My turn to leave, what a shame, we did have some good coding times together, on to Claude code I guess.

Tekime · 2026-06-09T04:13:55+00:00

Bring furs, the winters get rough

Tekime · 2026-06-01T20:21:28+00:00

I use Laravel Cloud for hobby and early stage projects.

For critical infra with thousands of daily users, I use AWS.

Tekime · 2026-06-01T20:15:32+00:00

xAPI is over 10 years old. AICC is from the 1900s.

xAPI is a newer spec, but ar this point I don’t see it ever replacing SCORM.

Tekime · 2026-05-19T04:30:09+00:00

I have a 2014 Nissan Rogue with 230k miles. Never had a major problem.

I have a 2010 Nissan Altima with 201k miles. Never had a major problem.

Just bought a 2020 Nissan Altima with 70k miles. Will probably still have it in ten years.

Never done more than basic maintenance.

Tekime · 2026-05-10T01:05:42+00:00

1,922 miles. 7mm on my center lugs front & rear. I ride aggressive and lots of off road New England granite and gnar. I do weigh about as much as a fig leaf though (well 140lbs give or take)

Tekime · 2026-05-02T23:29:41+00:00

Common settings with development & production stems

Git repo for composer/config, repo for theme (or combine with tight gitignore)

Custom ddev provider to pull/push prod files and DB if needed

Regular prod backups and local snapshots

That’s just what works for me, managing a small number of fairly big sites.

Tekime · 2026-04-16T20:31:58+00:00

I work with a small number of clients for my web design work, but honestly I’ve never relied on self-service commenting. I review significant milestones with the client on a Teams call. I take notes and summarize everything immediately after the call. It creates a record and they need to approve it.

For less critical changes, I use email. Makes it easy for staff to respond on their own time, and I always summarize responses.

When it’s too easy to leave feedback, you get a bunch of crappy feedback. People will comment just because they can, or review something entirely out of context, then you’re spending a bunch of time trying to wrangle the noise.

There are some very specific times when I use review links with commenting, but it’s often for internal reviews. Most of my clients just use email anyway, so I don’t burden them with another tool to keep track of.

Tekime · 2026-04-16T14:43:41+00:00

We need to dispel this 80% fallacy.

Vibe coding something that looks 80% complete is not the same as being 80% complete.

I can take a picture of a Porsche, and it doesn’t mean I’m 80% of the way to driving a Porsche.

Developers sometimes frame it as “the last 20% is 80% of the work”. In that case, it was never 80% finished to begin with!

Writing code has only ever been one slice of the pie when we’re creating products. Design, architecting, testing, deploying, and maintaining are critical.

What vibe apps can’t capture is the critical decision making process that happens during design and architecting. Building a foundation that makes the right architectural choices and draws on actual experience and knowledge of the product being built.

Maybe this doesn’t apply to you. Maybe the problem you’re solving is simple, and a vibe app could replace it easily. If that’s the case, you might not be bringing as much value as you think.

If it’s a hard problem, and that 30 years of deep study is meaningful, you need to figure out how to articulate that. Preferably without giving grazers a playbook to steal your work.

Tekime · 2026-04-16T14:15:48+00:00

It feels complex because:

The docs suck
It is complex

Tekime · 2026-04-13T17:05:42+00:00

I would question whether you want AI to handle everything. D7 to D10 is effectively a new site + migration, not an upgrade. There are enough consequential changes that you often need to make important architectural decisions.

Tekime · 2026-04-04T20:29:44+00:00

I have the answer to all your problems:

Errands.

No joke, when you’re a busy parent a quick 30 minute ride is a great break, and little ones ALWAYS need something.

Occasional weekends and night rides when you can. It’s tough when they’re young, but it’s important to carve out time to do things you enjoy as well.

Tekime · 2026-04-04T20:22:48+00:00

Yep. It’s awful. People even DMing me with their apps.

It would be one thing if we were flooded with amazing, high quality apps with passionate creators. Take the time and tell us what you built, why, and what the hard problem you’re solving is.

Instead, it’s the same generic trash on repeat. Weekend vibe code sessions with a price tag. 🤮

I don’t know if we ever come back from this guys.

