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Yesterday · 16 min
Episode 165 - Are we still using personal agents
Okay, we are back - sort of! Personal agents? soooo many to choose from, but can you (or do you need to!) set up mostly local without spending a lot of cash? Take a listen! Some resource links below… Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Resources: Hermes Agent Raindrop bookmarking TickTick To Do lists Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
May 22 · 18 min
Episode 164 - An agent an agent my kingdom for an agent
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
May 19 · 10 min
Episode 163 - Markdown or HTML for Skills and Instructions
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
April 28 · 17 min
Episode 162 - AI costs - the reckoning
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Bit of a ramble! not even the weekend! GitHub Copilot announcement here Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
April 18 · 10 min
Episode 161 - AI Design is getting better Claude Design
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). So, I guess it is inevitable, UI design is getting better and better from an AI perspective. New Anthropic Claude Design UX Pilot AI Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
April 7 · 15 min
Episode 160 - Goodbye WordPress Hello WordPress
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). So, WordPress has had a good run right? 24 years as of the time of this recording :) Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
April 3 · 29 min
Episode 159 - Google Gemma 4 and using it for your personal AI assistant
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Okay, a longer (much longer) Easter 2026 version of Just Shut Up Five Mins! :) Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 27 · 8 min
Episode 158 - Your Own Development Team in your Coding Editor
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Okay, most coding agents (copilot, claude code, codex etc.) have plan modes and so on, but sometimes you just need the overview perspective when creating code or adding features. As I have been banging on for the last few weeks about SKILLS.MD (open spec for coding agents to focus your prompts and son), then these two extensions for VS Code (and therefore Antigravity, Cursor etc.) and JetBrains etc. (as well as standalone I think!) take that step a little further and makes things a little more GUI driven. I have used Traycer before and it is great at spec driven development (as the cool kids used to say) but as of now, Verdent has some really interesting features - really like having a complete coding team. Anyway, take a listen for more info! .. oh and not to forget using Olama direct in VS Code (or other flavours of VSC) without extensions etc. Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 22 · 15 min
Episode 157 - Skills Skills and more Skills Weekend Edition
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Yes, skills are important - especially in the AI world and not just for coders!! Anthropic created this open standard of skills now supported by all of the main LLM systems (or at least most and others are adding support) For dotnet specific skills, click here Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 20 · 6 min
Episode 156 - Designers are stitched up
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). As we know, things are definitely moving fast in the AI world. No doubt roles are going to (if not already) change. We are moving towards becoming conductors or orchestrators of software/designs. Google stitch is taking the design aspect one step further. Take a listen for more info! Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 14 · 10 min
Episode 155 - Impeccable Frontend UI
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). AI Skills - worth reading up on yourself to power your AI with tried and tested directions. Impeccable takes a frontend skill developed by Anthropic (Claude etc.) and enhances it in a very nice way. Not sure what this is all about? take a listen and find out :) Here is the github repo Examples and a bit more info here Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 14 · 9 min
Episode 154 - PromptFoo taking care of your AI prompts
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Before it was computer viruses, now it is AI manipulation, prompt injection and worse! So, even if you are building custom GPTs, chatbots and certainly if you are a company providing AI chat interfaces, you might want to check out promptfoo. I have seen demos of so many different platforms leaking PII (personal identifiable information) and worse, credit card details, API keys and goodness knows what! Seems to be the new frontier to content with. It is quite sad really that we have all of this technology, power and opportunities and yet human nature seems to want to create things to harm and destroy - yes, I am a little naive it seems!! Anyway, take a listen - even if you are building personal AI projects… worth understanding. Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 6 · 6 min
Episode 153 - VS Code Integrated Browser
