Stephen Fluin
@stephenfluin.bsky.social
VP of Product at HeroDevs. Built teams at Chainlink, Google, Angular.
Developers, Developers, Developers!
Developers, Developers, Developers!
Every year at Christmas the Fluin family plays bingo using bingo.fluin.io. We play for prizes at first, and then to steal. Updating to #angular v21 was cutting it close tonight, but it took about 8 seconds.
Bingo
bingo.fluin.io
December 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every year at Christmas the Fluin family plays bingo using bingo.fluin.io. We play for prizes at first, and then to steal. Updating to #angular v21 was cutting it close tonight, but it took about 8 seconds.
Is the Internet experiencing another storm? I have a bunch of random services struggling right now but I don't really trust random status pages.
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Is the Internet experiencing another storm? I have a bunch of random services struggling right now but I don't really trust random status pages.
Huge props to the @angular.dev team & security researchers. There have been 3 new CVEs in the past couple weeks. This shows that the ecosystem is actively being scrutinized and protected.
Silence isn’t safety. Visibility is. 🛡️✨
www.herodevs.com/support/nes-...
Silence isn’t safety. Visibility is. 🛡️✨
www.herodevs.com/support/nes-...
Angular - Never-Ending Support (NES) | HeroDevs
Never-Ending Support for Angular from HeroDevs is a drop-in replacement for Angular, which means you can stay secure, compatible, and compliant without migrating away.
www.herodevs.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Huge props to the @angular.dev team & security researchers. There have been 3 new CVEs in the past couple weeks. This shows that the ecosystem is actively being scrutinized and protected.
Silence isn’t safety. Visibility is. 🛡️✨
www.herodevs.com/support/nes-...
Silence isn’t safety. Visibility is. 🛡️✨
www.herodevs.com/support/nes-...
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So you watched the Angular v21 developer event, and now you want to explore more?
Well, now you can! Check out the updates with the interactive v21 experience on angular.dev
🕹️ angular.dev/events/v21
Well, now you can! Check out the updates with the interactive v21 experience on angular.dev
🕹️ angular.dev/events/v21
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
angular.dev
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So you watched the Angular v21 developer event, and now you want to explore more?
Well, now you can! Check out the updates with the interactive v21 experience on angular.dev
🕹️ angular.dev/events/v21
Well, now you can! Check out the updates with the interactive v21 experience on angular.dev
🕹️ angular.dev/events/v21
It's taken a couple years but Demos With Angular is back! In this video I cover the intro the latest SSR setup and show of deployments with Firebase App Hosting.
youtu.be/QWe0ZWFtH5o
youtu.be/QWe0ZWFtH5o
Ship Fast with Angular's Latest SSR and Firebase App Hosting
YouTube video by Digital Fluency
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
It's taken a couple years but Demos With Angular is back! In this video I cover the intro the latest SSR setup and show of deployments with Firebase App Hosting.
youtu.be/QWe0ZWFtH5o
youtu.be/QWe0ZWFtH5o
We just announced the #DevFest MN 2025 talks!
Register at devfest.mn to learn about:
* Serverless, Agents, GenAI
* How to build an MCP Server
* Structured & Unstructured Data
* The power of non-determinism
* Humans in the Loop (HitL)
* Firebase app hosting
* Community & resilience
* Lots more!
Register at devfest.mn to learn about:
* Serverless, Agents, GenAI
* How to build an MCP Server
* Structured & Unstructured Data
* The power of non-determinism
* Humans in the Loop (HitL)
* Firebase app hosting
* Community & resilience
* Lots more!
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
We just announced the #DevFest MN 2025 talks!
Register at devfest.mn to learn about:
* Serverless, Agents, GenAI
* How to build an MCP Server
* Structured & Unstructured Data
* The power of non-determinism
* Humans in the Loop (HitL)
* Firebase app hosting
* Community & resilience
* Lots more!
