Stephen Bateman

Don’t forget to cancel those Fox One subscriptions from the World Cup

PAO: Agent-Optimized Output for PHP Testing Tools laravel-news.com/pao-agent-op...

You can tell Claude Code to copy something to your clipboard. If there's some really complicated script that it's having trouble with line breaks, just say "copy it" and it'll work.

amateur users of AI do not understand how difficult it is to babysit an AI agent while it tries to do something where precision matters.

my word for 2026 was "chocolate". All things chocolate. dark chocolate with raspberry dark chocolate with almond butter dubai chocolate 🍫 chocolate milkshakes It's been a good year.

I know there are more people using Laravel in the northeastern US than are on this map! Head over to laramap.dev and add yourself today 🤝

Not anymore. Now it’s L0uvre25!

Copy Pasta…when someone tries to pass off AI-generated nonsense as their own original thoughts.

Ok link is live. Game will run mon-fri this week, and you can join late! Start a team, coordinate, build an empire, lie, cheat, steal. thesocialgame.gg/games/370174...

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

When people see this they assume that ticket prices are driven by a secret cabal and not…well…people buying tickets. If only 15,000 people wanted to go to this game, the price would fall to $0 every time.

all I want for Christmas is a Claude Code who won’t drop my local database while making small changes.

I spent a lot of time taking and editing professional quality candid photos of my kids when they were smaller and I enjoy them even more than I thought I would looking back at them (digital frame ftw)

Google's AI overview has resorted to showing me the raw URL I need... It would be so cool if there was a search system that could link that and put it right at the top!

@ericortlund.bsky.social what’s the moral problem with pop music?

I’ve been working on making a tool for Laravel and Claude Code. It makes building features in big apps a lot easier. GitHub.com/iambateman/s...

@davehicking.com phenomenal talk man. I worked on a library startup about 10 years ago and saw some of the fear in that industry. Great analogy.

@johnrudolphdrexler.com I’ve never been happier to be called a dusty witch. Great talk! #laracon

@nunomaduro.com so much respect for doing a live demo from stage. 🙌🙌🙌 Excited for PEST 4!

Laracon is off to a great start!

In 2017, I never would’ve guessed that YouTube would be my most positive social network in 2025.

One of the underrated parts of Tailwind is being able to search a project for "inline-flex items-center justify-center w-5 h-5 rounded-full bg-blue-500 text-white text-xs font-bold"

Sharing some WIP footage for a new experiment that uses photochromic pigment and a custom UV laser projector. The images fade over time, allowing for an evolving canvas. More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...

Anybody know a good Salesforce contractor?

Posting an AI generated video of a celebrity talking needs to be illegal. I just found a totally believable video of Jason Tatum talking on YT….but it’s not real.

high school: "you need to write 1,100 words. You have six weeks." Adulthood: "you need to write 1,100 words. You have an hour and your kids want to clean the car to earn $2 so maybe more like 45 minutes."

The average American has three friends.

This truck is literally 8 feet tall. So absurdly dangerous.

I went to a car dealership today. “The price online $24k. I will pay you that for the car.” “Oh, no, best we can do is $28k” Why why why why why 😑

Yes! There must be room in the world for people who love cars. The problems are dangerous roads, unlimited budgets for cars, traffic, smog, and people revving their engine next to my toddler. I think we can all get on board with fixing those!

Took the little ones on a 10 mile ride + picnic yesterday and got to see the playground construction up close.

I'm _all in_ on Cursor, Claude, GPT, etc. But I just created a Livewire route using Cursor and it forgot to authorize the action. I wonder how we can check for programmatically-introduced vulnerabilities before they get pushed.

Claude really can answer any question with a React component. 😂

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

the hard part of entrepreneurship is solving the problems I have, not the ones I want to have.

It's the 9:00 a.m. hug of death.

weekend project

I wrote a quick post on building a viral bluesky toy: working with the API, optimizing for viral traffic, generating snazzy open graph images, and more benholmen.com/blog/howtall...

Best game dev advice I have (which applies to developing anything): keep it in a playable state 100% of the time. You're not allowed to spend 6 months in the mind palace. Prototype on day 1. You should be playing it constantly. And if someone asks what you're working on, you have a link ready.

This goes both directions!

Most new follows are spam…it’s people who are following 77.9k people just to get follow backs. Is there a way to filter those?

This won't win photo of the year, but it should.

@tomaslau.com just checked out your profile and craftled looks really cool. Nice to meet you!

Pondering a card game about programming. Each of us builds a sequence of cards that include some basic actions, if statements, and while loops. Then our bots go out into the field and attempt some basic task. Debug, refine, try again. Human Resource Machine, but with cards, and multiplayer.

I don’t think this affects them long term but it’s interesting.

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I hope he immediately made an NFT out of this…ya know…just in case.

@danabra.mov feature request: Self DM. I’d want to DM myself posts to essentially bookmark for later. No worries but I thought it would be cool!