Regis Freyd

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🧑‍💻 Developer of open source products: https://github.com/monicahq/monica and others.

I use Mastodon to talk about my OSS projects, general web development and give opinions on #movies and #music.

Githubhttps://github.com/djaiss

> Issue tracking is dead.

It's not. Perhaps for startups. Not for large organizations, in any way.

https://linear.app/next

Issue tracking is dead – Linear

The next era of product development is built on context and agency. Here's how Linear is evolving. And what we're launching today.

This shows, St. Denis Medical, is actually interesting for those who want "The Office/Parks N Rec" style of mockumentaries. Recommended.

🚀 We just released spatie/laravel-markdown-response

Add .md to any URL on your Laravel app and get clean markdown instead of HTML.

AI agents get this automatically when they visit your pages.

“I’m sure the list of ‘people with tasty faces’ that’s being compiled won’t ever fall into the hands of the leopards we keep electing.” — People who never cared about privacy because they “weren’t doing crimes.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

TechCrunch
I think people in my timeline have much more money than I could ever have if they spend that much $$ on tokens to « automate » their lives and coding process.
Back to old coding with my hands.

VSCode smart tab suggestion has finally become much better. Not as good as Cursor's, but definitely usable.

That's awesome. Don't have to pay for Cursor anymore 😅

At this point I have the feeling that 100% of React apps are dead slow and kill my CPU every single time.

Github UI, Codex UI, and many other tools I use daily. Could we switch to simpler tools? Not looking at you specifically HTMX and Alpine Ajax...

Best MacOS tip: don’t upgrade.
I will delay upgrade to Tahoe for as long as I can, until I buy the next laptop which won’t be a Mac finally.
Last week I had to send back the Unifi Express 7. I have both the UE7 and the Dream Router 7 (this one is connected to 1Gbps internet), and Internet works much better at home now that the UE7 is not there anymore.
Hope the replacement unit will make it better.
Since I plan to move to Linux full time in 2026 (desktop is already on it, laptop is not), I will not use external tools to automate stuff. I've just setup auto upload of screenshots to GDrive with bash scripts. It works really well.