Silvan Hagen

Here’s a new one: Claude just told Codex (as the reviewer) to "restate its verdict in neutral engineering language", so we don’t burn tokens on both agents.

Solo by Aaron Francis feels magical and you should try it. Codex was reaching the 5h limit, so I told the orchestrator to collect it's work and pass it to Claude including scratchpads and todos. Soooo gooood!

As much as I want to ditch Arc as my main browser, I really like its look, the profile switcher and the command palette. Should I give Helium, Zen or Brave another try?

Is it just me, or am I seeing fewer and fewer code-snippet screenshots posted on social media, especially on X? Are we all just burning tokens now?

Spending the day with WordPress again. Using Claude Code with Playwright and the frontend design plugin is a powerful combo to improve full site editing themes.

Super excited for a long Easter weekend off. My wife and I have gotten so tired that we didn't even realize it. Time to relax and eat some chocolate.

Migrating 10+ GB of MySQL data to Postgres completed. Ran into a few annoying quirks in the production environment using pgloader, but eventually it worked. Now monitoring and weekend mode.

Played with pgloader configs today. The error messages are really cool. Managed to migrate a 10+ GB MySQL database to Postgres. I'll be migrating the production Laravel app this weekend.

I've always been impressed by Remotion, but the combination with the best practice AI skills just blew me away today. Feed it some assets in an existing project and some stills of scenes. Claude took it and asked for the dynamic parts and built some fine animations 🤯

Neglected a small Laravel app for a while and decided to upgrade it and move it to a new server on forge. Took a few minutes and all was up and running again. The Laravel VPS on Forge are impressive tbh.

Back at work after a three-week break. Did I miss anything besides the lifted token limits for Claude?

I love how Claude Code pats itself on the shoulder from one agent to another for the excellent research a lot lately. Everybody needs some pampering 😍.

Last month I deployed a Filament + Livewire app that was written by Claude Code. I wrote less than 300 lines. The client had a limited budget, but it worked. I ended up adding some nice-to-have features. Would you read a blog post about it?

Uff, after upgrading to macOS and iOS 26, my Logitech MX Keys S keyboard doesn't connect to either device. Neither Bluetooth nor the Logi Bolt works. Of course I no longer have the receipt, and the Logi support bot is useless. Is this a known issue, or did my keyboard break?

First day at work after 20 days of vacation with my wife. I feel so refreshed. Before, I was using Claude Code a lot. Is it still good, or should I give Codex a try? I downgraded right before the vacation, so I'm open to giving Codex a try.

Scotland kind of feels like the "Switzerland isn't real" meme.

Once Laravel Cloud supports Reverb, I'll be moving a bigger app to it 🤗

I really like the navigation in Laravel Cloud and decided to build it in Filament v4. Check out the tutorial and code ⬇️ silvanhagen.com/writing/lar...

Here is the tutorial with demo repo on how to build a Laravel Cloud breadcrumb navigation in Filament v4 silvanhagen.com/writing/lara...

A few weeks ago, I had my Aaron Francis moment. Someone contacted me to mentor them with a Filament project, all because of my Youtube videos and blog posts. That felt wonderful.

Today marks what would have been my grandfather's 100th birthday. He passed over a decade ago, but I still cherish our conversations. He was a fascinating man, and many buildings he designed still stand in and around Lucerne. I have to visit the city archives someday.

Pest v4 is here — now with browser testing! Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in. Discover Pest v4 — and our new website: pestphp.com?ref=v4

I wonder how complex it would be to build a Filament v4 navigation in the style of Laravel Cloud. Anyone tried this already?

13/21 😅

Filament V4 Tip: Multitenants and Nested Resources When your nested resource model uses a hasOneThrough relationship to your tenant model, you might want to disable the tenancy for the nested resource (of course check that your authorization works).

Now that Laravel Boost is out, I need to rethink my own Claude Code hooks, agents and commands. Combining them in a project worked quite well, but I need to remove some MCPs that do the same as boost.

Is there already a betting platform on who will join Laravel Inc. next? I have a few guesses 😅

🚀 Laravel Boost is here Let me show you how to elevate your AI tools and boost your Laravel development. youtu.be/sUtRcpma8iU PS: Thank you @ashleyhindle.com 👏

Gave Warp with GPT5 a try this morning to compare it to Claude Code, it's not bad but it does overengineer stuff in my experiments, even when told not to do so.

I really wanted to like Apple Reminders and used it for a year as my personal task list. However, the UI on macOS led me back to Things 3. The keyboard shortcuts are fantastic, it integrates well with Apple Shortcuts and finally Siri is good enough to understand my accent 😅

Played around with Google Gemini CLI in a larger Laravel app, but it didn't give me the same quality of results as using Claude Code. What is your experience? Especially interested in Livewire and Filament apps.

Just published some new Livewire projects on Wire in the Wild. In time for Laracon and the next Livewire release. It's great to see Swiss institutions adopting Livewire 😍

It feels odd to take a Friday off to attend a friends wedding. I guess I need a proper vacation 😅

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My Tuesday evening entertainment: Rowing and listening to Mostly Technical.

Cool WordPress trick in GenerateBlocks 2.0 to display the full content of a blog post in a Query Loop block. 1. Add Custom HTML 2. Insert <!-- wp:post-content /--> 3. It renders the post content

When using AI to help with tests in your projects, make sure that you properly mock all API and other HTTP calls. In Laravel, you can use Http::preventStrayRequests(); when using Http.

Working on a multi-step onboarding workflow combining Filament and Livewire. Should the tips and the buttons be in the white panel or outside?

For the first time in two weeks, I truly enjoyed writing code myself, and it's only partially because Claude Code got significantly worse. Had some much fun refactoring components in a large Laravel app.

New kind of spam email unlocked 😅 1. Post on WordPress org support forums 2. Mention Block 3. Get an email where someone is suggesting their services That's a first and I'm not even mad

Claude limits just reset a few minutes ago and it’s overloaded 😅

Two things keep bothering me in PHPStorm on macOS. 1️⃣ The title of one project constantly changes to providers.php and I have no clue why. 2️⃣ No matter what I do, after every restart, the switch between project windows CMD+< is reset Is anyone having weird issues like that?

Getting pretty good results using Claude Code for Laravel development with this setup for Laravel, Livewire and Filament. It's still an experiment, so use with caution: github.com/neverything...

@ianlandsman.com maybe give Claude Code another try. I'm getting much better results now using this setup: github.com/neverything/...

I really, really want to like the Zen browser as a replacement for the abandoned Arc, but the font rendering and the developer tools are driving me crazy.

Just finished the latest @mostlytechnical.com and really enjoyed it. @ianlandsman.com for the scheduling you might want to look into cal.com too.