challenge for the nerds

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I regret to inform you that the Dow is now below 50k.

Are you Laracon EU? Do you identify as a woman or non-binary? Then come to the Larabelles happy hour tonight! 🫶

Me as a juniour dev: "Why can't we just upgrade all our dependencies to the latest versions as soon as they are out? We need to keep moving forward so we don't fall behind!" Me as a senior dev: "People who maintain libraries don't spend nearly enough time trying to keep their APIs stable!"

“You are a web server for [my-app.com] a social media application. You can send SQL queries to the database which has the schema below. You must parse the raw HTTP request, perform the appropriate SQL queries, and return an appropriate response to the client. Don’t forget to authorize the request!”

“I’ll eat when I’m dead”

AI Marketing for white-collar workers: "Tell your management to buy our AI tools for you otherwise you'll fall behind." AI Marketing for white-collar management: "Buy our AI tools and fire your teams otherwise you'll fall behind."

I am not saying that @nordcraft.com AI is better than a whole fleet of Claude bots, but It did one-shot a C compiler in less than 30 seconds. c_compiler.nordcraft.site

"I decline to acquiesce your pull request"

I prefer “has my dryer always made that timpani?”

I'm still available to take on freelance work. If you're looking for a Laravel developer with a lot of experience, do reach out!

Uh oh, it’s @musicologyduck.bsky.social all over again!

Gort Mortnork

You're the invigorating squid of being aggressively okay

I need to follow more developers, shill me your hidden gems! 💎

Does the boolean expression in the if statement *really* evaluate to true? #ObliqueDebuggingStrategies

I wonder if people are inherently biased towards certain version numbers of things seeming better than others, and if so, what the peak version of a thing is?

I was recently laid off. Now looking for freelance opportunities from March. Full-stack web development with any stack in the Laravel ecosystem – Laravel, Vue, React, Inertia, Livewire. Reach out if you have a project in mind -> andrebreia.dev

In a world of AI hype, getting good (or remaining good) at writing code and crafting software without it is a subversive act. Even if you use AI, don't let them make you let go of this skill.

Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

Nobody tell me who wins the sports thing. Am going to a place where they are watching some sports thing later on and they don’t want to know who wins ahead of time.

Brevity implies the existence of semi-brevity, minimity, crotchety, quaverty and semi-quaverty.

Of course in Sweden they just call them "Fish"

What if humans all got better? Huh? Did you think about that?

Here's the thing that I think, before you declare "I've been working with [new tool] for [relatively small amount of time] now and I'm all in, I don't know how I could ever go back to working without it" you should give it, like, at least a week.

I'm just going to invent a law that says the utility of an LLM agent is proportional to the square of the information made available to it plus its ability to transmit information. The security risks are, what, like that but cubed.

My superpower is that I will open any packet on the wrong end first go.

Looks like the bots will unionise before tech workers.

When you delete Claude from the commit history

Spare a thought for the mechanical engineers who after a few decades of difficult and brilliant engineering absolutely perfected the automatic cash toll-gate just as the toll-gate was made obsolete.

MySQL users: What are your thoughts on enums?

@adamwathan.com Build a better Vercel

What are your go to resources for educating your less tech savvy friends and family members about how to identify scam email messages and such?

Je-ne-sais-quoi-tative

They should invent a browser dev tools window that doesn't get in the way of the browser window.

Where were you when @musicologyduck.bsky.social was kidnapped?

we shall continue to mope until morale improves

Said my piece on X in the Laravel subreddit, I really hope we can start migrating away as a community and it was so good to see so MANY people calling it out for what it is already in the comments.

TIL You can force a browser to continue to load a page which has an SSL error by typing "thisisunsafe"

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Ruin a band by changing one letter Poo Fighters

The fault in our SPAs

Thanks Ollama

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I just finished up a call with someone who had vibe-coded an error into a revenue-generating application that cost the company 6 figures in (fortunately recoverable) lost revenue. It's recoverable because two developers with a combined 40 years of experience managed to unwind the problem.

Which out of bluesky or mastodon is bouba and which is kiki?