How Codex CLI Flags Actually Work (Full-Auto, Sandbox, and Bypass): If you use the Codex CLI, you’ve probably seen a few flags that look like they do the same thing: --full-auto, --sandbox, and --dangerously-bypass-app
AI in the Mining Industry: Mining is currently executing a massive pivot from manual, labor-intensive extraction to a model driven by data and automation. This is a fundamental
Making Money From What You Care About: There's this idea floating around that if you're top 1% at anything, you'll make money. It sounds nice but it's not quite true. What is true: being ex
Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM): If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly
Rent a Mac M4 Mini and Access It via SSH from Linux: I needed a Mac to run a Laravel test suite. On my ThinkPad T15g with Docker, the tests took so long I gave up after 2 hours. My client said it takes 5
AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt: If you have tech debt, you're now exponentially worse off, because you can't leverage the massive productivity gains that AI offers, while your compet
Claude Code Uses Your API Key Over Your Subscription, Even When You’re Logged In: If you have both a Claude subscription (Pro/Max) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable set, Claude Code will use the API key and bill you at p
Migrate Claude Code Sessions to a New Computer: Moving to a new computer or switching from WSL to native Linux? Here's how to preserve all your Claude Code conversation history and make it accessibl
Breaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (While Keeping Approval Controls): If you're using OpenAI's Codex CLI, you might want it to work like Claude Code does by default: able to run powerful commands, but asking for your app
AI is Changing Jobs. Who Benefits?: Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs. The robots are coming for our work, right? But if you look at what's actually happening in companies right
Configuring Claude Code for Privacy and Noise Control: If you're using Claude Code for development work, you might want to minimize telemetry, disable promotional messages, and keep your Git history clean.
AI is Dumber on Mondays: It's Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by... creating the exact same bug in a different fil
Who will feed AI when traffic dies?: Most searches now end without a single click to an actual website. AI companies are training their models on publisher content while destroying the tr
Software Development Costs: Why AI Hasn’t Changed Prices: Everyone keeps asking if AI tools are making software development cheaper. The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting.
I've been buil
: ThinkPad External Monitor Lag: The Hybrid Graphics Problem
My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monito
Claude Code is Having Its Cursor Moment: Remember a few months ago when Cursor launched their $200/month plan? They marketed it as essentially unlimited usage with "20x more than Pro." Users
AI is the new social media: I was working on a blog post about how AI would eventually replace social media when OpenAI just... did it. They launched Sora 2 on September 30th wit
Laravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates: Laravel's $touches property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified.
Basic Usage
class Comment extends Model
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Creating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf: Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js d www.vincentschmalbach.com/creating-pdf...
Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts: Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That's no
ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble: Stock prices are at all-time highs and traditional valuation metrics like P/E ratios are largely ignored. At the same time, passive investing through
GPT-5 is the best coding model in the world (biggest leap since 3.5 Sonnet): GPT-5 doesn't just write code; it thinks like an engineer. When faced with complex dependency conflicts that stumped previous models, GPT-5 takes a me
Laravel Factories: In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs d
How to Limit WSL2 Resource Usage with .wslconfig: The WSL2 virtual machine (Vmmem process) can consume a significant amount of system memory and CPU. You can set resource limits by creating a .wslconf
Is Docker Making Your Computer Slow? Here Is How to Find the Problem: Does your computer fan get loud when you run Docker or your system becomes sluggish? Usually, the problem is not Docker itself, but a process inside o
Fix Insane Disk I/O in Laravel Sail: Disable MySQL Binary Logs: Is your Docker-based development environment sluggish? Do your fans spin up for no reason? If you run docker stats, do you see your MySQL container wr
Stop Using git checkout: Git 2.23 introduced two commands that replace the two different jobs git checkout used to do:
- git switch — change or create branches
- git restore
Quickly Restore All Deleted Files in Git: If you’ve accidentally deleted multiple tracked files in your Git repository, you can bring them all back at once using this simple command:
git resto
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