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

@mysteropodes @rive_app @benjaminbardou sick!

Point of cloud in @rive_app just with a photo and a zdepth 😎 @benjaminbardou do you want an interactive art ? 😘

@rocklet_ Awesome. I already have a working Mat4 camera/scene in the current latest stable @rive_app, but I am hoping to see how Rive folks write their scripts...and your video's are very inspiring!

@xtrasmal Yes, will be sharing the scripts soon.

@enunomaduro I always find it difficult to watch video’s where folks wear tight shirts that show floppy tits

AI vibe coding is broken the best engineers in 2026 won't just prompt.. they'll build stricter systems around AI types. tests. patterns. static analysis. ci. guardrails new talk is live: youtu.be/96To5-uJbog?si…

@radbar_1 @rive_app In the past I worked in mixed media and Flash. I just started to get back into the field and find your work very inspiring. Do you, by any chance, sell courses?

@mrdavenport @brilliantorg

last week we launched Koji, @brilliantorg 's math and coding tutor. one of my favorite little design details is a dynamic glow effect that visually indicates when Koji is talking. to make it happen, we wrote a script to databind the audio waveform of Koji's voice, then built a preview environment that allowed us to fine-tune the effect before handing off to developers. you can read more about the process below

@mrdavenport @brilliantorg Lol we’ve been working on the same stuff

@alexdaubois SLOP! Plus those examples are not helping his case. Folks go to extreme lengths to mitigate bad(or absent) design choices.

Let's have a look at this #PHP RFC: Friends, by Daniel Scherzer. A class could grant select OTHER classes access to its private and protected members, without making anything public. Let's see what's actually on the table. 🧵

@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.