The Flippin Coder

INTRODUCING THE VANCOUVER GOLDENEYES

Vancouver Goldeneyes and Seattle Torrent now have names and logos. #PHWL

What's the humidity like?

I hated winters when I lived on Vancouver Island because it was wet and icy (more humid near the coast) but was okay with Okanagan winters (much drier in the Interior where snow evaporated!) because it was dry and much easier to deal with!

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably

Screen shot of my setting screen. Settings > Manage Apps shows a list of apps that are connected to my account with the checkbox "Use by default" next to Gemini checked

Check Settings > Manage Apps in your Google Drive, Gemini was enabled by default for me. I only checked because someone had pointed it on Twitter

Have already had to deal with and fix this a couple of times!

Implementing morph maps now! Thank you for the suggestion!

This feature has been on my mind since the beginning & I've feared it being a major PITA to integrate later into the project. I think we were done within an hr!

My 1st Laravel project using polymorphic relationships & I am LOVING them! I noticed a HUGE speed boost the first ones I implemented!

Whenever you see hateful posts on social media, please remember that about 50% of internet activity is now AI/bots, so it's likely that it isn't even a real person. Don't fall for the crap that's trying to divide us, just ignore (block) and move on.

Marked safe today because I never left my VPS for that overhyped cloud thin

Working on the really important things today:

ensuring the cli looks great when running an `npm run refresh`

🚧 🚧 🚧 Resetting: All data 🚧 🚧 🚧

Reality: about to test the shit out of last two Models I need to get finalized before finishing auditing my own data && updating the underlying software!

Been on a social media redux since summer.

But, I need to get back into it!

I'm getting very close to releasing my project (to others) & then I'll be forced to talk about it if I want more customers!

Current MRR: $24.95

I've been paying for dogfooding since I started charging my own cc in June!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

"What I did on my summer vacation..."

Literally 😞

Almost back to where this ai led slide quest started on the summer solstice!

Yes, I'm firing up the socials, again!

Because apparently this thing won't sell itself! 🤓

For those wanting the geeky details of this Laravel project:

VILT (Vue, Inertia, Laravel, TailwindCSS/UI) with Jetstream, Spatie's Roles/Permissions, Pest, Stripe, Paddle, and a mix between VSCode w/CoPilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT (for higher level architectural discussions).

A screen snip of ArbiFlip's GitLab repo showing 1,002 commits, 1 Branch, 2 Tags and 543.5 MiB Proeject Storage

I knew it was coming up!

Pushed my 1,000th commit on ArbiFlip a few days ago!

Not shown: Created on January 16, 2023

Once tests are 100% passing, I will finally "put the guardrails up", work on my data entry backlog to test the shit out of the app, and then finally, FINALLY I will launch it!!!

"✅ Perfect! You Were Right - Here's the Proper Solution"

If there's 1 thing I've learned, it's NOT to let the bot loose in my project w/o babysit/questioning it the whole time!

Any time I have, it's taken me weeks to get my project back from the depths of the hell it's introduced into my codebase!

1 failed, 1 risky, 8 skipped, 1478 passed (10313 assertions)

ofc, that 1 passes in isolation.

me too unit test. me too.

A class instantiates an object.

Finally finalizing the Windows setup of the laptop I bought over 2 years ago. This hasn't been my daily OS since I left the corporate IT world of Microsoft in 2010!

Fumbling to find stuff on this OS but at least I finally started my Electronics Technician Program today!

Got a free Lenovo tablet w/points a while ago.

I don't think I've ever used this tablet and YouTube not crashed on me at least once!

From what I can tell, it crashes during transitions to/from ads in case anyone can fix this POS tech!

Old tablet NEVER crashed! Today, I can't get YT to open again!

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I'm amazed it was only billions and not trillions he's asked for.

if you would please consult this graph by @alfredtwu.com

Shouldn't be this excited about a shipment of rigid mailers being delivered today.

But here we are!

Are we all in agreement yet that it wasn't the carbon tax jacking up the cost of everything???

It's been corporate greed from the beginning folks.

Reposting to come back to later!

There are a lot of small businesses going under because they have no choice but to use these huge platforms to sell on.

Couple this with high postal rates and labour disputes....

My year started off great! Now I struggle to make sales.