oldswe.bsky.social
@oldswe.bsky.social
An old software developer that plays video games.

PHP, C#, Vue, Laravel, Go.

https://github.com/justinbezanson
*dye my hair to cover the gray*

Wife: you look a lot younger

My body: Fantastic. Too bad your back still folds like a lawn chair.
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thanks to AI, 64 GB of RAM costs more than a RTX 5070 now.

#hardware #ai
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm a .NET boomer. Opening .NET Conf 2025 with Scott Hanselman and Scott Guthrie talking about the creation of .NET MVC brings back great memories. It was so nice to work with over WebForms.

#dotnet #dotnetconf
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Make time for your interests. Not everything has to be optimized for your career.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTzo...

#softwaredevelopment
My biggest programming regret
YouTube video by bigboxSWE
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November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When AI fails (not if) to deliver on the promise of replacing programmers, companies are going to be in a bad place with seniors burning out or retiring and there aren't going to be enough juniors in the pipeline.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJ5...

#hottake #softwaredevelopment
Dev will really suck in a few years...
YouTube video by Awesome
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November 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Seems like just yesterday it was his 10th birthday. Today Josh had his first day of university. Go #Axemen!

#minecraft #acadiau
September 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I’ve been experimenting with Gemini CLI and Laravel Boost for about 2 weeks now, and honestly, it’s gone way better than I expected.

It’s been great at spinning up basic CRUD features quickly, applying existing layouts/styles to new features, and only leaving me with small HTML/CSS tweaks.
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I kept hearing good things about The Wheel of Time. How badly did a mess up by reading New Spring first?

#TheWheelOfTime
August 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Giving Laravel Boost and Gemini CLI for a test spin tonight.

#php #laravel #gemini #ai
August 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Stop future proofing. Embrace refactoring. Simplicity is king!
August 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Vibe coding an app is one thing but then vibe coding unit tests for it is peak absurdity. Sure the tests turn green but how do you know they are actually testing anything?

#ai #vibecoding #softwaredevelopment
July 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What do you think of Vercel acquiring NuxtLabs? Is this a good thing?
July 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Ever since I started my SWE career writing .NET in 2004 I always wanted to work for a big company like Microsoft. As the years passed that appeal faded. I saw that working for a company that values you as more than an expense on a spreadsheet was worth a lot!

1/3 #softwaredevelopment
July 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What are your thoughts?

I don't like committing incomplete code to a feature branch.

I have a project that I only work on a couple of hours once a week. I will commit this code regardless.

I've been bite by a failed hard drive before and just don't want to risk it.

#git #softwaredevelopment
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
June 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Laravel News Podcast: Frontend hooks, birthdays, and passkeys. Have a listen:
Frontend hooks, birthdays, and passkeys
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and...
share.transistor.fm
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Make this make sense! Using WiX 3.11, grabbing an integer value with RegistrySearch and then writing it to a RegistryValue with Type="integer" writes that value as a string (REG_SZ). Changing the type to string will write the value as an integer (REG_DWORD).

#wix #softwaredevelopement #csharp
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I have to say, vibe coding a WiX installer is a terrible idea.

#ai #softwaredevelopement #wix #windows #csharp
June 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is that don't know you are a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.
June 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Remix v3 sounds amazing.

- focus on web fundamentals
- runtime only, no complicated build pipeline

#remix #javascript #react #softwaredeveloper
May 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We need to stop pretending abstraction is cost free.

-- Carson Gross

#softwaredevelopment #cleancode #dirtycode
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Experts have it easy...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Np...
Experts Have It Easy...
YouTube video by ThePrimeTime
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May 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted
Here’s the story of how one of my favorite Laravel helpers was created. 🐝
May 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is why AI is not taking our jobs, at least not yet. AI hallucinated a vulnerability in curl for a function that doesn't exist.

#ai #curl #softwaredevelopment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy-u...
this is a huge problem for cybersecurity...
YouTube video by Low Level
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May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM