Andrew Minion

Andrew Minion

@andrewrminion.com

Senior Solutions Architect; Laravel, Livewire, Tailwind, Vue, Inertia - Me: https://andrewrminion.com - Work: https://ivisa.com - Location: Twin Cities Metro

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Andrew Minion
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Sounds about right 😂

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?

Andrew Minion
@andrewrminion.com

Laravel friends: anybody know of good testing setups to hunt for scalability issues before they crop up for real users? I'm less concerned with stress-testing (concurrent requests) than I am with issues caused by large database volume (both mysql data and redis cache).

Andrew Minion
@andrewrminion.com

Laravel friends: anybody know of good testing setups to hunt for scalability issues before they crop up for real users? I'm less concerned with stress-testing (concurrent requests) than I am with issues caused by large database volume (both mysql data and redis cache).

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Andrew Minion
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On the test, Windsurf seemed to do a bit better. Cursor and Claude were both more verbose and needed a bit more guidance to prevent extra changes. Agent mode is really cool, running and modifying tests on its own.

Andrew Minion
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As a code editor, Windsurf initially felt a bit more polished than Cursor, partly due to my muscle memory using keyboard shortcuts. Once I found and changed the keyboard chord leader key, Cursor was a lot more usable for me. They seem to be pretty equivalent feature-wise.

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Andrew Minion
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This is such a great approach!!

James Brooks@jbrooks.uk

In @jessarcher.bsky.social's Nightwatch talk she mentioned how we paired Laravel's rate limiting with Cloudflare to completely side step our servers from handling "dead requests" on Forge. Here's how you can do the same thing! james.brooks.page/blog/superch...

james.brooks.pageSupercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare - James BrooksEnhance Laravel’s rate limiting by using Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block excessive requests at the edge, reducing server load and improving API performance.
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Andrew Minion
@andrewrminion.com

GPaste (github.com/Keruspe/GPaste) is a serviceable clipboard history manager. I added a custom keyboard shortcut (Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts) to bring up the UI. I just wish it would automatically paste to the current app when I select an entry. 🤷‍♂️

Andrew Minion
@andrewrminion.com

The biggest thing currently tripping me up: I use keyboard shortcuts *all the time.* On macOS, (almost) everything is ⌘-tab, ⌘-C, ⌘-V, etc. On Ubuntu: - many things are ctrl-C, ctrl-H, etc. and are pretty similar - some things are alt-tab, etc. - some things are super-H, etc.

Andrew Minion
@andrewrminion.com

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer app.thestorygraph.com/books/d4ea68... I listened to the audiobook; at some point I want to go back and read and highlight passages from this book. There are so many things to think about especially in the age of AI about how to take care of each other.

app.thestorygraph.comBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall KimmererAs a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how...
Andrew Minion
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson: app.thestorygraph.com/books/26206f... The title grabbed me, and the book didn’t disappoint…the author lays out the rules for mystery writers and breaks the fourth wall so many times. The book kept surprising me in the best ways.

app.thestorygraph.comEveryone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin StevensonI was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stran...