Vincent Schmalbach
@vschmalbach.bsky.social
Laravel & Vue SaaS dev with 10+ years XP. I code, but also get the biz & marketing side. Just solid apps that work in the real world. DM to discuss your project
How Codex CLI Flags Actually Work (Full-Auto, Sandbox, and Bypass): If you use the Codex CLI, you’ve probably seen a few flags that look like they do the same thing: --full-auto, --sandbox, and --dangerously-bypass-app
How Codex CLI Flags Actually Work (Full-Auto, Sandbox, and Bypass)
If you use the Codex CLI, you’ve probably seen a few flags that look like they do the same thing: , , and . They’re related, but they are not interchangeable. Controls the filesystem + network sandbox…
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January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
How Codex CLI Flags Actually Work (Full-Auto, Sandbox, and Bypass): If you use the Codex CLI, you’ve probably seen a few flags that look like they do the same thing: --full-auto, --sandbox, and --dangerously-bypass-app
AI in the Mining Industry: Mining is currently executing a massive pivot from manual, labor-intensive extraction to a model driven by data and automation. This is a fundamental
AI in the Mining Industry
Mining is currently executing a massive pivot from manual, labor-intensive extraction to a model driven by data and automation. This is a fundamental shift in how resources are found, extracted…
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January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
AI in the Mining Industry: Mining is currently executing a massive pivot from manual, labor-intensive extraction to a model driven by data and automation. This is a fundamental
Making Money From What You Care About: There's this idea floating around that if you're top 1% at anything, you'll make money. It sounds nice but it's not quite true. What is true: being ex
Making Money From What You Care About
There’s this idea floating around that if you’re top 1% at anything, you’ll make money. It sounds nice but it’s not quite true. What is true: being exceptional creates options. It doesn’t guarantee…
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January 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Making Money From What You Care About: There's this idea floating around that if you're top 1% at anything, you'll make money. It sounds nice but it's not quite true. What is true: being ex
Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM): If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly
Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM)
If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly disk I/O. Not CPU, not PHP, not Docker overhead.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM): If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly
Rent a Mac M4 Mini and Access It via SSH from Linux: I needed a Mac to run a Laravel test suite. On my ThinkPad T15g with Docker, the tests took so long I gave up after 2 hours. My client said it takes 5
Rent a Mac M4 Mini and Access It via SSH from Linux
I needed a Mac to run a Laravel test suite. On my ThinkPad T15g with Docker, the tests took so long I gave up after 2 hours. My client said it takes 5 minutes on their M4 Mac. I decided to rent one…
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January 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Rent a Mac M4 Mini and Access It via SSH from Linux: I needed a Mac to run a Laravel test suite. On my ThinkPad T15g with Docker, the tests took so long I gave up after 2 hours. My client said it takes 5
AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt: If you have tech debt, you're now exponentially worse off, because you can't leverage the massive productivity gains that AI offers, while your compet
AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt
If you have tech debt, you’re now exponentially worse off, because you can’t leverage the massive productivity gains that AI offers, while your competitors with clean codebases are moving faster.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt: If you have tech debt, you're now exponentially worse off, because you can't leverage the massive productivity gains that AI offers, while your compet
Claude Code Uses Your API Key Over Your Subscription, Even When You’re Logged In: If you have both a Claude subscription (Pro/Max) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable set, Claude Code will use the API key and bill you at p
Claude Code Uses Your API Key Over Your Subscription, Even When You’re Logged In
If you have both a Claude subscription (Pro/Max) and an environment variable set, Claude Code will use the API key and bill you at pay-as-you-go rates instead of using your subscription.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Claude Code Uses Your API Key Over Your Subscription, Even When You’re Logged In: If you have both a Claude subscription (Pro/Max) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable set, Claude Code will use the API key and bill you at p
Migrate Claude Code Sessions to a New Computer: Moving to a new computer or switching from WSL to native Linux? Here's how to preserve all your Claude Code conversation history and make it accessibl
Migrate Claude Code Sessions to a New Computer
Moving to a new computer or switching from WSL to native Linux? Here’s how to preserve all your Claude Code conversation history and make it accessible on your new setup. After copying your folder to…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Migrate Claude Code Sessions to a New Computer: Moving to a new computer or switching from WSL to native Linux? Here's how to preserve all your Claude Code conversation history and make it accessibl
Breaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (While Keeping Approval Controls): If you're using OpenAI's Codex CLI, you might want it to work like Claude Code does by default: able to run powerful commands, but asking for your app
Breaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (While Keeping Approval Controls)
If you’re using OpenAI’s Codex CLI, you might want it to work like Claude Code does by default: able to run powerful commands, but asking for your approval first. Codex CLI has a safety feature called…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Breaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (While Keeping Approval Controls): If you're using OpenAI's Codex CLI, you might want it to work like Claude Code does by default: able to run powerful commands, but asking for your app
AI is Changing Jobs. Who Benefits?: Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs. The robots are coming for our work, right? But if you look at what's actually happening in companies right
AI is Changing Jobs. Who Benefits?
