Harry Bayliss

building stuff @stratbaseapp @servergoggles. counter-strike: @indexCS

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

A high level overview of how I built the ultimate @CounterStrike 2 nade database with Laravel, Go and a sprinkling of JS.

Prefer to watch? There's a video in the article speedrunning the entire pipeline.

https://t.co/N9sMnAlwC6

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

Originally I had it throw a bunch of composer ideas at me, I really wanted to see a linear-esque one, so made sure it included that.

Then I cherry picked my favourite bits to create what I finally went with.

"I like the subject line on A, the overall layout of B" etc.

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

One of my favourite strats when using LLMs for UI work is to spin up a static page and get it to create multiple variations of the same product I can then iterate on.

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

I got an email successfully sent through my app that landed in my actual inbox last night.

Well... It landed in spam.

Now I need to build trust on my domain, which may be a painful process, we'll see!

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

Getting very close to a functioning MVP of my email app that I can send mail from which is crazy speed.

First project I've deployed on @laravel cloud and man, what a smooth product.

Using OpenTF to roll out the email infrastructure so everything is super smooth. Another first.

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

Stack is of course built around Laravel. I'll be putting as much of the infra as I can on cloud (which will be a first for me!) but it will need some external services like postfix.

Will be trying to post updates as I have them

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

Against my better judgement I'm hacking around on an email service.

The best email I've used is HEY. You can tell it's crafted by people who spend a lot of time in email.

The issue is I don't want to spend any more time in email than I have to. I hate emails. I have some ideas

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

I don't want to actually see my inbox if I'm honest.

I don't want to manually go through and get rid of newsletters.

I don't want to click into an email from my inbox to get the OTP out of it.

I'd like a tool that helps me switch from my old provider without digging around

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

PHP is an implementation detail of Laravel

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

@taylorotwell @aarondfrancis made it to the mothership, congratulations @aarondfrancis !!

[JMD 😸 @jmddotfm]

Perfect I've always wanted to look like Uncle Junior

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

I may be dumb, but I am happy

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

just had a pack of salt and vinegar crisps that were the saltiest vinegariest crisps I've ever had

delightful

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

@sheherenow_ tried /goal?

I used the new claude ultracode/workflows thing for something like this recently and it worked pretty well

Having an orchestrator split work into lots of little discrete tasks seems to work very well, lots of tokens though.

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

@sheherenow_ plan high/xhigh, implement on low/medium is working nicely for me

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

I'm not saying it's the solution but man I got a dog and my mental health has just been 📈📈📈

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

I found myself with some spare tokens so I'm throwing the new workflows thing at a work project and getting it to rewrite in Laravel. I'm super curious how well it does. I'm impressed with the speed so far, but I'm only using Sonnet!

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

I used libghostty in the go based cli

this desktop app is electron with a rust sidecar to handle the terminal using alacritty and it's just working^tm so far.

rendering in webgpu. Nice!

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

didn't like my tui in tui implementation

now doing tui in gui

i have an idea for 'tasks' as a concept. I've been doing this locally in md files but I'd prefer something a bit more built-in and agent-accessible so giving that a try.

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

@aarondfrancis "damn man stop spreading joy and optimism so I can continue being miserable"

[Harry Bayliss @hjbdev]

@taylorotwell love the design