Kennith

Husband, father of 2, software engineer, devops. I like to play and watch basketball. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦⛹️‍♂️👨🏻‍💻

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.

I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).

The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.

In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.

They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.

I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.

I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.

Number one tip: act with agency.

[Kennith @kennith]

Vibe code is not coding. It's playing the role of a product manager, writing prompts or specs until a product is produced.

It's still the same step: get an MVP out, test the market, and iterate.

[Kennith @kennith]

I am very pleased to work with AI. it is helping me to focus on what I should be working on.

[Kennith @kennith]

Pass the bill to eliminate day light saving time! @SenateDems @SenateGOP

[Kennith @kennith]

@joetannenbaum This is awesome. Thank you. 👏

[Kennith @kennith]

The issue I have with the modern UI in @code is that, without the customer title bar, the editor looks out of balance at the top.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good.

[Kennith @kennith]

This x app is so much smoother.

[Kennith @kennith]

Switching to Alfred, Spotlight basically is not usable at this point.

[Kennith @kennith]

I still don't understand how @GitHubCopilot billing works since the announcement.

[Kennith @kennith]

@adamwathan Please take care and speedy recovery.

[Kennith @kennith]

Focus

[Kennith @kennith]

Is @Tinkerwellapp hallucinating or it's an easter egg? 😆

[Kennith @kennith]

Getting the foundation right is important. That's why I am updating the app even though it's very close to reaching the public. #citruscrm

[Kennith @kennith]

The split view in chrome is pretty nice actually. Something I didn't know I need.

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI.

When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this.

When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term.

Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while.

As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

[Kennith @kennith]

is this right way to typescript laravel echo?

[Kennith @kennith]

I think forcing Google to separate from Chrome would be a mistake. I am glad it did not happen.

[Kennith @kennith]

pest --coverage --compact -p --watch is 🔥

[Kennith @kennith]

just do `pie install`. no more pecl.

[Kennith @kennith]

My Nintendo Switch (1) now becomes a console to play gameboy, Nintendo, and super Nintendo emulator.