Vivian Guillen

Had my monthly financial meeting with my biz partner & she asked why I buy so many different AI API credits 😂 I said that every 3-4 months, there's a new coding model that's miles ahead of everything else and a game changer for some tasks. What a time to be alive ✌️

I have been testing the new OpenAI v4.1 model on Cursor, and it's very impressive 🤯 . Right now, it's free on Cursor while they test it out, so it would be a good time to try a trial!

Whenever I need motivation to work more on my side projects I like to browse the timeline on wip.co. Very inspiring to see so many people consistently working on their thing!

This happened yesterday in my city and it's been a terrible 36 hours to say the least. The dead count increases by the hour. Please hug your loved ones tonight and pray for the families in this tragedy. May the Lord have mercy on them. www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/...

Tailwind Tip 🔥 Working with the default Tailwind CSS colors is great, but for some projects, you may have your own color palette. If you only want to see your own colors in the autocomplete, then just add this to your `@theme` config: `--color-*: initial;`

I had to translate a massive style guide into code today, and the new Gemini model did it on the first try! I just pasted a Figma screenshot in cursor and gave format examples for the utility classes. A 2h+ task turned into 30m 😄

Tailwind Tip 🔥 Use `size-4` (or a higher number) for perfectly square SVG icons, including heroicons! And always set the `viewBox` attribute for best results. Perfect for when you want to align multiple icons vertically.

After surgery and 10 days of recovery, I'm finally back! Nothing life-threatening, thankfully, but stuff that needed to be done. Now I'm back to work on @tailwindweekly.bsky.social, @codelier.bsky.social, and a cool project I secretly launched on the last issue of @tailwindweekly.bsky.social 😄

I discovered this desktop app that lets you play Steam games on your Mac over the weekend, and I love it! Paired with my Apple Studio Display and M3 Max processor, the games look so freaking good 😍 . www.codeweavers.com/crossover

I got a cool product announcement for tomorrow's @tailwindweekly.bsky.social. Sign up so you don't miss it! tailwindweekly.com

Added 4 more books to @codelier.bsky.social 🔥 - "The Imposter's Handbook" by Rob Conery - "The Art of PostgreSQL" by Dimitri Fontaine - "Functional Programming, Simplified" by Alvin Alexander - "Database Performance at Scale" by the ScyllaDB team

I'm diving deeper into PHP and wanted to memorize the most popular functions so I added an Anki deck (PHP - Top 100 functions) to my favorite flashcards app: mochi.cards. Mochi is a dream for developers: supports spaced repetition, AI, markdown, keyboard shortcuts & more!

Starting a new Laravel project with my friend Matt. After defining the db schema, I had to create models, migrations, controllers, etc. This VSCode plugin REALLY sped up the process and worked perfectly in Cursor. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemN...

I bought into the hype and bought one of those CO2 monitors. It arrived today, and shockingly, my office was in the danger zone 😨. I opened the windows and turned on my fan, and after a few minutes it went into the safe zone. Can't believe I was breathing poison for so long!

I manage 3 Google calendars: work, my company & personal. I used to manually copy over events to avoid double bookings until I found dontdoublebookme.com. It's a simple little microsaas that, for just $20/year, syncs all my calendars automatically. So incredibly useful!

Laravel Cloud is here, so I'm migrating everything I can to it. The @statamic.bsky.social team already shared their recommendations, and the TL;DR is to either use a DB or disable the control panel in production. I'll go the DB route 👌 statamic.dev/deploying/l...

Since using Cursor, I've automated a lot of small things in my life. The latest is a little API that connects my Oura ring to Beeminder, and if I don't get to sleep before midnight, then I have to pay 🤣 . Last week, I averaged an 11:30 pm bedtime; silly but effective!

Tip of the day 💡 While testing the eloquent driver for @statamic so I could deploy it to Laravel Cloud, I found an issue. Since Laravel Cloud only supports Postgres right now, using UUID for entry IDs instead of Bigint saves you a lot of headaches & errors with the migration.

Fail of the week 😅: I forgot to enable email notifications on my @codelier.bsky.social submission form and completely missed 2 excellent resources! I just added them today. Thanks, John Koster and Per Borgen, for your submissions!

No @tailwindweekly.bsky.social tomorrow folks, dealing with some health issues 😔. Hope to be back next week!