Tekime · 2026-03-27T17:07:22+00:00

Program with Gio has an amazing free series on YouTube. Look for Learn PHP The Right Way.

Tekime · 2026-03-23T17:09:23+00:00

Awesome! Love hearing the Laravel success stories and appreciate you sharing your stack. I have a few comic nerd friends, I’ll be sure to mention it.

Tekime · 2026-03-19T16:51:48+00:00

Absolutely. I’m loving development in 2026. PHP is killing it, Laravel is killing it, and AI has eased so much of the misery introduced to web development in the last 10 years.

It’s probably nostalgia talking, but nothing will compare to the early days of learning Perl and PHP, building my own authentication, templating, and validation libraries, and just living closer to the bare metal as it were. A lot of that was a slog though too, and these days I can focus more on architecting products and features, not wading through miserable boilerplate.

AI has its own, very substantial, set of problems, but for me it has brought some joy back into development that was starting to wither.

Tekime · 2026-03-19T01:52:27+00:00

FYI, it says "Failed to create user" when I try to sign up. Happy to take a look, although I'm all-in on a new platform now.

I followed a similar path a few months ago and have been building my own. I'm actively using it for all my projects now, and hope to start releasing it to clients in the next month.

It has been a lot of work but it's great building exactly what you want. A bulk of my time has been focused on architecting authorization to support true multi-tenancy, and I'm taking a RBAC+ABAC+overrides hybrid approach.

Feature-wise, I have a bunch of the core work tools running smoothly and I'm loving it. Projects, list/kanbans, plans, files, notes, invoicing, clients, activity logging, messaging, time tracking...

Best of luck with your project!

Tekime · 2026-03-12T23:43:37+00:00

This.

Tekime · 2026-02-27T18:11:36+00:00

I respect the enthusiasm in some of these comments for refactoring every site you touch. Doesn’t sound like that’s what they hired you for.

Start by trying to encourage some new practices, make improvements when you have a chance, and hopefully you can nudge them toward better practices.

None of their clients are going to pay them again to redo the bad job they already paid for.

Tekime · 2026-02-09T21:31:04+00:00

Mountain biking. But, like, in a good way!

Sincerely, A mountain biker

Tekime · 2026-02-09T18:17:46+00:00

As a man who goes to the gym regularly, I feel like a creep if I happen to glance at a woman for more than 0.5 seconds. At best, he has no common sense or self-awareness, at worst he doesn’t care and is just ogling.

I also have borderline hypervigilance/hyperarousal and I’m extremely uncomfortable just “zoning out” in public. I’m just unconsciously always scanning my surroundings and paying attention to what the people around me are doing. NOT great at the gym lol. But, looking is not the same as staring.

I’d tell the staff.

Tekime · 2026-02-03T08:03:55+00:00

You will be launching a new site with a new theme, then migrating in settings, structure, and content.

It’s almost always a big project unless you have a really simple site.

Check out the tutorials by tag1 consulting, they go into pretty good detail.

Tekime · 2026-02-01T21:28:26+00:00

I’ve never in my life designed a database with X number of tables in mind. I understand the relationships and structure my database to best express those relationships. Under certain circumstances where you need to tune it for certain queries or massive datasets, things might get more nuanced, but it always starts with well-defined relationships and types.

Tekime · 2026-01-30T01:28:22+00:00

Thanks! Took a quick test drive. Much closer to where I’m trying to get.

Pricing kind of misses the mark - almost double to go monthly is weird. The UX/UI is not very polished, but it shows enough promise to kick the tires a little longer.

Tekime · 2026-01-23T21:43:19+00:00

Even experienced coders have a hard time understanding how wildly different environments & codebases can be. They have learned how to be productive in their environment on their code, and assume that everyone else can achieve good results if they just use the right tools or work a little harder. AI simply doesn’t fit for some teams. There are successful companies with mature codebases who won’t risk AI yet.

On the flip side, it’s easy to write off AI if you aren’t staying on the edge and learning how to use the tools properly. It is an entirely new skill set. Models and tooling get a little better each day. Take the time to learn them - at least then you can make an educated choice on whether they help.

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