Micha Pietsch
@michapietsch.bsky.social
I make computers do as I say. − With a focus on the backend, experience in PHP, JavaScript, and Python, and an interest in TypeScript and Rust.
My son: holds up a toy car, excited: „Look, they have a REAL fire truck!“
Content creator: „In this video we’ll build a FULL … clone FROM SCRATCH!“
Content creator: „In this video we’ll build a FULL … clone FROM SCRATCH!“
December 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My son: holds up a toy car, excited: „Look, they have a REAL fire truck!“
Content creator: „In this video we’ll build a FULL … clone FROM SCRATCH!“
Content creator: „In this video we’ll build a FULL … clone FROM SCRATCH!“
What do you recommend for pretty docs for developers? Markdown, code snippets, syntax highlighting. Ideally Vue/Laravel based.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What do you recommend for pretty docs for developers? Markdown, code snippets, syntax highlighting. Ideally Vue/Laravel based.
I’m already biased towards Mago because speed.
Although maybe it will need time to integrate well with Laravel features. But I have to explore that ASAP.
Although maybe it will need time to integrate well with Laravel features. But I have to explore that ASAP.
Mago 1.0 is live. 🦊 🚀
✅ Linter
✅ Formatter
✅ Static Analyzer
✅ Architectural Guard
A unified, oxidized PHP toolchain. 🦀🐘
github.com/carthage-sof...
#PHP #StaticAnalysis #Linter
✅ Linter
✅ Formatter
✅ Static Analyzer
✅ Architectural Guard
A unified, oxidized PHP toolchain. 🦀🐘
github.com/carthage-sof...
#PHP #StaticAnalysis #Linter
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m already biased towards Mago because speed.
Although maybe it will need time to integrate well with Laravel features. But I have to explore that ASAP.
Although maybe it will need time to integrate well with Laravel features. But I have to explore that ASAP.
To leverage the AI coding assistant for learning while you work on an actual task, ask: „Suggest three alternative ways we could approach this task“, and study them critically.
December 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
To leverage the AI coding assistant for learning while you work on an actual task, ask: „Suggest three alternative ways we could approach this task“, and study them critically.
What The Alias, my fun Rust project, is coming along:
Today I actually needed to look up an alias I couldn't remember. So here's search now in v0.2! 🥳
github.com/michapietsch...
Today I actually needed to look up an alias I couldn't remember. So here's search now in v0.2! 🥳
github.com/michapietsch...
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
What The Alias, my fun Rust project, is coming along:
Today I actually needed to look up an alias I couldn't remember. So here's search now in v0.2! 🥳
github.com/michapietsch...
Today I actually needed to look up an alias I couldn't remember. So here's search now in v0.2! 🥳
github.com/michapietsch...
Whenever AI generated code is hard to understand, the task is often more complex than I initially thought.
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Whenever AI generated code is hard to understand, the task is often more complex than I initially thought.
With reports of AI agents wiping some people's disks, it would be overkill to isolate and virtualize everything. Regular backups go a long way.
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
With reports of AI agents wiping some people's disks, it would be overkill to isolate and virtualize everything. Regular backups go a long way.
Find my little WIP Rust shell alias trainer here:
github.com/michapietsch...
github.com/michapietsch...
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Find my little WIP Rust shell alias trainer here:
github.com/michapietsch...
github.com/michapietsch...
React Activity example: pause video playback when player hidden. #Vue devs, how would we do that?
v-show doesn’t handle this, or does it somehow?
v-show doesn’t handle this, or does it somehow?
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
React Activity example: pause video playback when player hidden. #Vue devs, how would we do that?
v-show doesn’t handle this, or does it somehow?
v-show doesn’t handle this, or does it somehow?
The moment when you give the AI an example, and it gets it right immediately, after multiple frustrating rounds of trying to explain it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The moment when you give the AI an example, and it gets it right immediately, after multiple frustrating rounds of trying to explain it.
Small Rust project: Remind me of a random alias I defined.
Maybe I'll add spaced repetition, and then I'll be ready to go to town with aliases.
Maybe I'll add spaced repetition, and then I'll be ready to go to town with aliases.
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Small Rust project: Remind me of a random alias I defined.
Maybe I'll add spaced repetition, and then I'll be ready to go to town with aliases.
Maybe I'll add spaced repetition, and then I'll be ready to go to town with aliases.
Could editor snippets be a cheat code to make AI agents follow certain patterns AND speed up manual coding as well? 👀
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Could editor snippets be a cheat code to make AI agents follow certain patterns AND speed up manual coding as well? 👀
@lethain.com writes: “My experience is that only writing software can build a truly effective understanding of unreasonable software, and that most startup software is unreasonable…”
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@lethain.com writes: “My experience is that only writing software can build a truly effective understanding of unreasonable software, and that most startup software is unreasonable…”
When would you NOT want to use Cache::flexible in Laravel, and use regular Cache::remember instead?
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
When would you NOT want to use Cache::flexible in Laravel, and use regular Cache::remember instead?
Practice your typing skills as if you want to play an instrument. The goal is a fluent, uninterrupted flow from your mind, through your fingers, into the machine. I admit: That sounded unnecessarily poetic.
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Practice your typing skills as if you want to play an instrument. The goal is a fluent, uninterrupted flow from your mind, through your fingers, into the machine. I admit: That sounded unnecessarily poetic.
Write code faster in 2026:
Learn touch typing.
Seriously, though!
Learn touch typing.
Seriously, though!
August 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Write code faster in 2026:
Learn touch typing.
Seriously, though!
Learn touch typing.
Seriously, though!
