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Alex Vanderbist

@alexvanderbist.com

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Web, tech, and code enthousiast. PHP & Laravel developer at Spatie. Blogging at alexvanderbist.com

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 20h

Added a swinging sign to the spatie.be homepage. Swing it all the way around and you get confetti. Before AI, stuff like this was never worth the time. Anyone with an agent can generate a slick UI now but the silly extras are what makes it feel a little more human.

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 30/04/2026

Been going back and forth on this for Flare for a couple of days now... Two logs in the current filter. Pin them to the bottom (because that's where new logs land) or to the top (because that's how every table works)? Neither feels obviously right. Both feel slightly wrong 🙃

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 24/04/2026

Wait, terminal tables are responsive now? How does that even work?

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 23/04/2026

We just released a new package: spatie/sourcemaps-lookup It resolves JS stack frames against source maps. Flare uses it in its frame resolver. It's 99% faster and uses 91% less memory on a 6 MB map. Took me a couple of steps to get there... 🧵

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 02/03/2026

What is @AnthropicAI waiting for to implement agents.md? Best solution I could come up with is having a CLAUDEmd file with one line that references the `@agents.md`. This works but seems a bit inefficient...

agents.md

AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 02/03/2026

I'm giving Codex a go this week. Loving the UI so far but it seems like it's pretty good at planning too. Claude Code often thinks Codex' plans are "slightly more comprehensive" or in-depth

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 23/02/2026

Been deep in package development this week, so I set up an AI skill to toggle between local path repositories and Packagist. No more manually editing composer.json 👌 github.com/AlexVanderb...

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spatie.be @spatie.be · 30/01/2025

More than a year in the making, performance monitoring is coming to Flare! Join the waitlist to be among the first to access it. What features are you most excited about?

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Performance Monitoring | Flare

Performance monitoring for Laravel & PHP, coming soon to all Flare plans at no extra cost. Get early access by joining the waitlist.

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 15/01/2025

Any tips for handling large #Laravel Horizon jobs more effectively? Getting [job] attempted too many times usually points to OOM/timeouts, but debugging is tough - especially with 30min+ execution times and retries. What's your approach?

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 18/12/2024

Now that an official VS Code extension for Laravel is available, I'm ready to give it another try. Is there a definitive guide on how to configure VS Code for PHP development? I know there's a Laracasts course, but I feel like a lot has changed since 2021

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 25/11/2024

this post but for global scopes

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Alex Vanderbist @alexvanderbist.com · 22/11/2024

Every year, we create a fun video and promo for Black Friday, and this one might be my favorite yet! Next week we'll be giving away 100 t-shirts and a bunch of other prizes, if you know where to find them 🕵️

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