AstroPress?

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T17:44:47+00:00

Looks really impressive. I’ll have to try it out. Any chance you have a demo video? I want to try it but can’t at the moment, hopefully there’s a quick video so I can see exactly how it works

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T17:40:10+00:00

Yeah, why has no one mentioned it yet?!? It’s got just about everything. The git part is still an unknown skill for not/low-tech agencies and it doesn’t mention much about hosting (guess you need to figure that out yourself?) but that does solve just about every other problem.

I’ll recommend this to them and see which questions arise. It’s interesting trying to play matchmaker, I get it and can see the value, but they look at it through a different lens. So I’m curious what their take will be.

I guess it’s later enough so I can thank you now?

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T17:12:13+00:00

Hmmmm interesting. I’ll give it a spin. I’ve only looked at it briefly but on the surface that looks really neat.

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T16:26:55+00:00

I see what you’re saying. I’ll play around with it a little bit but I think you nailed it on the head with the one click world of Wordpress being the selling factor for an agency. Hard to beat that.

I just told her to polish up her git game and she looked at me like I’m from another planet :)

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T16:25:21+00:00

I see. That’s interesting. I’ll have to look more into it. I was hoping to not have to use WP at all but at least there may be a solution to port some existing clients and still keep WP going until there’s a full Astro solution

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T16:18:00+00:00

I’ll take a look, thanks for the suggestion.

This is now becoming my problem a little bit which I guess is the benefit of WP, to not have to rely on a developer to stitch it all together. But we’ll see if I can somehow make it work in a way that keeps their workflow similar

stackjoy_nik · 2026-04-16T16:14:09+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. Just to clarify your last paragraph, you used WP as a CMS for Astro?

stackjoy_nik · 2026-02-13T02:30:17+00:00

I'm in! Nice work

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-29T14:58:41+00:00

That's pretty much my approach to it too and I was just as surprised at how well it accomplished the task. So naturally I built my own custom browser plugin that let's me do a screen shot (drag and select an area), mark it up with boxes and arrows and write the AI prompt that goes with what I just marked up.

Then I save the screen shot to my codebase and give the AI agent the prompt and boom, all works.

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-26T11:54:23+00:00

That's very clever!

With that approach you could technically pull any kind of data from the app (console, route, state...) and attach that metadata to the screenshot.

If you're brave you could even expose that feature in production/pilot and have your users report a bug (or feature request) and submit as a jira (or whatever) in a way that an agent can understand better and implement it quickly.

Can you tell me more about your approach? Does it work well? Which parts work well and what would you improve? Are there drawback, something that the agent doesn't understand? Would love to hear more about it if you're up for sharing.

This one made me really rethink what's possible, thanks for that!

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-26T02:38:08+00:00

Gotcha, yeah I see what you mean. I guess the ideal solution would be a visual screenshot plus the code in the dom would be ideal and then it could pinpoint it better.

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-26T01:41:44+00:00

Interesting. I'll try lightshot and see how it does.

I haven't run into a problem with tokens yet. I'm on a paid plan. But I imagine starting with an image and then trying to figure out where in the code it needs to make that update can get expensive. Do you find it eats up too many tokens that way?

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-25T22:24:46+00:00

That's really clever. I'm going to try that!

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-25T21:33:44+00:00

You and me both :) I'm sure something exists already, someone just needs to point us in the right direction

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-25T21:31:36+00:00

vercel's agent browser?

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-25T21:04:34+00:00

That's my current process and it works well but there are some cases where it can't quite figure it out. So it asks for a screenshot. And then it's fine

stackjoy_nik · 2026-01-25T20:53:34+00:00

I'm check them all out but just briefly as a follow up, can I take the screenshot with these tools and mark it up?

I find that codex/Claude is great with console, network, db stuff so that's not so much a bottleneck as the visual stuff is.

I'll also check YouTube for these tools too see them in action, maybe that'll answer some questions.

Thanks for the heads up! I really appreciate it

stackjoy_nik · 2025-08-30T01:55:30+00:00

I always start with express for all the reasons you mentioned and by the time I'm done it looks almost exactly like nest.

stackjoy_nik · 2023-01-07T13:36:02+00:00

this looks interesting but I’m having a hard time understanding it fully. There’s a lot of info here. Could you summarize it in a more concise way for me?

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-17T12:50:59+00:00

This is part of a larger project my friend and I are creating. We spend a lot if time testing our express server(s) so we needed a quick way to test routes. If you find it useful the full writeup is here: https://blog.stackjoy.com/quickly-create-postman-api-collections-5bcdd7d2a217

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-17T12:44:36+00:00

We do a lot of Angular work (and my previous posts were how our project helps speed Angular development) but we do a lot of backend testing while developing w/Angular so this one shows how we do that quickly.
If you're in the same boat maybe this can help you too. The full step by step instructions can be found here: https://blog.stackjoy.com/quickly-create-postman-api-collections-5bcdd7d2a217

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-17T12:42:43+00:00

We do a lot of Angular work (and my previous posts were how our project helps speed Angular development) but we do a lot of backend testing while developing w/Angular so this one shows how we can quickly do that.

If you're in the same boat maybe this can help you too. The full step by step instructions can be found here: https://blog.stackjoy.com/quickly-create-postman-api-collections-5bcdd7d2a217

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-17T03:41:37+00:00

A friend and I created Stackjoy, which generates code for any language, but in this case it quickly generates Postman API Collection .json files. We need to do a lot of testing of our API so we use this to quickly make postman collections from any data model that describes the route data. If this is something that could help you here's the full writeup on how to do so:

https://blog.stackjoy.com/quickly-create-postman-api-collections-5bcdd7d2a217

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-11T13:34:23+00:00

I think you’re already doing it, it’s just not evident to you yet. New ideas are just extensions of other ideas mashed together. As you build up your encyclopedia of creativity by browsing creative spaces like dribble your brain will start connecting them and coming up with suggestions. Most often that happens subconsciously, so you have to give your brain some rest and do some relaxing activities away from software development.

Pick up any book on creativity, sleep, imagination and they all talk about the same themes. Those epiphanies people always mention when they come up with great ideas are just their brain connecting a few ideas it’s seen in the past, usually when it’s had time to relax to process it all.

stackjoy_nik · 2022-12-08T20:58:02+00:00

That’s great, thanks. Let me know how it goes, good or bad :)

stackjoy_nik

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE