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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 21/01/2026

Cursor's Composer 1 model has also been really good...better than many of the other frontier models I've tried

Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 21/01/2026

That seems to help prevent the LLM from filling up the context window nearly as much. Regardless, I've also noticed it does much better at building brand-new features compared to tweaking existing ones.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 21/01/2026

I thought our app was pretty big, but looks like it’s only 28K LOC. One of the first things we did was ask the LLM to crawl through the codebase and summarize it into MD docs. Then we created cursor rules for specific sections and mentioned the relevant MD docs.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 09/12/2025

Tinkerwell calls me a Query Goblin. I speak fluent Eloquent and my queries have queries. #TinkerwellWrapped 😂

Tinkerwell Wrapped: shows "the query goblin: lives in SQL caves, whispering to databases and summoning query results like spells" with a "chaos rate" of 16.9%; started Tinkerwell 126 this year; Tinkerwell journey started 306 days ago; on average 18.3 code runs per session (0.4% above global average); 100% PHP 8.4 usage; a smattering of framework versions all Laravel 12.x.x

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 06/12/2025

Hey @cmorrell.com I saw a truck the other day with an Interachi sticker on it!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/11/2025

+1 for schema:dump. If you can disable foreign key constraints prior to refreshing and maybe re-enable after, that may help considerably too.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/11/2025

Got to see some an amazing northern lights in the Twin Cities last night!!!

Red and green aurora borealis "curtains" directly overhead

Mostly pink/red and a bit of green aurora borealis in the sky with bare tree branches in the foreground

Vivid pink/red and slight green aurora borealis directly overhead with a few stars in the background and a few bare tree branches in the foreground

Pink, purple, red, and green aurora borealis in the distance with stars in the background and bare tree branches surrounding the left, right, and lower edges of the photo

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 13/09/2025

My wife threatened to steal it, so I had to find another one 😂

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 13/09/2025

@mattstauffer.com I don’t know whose idea it was to make these @tighten.com fidget toys for Laracon but it was genius. I have another fidget spinner that I rarely use, but I use this thing multiple times a day, and I don’t even like noisy/clicky keyboards.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 10/09/2025

In my head, it makes sense to flip the colors of the hit cube plus adjacent cubes. I’m not sure how well that would work in practice though.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/09/2025

@tjmiller.bsky.social any plans to add support for the OpenAI conversations API? Specifically, the part where we can pass a conversation ID. platform.openai.com/docs/guides/... I’m happy to submit a PR for that… Just wondering if you had bigger plans

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 30/08/2025

What to do next with Kilopixel? I really like the idea of a slow-motion Battleship game where a ship might be moving as you try to sink it with a slow-moving missile

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

Yeah, I do recall seeing that somewhere a while ago

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

I guess that's almost the origin story isn't it...

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

I'd rather keep my eyes on the road while I'm driving and listening 🙃 😂

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

What are the chances we could redraw this watch and get the hands to update every 5-10min or so to stay in sync with the actual time? @benholmen.com

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

Sounds like Laravel Boost...

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/08/2025

We sent it to our product team too as homework

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 05/08/2025

Isn't it?? I made that with fresh mint grown on our back porch 😋😋😋 I have a batch of Ricky’s Coffee Pretzel Toffee base curing in the fridge right now; can't wait to see how it turns out tomorrow...

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 05/08/2025

Thanks; will give it a another try. Did you try using the specific Claude agent in Cursor and does that work worse than Claude Code itself?

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 05/08/2025

Nice! I got a Whynter countertop ice cream maker this spring and it's been a lot of fun experimenting. Enjoy!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 05/08/2025

We have a large Laravel backend that's pretty idiosyncratic in places so LLMs tend to struggle more I think than they would in a more typical Laravel project. I'll have to try Context7...that might help a lot. Thanks!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 05/08/2025

What kinds of tasks are you using it for? I've had really mixed results with backend changes, but it seems to work a lot better for frontend HTML/Tailwind/JS-type stuff

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

I would have used the ->tinker() helper 5 times today already!!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

Oh yeah...Laravel Boost looks really cool as well...can't wait to start using it!!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

I'm very curious what does it *sound* like?

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

Overall I thought it was a great mix of deep-dive technical content and some more inspirational/“soft” skills talks. Huge thanks to @taylorotwell.bsky.social and the whole @laravel.com team!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

- AI Will Not Replace You by @davehicking.com - AI and You: Understanding, Watching, and Emabracing by Colin DeCarlo - Livewire v4 by @calebporzio.bsky.social was pretty interesting, specifically the performance part - A Framework for Interesting Projects by @wking.dev

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

- Pest v4 by @nunomaduro.com previewed so many nice features I can't wait to start using - Building the High Trust Environment by @johnrudolphdrexler.com is excellent - Laravel Keynote: specifically Wayfinder with @joe.codes; the Forge updates look nice, though I'm not using it any more

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/08/2025

Can't wait for this! Looks so good!!

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 03/08/2025

We may use it to generate Dart types for our mobile app consuming our APIs…still have to look more into feasibility but 🤞🏻

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 31/07/2025

@laravel.com @thehanktaylor.com the new monthly changelog is a great idea!! Any chance you could add RSS support for those of us that still use old-school feed readers?

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 24/07/2025

That sounds about right from my experience too

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 22/07/2025

I’ve built this both as an accessor and as a Livewire property in different projects…wish I’d thought to make it a custom relation 🚀

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 21/07/2025

Nice! I was thinking it looked very similar to a 3D printer head

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 21/07/2025

That is so cool!! What’s the robotics hardware that you’re using?

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 09/07/2025

From bush to dish in 24h: picked some wild black raspberries and made fresh ice cream 😋

Wild black raspberry bushes with an out-of-focus container of picked berries in the foreground

A pint of freshly-picked black raspberries on a drying mat after having been washed

Black raspberries in a pot on the stove reducing to make a delicious sauce

A bowl of vanilla ice cream custard base, another bowl with black raspberry sauce, and a foil tray of the strained-out berries and seeds to be used as a (very crunchy) spread

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 30/06/2025

Anybody using Prometheus and/or OpenTelemetry in their Laravel apps in production? Do you measure *everything* or just specific routes/jobs/etc. of interest?

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 15/06/2025

Trying to find issues exactly like this before they pop up in prod. I’m thinking I’ll have to just simulate prod activity and scale the DB up 2x, 5x, 10x, and watch to see what breaks.

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