Andy Hails 👨‍💻

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@avilesrafa @mattpocockuk Nice! Is that built in Filament PHP?

@mattpocockuk To upload our sessions and run real-time analysis on them. Goals: learn what works, track efficiency, track errors, and learn how to avoid them.

What do you use Claude Code's hooks for? So far, all I'm doing is using it to play a little 'ding' sound when I need to look at the terminal.

@javarevisited Yes, and a few years ago, I was also lucky enough to attend a 3-day workshop with Neal Ford on this subject.

Have you read this yet?

@jeffrey_way I've just installed tryvoiceink.com and it seems to work very well. There is a very reasonable one-off lifetime cost. To me, this is much more preferable over pppm pricing!

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.

Listening to @TheRestHistory podcast on Iran. Wondering why the Americans pronounce Iran, EYE-Ran, and Ibiza as Ee-biza. It's like they did it on purpose.

@brankopetric00 ECS?

Your team is split. Half wants to go serverless, half wants Kubernetes. The context: - Processing 50M events/day with unpredictable spikes - Current monolith costs $8k/month to run - Team of 6 engineers, mixed experience levels - Compliance requires data residency in 3 regions - Budget ceiling: $12k/month Serverless camp: "Lower ops overhead, auto-scaling" Kubernetes camp: "More control, predictable costs" Which path do you choose and why?

@aarondfrancis This is the same for the UK, too; we don't have/need the infrastructure to deal with it. When it comes around, we're like flailing children to the rest of the world! 🤣

This happens like once every five years in Texas and everyone from outside of Texas is always confused why we can't handle it. (We are too, for the record. What even is this stuff?)

@ThePrimeagen But man, what a slog to complete the rest of them!

i am convinced that Eye of the World, WoT is the best fantasy book ever written

Glad that when the singularity happens. I'll have this to fallback on.

@aarondfrancis @danielkelly_io @vuejs @nuxt_js Amen, brother.

@danielkelly_io @vuejs @nuxt_js Inertia

If you're using @vuejs without @nuxt_js, what's your reason?

@mattsimmonds So sorry to hear this, Matt. We will be praying.

@johnehosier Wonderful news! Congratulations to the whole family! X

Unto us a child is born Unto us a great granddaughter is given. Hephzibah born yesterday on Christmas Day So I’m a great grandfather How did that happen!!

@iamdevloper Commitment issues are easily fixed by using Git.

Switching between coding languages makes me a polyglot indeed. But it also doesn't help with my commitment issues.

I’ve done consulting work for 20 years including building custom manufacturing software. I’ll be honest, $100-150k for a custom MRP system is pretty low these days. Even when I was only charging like $75/hour many many years ago, they’re so complex that I ended up billing about $100-150k back then. If someone were to ask me what to budget for one today I’d tell them at least $300k. Considering average US devs are $100k-200k/year, that’s just two devs for a year at most. Not really that far out of line. What they did poorly was communicate what they were doing. It should never be a surprise when you get the bill. You should always know what the risks are in terms of going over estimate. And you should always have an escape hatch with a valuable deliverable, even if it isn’t fully finished. The only real way to do fixed bid software is if: 1. They are using an extremely battle tested and known framework (Rails, Django, etc) that they know very well 2. The software is of a type that they’ve done routinely for many years, with very few divergences, so they have comps 3. They pad it 50% anyway In manufacturing this would be considered insane but the reality is that most software development is more like R&D than it is like “build this part”.

@ThePrimeagen @peach2k2

@peach2k2 well its not that warm during the summer in most of that circle

most of the coolest people i've ever seen lives in this circle btw

@mattvanswol Be kind.

Repeat after me: The best software engineers pick up a new language in a few weeks. They can become pretty good in a month or two. The best devs also don’t get bogged down with one language. ESPECIALLY not today when AI makes onboarding to new languages so much easier

@_joeyMcKenzie @statamic I tend to reach for Blade more!

Fellow @statamic enjoyers, are you using Blade more often now that it’s been supported for awhile? Or are you still using Antlers?

@ThePrimeagen @tobi It's the year it'll next be rewritten.

@tobi I have to know why! why 2048? why 2^11^ it reaks of some sort of bit packing that is going on under the hood

This took some serious open heart surgery to do. Lots and lots of people working hard on solving bad code I wrote two decades ago. 😅

@Droogstoppel13 @ThePrimeagen I didn't even know this was a thing! I thought systemd was about process management.

@AndyHails @ThePrimeagen They want to shove everything into systemd.

using bash as glue in 2025