{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Postcard | Philip I. Thomas","home_page_url":"https://www.philipithomas.com","feed_url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/feed/postcard/feed.json","description":"Philip Thomas is an engineer in San Francisco who crafts digital tools.","authors":[{"name":"Philip I. Thomas","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com"}],"items":[{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-06","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-06","title":"What I'm up to - June 2026","summary":"My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...","date_published":"2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z","image":"https://www.philipithomas.com/images/covers/sagrado-filemon-cover.jpg","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-05","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-05","title":"What I'm up to - May 2026","summary":"My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media:  What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...","date_published":"2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-04","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-04","title":"What I'm up to - April 2026","summary":"My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media:  What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...","date_published":"2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-03","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-03","title":"What I'm up to - March 2026","summary":"My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media:  What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...","date_published":"2026-03-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-02","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-02","title":"What I'm up to - February 2026","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.   What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...","date_published":"2026-02-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-01","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2026-01","title":"What I'm up to - January 2026","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...","date_published":"2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-12","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-12","title":"What I'm up to - December 2025","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...","date_published":"2025-12-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-11","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-11","title":"What I'm up to - November 2025","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in October - Published MCP and the future of AI, Introducing Workshop, Maintenance, Backup Plans,...","date_published":"2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-10","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-10","title":"What I'm up to - October 2025","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...","date_published":"2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-09","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-09","title":"What I'm up to - September 2025","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...","date_published":"2025-09-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-08","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-08","title":"What I'm up to - August 2025","summary":"Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...","date_published":"2025-08-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-07","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-07","title":"What I'm up to - July 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...","date_published":"2025-07-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-06","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-06","title":"What I'm up to - June 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...","date_published":"2025-06-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-05","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-05","title":"What I'm up to - May 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - \"I created a chatbot with my dog\" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...","date_published":"2025-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-04","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-04","title":"What I'm up to - April 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...","date_published":"2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-03","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-03","title":"What I'm up to - March 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in February - I published \"Why Ruby on Rails still matters\", and it went a little viral and was re...","date_published":"2025-03-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-02","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-02","title":"What I'm up to - February 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in January - Moved to San Francisco 🌁 - Joined the engineering team at Chroma - Bought a record p...","date_published":"2025-02-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-01","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2025-01","title":"What I'm up to - January 2025","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in December - I'm amid some big life changes. I'm joining an AI startup in San Francisco, and movi...","date_published":"2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-11","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-11","title":"What I'm up to - November 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...","date_published":"2024-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-10","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-10","title":"What I'm up to - October 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...","date_published":"2024-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-09","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-09","title":"What I'm up to - September 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in August Hello from a train somewhere in the French countryside. I just finished spending a few d...","date_published":"2024-09-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-08","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-08","title":"What I'm up to - August 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.    What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...","date_published":"2024-08-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-06","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-06","title":"What I'm up to - June 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May  - Summer weather has hit NYC - it's great to be back outside - Pu...","date_published":"2024-06-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-05","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-05","title":"What I'm up to - May 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the \"Shenanigans\" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...","date_published":"2024-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-04","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-04","title":"What I'm up to - April 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.      I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...","date_published":"2024-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-03","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-03","title":"What I'm up to - March 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...","date_published":"2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-02","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-02","title":"What I'm up to - February 2024","summary":"Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...","date_published":"2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-01","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2024-01","title":"What I'm up to - January 2024","summary":"Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...","date_published":"2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-12","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-12","title":"What I'm up to - December 2023","summary":"This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...","date_published":"2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-11","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-11","title":"What I'm up to - November 2023","summary":"This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...","date_published":"2023-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-10","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-10","title":"What I'm up to - October 2023","summary":"This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  ✨ What I was up to in September I launched Booklet, a forum as an alternative to chat. It's my attempt to ma...","date_published":"2023-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-09","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-09","title":"What I'm up to - September 2023","summary":"I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.  ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...","date_published":"2023-09-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-08","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-08","title":"What I'm up to - August 2023","summary":"I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.       ✨ What I was up to in July      Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...","date_published":"2023-08-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-07","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-07","title":"What I'm up to - July 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to      We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and  learned some new CSS techniques....","date_published":"2023-07-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-06","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-06","title":"What I'm up to - June 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new product called Booklet, which I plan to launch this Summer. It's a community platform designed to be a cal...","date_published":"2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-05","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-05","title":"What I'm up to - May 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel.       I am currently immersed in the developme...","date_published":"2023-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-04","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-04","title":"What I'm up to - April 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already!      I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month, where I worked remotely and found some amazing coffee.       For Postcard - I rebuilt the post-writing ...","date_published":"2023-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-03","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-03","title":"What I'm up to - March 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to      Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...","date_published":"2023-03-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-02","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-02","title":"What I'm up to - February 2023","summary":"✨ What I've been up to      Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter.       Since last Summer, I've been taking a \"solo week\" trip every quarter as a creat...","date_published":"2023-02-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-01","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2023-01","title":"What I'm up to - January 2023","summary":"✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published \"Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...","date_published":"2023-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-12","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-12","title":"What I'm up to - December 2022","summary":"✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \\>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...","date_published":"2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-11","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-11","title":"What I'm up to - November 2022","summary":"✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...","date_published":"2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-10","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-10","title":"What I'm up to - October 2022","summary":"✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...","date_published":"2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-09","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-09","title":"What I'm up to - September 2022","summary":"This is a monthly email about what I'm up to!      ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...","date_published":"2022-09-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-08","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-08","title":"What I'm up to - August 2022","summary":"This is a monthly email about what I'm up to!      ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the entire month traveling. It was great to be back in LA and Denver for a bit. - For coffee on the road, I...","date_published":"2022-08-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-07","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-07","title":"What I'm up to - July 2022","summary":"This is a monthly email about what I'm up to!      ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...","date_published":"2022-07-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]},{"id":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-06","url":"https://www.philipithomas.com/2022-06","title":"What I'm up to - June 2022","summary":"I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing!      ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the first version of Postcard, which is a personal website + mailing list tool I'm building.    (If you w...","date_published":"2022-06-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["postcard"]}]}