Clay Smith

6pm Azores time for me! Usually smack in the middle of a 3-preschooler Friday dinner. Great with Saturday morning coffee though!

Not one bit of good news 'above the fold'.

Motorola E1 Rokr

I briefly had the Apple Motorola phone...

Makes me want to wire up my doorbell to play...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MO-...

This is the `dev-master` of administrations. It'd be the `dev-main` but that's too woke for them.

49 years and I'm still trying to pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time.

I tried Gemini (within drive.google.com) and it was really disappointing... it was telling me to copy and paste suggestions into documents!

What is the best MySql GUI for Mac? I want to see table data and structure and run queries. I want it simple.

I'll block and report you if you say DBeaver.

I couldn't find any combination of Claude web/desktop/code, etc. that would really do that.

I have a Google Docs directory and I want to use Claude to manage Docs and Sheets (not .docx and .xlsx). I couldn't find a real solution.

I'd like to use (specific files in) Google Drive and a couple of Github Repos as context for a Claude Project and be able to write back to Docs/Sheets and Git...

I just cussed at Claude.

So what's next for Jasmine Crockett? We need that kind of energy in the Democratic party.

Sometimes Claude is like...

"The Cold-war doctrine of 'Mutually Assured Destruction' provides a deterrent to nuclear war in that neither side will start a war where they are guaranteed to be destroyed.

Do you want me to fix this for you?"

And you just have to sit there and guess what it means.

After the success of "Ralph Wiggum" loops, I'm working on an agentic pattern called the "Leroy Jenkins". Stay tuned...

Are you Laracon EU?

Do you identify as a woman or non-binary?

Then come to the Larabelles happy hour tonight! 🫶

Ditto

Plus it's a great way to filter out 25-30% of bigots before you accidentally amplify their voice.

The time has come to steal one of Kristi Noem’s luxury jets

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

Delete.

Conductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac Create parallel Codex + Claude Code agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they're working on, then review and merge their changes.

So are people moving away from using git worktrees + Claude Code?

I live in @zed.dev + Conductor.build. Zed for deep work that needs most of my focus and then I use Conductor to fire off small hard-to-f*ck-up tasks in individual worktrees (move a button, align something, optimize a query).

Product strategy means saying no If you're building a product, you have to be great at saying No. Not 'maybe' or 'later'. The only word is No. Building a great product isn't about creating tons of tactically useful features which are...

@destraynor.bsky.social wrote a great article back in the day about the role of saying 'no' in product strategy.

www.intercom.com/blog/product...

With AI, nobody is saying "no" anymore.

There is going to be some really ugly software and software businesses in the future.

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

Can we buy your token?

I don't really know what I'm looking at but it is awesome.

I have a four year old and three year old identical twins.

We're on the tail end of a 2-week household cold / conjunctivitis run. At least one kid out of school every day. Plus Carnival-related school closings and parades.

It's like a grenade went off in our life.

My wife is Irish (3 boys all have their US passport) and I felt like I couldn't 'speak my mind' on social media in the run-up to our trip to the US last May. It's so strange. When we passed Immigration it was a big exhale. Dystopian.

I'm still available to take on freelance work.

If you're looking for a Laravel developer with a lot of experience, do reach out!

Hey Laravel fam

I'm open to new freelance/contract work and have room for new clients on Laravel, TALL stack, Filament, or related tech projects. I can also help you with tooling such as PhpStan, Rector, Pint, Pest, and more.

Reach out to discuss how I can help with your projects!

The next time they haul Bondi in for a congressional hearing, I'd like a Rep to begin by:

"Just to get it out of the way, would you like to read through your pre-prepared insults of me now so we can then proceed with the grown-ups part of this meeting."