Okay, so this is a little niche perhaps, but if you are a coder or even a bit of a coder (vibing!), then this new feature is pretty cool and at first look: you might miss it or think, “Well it’s just another browser, isn’t it?” But the new integrated browser in VS Code is pretty phenomenal especially if you’re a front-end developer. Check out the episode and the link below for further information. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). You can check out the video here showing a bit more detail Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
March 1 · 9 min
Episode 152 - Dont use your keyboard
So, we are all inherently lazy I guess, so why keep typing on the keyboard? I guess it is ingrained a bit however, what about actually putting AI to work to help with this? Some links from the show: Wispr (TBH, my favourite) Typeless Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
February 19 · 19 min
Episode 151 - My Little (Pony) AI Agent
So, OpenClaw made a splash and hyped up things to frenzy level about AI agent assistants. n8n is still an amazing platform - free open source too, and you can do pretty much everything with n8n as I am explaining in this podcast. n8n is a graphical workflow/AI tool but you still need some JavaScript/JSON knowledge IMHO! Enter a more simple approach that just uses Claude Code CLI as the brain along with some other free resources to add memory, text embeddings (meaning of words etc.) and I have a completely locked down mini virtual private server (512mb RAM, 1 vCore) running on AWS Lightsail for around $5 (free for 3 months). You can run this on your own local linux box too or even in Docker of course or anywhere a service offers linux servers (everywhere then!). I have hooked in: * Telegram: as my main chatbot interface which can accepts voice as well as text * Twilio: for a real telephone number to talk/SMS with (optional, but why not!) * Official Google MCP for calendars/email * Official Microsoft MCP for my MS calendar/email * I “could” easily hook into things like SalesForce, HubSpot, Slack and millions of other services. I am currently building an Alexa skill (even though Alexa+ is coming) to give Alexa a real brain and hooks into the above. All of this running on a very basic locked down linux VM :) Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
February 15 · 12 min
Episode 150 - OpenClaw or n8n (or even Claude Agents!)
Well, if you haven’t heard of “ClaudeBot”, “MoltBot” or now “OpenClaw”, then shame on you! You have once again missed the hype train ;)(probably not a bad thing, I think people out there have a real life?) Since recording this episode, I have seen some great examples where peeps have taken the idea of OpenClaw and created more secure (??) options using n8n or even Claude Code with Agent mode… this is something I am really interested in and will no doubt have a show out soon about that! For now, sit back, relax, and watch those 12-13 minutes evaporate before your very eyes :) Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
February 12 · 6 min
Episode 149 - Get Yo Skills
You need skills… from making coffee (decent coffee at least!) to whatever you do in your day job. Skills for AI has been introduced by the claude folks Anthropic. Skills are really useful and powerful, and in essence, just a set of folders in your code project (but not limited to code! could be a folder for marketing and what not). You can define certain aspects, detailed specifications including code/text/document snippets. What really makes skills efficient is they a progressively loaded as needed. None of this massive context window chomping through your AI subscription tokens! Anyway, further info below in the links: Skills, Instructions and Moar Anthropic Skills Info Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
February 7 · 18 min
Episode 148 - Moar AI Coding
It has been a little while… but I am back! and as ever, the subject is AI - of course it is! This one became (unintentionally!) a bit of a weekend ramble… Some links from the podcast: GitHub Copilot - get all of the main AI models in one place and for $10 :) Traycer AI - Sure, VS Code and other platforms all have skills and planning mode, but Traycer goes a wee bit further… VS Code AI Toolkit - Seriously, the stuff you can do here and play around with is awesome! Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
January 11 · 11 min
Episode 147 - Javascript Frameworks vs Web Components
The ebb and flow… “this is great”… “this is bad…” the neverending movement. Well, there isn’t anything wrong with Javascript frameworks… use what you need and what you love. However, given the modern state of Javascript (and Typescript if that is your thing), do you really need the frameworks? What about just plain web components? web components have been around for years and so has LIT (link here) to help build web components (reactive and all that good stuff). LIT is really just a small library (not a framework) weighing in at just 5kb. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
Dec 25, 2025 · 24 min
Episode 146 - Christmas Day 2025 Edition
Okay, it might sound a bit sad recording a JFM on Christmas day, but there we go :) Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?): https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!). Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

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