Everyone’s talking about AI replacing jobs. The robots are coming for our work, right? But if you look at what’s actually happening in companies right now, the story is more complicated and honestly…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
AI is Changing Jobs. Who Benefits?: Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs. The robots are coming for our work, right? But if you look at what's actually happening in companies right
Configuring Claude Code for Privacy and Noise Control: If you're using Claude Code for development work, you might want to minimize telemetry, disable promotional messages, and keep your Git history clean.
Configuring Claude Code for Privacy and Noise Control
If you’re using Claude Code for development work, you might want to minimize telemetry, disable promotional messages, and keep your Git history clean. Here’s how to configure Claude Code for maximum…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Configuring Claude Code for Privacy and Noise Control: If you're using Claude Code for development work, you might want to minimize telemetry, disable promotional messages, and keep your Git history clean.
AI is Dumber on Mondays: It's Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by... creating the exact same bug in a different fil
AI is Dumber on Mondays
It’s Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by… creating the exact same bug in a different file. Cursor is hallucinating function names that don’t…
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October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
AI is Dumber on Mondays: It's Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by... creating the exact same bug in a different fil
Who will feed AI when traffic dies?: Most searches now end without a single click to an actual website. AI companies are training their models on publisher content while destroying the tr
Who will feed AI when traffic dies?
Most searches now end without a single click to an actual website. AI companies are training their models on publisher content while destroying the traffic that funded creating that content in the…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Who will feed AI when traffic dies?: Most searches now end without a single click to an actual website. AI companies are training their models on publisher content while destroying the tr
Software Development Costs: Why AI Hasn’t Changed Prices: Everyone keeps asking if AI tools are making software development cheaper. The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting.
I've been buil
I've been buil
Software Development Costs: Why AI Hasn’t Changed Prices
Everyone keeps asking if AI tools are making software development cheaper. The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting. I’ve been building software for over two decades…
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October 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Software Development Costs: Why AI Hasn’t Changed Prices: Everyone keeps asking if AI tools are making software development cheaper. The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting.
I've been buil
I've been buil
: ThinkPad External Monitor Lag: The Hybrid Graphics Problem
My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monito
My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monito
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My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monitor after the laptop has already booted. The cursor stutters, windows take seconds to respond…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
: ThinkPad External Monitor Lag: The Hybrid Graphics Problem
My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monito
My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monito
Claude Code is Having Its Cursor Moment: Remember a few months ago when Cursor launched their $200/month plan? They marketed it as essentially unlimited usage with "20x more than Pro." Users
Claude Code is Having Its Cursor Moment
Remember a few months ago when Cursor launched their $200/month plan? They marketed it as essentially unlimited usage with "20x more than Pro." Users burned through their limits in hours…
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October 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Claude Code is Having Its Cursor Moment: Remember a few months ago when Cursor launched their $200/month plan? They marketed it as essentially unlimited usage with "20x more than Pro." Users
AI is the new social media: I was working on a blog post about how AI would eventually replace social media when OpenAI just... did it. They launched Sora 2 on September 30th wit
AI is the new social media
I was working on a blog post about how AI would eventually replace social media when OpenAI just… did it. They launched Sora 2 on September 30th with an iOS app that’s basically TikTok, except 100%
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October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
AI is the new social media: I was working on a blog post about how AI would eventually replace social media when OpenAI just... did it. They launched Sora 2 on September 30th wit
Laravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates: Laravel's $touches property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified.
