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JD Lien
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JD Lien
@jdlien
Tweets about PHP/JS/Laravel/Tailwind. I help web developers be awesome at their craft. Bluesky: @jdlien.com Mastodon: @[email protected]
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta Se unió Şubat 2009
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Excited to share something I've been working on.
3 years of color tools. 2 months building this.
Supa Colors generates palettes where every shade looks balanced — visually, not just mathematically.
Really proud of it.
🔗 supacolors.studio
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@aarondfrancis There was a huge missed opportunity to add the Beegees to the soundtrack for your cool new video.
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They say AI is the end for developers.
They say the job market is gone.
They say learning to code is pointless.
I don’t buy it.
I think we're just getting started.
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@aarondfrancis Awesome new project, Aaron. You're the king of pivots, haha.
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The site is live at faster.dev. I'd love to hear what you think.
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That's my story in a nutshell. I left a job I was good at and enjoyed to go freelance. It was scary (maybe more so for my wife), but I've got plenty of work now—and when I work hard these days, I actually earn what I'm worth.
Andrei Verdes@theandreiverdes
My coworker got promoted over me. He was worse at coding. Better at politics. I wrote better code. Fixed more bugs. Shipped faster. He talked in meetings. Took credit. Played the game. He got the promotion. I got "keep up the good work". That's when I realized: corporate rewards politics, not performance. Six months later I quit. Started freelancing. Now I make 3x his salary. No politics. No credit-stealing. Just solving problems and getting paid directly. The best developers rarely get promoted. They get used. Companies optimize for compliance and communication. Not competence. If you're technically great but politically terrible, you'll never win at corporations. Leave. Build your own thing. Get paid for your actual value.
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@aarondfrancis Oh wow, that's wonderful to hear and so gracious of Sam/PlanetScale!
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I'm working on setting up the entirely new Database School learning platform and am stoked to say that MySQL for Developers will live on that platform!
If you want to stay up to date on that, you can get on the list here: databaseschool.com/mysql!
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Several years ago, I made a course called MySQL for Developers when I worked at @PlanetScale.
A few months ago, @samlambert texted me and asked if I wanted to have the course back to add to my platform 🥹
I'm incredibly grateful to Sam and the team for this gift!
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Aaron Francis@aarondfrancis
PlanetScale Postgres is now GA! I sat down with CEO @samlambert to talk about it all: scaling MySQL with Vitess, PlanetScale Metal, and now PlanetScale Postgres. We covered a lot of good ground in this one, and there's a bit of a surprise at the end!
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Took a few days to see if I can come up with something here. More to come 🫡
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No, this is the best mouse of all time. And it’s not even close.
Joshua@CreeCoder
This is the best mouse of all time and it's not even close.
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I’ve been programming professionally since 1999, and I’ve heavily used a few different agentic coding tools.
I’d have to say that, for me, the style of working has been incredibly addictive because I find fewer scenarios where I feel stuck. I can just create things without restriction and without having to do a lot of heavy research and learning before jumping into something I don’t know very well. I definitely feel like I can be in flow state and just keep creating and creating and iterating very quickly.
Sometimes when the agent is grinding away on some task in the background, I can continue to do something like polish some CSS manually. The hours very quickly slip away as I build things.
I think it’s a very cool way to work. I guess it’s a bit like pair programming, but way more efficient, in my opinion.
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Serious question to those coding with AI. Is there still such a thing as “flow state”?
Getting into flow, removing all distractions and coding a feature in a few hours is one of my favourite aspects of building.
Is that a thing of the past now if you’re chatting away to your IDE?
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@aschmelyun @aarondfrancis I wonder if being experienced devs before AI coding was a thing gives you a big head start because you understand lots from hard lessons learned.
Maybe it’ll turn out that doesn’t matter all that much. You use whatever tools you have; the results are proportional to your effort.
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@aarondfrancis Could have saved me a ton of grief battling the worst comments on reddit and SO for wanting to stick with PHP in 2011
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I genuinely think that if you've ever been curious about building software (apps, games, websites, whatever) there's never been a better time to try it out.
If I had tools like these 12 years ago I feel like I'd be unstoppable.
Aaron Francis@aarondfrancis
I think the appetite for software is nearly infinite. I've been using AI extensively to write code and yet the number of things I still need to code has increased, not decreased. It's like we added three lanes to the highway and still have traffic.
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@aarondfrancis Hard agree. I’ve been writing an insane amount of code lately with agentic coding. There is an endless list of stuff I want to do.
The difference is that now most of what I want to build is possible; before I’d write it off as implausible.
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I think the appetite for software is nearly infinite.
I've been using AI extensively to write code and yet the number of things I still need to code has increased, not decreased.
It's like we added three lanes to the highway and still have traffic.
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@AshAllenDesign Yes, with a React frontend. Combination of Inertia and API. It’s early and not very playable yet, though, I have so many other projects I’m also working on!
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@jdlien Ooooh that sounds pretty cool! Are you building it all in Laravel/PHP? 😄
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If you needed to use WebSockets in your web app, which service would you use?
It's been a while since I've added WebSockets to a new project, so I'm wondering what the go-to is these days.
I'd probably use Pusher 😄
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This still puts a huge smile on my face when I hear it!
@jdlien did an amazing job of recording the audiobook for my "The Web Dev's Guide to Freelancing" book 🔥
I'm a bit biased, but I think the intro is so cool!
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@AshAllenDesign I've been writing a lot of silly little utility scripts in Python lately, and it has been nice, especially because LLMs are tuned so well to work with it and there are so many great packages for it.
I still think it's a weird-looking language since it's not C-like!
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I've been thinking of learning a new language...
It'd be purely as a hobby and to see if I can learn new concepts/techniques in the process.
I can't decide between Go or Rust. Any suggestions? 😄
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Wanna make your first contribution to open-source, but don't know where to start? 🤔
You don't have to PR a huge feature that's going to revolutionise the world.
It can be something as simple as updating documentation, or fixing a typo (like I did with the `laravel/cashier-stripe` upgrade guide)!
No matter how small a PR like this might be, they contribute to the bigger picture.
It's also a great way for you to get used to the flow of contributing to open-source and build your confidence 😄
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JD Lien retuiteado
The Web Dev's Guide to Freelancing is now available to buy! 🎉
👉web-dev-freelancing.com
Learn tips, tricks, and strategies you can use to launch your freelance career! 🔥
20% discount code: FREELANCE20
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Looking for work in the tech industry these days has gotten rough. I seriously underestimated this situation when I left my job with no plan last year. @theo made a pretty solid video talking about this that resonates with me.
youtube.com/watch?v=2PiM2e…
YouTube
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