a glass to the camera.
An example of using the alt text generating app. An image is loaded, then set to generate alt text. Then extra information is added and the alt text is generated again.
An email supposedly from Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, though from a very random gmail address. It asks if I'm available to chat via email and if I can run an errand.
An screenshot of an article in the BBC app titled “The handshake that made ‘space diplomacy’ possible” with an image of a man reaching his hand out to a model of a dodo. At the top it says “Only from the BBC”
A blue sky with sunset lit clouds above a Spanish square, ConstituciĂłn Plaza. There are bars all around and the town hall at the back. In the foreground is a table and a beer.
A view of St Paul’s Cathedral over the River Thames from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern.
Thomas Steiner standing on stage in front of an example app running in the browser, with developer tools open ready to write live code.
Vinicius Dallacqua giving a talk on stage about Animation Frames.
A selfie of me sitting at my desk holding a cup of coffee with the JSNation logo on it. I'm smiling at the camera and behind me are shelves with rubber ducks on.
A view over the community floor at lunch time. There is a huge screen to the left, over the keynote stage. And there are many developers chatting and wandering among the food stalls and sponsor booths.
Me sitting in an airplane seat waiting for takeoff.
An animated screenshot of the Genkit user interface. It shows the available flows, models, embedding models, indexers, and retrievers available to the system. The animation just shows how it spells out "Welcome to Genkit" at the top of the page.
A terminal window running a Node.js REPL. I create a date object for the 1st January 2024. Then I set the month to 1, which should be February. Then print the date's ISO string, and it shows 4th March 2023.
Ruby the miniature dachshund, lying in her round dog bed on her back with her legs up in the air looking up at me.
My CodeBeast is made up of a happy looking bunny-like creature with a big curly tail, sitting at a laptop and holding a cup of coffee. It's surrounded by books, blue birds and a crystal.
A terminal window running a Node.js REPL. parseInt('1️⃣') === 1 // true parseInt('2️⃣') === 2 // true parseInt('3️⃣') === 3 // true
An innocent looking summary that reads: " Robust RLHF with Preference as Reward (17 minute read) A systematic study on reward shaping in RLHF led to Preference As Reward (PAR), a method that uses latent preferences to enhance alignment, improve data efficiency, and mitigate reward hacking, outperforming existing approaches on multiple benchmarks."
Chatting with GPT4o: user: Act out a scene from Hamlet, while also pretending to be a chicken assistant: [In a grand hall, with dim lighting and an echoing silence, a chicken takes center stage, feathers rustling in anticipation. This is no ordinary chicken—today, it channels the spirit of Hamlet.] *The chicken flaps its wings with dramatic flair, eyes wide with feigned madness.* "Cluck, to be or not to be, cluck-cluck, that is the question!" *It bobs its head thoughtfully, pacing back and forth in an avian contemplation of existential woes.* "Cluck! Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer... cluck... the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, cluck-cluck!" [The assistant continues until] "Cluck! To die, to sleep—perchance to dream... cluck-cluck! Ay, there's the rub!" *With a final resolute cluck, the chicken bows, its soliloquy complete, leaving the audience in awe of its fowl rendition of the Danish prince.*
A shiny sticker of a winged rhino called BoDi standing on the DataStax logo.
Me standing in front of three Ds, the DDD logo.
A screenshot of ChatGPT summarising the Chicken Chicken Chicken paper. It says chicken a lot.
A selfie of me wearing a purple T-shirt with a winged rhino on the front. In the background out the window is Big Ben.
A notification from X saying “Donald J. Trump just posted a photo”
A selfie of me sat in an airplane seat preparing for takeoff.
An email from Confluence with my 2024 recap. I worked on 0 pages, 0 whiteboards and left 0 comments. Good stuff.
A smiling plushie rhino with purple wings sitting on top of a laptop.
A selfie of me in front of the DataStax booth. I’m next to a winged rhino with purple flowers in the background.
A screenshot of the Qantas app showing that my flight is leaving 3 hours and 50 minutes late giving me a transfer time of -1 hour -1 minute
A selfie of me with my eyebrows raised, holding up a glass of whisky.
A view out of a window and a dark cloud front tapering to a point in the distance. Below is one Qantas plane at a gate and another taxiing to the runway.
A screenshot of the success page after unsubscribing from an email newsletter powered by Hubspot. The screen has a green tick and the text “placeholderEmail”.
Scott Jehl on stage at Web Directions Summit. His slide shows a custom element with the name <x-🐨-🐨-🐨>
A screenshot of me on screen next to a slide saying "Comparing vectors" as part of the JSNation online conference.
A pork loin that has been cured and smoked. In the background, a very interested sausage dog wonders if she’ll get any of the bacon.
The speakers of DDD Perth all on stage.