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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙

@mythicalmanmoth.com
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Freelance Web & mobile developer. Building products with Flutter, Nuxt/Vue and Supabase. #flutter #vuejs #nuxt #dotnet #csharp

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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 21/09/2026
AI is not perfect for everything, but, for generating realistic fake/test data including images it's pretty cool.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 10/09/2026
Could not get used to the new Solution Explorer icons on Visual Studio 2026. The transparent/outlined folders was jarring. So i made an extension to fix it. Check it out marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
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Proper Solution Explorer Icons for VS2026 - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Replaces the default Visual Studio 2026 Solution Explorer folder icons with one clean, proper folder icon — on every folder, closed and open, regardless of folder name (a...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/08/2026
What’s new in Flutter 3.47 Standalone UI Packages is a big update! Flutter continues to be a great framework. flutter.dev/blog/whats-n...
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What’s new in Flutter 3.47
Modular by design: Standalone UI Packages and Impeller on Desktop
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 12/08/2026
One of the best explained and clearly written pieces I've read in a long time. Love the interactive examples. Very cool. Nice one @anniesexton.com !
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ngrok @ngrok.com · 11/08/2026
Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 12/08/2026
Considering the state of most APIs, I don’t think anyone is dogfooding their own stuff anymore. At best, they sniffed the bowl and called it done.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 11/08/2026
So, don't get hung up on your UI/UX or architecture. Get it done and start selling.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 11/08/2026
I don't know man, but from what I've seen, UI/UX and even proper architecture with B2B software is not as important as having a good salesperson/team.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 29/07/2026
Trying to help a customer out on a probably 12 year old ASP.Net MVC project. Developer clearly did not understand the framework. We had slop way before AI...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 25/07/2026
Eina! Sterkte Shawn!
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 20/07/2026
Agents hooked up to CLI's are pretty impressive.
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Futurama: Welcome To The World Of Tomorrow
ALT: Futurama: Welcome To The World Of Tomorrow
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 10/07/2026
I hear you. The internet certainly feels less alive these days.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 10/07/2026
It still amazes me how unbelievably fast Stack Overflow went from essential for developers to barely used anymore.🙂
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 03/07/2026
In the exact boat. Slowly losing billable hours since the midlevel devs are simply using AI, and no longer need guidance. One customer actually said the era of the developer is over. Its either focus on own product or find a permanent job.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 02/07/2026
Teddy would probably have punched his lights out
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 03/06/2026
Had a blast with this little development board. It has so many stuff stuffed inside such a small device. Brilliant! docs.waveshare.com/ESP32-C6-Tou...
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ESP32-C6-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 | WaveShare Documentation Platform
The ESP32-C6-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 is a high-performance, highly integrated microcontroller development board designed by Waveshare. It is equipped with a 1.8inch ca
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 26/05/2026
Huh, honestly, did not know about the <dl> element. Live and learn... benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-...
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On the ‹dl›
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 14/05/2026
larsfaye.com/articles/age...
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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 07/05/2026
nooneshappy.com/article/appe...
nooneshappy.com
Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 30/04/2026
blog.flutter.dev/how-dart-and... The driving principles is something all developers should follow. AI wont go anywhere and is a great tool, but we cannot replace humans.
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How Dart and Flutter are thinking about AI in 2026
Last month, we published Flutter and Dart’s 2026 Roadmap, a peek into how our teams are approaching our core mission: Building the most…
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 28/04/2026
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 14/02/2026
masteringnuxt.com/blog/nuxt-mo...
masteringnuxt.com
Nuxt Modules Worth Checking Out in 2026
Discover the top Nuxt modules worth checking out in 2026 to boost performance, improve DX, and streamline your Vue and Nuxt projects.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 11/02/2026
Great piece. Agree wholeheartedly www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th... "The wonder is harder to access. The sense of discovery, of figuring something out through sheer persistence and ingenuity — that’s been compressed. Not eliminated, but compressed. And something is lost in the compression"
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 20/01/2026
Was waiting for him to say the driver just screamed "Pop quiz, hotshot. This bus can't go under 50 mile per hour!"
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 20/12/2025
Yes, please! Very nice. New product idea?
