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Excited to be back at QUT Gardens Theatre in two days for #LaraconAU Who’s joining us for the #devolution?

Heading to Brisbane for @LaraconAU 🦘 Can’t wait to meet Laravel friends there!

Electron is great software and it is the best option for many interactive desktop applications

See you soon @LaraconAU

It's remarkable how the UK went from being seen as the embodiment of good manners and aristocratic refinement to an emblem of the decline of Western civilization

In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours. the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…

What I dislike more than AI Slop is what I call "AI Foam". It's when generally smart, insightful people send you something that is clearly AI generated and lacks their usual sharp insight or point of view. AI slop is easy to ignore because it's often just random people posting random stuff online -- often as content or comments. AI foam is more insidious because these are people you *know* and respect and you know they're capable of critical thinking and clear communication. I call it AI Foam because it lacks shape and substance.

I think not enough people are talking about how completely overwhelmed pretty much everyone is all of the time these days. It's not so much tiredness or fatigue, or anxiety, it's just an overwhelming sense of being overwhelmed. It spans from the richest to the poorest. It's not something people talk about, even in industries where we're supposed to, like in insights.

53 hours, 11 states, and thousands of miles of American landscapes later, we reached the end of the tracks in Chicago. Trainposting concludes for now, essays coming soon 🚂

Do you guys know how hard it is to add every feature people want without making your shit feel bloated and overwhelming?

When I was a kid my parents went out for drinks once a week and we had fast food once a week. My dad was a social worker for the state and my mother was a part time retail worker. I can't imagine being able to justify that sort of spending now as a senior software developer.

"we don't need to understand the codebase, AI will" the codebase:

wrote up notes on how @ImprintPayments is adopting a self-reinforcing loop to improve correctness, anchoring on the verification pattern that @poteto has popularized. Curious what other folks are doing / what folks have found next step to be! lethain.com/adopting-verific…

I truly believe that the biggest limiter on many people’s careers and success is that they fundamentally don’t understand how incredibly destructive it is to not be responsive.

Composer 2.11 adds the long-awaited cooldown period option, designed to give malware scanners and researchers more time to identify and block malicious versions before they arrive in your dependency updates. securinglaravel.com/security… #Laravel

Day 2 trainposting: waking up to sunrise across Utah, then following the winding Colorado river

I would strongly consider uninstalling any third party js right now if I were you. Especially if it comes from a startup. Analytics, monitoring, etc are all massive site takeover risks. If you use a tracking script from a third party SaaS, then if they get hacked the hackers have total control over your site too. This is what took down Polymarket today. They used a tiny script from a SaaS that tracks page load speed. That company got hacked, and the hackers subsequently stole millions from Polymarket users. If you want to use analytics safely, I would use a product that lets you pin the tracking script and control when it changes. Most of the mature products support this, e.g. Sentry, Amplitude, PostHog, Mixpanel, Heap. If not, you need to trust the company behind it a lot... Railway got hacked last week. Railway! That's a very competent team, with particularly strong infra chops. The agent swarms are on another level. A typical analytics company is nowhere near as sophisticated. You should ask yourself: do I trust this company's security more than Railway? I was an analytics CTO in a past life, and I will be the first to admit: we had some great people but we were not on this level. We (Detail) just uninstalled our session replay, which was a product I loved but is not worth the risk right now. I hate to write this because I spent a good chunk of my 20s benefitting from product teams taking a chance on a nothing startup and installing our js on their site. But in the past two weeks this risk vector has exploded. It's better for the ecosystem if we move away from third party js as fast as we can.

Currently on a train with a group of writers and thinking about how this all started as a random 'what if…' tweet 3 months ago This is my favourite part about Twitter. There was plenty of work involved, but also a sense of natural unfolding. You riff with reality, and sometimes reality riffs back

cannot be emphasized enough how many stories I’m hearing around agent orchestration psychosis more than ever it is necessary to be disciplined with offline reset time; you will go crazy if your brain believes that you have to constantly be kicking off agents to survive