Beau Simensen

I feel so honored to be part of this @phparch.com team, and I am so proud of the hard work they put into PHP/JS Tek. It was a wild one, but I'll save that tea for the podcast this Thursday.

Who is at #phptek I haven't seen yet?

“duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction” - Sandi Metz in “All the little things” at RailsConf 2014 The quote is often put out of context to support the idea it’s always better to postpone the abstraction until there’s enough duplication. #SoftwareDevelopment #oop

I've been using this approach for the past few weeks and it's been brilliant so far. I'm grateful (and relieved) to have found it while still trying to figure out my own strategy. fjzeit.github.io/coding/lode-...

How about #buildinprivate where you slave away on your app that will never go anywhere and you never tell anyone about it? 🙃

I need your help! I am removing this did:plc and migrating to my own did:web on Cloudflare. Removing as much of the centralised crap of atproto as I can. Can y’all please share and follow @rawkode.dev instead of this account?

@tokentown.com @ianlandsman.com @aaronfrancis.com This happening today for real? I have 1 PM Central on my calendar! YouTube where we should tune in to catch it live, or are you doing the live broadcast to a different platform?

I'm looking for new folks to follow on bsky, specifically around these topics: - Laravel and PHP - LLMs and specifically Claude Code - Apple ecosystem technology Got any favorites?

Are there any self-contained Markdown slide apps like deckset but work on Windows? Slidev looks interesting but seems like it's more of a "repo is a self-contained slide deck" and not a "use this app to open arbitrary Markdown slide decks."

So, this is what developing a writing habit looks like...? Inspiring stuff @chriscoyier.net

Video is what got me into podcasts, back in 2007! I would download video episodes from Diggnation, @leolaporte.me, Tekzilla, @cnet.com, and sync them to my iPod for my bus ride to work. Now, 20 years later, Apple is relaunching video in their podcasts app, and @transistor.fm is an initial partner!

The Panel livestream is today! 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern @jordangal.bsky.social is hosting, joined by @justinjackson.ca and @briancasel.com Topics: - WTF Polsia!? - @adamwathan.com launches new product - Delve was a scam? youtube.com/live/RteHyUj...

Good reminder: check in on your homies!

The #JsonPath @symfony component just got an upgrade! Per the RFC, it is now possible to declare custom functions to be parsed and used in your JSON paths. The component is now complete: RFC-compliant, extendable... Maybe you have ideas for it? github.com/symfony/symf...

Has anyone tried Asahi on the Macbook Neo? While I've got a M1 Pro MBP, I wouldn't mind a good Linux laptop. If the Neo is good, it might save me some cash from getting a Framework...

Watching an episode of Ask Hank Anything, and they came so very close to saying this: "Cannibalism. Not a hill I would dine on."

Each time I work on a new OG image for an article, I'm reminded the devlog series flow from one to the next. Utterly pointless, but makes me happy.

Well, some progress. Not unhappy! Below, a screenshot of my Gopher browser, written in HTML / CSS. #GopherProtocol

We're going live in ~2.5 hours (12:15 pm Pacific) Join @justinjackson.ca and @briancasel.com here: youtube.com/live/E1_awKj... A few topics: - the AI hamster wheel - the content-creation hamster wheel - justin is upset about XSLT going away

@tjmiller.bsky.social Not sure what you are planning to charge for Iris, so not sure it's in my budget these days, but I am definitely interested in seeing it see the light of day! I feel you on the anxiety and second guessing yourself. If you need more encouragement: just do it!

Hey friends, I’m looking for work! 👋 I’m a Senior Frontend Engineer with 20 years exp building & designing for the web. 🛠️ React, React Native, TypeScript, design systems 🎨 Designer background, detail-obsessed 📲 Just shipped Flux (Bluesky client) as a solo project www.linkedin.com/in/jessejand...

@tjmiller.bsky.social love hearing about your work in slightly caffeinated, especially iris. Can't wait to give it a try. :)

OpenClaw (which was Moltbot, which was ClawdBot, all in the course of a week) is the new `sudo curl | bash`

Yes. My brain moves faster than my fingers to the point my fingers just decide to skip entire parts of words.

Today in brain-finger pipeline misadventures... Intent: "I want to learn" Typed: "I warn" When I saw it, I froze. "Wait, what was I trying to type?" Where did "warn" even come from?! Apparently my fingers just decided to skip "nt to le"? Is this a thing other people experience?

A lot of “UX problems” are really default problems. If a feature needs a tutorial, it’s usually missing a default. A good default does 3 things: 1) shows what “good” looks like 2) reduces decisions 3) gets the user to a tiny win fast Docs teach. Defaults convert.

Got some advice from a designer a while back that’s stuck with me. I asked how I improve my sense of whether things are well-designed or not and he said: design is about making purposeful decisions. If you can find a purpose for something being the way it is, it is likely well-designed.

check out Tether here. we're launching very soon! tethermobile.com

PHP's `match` is one of those rare cases where PHP has something that I wish TypeScript had Love me some `match`

My video today tells (shows) the story of how I started with an over-engineered n8n workflow but ended up with a perfectly tuned Claude Code Skill. Different type of video from my usual. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo16...

Turns out building this as a Claude Code Skill was much better than N8N. Lesson learned.

🎉 Achievement unlocked: "It works in my machine" My wife is on a similar path. Doing some cool stuff and soon going to submit something to the app store. Makes me really proud.

"Deriving home for Christmas"

Anyone interested in learning more? I'm debating with myself if I should make this into an ebook or course or something. Let me know!

I’m dreaming of an app where I start a session, I open a web page or a paper or an ebook, and I talk as I read. Ask questions, make notes, all natural language. At the end of the session the transcript gets saved into a summary note of the session linked to the media I was reading. Does this exist?

Claude Code ignoring its skills all the time? I fixed it w/ a UserPromptSubmit hook: github.com/czottmann/cl... No other mention of skills in #CLAUDE​.md necessary. Credit where it's due: It's derived from a much, much longer set of instructions at github.com/obra/superpo... #LLM #ClaudeCode