Ben Hong

👨‍💻 staff dx engineer ∙ io psychologist ∙ educator hybrid | 💚 vue core ∙ 🔺 angular team ∙ 🏔️ nuxt amb | 📝 productivity ∙ docs ∙ notes nerd

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

I got tired of looking up the syntax for checking what processes are running on the 3000 port, so I created an alias for it:

[Nuxt @nuxt_js]

Nuxt Image v2.1 is out! 🖼️

⚡ IPX v4

✨ 8 new providers: https://t.co/l0Hxl0crUV, Cloudflare Images, EdgeOne Pages, Flyimg, imgproxy, Lorem Picsum, Supabase and Umbraco

🔧 plus Directus sharp transforms, Sanity base URLs + configurable TTL for AWS + Vercel

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

I'll be giving a free lightning talk on "Take Better Notes with Obsidian" on Wed, Aug 5th at 7:30 PM EDT!

It'll be a great primer for anyone who's been thinking about starting to evolve their notes into a system that can grow with them.

Sign up below! 👇

https://t.co/6w4ZryrxbP

[Sébastien Chopin @Atinux]

In case you need a Markdown parser and renderer that works **everywhere**.

It has core & community plugins (highlight, toc, json-render, emoji, security...).

Streaming is supported out of the box too, as well as minimal AST.

[Nuxt @nuxt_js]

🔐 Nuxt 4.5.1 and 3.21.10 are out, fixing several security issues, plus a critical dev-only fix in @​nuxt/devtools 3.3.1.

Please upgrade as soon as you can:
npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

👉 Read more at https://t.co/YFZSr3hTUe.

[Johnson Chu @johnsoncodehk]

Just dropped TNB into vuejs/language-tools.

vue-tsc → 2.7x faster
tsslint → 2x faster

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

I know this sentiment has been echoed by many others already, but I just wanted to also share my disdain for the fact that AI has taken away my ability to use em dashes for fear of people thinking I used AI to write something.

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

🔴 Livestream in session

Today I'll be taking a look at the popular Hermes Agent to see what all the hype is all about.

As always, feel free to bring questions or just come hangout!

https://t.co/vRODw1KaN3

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

For a community that tries to write "self-explanatory code" and being as literal as possible, I find it ironic that people have accepted and confidently use the phrase "rules for AI skills" when they're really more like guidelines.

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

If I were to do another thesis for grad school, I'd be curious how "people pleasers" are dealing with this new working relationship with AI.

Do they feel compelled to agree with AI perspectives?

Does groupthink come into play when working with multiple models?

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

If you want to join the next episode, I'll be taking a break next week, but will resume livestreaming on Weds, Aug 5th at 12:30PM EST!

https://t.co/vRODw1KaN3

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

🎬 New episode of Ben's Open Tabs is live!

In this session, we take the first step of every app development process: can it just be a spreadsheet?

Rather than a spreadsheet though, we deep dive into Obsidian Bases to see just how far we can go.

https://t.co/rXV5b3peQk

[Santiago @svpino]

The tokenmaxxing culture is absolutely out of hand.

You don't need an agent for everything.

In fact, I'm 99% sure you don't need an agent for 99% of the problems you need to solve.

Good engineering principles still apply. Simplicity still wins.

A regular, boring ol' script that works every time is 1000 times better than a fancy agent that works sometimes.

We need common sense back.

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

@ashokgelal In my experience, it's not an all-or-nothing kind of decision.

You can still have your agents using Vue if that is your preferred framework so that when you need to intervene manually, you still get to work with your framework of choice!

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

https://t.co/ziU0b3pBks

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

I asked Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to do research on the best time to send out an email newsletter.

This is what Fable 5 had to say about GPT-5.6 Sol's response.

"Bottom line: I’d grade it a B+. Sourcing is honest, metric priorities are right, confidence is appropriately medium."

😆😆😆

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

Since you can see me now, here's a site I made to demo/explain WebMCP:

Maybe you've heard about WebMCP, but if you'd like to see it in action and learn how to work with it, how agents use it, what the spec looks like, and some important links?

It's interactive! Use the extension to actuate the page:

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

@1Marc I’m so sorry Marc. He was always great to me when I’d come in and was such a pleasure to work with.

Thinking of you and the team.

[Nuxt @nuxt_js]

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀

- ⚡️ Vite 8
- 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild
- 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB
- 🩺 a new stable error code system
- 🎨 useLayout + named views

... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5!

💚💚💚

https://t.co/V8HKaFcVUW

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

@Alex_designerr Thanks for the assist. It turns out there were still lingering DNS issues I had to try and reset. Wouldn't have caught it if you hadn't brought it up.

Really appreciate it!

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

It's taken a couple of years, but it's time...

Time to revamp my website from the ground up.

[Ben Hong @bencodezen]

@Alex_designerr Ah good catch!

Interesting. There must be something weird going on with the redirect.

https://t.co/pTIBjgoLfv

Does this break for you?