While looking forward to the Laravel Cloud launch, I asked on the Statamic Discord chat if one could host Statamic on Laravel Cloud. It turns out there's a way! You need to switch to the eloquent driver, so all your content will live in the DB instead. statamic.dev/tips/storin...

I'm incredibly impressed by Taylor Ortwell's Laravel EU keynote about Laravel Cloud. The last feature I needed to switch was Object Storage, and it seems it'll be ready by launch on the 24th. Here's the timestamp if you want to watch the full keynote www.youtube.com/live/Gk8pX7...

I just had my first-ever podcast interview on the Republica Web Spanish podcast; we chatted about @tailwindcss.com, the @tailwindweekly.bsky.social newsletter, and tech in general. I'll post the link as soon as it's live. Muchas gracias Javier por invitarme!

I gave a tech talk today at my main job about Tailwind v4, and everybody loved the "everything is a CSS variable" feature. We still need to use the tailwind config for some internal tooling stuff, but with v4, we plan to finally move away from SCSS. Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

The CLI on Tailwind CSS v4 is incredibly fast 😯 I'm adding a new page to a legacy project with no budget for a full upgrade so I installed the CLI, directed it to a .css file and the experience is as smooth as with PostCSS or Vite. Proof the team thought of everything ✌️

Already migrated a few sites to Tailwind CSS v4 and started using it on a client project. It's so fast! I thought I would hate not having a config file but I'm actually loving it all being just CSS.

Redid @codelier.bsky.social filters to accommodate price filters

I added a couple more resources to @codelier.bsky.social. It's exciting to see people responding to my marketing, and now they're even giving me recommendations for resources to add. Keep them coming, please!

Almost 500 visitors since launch—surreal! @codelier.bsky.social Since then, I added: • Technology pages • Search • 404 and privacy policy pages • A price range indicator • A blog, complete with my first post • UTM parameters so authors know when I'm sending them traffic

I'm on a promotion spree for codelier.bsky.social, spreading the word everywhere possible. This includes social media, Discord servers, Slack chats, WhatsApp groups, Hacker News, subreddits, directories, etc.; I'm throwing everything at it, all with permission, of course.

2 days after launch, I finally dared to look at the traffic data for @codelier.bsky.social 145 people checked out the site 🎉 I'm incredibly happy about this. I have no audience, so this was just people seeing the tweet/message and finding it interesting enough to check 😄

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Purchasing Laravel Herd Pro last year has been a fantastic investment. It completely replaced Ray(), mailpit, and DBngin for me. Plus, it's compatible with WordPress, making it well worth the price, in my opinion. The Table Plus button on the DB service is also a nice touch.

Happy new year folks 🥳

Finally figured out how to backup PocketBase to Cloudflare R2, will definitely write a blog post about this

I'm helping a friend from church create a directory of local churches here in the DR and the @astro.build + keystatic combination is amazing. Keystatic has become my favorite CMS for simple stuff like this. For bigger projects @statamic.bsky.social can't be beaten.

Finally back home and getting up to speed with my side projects.

Still recovering from surgery and have been catching up on old programming courses. I have been enjoying one about Github Actions. I know more or less how to use them but I wanted to dig a little deeper. Definitely worth it!

It started as a toothache last week and its now a wisdom teeth extraction surgery scheduled for this Friday... Take care of your teeth folks 🤒

I'm exploring AI automation these days, and I recently found @_RyanHutchinson. He takes automation to a whole new level 🤯 In this video, he breaks down his whole business and which parts he automates (~90% lol). I know it's long, but it's soo worth it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xov...

The year is ending, and I'm trying to use my time wisely for my side projects, so I got into the habit of using Focusmate again. My goal: two 50m sessions per day. Did 1 this early morning and made good progress on my next project. Ref link: focusmate.comfocusmate.com...

I'm on holiday for the next 2 days, and since we don't do Thanksgiving in the DR, I basically got 2 days off for free. I'm planning my free time for tomorrow and Friday to make some progress on my side projects. Is anybody else on the same boat? If so, what are you working on?

Now that Tailwind CSS v4 is in beta I watched the live stream by Adam & Sam and at around 48:30, there's a 🤯 moment. Now, you can animate the block property without JS: just a checkbox and some special classes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhcntygYBsI&t=2910s