Got tired of our test suite taking 8+ minutes to run because of database access and now I’m giving a company wide talk on unit testing, dependency injection and mocking. Thanks @grmpyprogrammer I learned it all from your books and presentations.
Erica Seyden
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As always, it depends. I usually just use Ansible to provision my VPS on a “bare metal” stack for stuff I write myself. If 3rd party software’s preferred deployment mechanism is Docker my preference is running it with podman so it’s easy to run directly with systemd.
New PHP Architect day!
More and more I’ve begun to really appreciate slowing down, leaving my cell phone and computer in my office and reading something physical. It’s so awesome I can still get a tech magazine with code listings.
Martin FowlerFragments: Detailed report on the Thoughtworks AI retreat, should we write a manifesto for AI-enabled development, is spec-driven development the return of waterfall, LLMs perform better in healthy codebases
When it comes to AI code generation I don’t let it touch my codebase. Having it generate tutorials and implementing plans for me as markdown documents in a .gitignored folder and then making the changes myself ensures I have the time to think about the code I’m implementing and often make much more readable and testable implmentions than the AI suggests. Especially when dealing with legacy code bases the AI implementation hardly ever thinks about improving things.
I’ve seen a lot of posts about the impacts of AI on their teams and workplaces today. For me it’s been mostly used to streamline our process. We have a set of Claude skills and custom shell scripts that interact with Jira and GitHub to take care of the minutiae of documenting our work and the release process. This is where I see the most efficiency gains, using tools from the command line with natural language rather than having to click through endless web pages and summarize my code changes.
So proud of the work I’m doing at YMS. It’s such a great group of folks willing to go the extra mile for every single client.
Customer Testimonial with BGDC Distribution | Yard Management Solutions (YMS) at Manifest 2026
The Missoula public library is a gem. Nothing beats curling up with a good book on the first snowy day in a long time.
My wife encouraged me to make her an iOS app so she could keep track of our game collection. It’s the most simple implementation possible. Stores info on iCloud and just keeps track of game platform and name.
1.0 of Super Game Catalog available now for $1.99
This is a bear bones MVP with very little functionality. Learning a bit of Swift and native iOS development was fun. But I’m not sure if we will continue development. It meets our needs for now.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/super-game-catalog/id6758810651
Folks talk about using AI to write code; TBH the best use I’ve found is writing my commit messages and drafting my JIRA documentation for me.
My usual workflow is have Claude pull my ticket and do a write up of what parts of the codebase I’ll likely need to touch.
I write my feature and then get Claude to do some documentation of the changes and review my PR for things I might have overlooked.
It isn’t making me productive at writing code but it is making JIRA and Git much more informative.