Basic Usage
class Comment extends Model
{
p
Basic Usage
class Comment extends Model
{
p
Laravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates
Laravel’s property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified. When any instance is created, updated, or deleted, Laravel automatically updates the timestamp of its…
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September 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Laravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates: Laravel's $touches property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified.
Basic Usage
class Comment extends Model
{
p
Basic Usage
class Comment extends Model
{
p
Creating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf: Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js d www.vincentschmalbach.com/creating-pdf...
Creating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf
Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js draws on an HTML5 canvas and often assumes modern…
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September 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Creating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf: Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js d www.vincentschmalbach.com/creating-pdf...
Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts: Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That's no
Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts
Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That’s not how it works. Writing good prompts isn’t about…
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August 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts: Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That's no
ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble: Stock prices are at all-time highs and traditional valuation metrics like P/E ratios are largely ignored. At the same time, passive investing through
ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble
Stock prices are at all-time highs and traditional valuation metrics like P/E ratios are largely ignored. At the same time, passive investing through ETF index funds has become the default advice: buy…
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August 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble: Stock prices are at all-time highs and traditional valuation metrics like P/E ratios are largely ignored. At the same time, passive investing through
GPT-5 is the best coding model in the world (biggest leap since 3.5 Sonnet): GPT-5 doesn't just write code; it thinks like an engineer. When faced with complex dependency conflicts that stumped previous models, GPT-5 takes a me
GPT-5 is the best coding model in the world (biggest leap since 3.5 Sonnet)
GPT-5 doesn’t just write code; it thinks like an engineer. When faced with complex dependency conflicts that stumped previous models, GPT-5 takes a methodical approach: investigating systematically…
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August 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
GPT-5 is the best coding model in the world (biggest leap since 3.5 Sonnet): GPT-5 doesn't just write code; it thinks like an engineer. When faced with complex dependency conflicts that stumped previous models, GPT-5 takes a me
Laravel Factories: In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs d
Laravel Factories
In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs data to function, especially during testing and…
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August 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Laravel Factories: In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs d
How to Limit WSL2 Resource Usage with .wslconfig: The WSL2 virtual machine (Vmmem process) can consume a significant amount of system memory and CPU. You can set resource limits by creating a .wslconf
How to Limit WSL2 Resource Usage with .wslconfig
The WSL2 virtual machine ( process) can consume a significant amount of system memory and CPU. You can set resource limits by creating a file in your Windows user profile. Open the Windows File…
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August 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
How to Limit WSL2 Resource Usage with .wslconfig: The WSL2 virtual machine (Vmmem process) can consume a significant amount of system memory and CPU. You can set resource limits by creating a .wslconf
Is Docker Making Your Computer Slow? Here Is How to Find the Problem: Does your computer fan get loud when you run Docker or your system becomes sluggish? Usually, the problem is not Docker itself, but a process inside o
Is Docker Making Your Computer Slow? Here Is How to Find the Problem
Does your computer fan get loud when you run Docker or your system becomes sluggish? Usually, the problem is not Docker itself, but a process inside one of your containers that is using too many…
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August 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Is Docker Making Your Computer Slow? Here Is How to Find the Problem: Does your computer fan get loud when you run Docker or your system becomes sluggish? Usually, the problem is not Docker itself, but a process inside o