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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It's public 🎉 We built a Docker plugin for @nx.dev If you run into any trouble with it, please let me know!

Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is yet another example of “I didn’t know I needed this until I used it” Not only that - but after less than a week of using it internally, I wanted to use it all the time It’s incredible 🔥🔥

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It's been a long time coming - but we did it! Feature Parity with @angular 19.2 - HMR Support - Budgets Support - App Shell Support - And much more I'm super excited for this! Please try it out and let us know if you run into issues so that we can make sure it's as stable as possible!

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Nx @nx.dev · 08/05/2025

📣 Nx 21 Launch Week continues with new and improved Module Federation! Module federation with Rspack is easier than ever with inferred tasks AND continuous tasks giving you that 🔥 DX you need. Get all the details on the blog: nx.dev/blog/improv...

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New and Improved Module Federation Experience with Nx

Nx 21 introduces native support for Module Federation with Inferred Tasks and Continuous Tasks, enabling streamlined Rspack configs and seamless multi-app serving for improved developer experience.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚀 Angular Rspack 20.9 Released! - Static Site Generation Support matching @angular.dev - @tailwindcss.com v4 Support - Fixes for Windows - Minimum @rspack.dev supported bumped to v1.3.5 - Other fixes

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Absolutely huge release from the @nx.dev team! The dedication the team showed to getting this release right was inspiring 🎉

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Nx @nx.dev · 05/05/2025

👀 Something big is on the horizon...

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

/jk But for real, this is super cool to see!

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We're doing it... We're taking over! 🎉

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Nx @nx.dev · 28/04/2025

We just shipped an MCP that fixes your CI, automatically! ✅ Get notified instantly if your PR CI fails ✅ Click a button and let an LLM auto-fix the issue ✅ Stay in your editor, stay in flow youtu.be/fPqPh4h8RJg

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The MCP Server That Fixes CI For You

We just dropped a game-changer for Nx users: the Nx Console now integrates directly with Nx Cloud and the new MCP server to fix your CI runs automatically wi...

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

So overall productivity was higher because I got two tasks done at the same time.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I believe if I had have focused on the task I told Junie to do, I would have completed it faster than Junie would have - but that wasn't the point. By using it, I was able to focus on a task and get it done, all while Junie took care of another task.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It was successful and completed the task to a good standard. However, it happened over the course of ~3 hours. A result of me not focusing on it. I would tell it to do something, work on the task I was focusing on and come back to it much later.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I used it on a task that needed done but that I was not focusing on. I more explicitly told it the approach it should take to fit the codebase. I gave it more context that I was acutely aware of that would impact the areas it _should_ be touching.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

From that I went back to trying it in an existing project and used what I had learned from the tower defence game.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

So I told it to refactor what currently existed to follow certain design patterns - key point 2 Then I wanted to add more complexity to the game. I had to be much more specific about the changes I wanted to see rather than at a higher level, but it mostly generated solid code - key point 3

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

As the project grew larger, the completeness of the code it generated suffered. It was starting to generate code invoking methods that it never generated. It also began to create a "god" class. One class to rule them all and it was getting ridiculous.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Two weekends ago I forced myself to use it exclusively to build a small tower defence game. At the time I was also doing things around my house and writing some of my novel. I found this more effective. It was able to get a project up and running quickly while I focused on other things- key point 1

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Once I finally got it working, I tried it out for a relatively trivial task. It was not great. It was slower than what I could have done manually and it massively missed integral context and relations between various areas of the codebase. So it got sidelined for a while.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Junie - Agentic AI I have a love-hate relationship, but it's growing on me. When I first tried to use it, the theme I had installed in my IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm conflicted with it and caused it to crash out every time. But at the time I didn't know it was the theme. It took some digging.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

So I need to break this down a bit. AI Assistant and Agentic AI JetBrains AI Assistant I haven't used in a long while. When I first tried it out, it was painfully slow and hallucinated a lot. So I switched to using Supermaven and haven't looked back. JetBrains AI Assistant may improved since then.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We're getting ever closer to feature parity 🎉

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Go 🌟 the repo! github.com/nrwl/angular...

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🚀 Angular Rspack 20.8 Released! - Improved Index Html Generation - Improved support for @angular.dev i18n inlining - Service Worker Support - Web Worker Support - @rspack.dev updated to 1.3.7

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The HMRC here aren’t flawless, arguably very flawed, but the fact that filing taxes is something 80% of working people don’t need to think about is incredible 😅

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I wrote a blog post explaining how to quickly get up and running with @angular.dev @rspack.dev apps! Check it out and let me know what issues you run into with `@nx/angular-rspack`!

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

At the core of it, it’s just a babel transformer that Angular already provides in the localise package

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I18N support - in an @angular.dev @rspack.dev project? No way… 😎😎

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

❓ Who has tried out the `@nx/angular:convert-to-rspack` migration? I'd love some feedback - any issues you faced, if you found it useful, etc. nx.dev/recipes/angu...

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Migrate Angular with Webpack to Rspack

Guide on how to Migrate Angular projects using Webpack to Rspack

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is going to be incredible when it lands - so excited for this 🎉🎉

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

That wouldn’t be the intended goal currently. Angular’s esbuild solution is fast, and does everything that needs to be done. The core differentiation would be related to some Webpack plugins that aren’t and can’t be supported on Esbuild.

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Colum Ferry @ferrycolum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Absolutely thrilled to announce that Nx has taken over ownership and maintenance of the Angular Rspack work I had started. This means more resources and better quality for the project overall 🎉🎉

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