Alan - Building Stuff, mainly in Laravel

One focused project that you actually finish and launch properly is worth way more than five half-built projects that never quite get there.

I never had a grand vision. I just did the work, followed where the money led, and adapted. That is a strategy. It’s called survival—and it teaches you more than any business book.

I'm beginning to fall in love with Sentry @getsentry

This is my new form of avoidance, whenever I have an issue in the queue I think will be difficult, I re-run all my unit tests and spend the rest of the day fixing all the tests my last weeks' changes broke.

Last couple of days I have been puting together the system monitoring for my near ready webapp, using Pulse and Spatie Health Check and Sentry and my tool set. Does this sound a reasonable coverage?

Am I mean? I have started saying "Idiot! Internal Server Error ErrorExceptionUndefined array key "avg_cost_per_message" " to my coding assistant

Now doing my VAT returns while Claude Code codes in the background, I wish AI was as good at tax returns as it is at coding.

Building day today. Mainly some tweaks on the marketing site, and getting push notifications working properly with service workers.

What is the easiest way to buid a mantainable website

I wasn't building today, I was racing.

No building today, driving home from Daughters and Grand kids in rain and spray. A long tedious drive. Taking a lunch break at Watford Gap services.

Last night, first big fail Vibe coding, letting it loose on a complex change request and it just wasn't thinking right. Had to revert to the commit. Will now actually need to think for it 😀

What do you do when Claude Code is returning 'Overloaded'?

I'm looking for influencers to help promote my products, all fairly techy, some WP based, some more general development. DMs open.

How many automated tests do you have in your SaaS - my yet to be released product has currently 668 , every Friday afternoon I end up fixing the test that no longer work due to the weeks work. Bit like tidying the office. No idea what the norm is.

I thought I'd share one of my build processes, using voice and Claude Code to make changes

This moring AI is a bit more matter of fact. Me: "Morning Claude, ready for work? I'm not looking forward to day, another day of circuslar issue about duplication, please read yt BRO-166 and get ready to work."

How i talk to Claude Code. "now commit referencing the youtrack issue and push and say goodnight see you tomorrow "

Another frustration is it is taking AI long to write the tests for thw working code in wrote perfectly just a few minutes before. Maybe I shouldn't bother having tests?

Today I concluded, that switching infrasture can be a time consuming and painful experience. Having taken probaly 3 long days to iron out all those pointless wrinkles, which with hind sight are obvious, each taking 4 hours or so before they become obvious.