Raphaël Titsworth-Morin

I remember checking in on this stuff as far back as 2016 (diff url) and thinking "yay! This might actually happen!"

Little did I know...

github.com/tc39/proposa...

PHP 8.5 Released PHP 8.5 is a major update of the PHP language, with new features including the URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and support for modifying properties while cloning.

#PHP got the pipe operator before #JS 😭

www.php.net/releases/8.5...

On a notre visa! On dirait bien qu'on restera au moins quatre ans de plus en France! 😁🇫🇷

Tooltips: v1.0.0 ChatGPT Pro. Antigravity.

I put together the first edition of Tooltips, a write-up on some tools I’ve been using and how they felt in practice.

This one covers ChatGPT Pro, Google’s #Antigravity, and a small experiment where Antigravity improvised in a way I found neat.

raphontech.substack.com/p/tooltips-v...

Easiest way to deploy!

@defang.io gives #software #developers that balance: deploy complex containerized projects without feeling like you need a whole #devops team to back you up.

I couldn't find that middleground of a tool that felt like it could handle the complexity of the projects I was deploying, without feeling like it was built for people operating at 1000x my scale.

On the flipside, the simpler container deployment tools always left me frustrated by the lack of functionality and going back to k8s.

I'm a big fan of #kubernetes in many ways. I started using it in 2019 and quickly became a fan (kinda): I was able to run my containers across multiple nodes and scale out. But it was overkill for what I was doing, and always required building a bunch of extra tooling to get the behaviour I needed.

What's your fav #vscodeextension ?
Ours is the Defang extension of course 😁 It makes it easy to ask your coding agent to deploy to your #cloud account (AWS, GCP) including integrations with Bedrock and Vertex. It generates a compose files and then our rule-based system sets up infra you can trust.

I was rudely tricked by my university into learning #Java (and #programming more broadly) through @processing.org in 2008. But hey, that's basically the reason I'm in software now, so thanks @benfry.com and Casey Reas. Changed my life.

Always been a fan of #Django + #Postgres 💚

But I also use other stuff. I've been a big fan of #Hasura as well. And generally build with React on the frontend, though I've been experimenting with Svelte and Solid recently.

Always been a fan of #Django + #Postgres 💚

But I also use other stuff. I've been a big fan of #Hasura as well. And generally build with React on the frontend, though I've been experimenting with Svelte and Solid recently.

Possum jar in progress

I keep feeling frustrated by complexity, and then recognizing that there's a good reason that complexity came to exist, and then grumbling in resignation.

They're everywhere!

Glad to see this. I'm a fan. Did a demo at a conference and was surprised how many people didn't know DMR existed!

They're so finicky and the dx is bad. They still click with my brain better than nix, though!

I'm a fan of containerized dev environnents, whether it's dev containers or other formats (have used Coder, Gitpod, etc over the past 4-5 years).

IMO dev containers have the worst developer experience of the ones I've tried. But now they are the accepted standard that others have had to adopt. Bah.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Quote with yellow border and white car with flowers growing out of it at the bottom. “The car may be the feature of modern life we take most for granted. But as this brilliant book makes clear, we should be asking deep questions about whether we want to keep shaping our communities and our lives around automobiles: We’re ready for the shake-up these authors inspire! — Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun

Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars."

www.lifeaftercars.com

And yes, my service did get worse (and I basically got conned into a contract I was furious about) when Rogers gobbled up Shaw. Thanks a lot to our snivelling, spineless, pathetic CRTC.

Screenshot of an Internet speed test in French showing very fast connection results: 955.8 Mbps download, 579.2 Mbps upload, latency 4 ms, server located in Paris. The text says the Internet connection is very fast and suitable for streaming HD videos, video calls, and gaming on multiple devices simultaneously.

Regularly blows my mind that how much faster/better/more reliable our internet is in Paris than it was in Vancouver for less than half the price.

I had fun recording this one too! Very cool that you can self-host n8n. I feel like when I first came across them there wasn't so much emphasis on AI? But now I see it pop up regularly in hackathons when people want to build on top of LLMs.

#cloud #ai #n8n

If it's something you want to run in a browser, probably the easiest starting point is writing an HTML document, adding a script tag in it, write your js in there, then open the file with your browser. Hopefully that's helpful!

Just thinking about containers.

Boxes. Jars. Cartons. OCI.

I made a video :) I think it's a really neat feature! Migrate from Heroku to AWS in 5min!

#programming #webdevelopment #cloud

I wonder if anyone has lived a full life without ever stubbing their toe... Also, I wonder if it is truly a full life if you never stub your toe...

Great! See you then!

Beer & Code Dar es Salaam · Luma Hi, I'm a software developer named Raphaël. I'll be in Dar for a few days this week and would love to meet up with other developers in the region to learn…

I'll be in #daressalaam #tanzania later this week. I'm thinking of planning a Beer & Code event on Friday, like the one I usually run in Paris for #tech people and #devs in particular to grab a drink and chat. Anyone interested in joining?

Just made an event on Luma:

lu.ma/txqbvpa4