Xander Smalbil

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake

@guidorosso @rive_app @philterdesign Awesome. Used to be a Flash professional. I'm picking Rive up again.

Animate/Flash FLA to @rive_app importer, some progress from @philterdesign using FLA sample files that come with Animate

@robboclancy @enunomaduro you are right to call out Epstein vibes

@enunomaduro Nuno will close an issue asking to allow to use tabs and lie that he will look into it if more people want it. But adding an optional rule to something that is meant to be minimalistic designed to have use the default “laravel way” because nuno personally likes it. A-ok.

the laravel pint rule that removes all the docblock "prose" from your code is now out.. 🧼 this is an opt-in rule; to enable it, you need to add this to your `pint.json` file: "rules": {"Pint/phpdoc_type_annotations_only": true} if you don't like this rule, just don't use it..

@freekmurze Ey Freek laten we wat anders gaan doen. Een jaarlijkse kerst ASMR playlist met unieke collectors item kersttrui. We vragen iedereen om 5 minuten freestyle te Tinkerwellen en het op te nemen inclusief het geluid van je toetsenbord. Dit upload je naar je Record club.

A few years ago, I had this idea of creating a website called Artisan Record Club, where Laravel developers can share their favorite music record of the month. Is this something I should build?

@om_patel5 You can also tell it to use ast-grep instead.

claude code has a hidden setting that makes it 600x faster and almost nobody knows about it by default it uses text grep to find functions. it doesn't understand your code at all. that's why it takes 30-60 seconds and sometimes returns the wrong file there's a flag called ENABLE_LSP_TOOL that connects it to language servers. same tech that powers vscode's ctrl+click to jump straight to the definition after enabling it: > "add a stripe webhook to my payments page" - claude finds your existing payment logic in 50ms instead of grepping through hundreds of files > "fix the auth bug on my dashboard" - traces the actual call hierarchy instead of guessing which file handles auth > after every edit it auto-catches type errors immediately instead of you finding them 10 prompts later also saves tokens because claude stops wasting context searching for the wrong files 2 minute setup and it works for 11 languages

@anthonyaliduh @ShawnMcCool PHP isn't a club where everyone is gay!

@ShawnMcCool Your hate for PHP keeps you going in loops. Many of the alternatives you guys have ever suggested for PHP, have come and gone, once the hype dies down. Only PHP itself has been constant

Especially in an era of agentic coding.. it no longer makes any sense to me to continue using languages like PHP which offer zero novel value. I don't stand to gain anything from saying this, but now is the time to start with Elixir. Have faith and rip off that band-aid.

@kacemmmmmm @ShawnMcCool Not wrong, different. PHP can't do what Elixir does.

@ShawnMcCool What's wrong with php?

@unnamed1tw @ShawnMcCool Rapebait party??

@ShawnMcCool You seem to be working off outdated info, lol or your just late to the ragebait party. PHP is running now on desktop and mobile apps and advancing faster than many other languages.

@stuartbrameld @ShawnMcCool What framework should I be looking for?

@ShawnMcCool in the era of agentic coding it no longer makes sense to choose a language, you should choose a framework

@Al_Grigor That sucks. Why did you press enter after reading the terraform plan?

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

@lauriewired @karpathy Everyone, except you? Genius! Have some faith, the entire principle! —- Grandma’s not dead yet!

oh come on. You think your grandma wants to make her own app? Much less maintain it. Everyone neglects the mental energy it takes to even *think* of what it is exactly you want. The entire principle of apps relies on some faith that designers; and the collective feedback of their users, can come up with a workflow or design paradigm that is *better* than what you; an individual could come up with. This is true for 99% of cases. I’d be floored if even 1% of global users want bespoke applications for uber-specific needs. Not saying it’s useless; but it’s so far away from what average users want.

Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over experiment duration of 8 weeks. The primary way to do this is to aspire to a certain sum total minute goals in Zone 2 cardio and 1 HIIT/week. 1 hour later I vibe coded this super custom dashboard for this very specific experiment that shows me how I'm tracking. Claude had to reverse engineer the Woodway treadmill cloud API to pull raw data, process, filter, debug it and create a web UI frontend to track the experiment. It wasn't a fully smooth experience and I had to notice and ask to fix bugs e.g. it screwed up metric vs. imperial system units and it screwed up on the calendar matching up days to dates etc. But I still feel like the overall direction is clear: 1) There will never be (and shouldn't be) a specific app on the app store for this kind of thing. I shouldn't have to look for, download and use some kind of a "Cardio experiment tracker", when this thing is ~300 lines of code that an LLM agent will give you in seconds. The idea of an "app store" of a long tail of discrete set of apps you choose from feels somehow wrong and outdated when LLM agents can improvise the app on the spot and just for you. 2) Second, the industry has to reconfigure into a set of services of sensors and actuators with agent native ergonomics. My Woodway treadmill is a sensor - it turns physical state into digital knowledge. It shouldn't maintain some human-readable frontend and my LLM agent shouldn't have to reverse engineer it, it should be an API/CLI easily usable by my agent. I'm a little bit disappointed (and my timelines are correspondingly slower) with how slowly this progression is happening in the industry overall. 99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet. 99% of products/services maintain .html/.css docs like I won't immediately look for how to copy paste the whole thing to my agent to get something done. They give you a list of instructions on a webpage to open this or that url and click here or there to do a thing. In 2026. What am I a computer? You do it. Or have my agent do it. So anyway today I am impressed that this random thing took 1 hour (it would have been ~10 hours 2 years ago). But what excites me more is thinking through how this really should have been 1 minute tops. What has to be in place so that it would be 1 minute? So that I could simply say "Hi can you help me track my cardio over the next 8 weeks", and after a very brief Q&A the app would be up. The AI would already have a lot personal context, it would gather the extra needed data, it would reference and search related skill libraries, and maintain all my little apps/automations. TLDR the "app store" of a set of discrete apps that you choose from is an increasingly outdated concept all by itself. The future are services of AI-native sensors & actuators orchestrated via LLM glue into highly custom, ephemeral apps. It's just not here yet.

@unclebobmartin Clean Vibe 👍

I've been using AI for coding for 6 weeks or more. The power is undeniable. But the risks and time sinks are just as undeniable. I'm still not convinced that my project wouldn't be just as far along if I'd written it myself. I think of it as a carpenter who is adept at using hand tools and who has been given access to a power tool shop with every power tool there is. He needs to build a nice little cabinet. Would his first few projects take him longer just because he doesn't know how to use the power tools and has to throw out a bunch of messed up work?

@michabbb Parking a Lamborghini is damn hard man!

Last time, someone parked on a small island in a parking lot, not blocking everyone completely, but forcing everyone else to accommodate him and carefully maneuver past his car. When I went into the shop and said, “Hey, you should make an announcement for that person,” I was told, “What’s the problem? Can’t you get past them?” It’s unbelievable that intelligent people can build something absolutely brilliant on the one hand, but then completely fail to grasp the most trivial and obvious things on the other. Crazy.... #Laravel

@adamwathan I can tell you used TailwindCSS

Some more ui.sh before and after magic ✨ Just harvesting low hanging fruit all day every day over here but it adds up!

@YaakApp Sorry for calling it slop.. way too hasty.. But I had the exact functionality in Paw and later when it changed into RapidAPI. The autocomplete isn't as smooth as yours, but the resulting workflow is similar enough.

@xtrasmal In what?

🪄 So much you can do with this

@taylorotwell @DavHamid @fedearg79 @laravelphp Back in the days... The things I had to do to get a free 1MB SVG ...🍆

@DavHamid @fedearg79 @laravelphp So though it has absolutely no bearing on experience or speed, it isn’t good practice. According to whom and why? This is getting borderline superstitious or supernatural 😂

hey @laravelphp @taylorotwell who thought it was a nice idea to include a 1mb SVG in the default error page for Laravel just to show this:

@brankopetric00 Your whole system+company is one muddy triphole if those are the options after a meeting. Don't you have engineers or only vibe coders? Who is the Lead... ChatGPT?

You are designing an order processing system that must handle 10,000 orders per second during flash sales. Constraint A: We cannot lose a single order (Zero data loss). Constraint B: Downstream inventory services are slow and sometimes fail. Approach 1: Synchronous REST API with a heavy retry mechanism. Approach 2: Asynchronous Event-Driven architecture using SQS/Lambda. The Product Manager asks: 'Which one guarantees we don't oversell inventory if the inventory check lags?' How do you answer?