Zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot - what do they really mean when prompting large language models? In episode 7 of Compiled Conversations, @ashleyhindle.com breaks down each one. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/7/ 👉 Don’t miss future episodes - subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

LLM agents get talked about a lot - but what are they, really? In Episode 7 of Compiled Conversations, @ashleyhindle.com strips away the hype and explains how agents are, at their core, just a simple loop. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/7/ 👉 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

In Functional Programming, functions aren't just helpers - they are the building blocks. In the latest episode, @scottwlaschin.bsky.social breaks down how FP uses functions to compose behaviour, control flow, and model systems in a different way from OOP. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/9/

Exploring #MCP and @laravel.com MCP by building a @plex.tv integration 🎬 AI assistants now understand where I am in a film through subtitle analysis. 'What have I missed?' gets context-aware answers without spoilers. Write up: eddmann.com/posts/contex... Repo: github.com/eddmann/plex...

Laravel Boost makes AI-assisted development faster and more reliable. ⚡ @ashleyhindle.com explains how it provides tested guidelines, its own MCP server, and version-specific docs for Laravel projects. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/7/ 👉 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify for more.

Ep. 10: The Life of a PostgreSQL Table, Part 1 w/ Bruce Momjian What really happens when you create, insert, or query in #Postgres? We dig into: - Storage internals (pages, TOAST) - MVCC & WAL - Index types & use cases - Query planning & joins 🎧 compiledconversations.com/10/

@den.dev Big fan of spec-kit and your YouTube content! I know you must be super busy, but would you be interested in joining compiledconversations.com to chat about spec-driven development, spec-kit, and agentic tooling sometime?

Error handling often clutters code. Fortunately, functional programming offers a more elegant way. @scottwlaschin.bsky.social explains the 'two-track' model 🚂 (railway-oriented programming) - keeping the success path clean while ensuring errors are always handled. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/9/

Programming isn't one-size-fits-all. In Episode 9 of Compiled Conversations, @scottwlaschin.bsky.social makes the case for being multi-paradigm - using the right language for the right job. Just like a tradesperson has more than one tool, a programmer should too. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/9/

The Reverse Conway Maneuver flips the script on Conway’s Law. In Episode 8 of Compiled Conversations, Scott explains how aligning teams with domains helps avoid conflicts - and why the number of teams you have inevitably shapes your system’s architecture. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/8/

Garbage in, garbage out. 🗑️ In Episode 8 of Compiled Conversations, Scott explains why good design starts with good inputs - and why even the best code can’t fix bad ones. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/8/ 👉 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you don’t miss future episodes.

🎉 Ep. 9: Domain Modeling Made Functional, Part 2 w/ @scottwlaschin.bsky.social How do #DDD & FP fit together? We cover: - What makes a language functional - FP-style error handling 🚂 - Composable data types for domain modeling - Pipelines & workflow modeling 🎧 compiledconversations.com/9/

Writing code isn't just for computers - it's for people too. @scottwlaschin.bsky.social explains how #DDD encourages developers to use the same language as non-developers; making code a tool for communication, not just execution. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/8/

Ep. 8: Domain Modeling Made Functional, Part 1 w/ @scottwlaschin.bsky.social #DDD isn't about code - it's about communication, we discuss: - Strategic vs tactical DDD - (Sub)domains - Bounded contexts & ubiquitous language - Conway's Law & team organisation 🎧 compiledconversations.com/8/

🧝✨ Workshop update from the North Pole: Jolly JVM just delivered a #Java impl. of elf-lang featuring #Clojure-style immutable, persistent collections w/ structural sharing! 🔧 Impl: eddmann.com/santa-lang-w... 📖 Writeup: eddmann.com/posts/santa-...

I may have taken the Christmas-themed programming language thing a bit too far... Introducing the santa-lang Workshop: AI agents (elves) implementing elf-lang across different programming languages using shared test suites and stage-gated development. 📖 eddmann.com/posts/santa-... #AI #LLM

Ep. 7: Boosting Laravel Through AI w/ @ashleyhindle.com From autocomplete → task completion: how #AI and #Laravel Boost are reshaping dev workflows: - AI fundamentals (AI, ML, GenAI, LLMs) - Prompt & context engineering - RAG, MCP & agents - Testing in the AI era 🎧 compiledconversations.com/7/

🎄 Getting into the Christmas spirit a little early! I set a team of #LLM 'elves' (agents) the task of re-implementing a subset of a language I designed several years ago - introducing... elf-lang. 🧵👇

