lexoj's comments

On: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

[lexoj]

Not free in my country, didn’t know YouTube was broadcasting full movies in certain regions as you imply.

[optimalsolver → lexoj]

Are you able to watch this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUI_0mIkec

On: Zed 1.0

[lexoj]

I want to use Zed but last time I tried it was spawning node processes, i guess for lsp. (I develop in Go)

On: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

[lexoj]

I don’t do laravel but which bad practices are you referring to?

[bakugo → lexoj]

The prime example I'll always reach for is the fact that it makes use of PHP classes to represent database entities, but not really - the """classes""" don't actually declare any of their properties, it's all dynamically injected at runtime from the database columns. You need a Laravel-specific IDE plugin just to get basic code completion and static analysis.

And yeah, there's also facades.

[ceejayoz → lexoj]

50/50 chance it's a complaint about Facades, heh.

[bojan → lexoj]

In addition to what /u/bakugo already said, they also have custom global magic functions all over the place.

The code discipline and patterns they encourage are so bad that they had to wrap PhpUnit into their own version of the unit test framework named Pest, because PhpUnit intentionally discourages those patterns natively.

[ceejayoz → bojan]

Pest is just phpUnit syntax sugar. Claude will happily switch between the two syntaxes in seconds.

[bojan → ceejayoz]

So will I, albeit less happily, but that's not really saying anything.

On: The Last Quiet Thing

[lexoj]

I’ve disabled all activity notifications. It actually helps me avoid the phone on other type of notifications.

On: Wired headphone sales are exploding

[lexoj]

They are much much lighter due to lack of batteries which makes them quite ergonomic.

On: The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)

[lexoj]

Self plug: I use matcha[0] which produces markdowns which with icloud (or any other file sync service) automatically sync cross devices.

https://github.com/piqoni/matcha

On: I'm not worried about AI job loss

[lexoj]

But the llm could still take ownership of that and ask clarifications, reach stakeholders while taking notes, and so on.

On: Using an engineering notebook

[lexoj]

Top of the file or end?

On: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

[lexoj]

As my doctor used to say: the best posture is the next one.

On: Apple Creator Studio

[lexoj]

It has that new slop aesthetics.

[steve1977 → lexoj]

Yup, looks like they have been created by some intern with Image Playground.