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Very Good Ventures 🦄 💙 @vgventures.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
In our new blog, Sofía Rey walks through mastering CustomPainter, from translating SVG paths to building real-time race track animations for a NASCAR team. Read it here: hubs.ly/Q03YcK6B0 #Flutter #CustomPainter #MobileDev #UIEngineering
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Mastering CustomPainter in Flutter: From SVGs to Racetracks
Explore how CustomPainter unlocks advanced Flutter UI design—from SVG path translation to racetrack animations and real-time rendering.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 08/12/2025
Nice! Very useful supabase.com/docs/guides/...
supabase.com
SQL to REST API Translator | Supabase Docs
Translate SQL queries to HTTP requests and Supabase client code
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Frank van Puffelen @puf.io · 05/12/2025
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Cory Doctorow A great article by @doctorow on how to use AI vs being used by AI (companies). pluralistic.net/2025...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 01/11/2025
I'm convinced that the App Store review team just randomly assigns reasons for rejections.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 04/10/2025
"Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is the game" Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISo...
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Dennis Adriaansen ⚡️ @dennisadriaans.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 28/07/2025
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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 30/06/2025
Hey @dennisadriaans.bsky.social Loving Nuxt Charts! Thank you for your effort. Looking forward to see what you come up with in future!
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a man in a suit is standing in a hallway with #schitts creek written on the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a hallway with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 27/06/2025
Do you need 3rd party software for this? What do you use?
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 17/06/2025
Would you mind sharing the source for this please? I want to keep it my back pocket for the next "Flutter is dead" argument
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GitHub Trending @github-trending.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚀 Skyrocketing! 🚀 (200+ new stars) 📦 ripienaar / free-for-dev ⭐ 97,405 (+308) 🗒 HTML A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
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GitHub - ripienaar/free-for-dev: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev - ripienaar/free-for-dev
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 01/06/2025
@kiwicopple.bsky.social would it be possible to add an AWS Cape Town region for Supabase, please? Some clients insist their data stay in-country. Rest of Africa could also benefit with a Supabase data location on the continent.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 31/03/2025
Oooh and a Flutter version please. I'd be on that like white on rice
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 31/03/2025
This is great! Any plans for a Vue version?
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 26/03/2025
Agree. It's a fine choice for a local/on device DB, not for the backend. That is what Postgres is for.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 25/03/2025
Yeah. Loathe must've been a bit strong of a word. It's all right for specific use cases. It just frustrates the hell out of me when you change something small and out of the blue hot reload is borked.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 25/03/2025
Hot reload is a mess. If you're used to using Vue and Flutter, this is not how hot reload is supposed to work.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 24/03/2025
Anyone in the habit or speaking the truth should avoid the USA.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 24/03/2025
Oh Blazor. How I loathe you...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/03/2025
The frightening thing is, this type of person is usually very charismatic, so they have the ability to convince others to give them money and keep giving them money. Upside down world.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/03/2025
Either your idea is worth nothing or you're just shite.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/03/2025
How can I take a "Founder" serious, if they've not produced ANY customers (free or paid) in the last 17 months? 5 years since inception of their company - they still have 0 clients. Now they want to throw out everything and start over, with other people's money... 🤡
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/03/2025
Still do not understand how people can think just an idea is worth a majority share. And they want to put "Founder" underneath their name. So in their minds the labor that goes into creating something out of nothing is not worth much.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen 💙 @mythicalmanmoth.com · 13/03/2025
Struggled the whole morning with a bug that was incredibly hard to track down. Asked Anthropic's Claude to help me debug, and after some to and fro, I came upon the issue. In this instance, AI had some enormous developer benefit. Wow. I need a coffee.
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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 12/03/2025
Nuxt UI v3 is out ✨ 🚀 Designed with Tailwind CSS v4 💫 Built on top of Reka UI 📦 50+ components for every need 🎨 A brand new design system 💚 Works on both Nuxt or Vue projects nuxt.com/blog/nuxt-u...
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Nuxt UI v3 · Nuxt Blog
Nuxt UI v3 is out! After 1500+ commits, this major redesign brings improved accessibility, Tailwind CSS v4 support, and full Vue compatibility
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