Nick Latcham

Well shit…thought I had it for ya

My brother in terminal based tooling, lazygit is the answer. Create a user command to launch it in a floating terminal

AI is cognitive suburbanization, and no one seems to give a shit.

This is deeply concerning to me.

Welp, got axed in a group of layoffs. If anyone is looking for an SWE in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, let me know! I can start asap 😎

Neural Amp Modeler/tone3000 is such a game changer.

Like I can just go to my computer and be like “hmm, I think I’ll run a Klon into a Marshall JCM800 2203 into a 4x12 of Celestion green backs today”.

There’s never been a better time to play guitar!

🤝

I’ve officially joined the offset and Schecter gangs, new Ultra gets here next week 😎

Officially have been slinging Laravel for over a month now at the new job. I think I’m in love. I also think it will be really hard to go back to something like Spring. PHP is so damn good these days

Alright fellow guitar nerds, I’m looking at grabbing a Jazzmaster to add to the collection. J Mascis JM, Player II, or Classic Vibe? Not particular to Fender or Squire. Can be any brand.

Fender released a free DAW and it even had an official flatpak!

NGL NativePHP kind of looks like a quick cash grab. I’d be willing to bet money the project is abandoned within 1-2 years

Hot take: I’d rather read through a 40 line procedural function with a couple comments than have to jump to 8 separate functions just to figure out what that function is doing. Clean code can make your code base very messy, very fast

I have the ide helper and run it after migrations and such, and laravel.nvim is awesome. But still no luck on the lsp front. Might just have to give in and go with phpstorm as it’s been working fine with that stuff. But it’s painfully slow

Do any of my Neovim peeps have a config that gets phpactor to play nice with Laravel? I don’t really wanna pay $25 for intelephense just so I can have code actions…

Why is PHP not used more as a teaching language?

Well, after being laid off for entirely too long, I’ve accepted an offer for a Laravel/PHP position! Lambo is in the mail

After writing nothing but PHP and Laravel over the last few weeks, I can officially say Laravel has unmatched developer experience. Like nothing even comes close. And PHP is a whole new beast these days.

The comebacks that PHP and Java are having is pretty awesome to see. Old languages can become new and relevant again!

Not to mention you’re creating a distributed system you have almost no real control over and putting your product at odds with SLA’s you’ve most likely never read

I love the posts that are like “Heres my stack for 2025:
*some react meta framework*
*some BaaS*
*some Auth Saas*
*some fully managed PaaS*
*some AI api*
*10 other SaaS products*”

Like bruh, you aren’t building, you’re assembling lol also, have fun when the network gets spotty 🙃

The craziest part? This language is as easy as python and can keep up with C++ in terms of speed. If they fix a few memory bugs here and there, it’s memory safety will be even better than it is now.

Also with the new compiler rewrite in full swing, it will get incremental compilation and type checked generics. This means no more duck typing for generics (finally) and better dev tooling (i.e. LSP) from the IC.

I can’t help but feel like Nim is in a great place to eventually become popular C or C++ alternative. ARC GC, easy to turn off the GC. Effortless C/C++ interop, etc.

Finding out that Neovim 0.11 changes how it caches Lua modules, and old bytecode from 0.10 can cause some minor conflicts that need to be cleaned up.

For the love of all things holy and in the name of our lord and savior, Java; STOP MAKING AN INTERFACE FOR EVERY CLASS

LETS GOOOOOOO

Hey all!

Just a friendly reminder that I’m open to work!

Looking for any software engineering position in either the Minneapolis area or remote.

Experience is primarily in Java/Spring services, but am able to pivot in any direction needed.

Doing some front end work this morning and it made me think of a Casey Muratori quote that was something like “CSS is infinitely harder than assembly”. How right he was 😂

It’s on arch Linux. I’m thinking it’s something to do with clangd

TIL the x86 Intel docs has more pages than a 6502 had transistors