Ep. 6: All Aboard the PostgreSQL Train 🚂 w/ Bruce Momjian We cover 39 years of Postgres and why it keeps outpacing proprietary DBs: - Extensibility: PostGIS, JSON, pgvector - TDE - Decoupled storage/compute (Aurora, Neon) - Sustaining momentum 'on the train' 🎧 compiledconversations.com/6/

Strategic vs Tactical #DDD - know the difference? Strategic: define domains, goals & guide architecture Tactical: patterns that turn strategy into code One devs ❤️. The other drives impact. 💪 🎧 compiledconversations.com/4/ compiledconversations.com/5/ 👉 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Had a lot of fun last Friday night diving into #Laravel Boost + #Cursor + GPT-5 for a focused 4-hour sprint, improving my family #F1 Picks game from last year. Shared my thoughts here 👇 🏁 eddmann.com/posts/improv... Keep up the great work @ashleyhindle.com! 👏

Protecting ubiquitous language is at the heart of bounded contexts in #DDD. In a recent CC episode, @vladikk.bsky.social explains how they safeguard integrity - and why mapping them 1:1 to subdomains is a misconception. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/4/ compiledconversations.com/5/

Ep 5 of Compiled Conversations is live: Learning Domain-Driven Design, Part 2 w/ @vladikk.bsky.social 🎙️ Real-world #DDD: - CQRS & context mapping - EventStorming - Testing & impl. patterns - Team design & ownership - AI's impact 🎧 compiledconversations.com/5/ Part 1: compiledconversations.com/4/

Subdomains in Domain-Driven Design (#DDD) can be hard to grasp. In the latest episode of Compiled Conversations, @vladikk.bsky.social breaks it down - showing how subdomains are the real building blocks of a business domain. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/4/

Sunday morning build ☕️ Made a #LEGO #F1 Minifigure Scanner, to scan blind-box Data Matrix codes to ID the car inside 🧐 Another excuse to try out GPT-5 in #Cursor. Stack: React + TS + Tailwind + PWA. Repo: github.com/eddmann/lego... Deployment: eddmann.com/lego-f1-mini...

Going Serverless doesn't mean starting over. In a recent Compiled Conversations episode, @mnapoli.bsky.social shares how apps can go serverless without large rewrites - using it simply as hosting, without going all-in on cloud native. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/3/ #Serverless #PHP

Domain-Driven Design (#DDD) is powerful - but often misunderstood. In the latest episode of Compiled Conversations, @vladikk.bsky.social clears up 3 big misconceptions about DDD. 🎧 Listen now: compiledconversations.com/4 👉 Don’t miss future episodes - subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Ep. 4: Learning Domain-Driven Design, Part 1 w/ @vladikk.bsky.social is live! We cover: - Strategic vs tactical #DDD - Subdomains: core, supporting & generic - Ubiquitous language that sticks - Bounded contexts (and the 1:1 myth) - Pragmatic architecture choices 🎧 compiledconversations.com/4/

@simonwillison.net Been a long-time fan of your writing. I know you must be busy, but I’d love to have you on compiledconversations.com to discuss the latest in the AI/LLM space and its impact on software development. I really admire your experimental and exploratory approach to the field.

Been enjoying the @pragmaticengineer.com podcast back catalogue lately — especially the episode with @simonwillison.net on LLMs in software development. Loved Simon’s passion for exploring and experimenting — curious how the past year’s advances have changed his way of working now!

Ep. 3: Serverless PHP w/ @mnapoli.bsky.social is live! ☁️🐘 We talk Bref's evolution and the launch of Bref Cloud: 🏗️ PHP on AWS Lambda 🔌 Laravel & Symfony integration ⚖️ Serverless vs Kubernetes 🧰 DX & platform design 🌱 Open source & sustainability 🎧 compiledconversations.com/3/

Ep. 2: Thinking in Events (Part 2) w/ @jameseastham.co.uk is live! 🎧 We move from theory to practice in event-driven architecture: 🔁 Choreography vs orchestration 🧩 Handling failure 🔍 Observability w/ OpenTelemetry 🔐 Event security & PII ⚙️ Migrating from monoliths 🎙️ compiledconversations.com/2/

After years of wanting to, I’ve launched Compiled Conversations! Ep. 1: Thinking in Events (Part 1) w/ @jameseastham.co.uk 💬 Event-driven architecture 🧠 Communication-first systems 🍕 Pizza metaphors & real-world insight Huge thanks to James! Part 2 drops next week. 🎧 compiledconversations.com/1/

Just finished my first PCB design - a prototype electronic chessboard using an ESP32-S3, hall sensors, and WS2812 (NeoPixel) LEDs ♟️💡 From idea to hardware, here's what I learned along the way: 🔗 eddmann.com/posts/my-fir... #PCB #ESP32 #KiCad #Electronics #Chess

The PCB looks to be working as designed 🎉 Next up: test display options before building the full chessboard ♟️

My first #PCB has just been delivered - fingers crossed it's not just an expensive coaster 🤞

Last year, inspired by Monolith to Microservices by Sam Newman, I explored how to build a choreographed, event-driven workflow using AWS EventBridge, SQS, and Lambda - diving into idempotency, observability, and event design in practice. Full deep dive 🧵 eddmann.com/posts/buildi...

Just wrapped up an epic 2-hour podcast recording with @jameseastham.co.uk diving deep into all things Event-Driven Architecture. Grateful for the time and insights - can’t wait to get this one edited and out there. Thanks again, James! 🎙️⚡️

Just ordered my first custom-designed #PCB for an electronic chessboard ♟️ idea I’ve been prototyping. Can't wait to see how it turns out! Worst case, they’ll make great coasters 😂 Huge thanks to Richard (www.traintrackr.co.uk) 🙌 for all the help!

Looking back at one of my favourite side quests: Built a custom AWS Lambda runtime for my own language, santa-lang 🧑‍🎄, designed to solve Advent of Code puzzles. The interpreter and runtime bindings written in Rust 🦀 🔗 eddmann.com/posts/rewrit... 💻 github.com/eddmann/sant...

🚀 Want reliable, atomic event publishing in your serverless apps? In this post, I explore two practical implementations of the Transactional Outbox pattern using AWS (DynamoDB Streams, EventBridge, Fargate). 👉 Dive in: eddmann.com/posts/server... #serverless #AWS #microservices #SOA #EDA

I recently wrote about a 3hr ‘vibe coding’ session where I prototyped an initial Chess UI for a #ESP32 side project I’m working on. There’s a lot of hype in this space,but no denying how powerful the tooling is becoming—even in its infancy. It’s only going to get better. eddmann.com/posts/vibe-c...

One of the features I really enjoyed building for MyPodcast was the browser extension - the WebExtensions API is a solid tool for developing across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, it *mostly* just worked out of the box! 🔥 🧩

My CSS knowledge was a decade out of date. So I decided to rebuild my blog with modern #CSS, a #BEM + utility hybrid (thanks @kevinpowell.co), and moved from Jekyll to #Hugo. No frameworks, no preprocessors; just semantic HTML & hand-rolled styles. Here's what I learned: eddmann.com/posts/how-re...

Just launched MyPodcast 🎉 It turns your saved articles into a personal podcast feed. Built in my free time over the past 3 weeks — had a lot of fun & learned a ton! 🌐 mypodcast.cloud 🚀 www.producthunt.com/products/myp... Built with @laravel.com, #Bref & #Serverless ❤️

@jameseastham.co.uk Hey, big fan of your YouTube channel. I previously hosted a podcast threedevsandamaybe.com and am looking to start podcasting again. I was wondering if you would be at all interested to come on as a guest to discuss all things EDA, Serverless, Plant Based Pizza's & Rust?

Just finished my first ever “vibe coding” session: in 3 hrs with #Cursor, #PlatformIO & #ESP32 #CYD, I prototyped an #LVGL based chessboard UI that hooks into the existing Chessmate API. The REPL is very satisfying and somewhat addictive—great to see it working with a lib I’d never touched before.

Saw this awesome post on Image Style Prompts for #ChatGPT (x.com/bruffstar/st...) and got inspired to add a little avatar easter egg to my blog this morning. A few results still need tweaking, but I'm really liking the overall effect!

This week I've been working on a mobile project that needed some native #Android / #iOS features. I built a #JS bridge to hook into the existing #PWA. Just finished writing up my approach: iOS: eddmann.com/posts/bridgi... Android: eddmann.com/posts/bridgi...

🚨 Just launched: Chessmate ♟️ Compare chess engines side-by-side, analyse the next best move, tweak everything, go full chess nerd mode! 🖥️ Web version is live now 📱 Android & iOS apps coming soon! chessmate.cloud #Chessmate #ChessEngines #Stockfish #FEN #Chess