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.
I was looking for a course to watch while doing chores. Didn't find what I was looking for in terms of, say, "sharpness". Later I went to read the documentation on the thing and got so much traction immediately.
Again.
Read the docs! Don't wait for someone for create a course.
Again.
Read the docs! Don't wait for someone for create a course.
January 30, 2026 at 8:19 AM
I was looking for a course to watch while doing chores. Didn't find what I was looking for in terms of, say, "sharpness". Later I went to read the documentation on the thing and got so much traction immediately.
Again.
Read the docs! Don't wait for someone for create a course.
Again.
Read the docs! Don't wait for someone for create a course.
Who uses GitHub Copilot or Copilot in VS Code and is NOT associated with Microsoft in some way? What makes you choose it? Please burst my Claude feed bubble.
January 28, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Who uses GitHub Copilot or Copilot in VS Code and is NOT associated with Microsoft in some way? What makes you choose it? Please burst my Claude feed bubble.
You can and need to practice both:
- lock in and focus even if exhausted
- fully let go when you play with your children
- lock in and focus even if exhausted
- fully let go when you play with your children
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
You can and need to practice both:
- lock in and focus even if exhausted
- fully let go when you play with your children
- lock in and focus even if exhausted
- fully let go when you play with your children
What if agentic coding only works as well as it does because libraries contribute a significant deterministic part of the code?
Imagine you had to code your operating system from scratch every time you wanted to run a new project. Sounds ridiculous!
So where’s the line?
Imagine you had to code your operating system from scratch every time you wanted to run a new project. Sounds ridiculous!
So where’s the line?
January 6, 2026 at 8:37 AM
What if agentic coding only works as well as it does because libraries contribute a significant deterministic part of the code?
Imagine you had to code your operating system from scratch every time you wanted to run a new project. Sounds ridiculous!
So where’s the line?
Imagine you had to code your operating system from scratch every time you wanted to run a new project. Sounds ridiculous!
So where’s the line?
Who will eventually be left to be required to understand actual code? Maybe cyber security? And people developing the low level stuff?
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Who will eventually be left to be required to understand actual code? Maybe cyber security? And people developing the low level stuff?
Why haven't we seen significant deterministic code generators before we got AI? We barely got WYSIWYG editors to produce usable HTML.
January 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Why haven't we seen significant deterministic code generators before we got AI? We barely got WYSIWYG editors to produce usable HTML.
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.