Yannick

@osteel

Backend consultant at Yellow Raincoat Ltd. Currently building pixelwatcher.io. Organiser of @phpsussex.uk. I post in French once in a while

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Yannick@osteel· 7d

😬 bambamramfan.github....

Yannick@osteel· 11d

Is one supposed to finish these in one go?

A pot of Ben&Jerry’s Cookie Dough ice cream

Yannick@osteel· 13d

I mean in my experience, Brits still get amazed by the yoghurt aisles

Yannick@osteel· Jun 2

Fine-tuning my slides ahead of Laravel Live UK later this month 👀 🎟️ Grab your tickets: app.tickettailor.com...

Picture of my laptop's screen, showing a slide in Keynote

Yannick@osteel· May 30

Early feedback on Opus 4.8: it seems to be way less assuming overall, which is definitely a good thing

Screenshot of a terminal session that reads:

"User: Looks like bumping up the memory may have fixed it. Monitoring for now. Do 1. only

Model: Before I edit the plan table, I need the actual values you provisioned so it matches production — I shouldn't guess numbers into a plan you're executing from."

Yannick@osteel· May 12

Somehow missed the `mixin` PHPDoc tag until now. On a PHP trait, it tells static analysers (PHPStan, IDEs) to type-check it as if it lived inside a subclass, so they don't flag calls to methods that only exist in the subclass as invalid. phpstan.org/writing-...

<?php

class Command
{
public function warn(string $s) {}
}

/** @mixin Command */
trait Greeter {
public function run()
{
$this->warn('hi'); // PHPStan: resolved via @mixin
}
}

final class Hello extends Command
{
use Greeter;
}

Yannick@osteel· Apr 15

Guess who’s speaking at Laravel Live UK in June 😌 https://laravellive.uk

Yannick@osteel· Apr 13

Just used Peter Fox's `composer-upgrade` skill on PixelWatcher. Amazing work. It breezed through minor dependency upgrades, reported on the only major one, pulled the corresponding changelog, and checked whether my code would be impacted. Then it ran the test suite. Check it out!

// For users of Laravel Boost
php artisan boost:add-skill peterfox/agent-skills --skill composer-upgrade

// For everyone else
npx skills add peterfox/agent-skills --skill composer-upgrade

Yannick@osteel· Mar 31

Finally taking the time to use my faster.dev subscription and look at the video series. I almost skipped the "Claude Code from Scratch" one entirely, but decided to have a quick look anyway. Guess what – I didn't know you could customise the status line 🤦‍♂️

Screenshot of the OP's status line in Claude Code. It shows:
* Current directory
* Current Git branch
* Current model
* Context usage
* Session usage
* When it resets
* VIM mode
* Model mode
* Open PR

Yannick@osteel· Mar 6

Goddammit Claude! What am I gonna do, open my own PR like a peasant? 🙄

Screenshot of a terminal running Claude Code. It just completed a body of work – I'm asking it to commit the code and open a PR, which is met with a "You're out of extra usage" message

Yannick@osteel· Feb 18

My SaaS officially has a logo and a name! Can you guess what it does 🤪 Teaser page with newsletter form to be informed about launch and get early access in the thread Also in the thread a quick tutorial on how to use Remotion and Claude to animate your own logo

Yannick@osteel· Sep 15

Enjoyed reading Luke Harries (Growth Lead at ElevenLabs)’ recent articles on startup growth https://harries.co

Screenshot of recent article headlines – SEO for startups, how to launch products, first growth hire)

Yannick@osteel· Apr 26

🤔

Screenshot of a "Frequently bought together" section showing a kitchen bin and a cutlery set 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yannick@osteel· Apr 8

Indeed

Yannick@osteel· Apr 2

Dunno what else I can do now 🤷🏻‍♂️

The ghibli-fied version of the previous picture

Yannick@osteel· Apr 2

Alright then

Picture of my black-and-white cat lying on my keyboard, her back turned to me

Yannick@osteel· Jan 23

✅

Yannick@osteel· Jan 11

What Bluesky and X feel like these days

Scene from the The Boys series where "Starlighters" and supporters of Homelander face each other in a protest

Yannick@osteel· Dec 31

Just used Rector to convert an entire Symfony code base to using PHP attributes instead of annotations. Not a single issue ✨ getrector.com/docume...

$<?php declare(strict_types=1); use Rector\Config\RectorConfig; return RectorConfig::configure() ->withAttributesSets(symfony: true, doctrine: true, gedmo: true);$

Yannick@osteel· Dec 12

Jira trickery of the day: when defining customer filters, if you want to display the tasks that don't have a specific label, you also need to include the tasks that don't have any labels at all 🙃 Only took two hours of head scratching...