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Philip Newborough

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Web developer and tech enthusiast. When I'm not coding, I can be found performing Grumpa duties, reading Warhammer 40,000 fiction, listening to tech podcasts or riding my bike.

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PHOSPHOR: an entropy-based password generator

PHOSPHOR: an entropy-based password generator

I teamed up with Gemini and Claude to build a retro-futuristic password generator. It's a PWA that harvests hardware entropy from your movements, runs them through a SHA-256 math blender, and looks great doing it.

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PWA: Favicon & PWA Icon Generator

PWA: Favicon & PWA Icon Generator

I've taken my Favicon Generator entirely client-side. By leveraging the Canvas API, the new version handles all image processing right in your browser - no server required. With full offline support and new features like squircle shaping and individual icon overrides, it's a faster, more flexible way to manage your project assets.

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Favicon & Manifest Generator

Favicon & Manifest Generator

Scratching a dev itch, I rebuilt my Favicon & Manifest generator. Upload one image to get all your PWA assets and a customisable manifest.json instantly.

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Philip Newborough 2d ago

Trip out to RSPB Bempton Cliffs for a spot of bird watching. Impressive views and the volunteer staff were friendly and knowledgeable. Bit windy.

Gannets on a cliff
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Philip Newborough 5d ago

COMMANDER'S LOG — SECURITY INSPECTION — CLEARED
SD 3200.098

Station Authority boarded at LAVE and conducted a full search of the cargo hold. Inspection team found nothing of interest. All 1t of flagged cargo remained undetected.

Free to proceed. No fine issued. Credits unaffected.

https://flatspace-commander.philipnewborough.co.uk

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Philip Newborough 02 Apr 2026

Looking at Mythic Beasts Raspberry Pi hosting options. Nice to see an honest sales pitch: "This is a service aimed at hobbyists, and shouldn't be used for nuclear power station command and control systems." I'm definitely a hobbyist and I'm keen to give it a try. I'm thinking I might rent one for a bit and see how it performs.

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Philip Newborough 28 Mar 2026

Testing a HTML canvas app on my Pixel 9 and Becky's iPhone 17. The iPhone feels much faster, probably because it is. I love my Pixel, but I'm feeling a little envious. It'll pass, maybe.

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Philip Newborough 27 Mar 2026

Working on a PWA and trying to figure out why the PWA's cache was not updating. Wrote a bunch of tools to debug it. The tools insisted that it was updating. Turns out the Service Worker was successfully fetching... cached files from the server. Caching the cache. My head hurts.