Register at devfest.mn to learn about:
* Serverless, Agents, GenAI
* How to build an MCP Server
* Structured & Unstructured Data
* The power of non-determinism
* Humans in the Loop (HitL)
* Firebase app hosting
* Community & resilience
* Lots more!
The latest Gemini CLI doesn't know what an MCP server is. Wat?
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The latest Gemini CLI doesn't know what an MCP server is. Wat?
My absolute favorite vibecoding prompt of all time:
`prevent firebase initialization race conditions by attempting initialization at most once`
It worked... It actually worked...
`prevent firebase initialization race conditions by attempting initialization at most once`
It worked... It actually worked...
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My absolute favorite vibecoding prompt of all time:
`prevent firebase initialization race conditions by attempting initialization at most once`
It worked... It actually worked...
`prevent firebase initialization race conditions by attempting initialization at most once`
It worked... It actually worked...
Kids got a cool new hotwheels track for their birthday youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5_-...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Kids got a cool new hotwheels track for their birthday youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5_-...
I have 4 flights in the next 7 days. Uh oh.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I have 4 flights in the next 7 days. Uh oh.
If the government shutdown continues for let's say, 2 more years. What does the government look like at that point?
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If the government shutdown continues for let's say, 2 more years. What does the government look like at that point?
Come and catch up on the latest in AI, Cloud, Web from Google and beyond at DevFestMN 2025, coming December 6, 2025! Tickets are live now.
devfest.mn
devfest.mn
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Come and catch up on the latest in AI, Cloud, Web from Google and beyond at DevFestMN 2025, coming December 6, 2025! Tickets are live now.
devfest.mn
devfest.mn
If you weren't able to catch my talk on #Angular #SSR today, here it is in blog post form:
fluin.io/blog/state-o...
fluin.io/blog/state-o...
The State of SSR in Angular
## The State of Server Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular
fluin.io
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
If you weren't able to catch my talk on #Angular #SSR today, here it is in blog post form:
fluin.io/blog/state-o...
fluin.io/blog/state-o...
Pirates are invading @ng-conf.bsky.social !
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Pirates are invading @ng-conf.bsky.social !
I gave an #angular talk on SSR and hosting today at @ng-conf.bsky.social and the audience was HOT.
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I gave an #angular talk on SSR and hosting today at @ng-conf.bsky.social and the audience was HOT.
I had no idea that the npm package registry has legacy case sensitive packages. EEEP!
www.npmjs.com/package/JSON...
!=
www.npmjs.com/package/json...
Website is super flaky about it too, sometimes giving you one, sometimes the other.
www.npmjs.com/package/JSON...
!=
www.npmjs.com/package/json...
Website is super flaky about it too, sometimes giving you one, sometimes the other.
www.npmjs.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had no idea that the npm package registry has legacy case sensitive packages. EEEP!
www.npmjs.com/package/JSON...
!=
www.npmjs.com/package/json...
Website is super flaky about it too, sometimes giving you one, sometimes the other.
www.npmjs.com/package/JSON...
!=
www.npmjs.com/package/json...
Website is super flaky about it too, sometimes giving you one, sometimes the other.
Want to use micro-frontends while mixing Angular versions?
Manfred (THE top expert in micro-frontends) breaks down a new solution from Nx.
www.angulararchitects.io/en/blog/cros...
Manfred (THE top expert in micro-frontends) breaks down a new solution from Nx.
www.angulararchitects.io/en/blog/cros...
Cross-Repo Conformance with Nx Polygraph - ANGULARarchitects
While tech giants like Google and Facebook rely on monorepos, the reality for many companies is different: Business software is often developed in multiple project- or product-related repos. The relat...
www.angulararchitects.io
August 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Want to use micro-frontends while mixing Angular versions?
Manfred (THE top expert in micro-frontends) breaks down a new solution from Nx.
www.angulararchitects.io/en/blog/cros...
Manfred (THE top expert in micro-frontends) breaks down a new solution from Nx.
www.angulararchitects.io/en/blog/cros...
