danmatthews.me
Laravel developer. Building charity software over at @socialsync.io.
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Infrared thermometer gun, super useful.
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Bowt damn time.
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Codex? I noticed this as well.
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Honestly forgot that even existed...
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Or rather, "convert all 30 files in this folder from SCSS to CSS", and the agentic part is useful because i can tack on "run the tailwind compiler and check it compiles okay. Rather than working through each mistake it's made myself.
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Maybe what i _want_ is not something to code along with, that keeps pace, not something that will do the entire thing for me, and turn it into a code review exercise.
I _do_ however love using Claude/ChatGPT for menial tasks - "write me a script that will convert this SCSS file to CSS" etc.
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I tried Claude code yesterday and the day before, it's seriously impressive, but it's ... boring, sitting waiting for an agent to do a task hits me right in the flow state, even if it's a relatively short time.
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Don't know about you Chris, but sometimes I feel like I struggle with the AI hype because I don't get the time to dive headfirst and full-time into it like a lot of other people do - it's tough when you have 5 meetings a day and still have to produce code in general.
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Ha, that's true, mine does it to me all the time, it's just revenge!
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They're both percolating with me as we speak. I haven't used agentic/MCP stuff enough yet to speak on my long term opinions on it yet.
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It's so strange how this juxtaposes with robbowen.digital/wrote-about/... from yesterday.
Not a big fan of the tone of the Fly one tbh, it's dismissive of the craft of development, which is a shame.
I'm actually firing up Claude code today to give it a whirl, i've heard good things.
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Ah thank you sir.
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I've been working on things that involve recursion all week and holy cow my brain is just melted at this point
I keep finding myself just staring into space, I feel like I've been working on things that involve recursion all week and
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Definitely.
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Ian Seaman is very just a very unfortunate thing to have to read.
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...Much of it is tied to the fact we're in the Laravel Ecosystem, rather than the wider JS ecosystem.
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- Laravel first-party packages provide Vue integrations already.
- Hiring for Laravel/Vue devs is much easier/more attractive from a job post perspective.
- Vue's UI library ecosystem seems more diverse & mature.
- 3rd party libraries for utilities seem more common, mature + maintained.
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Yep, and we've had three devs, including 3/4 contractors onboard and get on just fine - all the frameworks are pretty similar these days.
A few things we're taking into consideration...
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No worries! I still love Svelte and will continue to use it in personal projects - especially since 5 is FIRE.
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Was this from me? Sorry if it was!
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...Mainly developer preference, ecosystem size, and compatibility/availability of things that tie directly into the Laravel ecosystem.
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A few things, Svelte was my personal choice when I started the project alone. It's great, and I love it, but we've got to make a choice right now to either migrate to Svelte 5, or to move to Vue, and vue is winning for a few reasons...