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Alex Standiford retweeted
Hand-coded-only maximalists, explain to me why
"just change that one config line by hand"
is better than asking an agent to
"update the queue size from 3 to 10, and make sure it doesn't cause side-effects or resource contention. keep docs up to date?"
Most of the time, a single file change is probably okay, but why wouldn't I want to have a system to investigate, every single time that change is read:
- how it would impact the system at large and under load,
- where in the documentation that new value needs to be updated,
- what potential race conditions this might cause...
Agents are smart enough to figure all of this out, and they do it in a fraction of the time that we can. Instead of hoping for the best by hand-editing a file, I would very much like to give it to an agent that has full context of the whole codebase and can run every single test we have available.
So often, a small change has had massive cascades that I didn't expect somewhere down the road. This has happened significantly less often with an agentic system that has 100% focus and 100% context every single time it runs.
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Alex Standiford retweeted
look we just wanted to remind the rest of the industry that PHP is still kickin'
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Sol was good a few weeks ago, right? It's so, so slow now. It somehow simultaneously tries too hard and not hard enough. So weird.
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Ugh. @Railway having a major deployment outage 20 minutes before PHP's security release is...not ideal.
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I just told my agent to monitor the site, check for issues, and handle the update at 10:01.
This is serious.
I'm already hovering my finger over the upgrade button to upgrade all Studio instances right away.
Sometimes, I'm really glad we are less impacted because our sites aren't running all the time 😅
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Alex Standiford retweeted
PHP sites behind Cloudflare already have an initial set of WAF rules deployed for the known exploit vectors in these vulnerabilities. The rules are available to all customers, including free.
We are seeing early attacks emerging and are updating mitigations as new vectors show up.
This is a STOPGAP only. Patch as soon as @ThePHPF releases the update at 14:00 UTC today.
The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2.
PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
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Alex Standiford retweeted
Marketing is hard right now. My current hack is GTM partnerships. We all want to win, might as well team up to do so.
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I think stuff like this is what winning affiliates are going to do more and more.
If you can create a great experience that allows people to select the best option for them, and drive them to refer to you for that expertise, you will win as an affiliate. That’s always been true
fellow indie hackers, there's a world outside of selling subscriptions and lifetime deals
just stumbled upon this reddit thread (teddit.net/r/ClaudeAI/commen…) where the dude made $130 in the first month with a neatly designed project
but instead of charging users, he simply collects money via affiliate fees for the recommended mouses
most affiliates still run basic ass looking wordpress sites, so if you come up with something unique like this, it may be much easier for you to make your first online money
plus, you don't have to convince people to pay for a product that's barely fleshed out & can instead rely on the reputation of others - in this case the mouse manufacturers
so, go make some money guys!
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Modern tech companies trying to find developers that can actually multitask:
Interviewer: “Your background shows a clear long standing career in web development, but it doesn’t show your StarCraft APM. What is your APM?”
Interviewed: “My what?”
Interviewer: “Thank you for your time, we will let you know one way or another”
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One of my biggest priorities right now is working on solving this for me and the teams I manage.
We need to re-gain flow state, and reduce context switching without losing the productivity gains. I believe it’s possible, but requires some forethought on how to do it well.
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
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I can't. I just can't. omg
So Diablo 2 VR. Arcane Sanctuary. I was curious what It would be like in VR.
While it's a bit different, like no stars, just blackness. But it gives off this extremely unsettling, sinister and Satanic vibe. Taking a town portal back to Lut Gholein brings this feeling of relief. Because it's actually intense.
Diablo 2 is a masterclass in ambience and you can FEEL it in VR.
The level of immersion is off the charts. You can lose yourself in this game. I'm absolutely floored by how good Diablo 2 translates to VR.
#VR #PCVR #Diablo2 #VirtualReality #SteamFrame #Quest3
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Is anyone using @orca_build? What's your experience compared to using terminal directly?
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