I'm gong to the MN Renaissance Festival to see Penn and Teller tomorrow! I'm super excited, but I'm also expecting Fyre Festival levels of chaos and disorganization. They aren't ready for this.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
August 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'm gong to the MN Renaissance Festival to see Penn and Teller tomorrow! I'm super excited, but I'm also expecting Fyre Festival levels of chaos and disorganization. They aren't ready for this.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
The burden on maintainers is definitely increasing.
"This Is Why Nobody Submits PRs to Open Source Anymore"
archive.fo/6ISqh or medium.com/@ThreadSafeD...
I see:
1. Too much AI spam
2. Support needs only increase -> leading to burnout
3. Passion vs Corp OSS
"This Is Why Nobody Submits PRs to Open Source Anymore"
archive.fo/6ISqh or medium.com/@ThreadSafeD...
I see:
1. Too much AI spam
2. Support needs only increase -> leading to burnout
3. Passion vs Corp OSS
archive.fo
August 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The burden on maintainers is definitely increasing.
"This Is Why Nobody Submits PRs to Open Source Anymore"
archive.fo/6ISqh or medium.com/@ThreadSafeD...
I see:
1. Too much AI spam
2. Support needs only increase -> leading to burnout
3. Passion vs Corp OSS
"This Is Why Nobody Submits PRs to Open Source Anymore"
archive.fo/6ISqh or medium.com/@ThreadSafeD...
I see:
1. Too much AI spam
2. Support needs only increase -> leading to burnout
3. Passion vs Corp OSS
Has anyone else gotten really really good at memorizing 6 digit numbers for about 15 seconds over the past decade?
August 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Has anyone else gotten really really good at memorizing 6 digit numbers for about 15 seconds over the past decade?
I had a magic moment with #AI this week. I was debugging my Linux desktop computer which was failing to boot. I had googled and chatbotted unsuccessfully for about an hour at this point.
I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯
I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯
July 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I had a magic moment with #AI this week. I was debugging my Linux desktop computer which was failing to boot. I had googled and chatbotted unsuccessfully for about an hour at this point.
I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯
I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯
Check out the prompts in GitHub Copilot for VS Code for chat:
github.com/microsoft/vs...
"You are a highly sophisticated automated coding agent with expert-level knowledge across many different programming languages and frameworks."
We should all start the day with this kind of self-talk. :)
github.com/microsoft/vs...
"You are a highly sophisticated automated coding agent with expert-level knowledge across many different programming languages and frameworks."
We should all start the day with this kind of self-talk. :)
vscode-copilot-chat/src/extension/prompts/node/agent/agentInstructions.tsx at 3e73cedab4a72702ba0dd6043d83a701d267ba7f · microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
Copilot Chat extension for VS Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Check out the prompts in GitHub Copilot for VS Code for chat:
github.com/microsoft/vs...
"You are a highly sophisticated automated coding agent with expert-level knowledge across many different programming languages and frameworks."
We should all start the day with this kind of self-talk. :)
github.com/microsoft/vs...
"You are a highly sophisticated automated coding agent with expert-level knowledge across many different programming languages and frameworks."
We should all start the day with this kind of self-talk. :)
I totally misunderstood this page the first time I saw it, thinking it some generic "build with ai" nonsense.
It's actually the Angular team's personally tested recommendations and prompts to give you better more modern Angular code generation from LLMs. Wow!
angular.dev/ai/develop-w...
It's actually the Angular team's personally tested recommendations and prompts to give you better more modern Angular code generation from LLMs. Wow!
angular.dev/ai/develop-w...
Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
angular.dev
June 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I totally misunderstood this page the first time I saw it, thinking it some generic "build with ai" nonsense.
It's actually the Angular team's personally tested recommendations and prompts to give you better more modern Angular code generation from LLMs. Wow!
angular.dev/ai/develop-w...
It's actually the Angular team's personally tested recommendations and prompts to give you better more modern Angular code generation from LLMs. Wow!
angular.dev/ai/develop-w...