Steve Edson

@aarondfrancis True, but I do open it with a simple pstorm (and `$ code .`) command. If I could just run "solo <dir>", that'd be enough if the rest is picked up from the yml anyway 🙂

@SteveEdson yeah that makes sense! I would treat it more like opening in PhpStorm. You don't necessarily do PhpStorm new

The new Solo app is out! Run your agents, terminals, and devstack all in one app. I've increased the free tier, cleaned up the terminal, made trusting commands less annoying, fixed a few zsh issues, shift+enter issues, etc. Lots of good stuff!

@aarondfrancis Makes sense. Im just thinking new projects usually involves something like laravel new herd link solo ...

@SteveEdson Hmmm potentially? Solo already auto-detects project type across a broad swathe of projects. And I think you can do open . -a Solo. But let me know if you need something further

@jackmcdade @home_assistant have their own devices, and ZigBee devices

Are there any companies working on/selling private/offline-only/LAN smart devices?

@jackmcdade I use tinyimage with a tinypng API key on Mac and just drag a folder in, set it to overwrite the source images

For all the incredible software I own and have access to, I sure as heck use squoosh.app in my browser a heck of a lot.

@laravelphp small issue here

$ composer require laravel/ai

@jeffrey_way Amical seems to work just as well and is open source and local

What are you using for voice to speech, both for coding at your desktop and on your phone? I’m using WisprFlow, but monthly subscription is a little pricey.

@thomaspaulmann Is it still safe to use? I saw all the things yesterday about anthropic taking it down, and then issues around the renaming

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@wesbos Urgh, the dreaded MS Auth requirements, I hate that one.

@SteveEdson I do but there are a few apps I use that must use RSA or MS Auth that I forgot about.

Forgot 2FA token on old phone Plugged in old phone. Battery swollen and won’t turn on Replace battery. Plug in. I damaged the screen taking it off. Order new screen, install it Down $90. Corrupt phone 😩

@jeffrey_way What are you using for the transcription here?

Don't feel like you have to watch these sequentially. Jump around to whatever looks interesting. And if you're curious about the Ralph Wiggum technique I mentioned earlier today, here ya go!

We spent the last several months prepping this Laracasts series - and it's out now! 3 hours of AI techniques, tips, and demystifications for working developers. And I'm so happy to say that it's completely, entirely, unconditionally FREE to watch. laracasts.com/series/leverag…

@jeffrey_way If it's a refactor, ask it to throw some snapshot tests in for the current output before making changes, to verify the new output matches, quick win but prevents lots of issues

One thing I've definitely learned in the last two months...don't skip out on working with the agent to make a plan. Get that part RIGHT. If you find that you often don't read the plan because it's too verbose, fix that. Instruct the AI to be succinct and to favor bulleted lists.

@jbrooksuk @taylorotwell Oh yeah, this seems confusing when it's so obviously placed on the overview page. Is a deploy button not more of a primary action on the deploy page itself?

@SteveEdson @taylorotwell It always has done, it moves to the navbar when outside of the overview page ☺️

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@BBCBreaking Does this mean tax thresholds will also increase in line with them too then?

University tuition fees in England to rise in line with inflation from next year, UK government announces bbc.in/4hkiUxG

@adamwathan Will this also work with things like mb-[1rem] to mb-4 etc?

Cool improvement we just merged into our VS Code plugin — it'll now tell you when any Tailwind class you've used could be written in a simpler or more idiomatic way ✨

@jackmcdade Like you might use the mui site feature for sub-brands, but each entry in a collection can have its own language, based off the content from the main entry

@jackmcdade E.g. an editor can define the content, repeating component blocks etc, and then a separate user can't control any of those components, but can translate fields within those components for those available languages

Those who don’t use Statamic, what feature of your CMS of choice could you not live without?

@jackmcdade 2/2 and also a i18n option, rather than multiple sites with their own content, 1 master copy of the content, but being able to define it per language

@jackmcdade I use it, but one thing I'd like are reusable component blocks, like CMS created partials that can then just be added in to pages, useful for enterprise level CMS's 1/2