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Senior Solutions Architect; Laravel, Livewire, Tailwind, Vue, Inertia - Me: https://andrewrminion.com - Work: https://ivisa.com - Location: Twin Cities Metro

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Cursor's Composer 1 model has also been really good...better than many of the other frontier models I've tried

21.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That seems to help prevent the LLM from filling up the context window nearly as much.
Regardless, I've also noticed it does much better at building brand-new features compared to tweaking existing ones.

21.01.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought our app was pretty big, but looks like it’s only 28K LOC. One of the first things we did was ask the LLM to crawl through the codebase and summarize it into MD docs. Then we created cursor rules for specific sections and mentioned the relevant MD docs.

21.01.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry! πŸ’”

09.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Tinkerwell Wrapped: shows "the query goblin: lives in SQL caves, whispering to databases and summoning query results like spells" with a "chaos rate" of 16.9%; started Tinkerwell 126 this year; Tinkerwell journey started 306 days ago; on average 18.3 code runs per session (0.4% above global average); 100% PHP 8.4 usage; a smattering of framework versions all Laravel 12.x.x

Tinkerwell Wrapped: shows "the query goblin: lives in SQL caves, whispering to databases and summoning query results like spells" with a "chaos rate" of 16.9%; started Tinkerwell 126 this year; Tinkerwell journey started 306 days ago; on average 18.3 code runs per session (0.4% above global average); 100% PHP 8.4 usage; a smattering of framework versions all Laravel 12.x.x

Tinkerwell calls me a Query Goblin. I speak fluent Eloquent and my queries have queries. #TinkerwellWrapped

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09.12.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @cmorrell.com I saw a truck the other day with an Interachi sticker on it!

06.12.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

+1 for schema:dump. If you can disable foreign key constraints prior to refreshing and maybe re-enable after, that may help considerably too.

12.11.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Red and green aurora borealis "curtains" directly overhead

Red and green aurora borealis "curtains" directly overhead

Mostly pink/red and a bit of green aurora borealis in the sky with bare tree branches in the foreground

Mostly pink/red and a bit of green aurora borealis in the sky with bare tree branches in the foreground

Vivid pink/red and slight green aurora borealis directly overhead with a few stars in the background and a few bare tree branches in the foreground

Vivid pink/red and slight green aurora borealis directly overhead with a few stars in the background and a few bare tree branches in the foreground

Pink, purple, red, and green aurora borealis in the distance with stars in the background and bare tree branches surrounding the left, right, and lower edges of the photo

Pink, purple, red, and green aurora borealis in the distance with stars in the background and bare tree branches surrounding the left, right, and lower edges of the photo

Got to see some an amazing northern lights in the Twin Cities last night!!!

12.11.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife threatened to steal it, so I had to find another one πŸ˜‚

13.09.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a single-key β€œclicky” fidget keychain on a desk. The keycap is yellow with a white plus symbol, the logo for the Tighten agency

Photo of a single-key β€œclicky” fidget keychain on a desk. The keycap is yellow with a white plus symbol, the logo for the Tighten agency

@mattstauffer.com I don’t know whose idea it was to make these @tighten.com fidget toys for Laracon but it was genius. I have another fidget spinner that I rarely use, but I use this thing multiple times a day, and I don’t even like noisy/clicky keyboards.

13.09.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

In my head, it makes sense to flip the colors of the hit cube plus adjacent cubes. I’m not sure how well that would work in practice though.

10.09.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@tjmiller.bsky.social any plans to add support for the OpenAI conversations API? Specifically, the part where we can pass a conversation ID. platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...

I’m happy to submit a PR for that… Just wondering if you had bigger plans

04.09.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What to do next with Kilopixel? I really like the idea of a slow-motion Battleship game where a ship might be moving as you try to sink it with a slow-moving missile

30.08.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I do recall seeing that somewhere a while ago

12.08.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess that's almost the origin story isn't it...

12.08.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd rather keep my eyes on the road while I'm driving and listening πŸ™ƒ πŸ˜‚

12.08.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What are the chances we could redraw this watch and get the hands to update every 5-10min or so to stay in sync with the actual time? @benholmen.com

12.08.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like Laravel Boost...

12.08.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds about right πŸ˜‚

12.08.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We sent it to our product team too as homework

12.08.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
NILSERIK standing support, black/Vissle dark gray NILSERIK standing support, black/Vissle dark gray NILSERIK standing support helps you find a good and active sitting position. You can adjust the height – and the rubber material of the base protects ...

Fair point πŸ™‚ I use this occasionally but it's not at all ergonomic. www.ikea.com/us/en/p/nils...

05.08.2025 21:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't it?? I made that with fresh mint grown on our back porch πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

I have a batch of Ricky’s Coffee Pretzel Toffee base curing in the fridge right now; can't wait to see how it turns out tomorrow...

05.08.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a standing desk 😈

05.08.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks; will give it a another try. Did you try using the specific Claude agent in Cursor and does that work worse than Claude Code itself?

05.08.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook [Cree, Dana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook

This book has a lot about the science of ice cream and some great recipes: amzn.to/4lbyYSQ

(I cut the glucose by about half and compensate with more sugar so the ice cream isn't nearly as dense and chewy.)

05.08.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! I got a Whynter countertop ice cream maker this spring and it's been a lot of fun experimenting. Enjoy!

05.08.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, Cursor primarily

05.08.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We have a large Laravel backend that's pretty idiosyncratic in places so LLMs tend to struggle more I think than they would in a more typical Laravel project. I'll have to try Context7...that might help a lot. Thanks!

05.08.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

What kinds of tasks are you using it for? I've had really mixed results with backend changes, but it seems to work a lot better for frontend HTML/Tailwind/JS-type stuff

05.08.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I would have used the ->tinker() helper 5 times today already!!

04.08.2025 22:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0