As AI writes so much now, I dusted off “On Writing Well” (William Zinsser):
“This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing. Out of it come two of the most important qualities that this book will go in search of: humanity and warmth”, he writes.
“This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing. Out of it come two of the most important qualities that this book will go in search of: humanity and warmth”, he writes.
August 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As AI writes so much now, I dusted off “On Writing Well” (William Zinsser):
“This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing. Out of it come two of the most important qualities that this book will go in search of: humanity and warmth”, he writes.
“This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing. Out of it come two of the most important qualities that this book will go in search of: humanity and warmth”, he writes.
For a moment, Gemini CLI scared me:
"Running sudo ..." 👀 " ... make me a sandwich" 😂
"Running sudo ..." 👀 " ... make me a sandwich" 😂
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
For a moment, Gemini CLI scared me:
"Running sudo ..." 👀 " ... make me a sandwich" 😂
"Running sudo ..." 👀 " ... make me a sandwich" 😂
Saw a cartoon, and chuckled. Neither new, nor relevant to current news. So I didn’t share. There’s enough noise already competing for our attention.
March 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Saw a cartoon, and chuckled. Neither new, nor relevant to current news. So I didn’t share. There’s enough noise already competing for our attention.
The ability to focus is my biggest productivity asset. In pairing sessions we need to stay with the other while they need time to process.
Be it with a human or an AI assistant. This actually helps decelerate, and be more calm. I can then keep my focus a lot better during the day.
Be it with a human or an AI assistant. This actually helps decelerate, and be more calm. I can then keep my focus a lot better during the day.
March 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The ability to focus is my biggest productivity asset. In pairing sessions we need to stay with the other while they need time to process.
Be it with a human or an AI assistant. This actually helps decelerate, and be more calm. I can then keep my focus a lot better during the day.
Be it with a human or an AI assistant. This actually helps decelerate, and be more calm. I can then keep my focus a lot better during the day.
I rediscover many small non-AI workflow improvements as a side-effect of exploring an AI productivity boost.
We haven't automated all, yet. We haven't configured all, yet.
We haven't automated all, yet. We haven't configured all, yet.
February 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I rediscover many small non-AI workflow improvements as a side-effect of exploring an AI productivity boost.
We haven't automated all, yet. We haven't configured all, yet.
We haven't automated all, yet. We haven't configured all, yet.
To use our time wisely, often means to double down and stay with something.
I’ve seen much, and I’ve experienced much. But a lot of it is lost in the notes I didn’t take.
I mostly struggle with wether I will really ever need a piece information again, or be able to apply a particular lesson.
I’ve seen much, and I’ve experienced much. But a lot of it is lost in the notes I didn’t take.
I mostly struggle with wether I will really ever need a piece information again, or be able to apply a particular lesson.
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To use our time wisely, often means to double down and stay with something.
I’ve seen much, and I’ve experienced much. But a lot of it is lost in the notes I didn’t take.
I mostly struggle with wether I will really ever need a piece information again, or be able to apply a particular lesson.
I’ve seen much, and I’ve experienced much. But a lot of it is lost in the notes I didn’t take.
I mostly struggle with wether I will really ever need a piece information again, or be able to apply a particular lesson.
I notice how I think more about “what can AI do for me” than about the tech as such.
It’s like “show me the results before I believe it”. We wouldn’t be here without the visionaries who explore and push the limits, people who are sincerely interested in how this stuff works.
It’s like “show me the results before I believe it”. We wouldn’t be here without the visionaries who explore and push the limits, people who are sincerely interested in how this stuff works.
February 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I notice how I think more about “what can AI do for me” than about the tech as such.
It’s like “show me the results before I believe it”. We wouldn’t be here without the visionaries who explore and push the limits, people who are sincerely interested in how this stuff works.
It’s like “show me the results before I believe it”. We wouldn’t be here without the visionaries who explore and push the limits, people who are sincerely interested in how this stuff works.
There's this passphrase that I need to copy and paste, because when I type it out, it doesn't get accepted. Crazy, right?
Two strings look exactly the same – but they're not. This has happened to me exactly three times in my career.
Is there a way to show the raw byte contents of the clipboard?
Two strings look exactly the same – but they're not. This has happened to me exactly three times in my career.
Is there a way to show the raw byte contents of the clipboard?
February 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There's this passphrase that I need to copy and paste, because when I type it out, it doesn't get accepted. Crazy, right?
Two strings look exactly the same – but they're not. This has happened to me exactly three times in my career.
Is there a way to show the raw byte contents of the clipboard?
Two strings look exactly the same – but they're not. This has happened to me exactly three times in my career.
Is there a way to show the raw byte contents of the clipboard?
Our daily work happens in the gap between AI demos and future predictions.
I’m most interested in that “gap”. Don’t show me shiny new tools. Stop discussing what if. Instead, show me your actual workflow.
How do you fit AI in your workflow? I mean: How exactly? Including: When do you hit a wall?
I’m most interested in that “gap”. Don’t show me shiny new tools. Stop discussing what if. Instead, show me your actual workflow.
How do you fit AI in your workflow? I mean: How exactly? Including: When do you hit a wall?
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our daily work happens in the gap between AI demos and future predictions.
I’m most interested in that “gap”. Don’t show me shiny new tools. Stop discussing what if. Instead, show me your actual workflow.
How do you fit AI in your workflow? I mean: How exactly? Including: When do you hit a wall?
I’m most interested in that “gap”. Don’t show me shiny new tools. Stop discussing what if. Instead, show me your actual workflow.
How do you fit AI in your workflow? I mean: How exactly? Including: When do you hit a wall?