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Pieter van der Westhuizen πŸ’™

@mythicalmanmoth.com

Freelance Web & mobile developer. Building products with Flutter, Nuxt/Vue and Supabase. #flutter #vuejs #nuxt #dotnet #csharp

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Nuxt Modules Worth Checking Out in 2026 Discover the top Nuxt modules worth checking out in 2026 to boost performance, improve DX, and streamline your Vue and Nuxt projects.

masteringnuxt.com/blog/nuxt-mo...

14.02.2026 07:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

Great piece. Agree wholeheartedly

www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th...
"The wonder is harder to access. The sense of discovery, of figuring something out through sheer persistence and ingenuity β€” that’s been compressed. Not eliminated, but compressed. And something is lost in the compression"

11.02.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was waiting for him to say the driver just screamed "Pop quiz, hotshot. This bus can't go under 50 mile per hour!"

20.01.2026 06:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, please! Very nice. New product idea?

20.12.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mastering CustomPainter in Flutter: From SVGs to Racetracks Explore how CustomPainter unlocks advanced Flutter UI designβ€”from SVG path translation to racetrack animations and real-time rendering.

In our new blog, SofΓ­a Rey walks through mastering CustomPainter, from translating SVG paths to building real-time race track animations for a NASCAR team.

Read it here: hubs.ly/Q03YcK6B0

#Flutter #CustomPainter #MobileDev #UIEngineering

15.12.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
SQL to REST API Translator | Supabase Docs Translate SQL queries to HTTP requests and Supabase client code

Nice! Very useful

supabase.com/docs/guides/...

08.12.2025 05:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Cory Doctorow

A great article by @doctorow on how to use AI vs being used by AI (companies).

pluralistic.net/2025...

05.12.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm convinced that the App Store review team just randomly assigns reasons for rejections.

01.11.2025 05:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is the game"

Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISo...

04.10.2025 10:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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30.08.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production...

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28.07.2025 04:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit is standing in a hallway with #schitts creek written on the bottom ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a hallway with #schitts creek written on the bottom

Hey @dennisadriaans.bsky.social Loving Nuxt Charts! Thank you for your effort. Looking forward to see what you come up with in future!

30.06.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you need 3rd party software for this? What do you use?

27.06.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would you mind sharing the source for this please? I want to keep it my back pocket for the next "Flutter is dead" argument

17.06.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - ripienaar/free-for-dev: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev - ripienaar/free-for-dev

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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

31.05.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@kiwicopple.bsky.social would it be possible to add an AWS Cape Town region for Supabase, please? Some clients insist their data stay in-country. Rest of Africa could also benefit with a Supabase data location on the continent.

01.06.2025 05:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh and a Flutter version please. I'd be on that like white on rice

31.03.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is great! Any plans for a Vue version?

31.03.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree. It's a fine choice for a local/on device DB, not for the backend. That is what Postgres is for.

26.03.2025 04:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. Loathe must've been a bit strong of a word. It's all right for specific use cases. It just frustrates the hell out of me when you change something small and out of the blue hot reload is borked.

25.03.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hot reload is a mess. If you're used to using Vue and Flutter, this is not how hot reload is supposed to work.

25.03.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone in the habit or speaking the truth should avoid the USA.

24.03.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh Blazor. How I loathe you...

24.03.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The frightening thing is, this type of person is usually very charismatic, so they have the ability to convince others to give them money and keep giving them money. Upside down world.

13.03.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Either your idea is worth nothing or you're just shite.

13.03.2025 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How can I take a "Founder" serious, if they've not produced ANY customers (free or paid) in the last 17 months? 5 years since inception of their company - they still have 0 clients. Now they want to throw out everything and start over, with other people's money...
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13.03.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Still do not understand how people can think just an idea is worth a majority share. And they want to put "Founder" underneath their name.
So in their minds the labor that goes into creating something out of nothing is not worth much.

13.03.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Struggled the whole morning with a bug that was incredibly hard to track down. Asked Anthropic's Claude to help me debug, and after some to and fro, I came upon the issue.

In this instance, AI had some enormous developer benefit. Wow. I need a coffee.

13.03.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nuxt UI v3 Β· Nuxt Blog Nuxt UI v3 is out! After 1500+ commits, this major redesign brings improved accessibility, Tailwind CSS v4 support, and full Vue compatibility

Nuxt UI v3 is out ✨

πŸš€ Designed with Tailwind CSS v4
πŸ’« Built on top of Reka UI
πŸ“¦ 50+ components for every need
🎨 A brand new design system
πŸ’š Works on both Nuxt or Vue projects

nuxt.com/blog/nuxt-u...

12.03.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited for this. Looking forward to seeing the new templates. The existing ones are an enormous productivity boost. Thanks for all your hard work!

07.03.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0