Pert Soomann
@pert.bsky.social
Level 25 full-stack #PHP wizard from Estonia, now in UK 🧙♂️
When you consider getting some work done on the hobby project, but all the kids on the road are off school and shouting outside. And just like that I realised I was old.
July 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When you consider getting some work done on the hobby project, but all the kids on the road are off school and shouting outside. And just like that I realised I was old.
I try to entertain you the best I can
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July 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I try to entertain you the best I can
Instead of working on the hobby project tonight, I cooked and we watched Total Wipeout Australia laughing our asses off. Quality daddy daughter time. Worth it.
July 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Instead of working on the hobby project tonight, I cooked and we watched Total Wipeout Australia laughing our asses off. Quality daddy daughter time. Worth it.
So Dexter learned HTML? Big if true
July 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So Dexter learned HTML? Big if true
For some time I've tried to use browser native features over libraries. Glad this kind of approach is more common now.
"It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA" www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
For some time I've tried to use browser native features over libraries. Glad this kind of approach is more common now.
Looking at my social feeds lately, either:
a) AI had become seriously good and all developers are now using it to one shot everything
b) most dev influencers I follow have pivoted to AI topics for clicks and payouts
a) AI had become seriously good and all developers are now using it to one shot everything
b) most dev influencers I follow have pivoted to AI topics for clicks and payouts
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July 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Looking at my social feeds lately, either:
a) AI had become seriously good and all developers are now using it to one shot everything
b) most dev influencers I follow have pivoted to AI topics for clicks and payouts
a) AI had become seriously good and all developers are now using it to one shot everything
b) most dev influencers I follow have pivoted to AI topics for clicks and payouts
July 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
When you love visiting family so much you take a day off and forfeit the monthly developer bonus in the form of free pizza in the office 🥲
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July 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When you love visiting family so much you take a day off and forfeit the monthly developer bonus in the form of free pizza in the office 🥲
Nothing in development beats switching off the machine and taking a break.
Yesterdays absolute dire state was easy enough to overcome!
Upwards and onwards! 😎
Yesterdays absolute dire state was easy enough to overcome!
Upwards and onwards! 😎
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July 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Nothing in development beats switching off the machine and taking a break.
Yesterdays absolute dire state was easy enough to overcome!
Upwards and onwards! 😎
Yesterdays absolute dire state was easy enough to overcome!
Upwards and onwards! 😎
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Who knew that these days, when writing program to extract data from websites, the first step is to check that websites actually load any useful HTML in them at all.
#LessonsLearned #FailFaster
#LessonsLearned #FailFaster
July 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Who knew that these days, when writing program to extract data from websites, the first step is to check that websites actually load any useful HTML in them at all.
#LessonsLearned #FailFaster
#LessonsLearned #FailFaster
Having updated legacy Laravel apps for the past 2 years there seems to be a pattern where apps with "boring" simple structure and limited 3rd party libraries are much easier to maintain and upgrade than corners that try to be too clever.
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Having updated legacy Laravel apps for the past 2 years there seems to be a pattern where apps with "boring" simple structure and limited 3rd party libraries are much easier to maintain and upgrade than corners that try to be too clever.
The most productive teams says "yes, and..."
The second most productive teams "disagree, but commit"
Anything after that is too much energy spent on internal issues.
The second most productive teams "disagree, but commit"
Anything after that is too much energy spent on internal issues.
July 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The most productive teams says "yes, and..."
The second most productive teams "disagree, but commit"
Anything after that is too much energy spent on internal issues.
The second most productive teams "disagree, but commit"
Anything after that is too much energy spent on internal issues.
Can simple reactivity in JS really be that simple? 🤔
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Can simple reactivity in JS really be that simple? 🤔
Trying to work on my hobby coding project today . . .
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July 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trying to work on my hobby coding project today . . .
Is there a detailed list somewhere of web techniques and scenarios that are allowed without having to display cookie consent? 🤔
July 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Is there a detailed list somewhere of web techniques and scenarios that are allowed without having to display cookie consent? 🤔
Ah the old Estonian tradition to get drunk every time I finish a website and deploy 😅
July 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Ah the old Estonian tradition to get drunk every time I finish a website and deploy 😅
Just remembered a CEO of a startup I worked for now says in his time he made the dev team "who just stopped delivering" work again and got company a sale offer.
Guy spoke with dev team once.
Got fired for doing drugs.
Not all people say in public about their biz is true.
Guy spoke with dev team once.
Got fired for doing drugs.
Not all people say in public about their biz is true.
July 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Just remembered a CEO of a startup I worked for now says in his time he made the dev team "who just stopped delivering" work again and got company a sale offer.
Guy spoke with dev team once.
Got fired for doing drugs.
Not all people say in public about their biz is true.
Guy spoke with dev team once.
Got fired for doing drugs.
Not all people say in public about their biz is true.
It is insane that the state of AI is that on one hand it's able to pick up tiny things, update vague suggestions on the correct place based on div ID naming etc...
And at the same time, reinvent documented framework code just to do simple things like spacing in CSS frameworks 🤷♂️
And at the same time, reinvent documented framework code just to do simple things like spacing in CSS frameworks 🤷♂️
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July 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It is insane that the state of AI is that on one hand it's able to pick up tiny things, update vague suggestions on the correct place based on div ID naming etc...
And at the same time, reinvent documented framework code just to do simple things like spacing in CSS frameworks 🤷♂️
And at the same time, reinvent documented framework code just to do simple things like spacing in CSS frameworks 🤷♂️
Playing around with a browser plugin. Pretty fun little exercise, no frameworks, just good ol' vanilla JS and HTML.
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July 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Playing around with a browser plugin. Pretty fun little exercise, no frameworks, just good ol' vanilla JS and HTML.
Personal preference, but it feels a bit yucky having visibility conditions on Vue components:
<my-component v-if="...bizlogic..." />
Feels like the component should be responsible for that 🤷♂️
<my-component v-if="...bizlogic..." />
Feels like the component should be responsible for that 🤷♂️
July 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Personal preference, but it feels a bit yucky having visibility conditions on Vue components:
<my-component v-if="...bizlogic..." />
Feels like the component should be responsible for that 🤷♂️
<my-component v-if="...bizlogic..." />
Feels like the component should be responsible for that 🤷♂️
344 tests fixed ✅
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July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
344 tests fixed ✅
When you fix test cases on an old Laravel project, and it's so old, the future date original developer had hard coded for specific scenario, is not in the future anymore 🫣
The date was 2018 👴
The date was 2018 👴
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June 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When you fix test cases on an old Laravel project, and it's so old, the future date original developer had hard coded for specific scenario, is not in the future anymore 🫣
The date was 2018 👴
The date was 2018 👴
Heard someone bought Commodore company. Would be cool if they did release some new stuff, still on fence if I should get the breadbin or now just for memories from early 90s.
June 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Heard someone bought Commodore company. Would be cool if they did release some new stuff, still on fence if I should get the breadbin or now just for memories from early 90s.