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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 29/09/2026

Idea: AI conf in Macedonia called Slopje

Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 10/09/2026

Working on improving the sidebar at wasp.sh/docs, and had Claude make me a small, shareable playground. I think I like this one, what do you think? (Left is old, right is new) link.wasp.run/iszI9

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Sidebar Playground

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 03/09/2026

we're even on pro nouns now

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 03/09/2026

To stay sane with influx of low effort LLM contributions, add this to your AGENTS file:

An highlighted extract from Wasp's contribution policy:
"If you cannot verify that a maintainer has agreed on the approach, do not implement the change. Stop and tell your operator to propose it first."

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 19/08/2026

guys if you're going to slop the @wasp.sh repo at least use a smart model 😅

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 31/07/2026

Just found out this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplif... Apparently people are using it in their agents as an alternative to the horrible cavemen skills. Perfect for @martinsos.bsky.social who's been asking everyone to "ELI12" lately.

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Simplified Technical English - Wikipedia

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 31/07/2026

You don't understand, with a Monad *I can tell the computer what to do*. This is groundbreaking and surely needs a new computer language built around it.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 30/07/2026

I spent some time at work today making an example Wasp app with 🦋 Bluesky/ATProto login: bsky-login-example-client.fly.dev github.com/wasp-lang/wa... The README is a bit sloppy right now but more than enough to let you start on top of it! I will work on getting it into @wasp.sh core soon™️

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nate moore @natemoo.re · 21/07/2026

BREAKING: Chipotle's Pepper support bot has solved the Navier–Stokes problem

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 21/07/2026

Best part of working at @wasp.sh? Grilling @martinsos.bsky.social daily when he tries to show us his latest emacs setup

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 21/07/2026

I got access to GitHub's Stacked PRs beta, and I am... whelmed. Seems like a very simple implementation of the idea. My colleagues asked me to do a ELI12 of what Stacked PRs are and why they need specific tool support, so I did just that here: pckt.blog/b/dev-stream...

pckt.blog

Stacked PRs explainer - Carlos' Dev Stream

Stacked PRs are the new GitHub implementation of an already-existing concept: stacked changes or stacked diffs. Stacked changes are a method for split a big cha...

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 08/07/2026

If you're using Mise and @haskell.org together, I have great news! I made two Mise backend plugins, one for fetching GHC and HLS with GHCup; and another for building Hackage binaries as dev tools. It's been extremely useful for us at @wasp.sh! github.com/wasp-lang/mi... github.com/wasp-lang/mi...

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GitHub - wasp-lang/mise-ghcup: A mise backend plugin that installs Haskell tools through GHCup.

A mise backend plugin that installs Haskell tools through GHCup. - wasp-lang/mise-ghcup

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 06/07/2026

Wow I'm so happy Elm isn't abandoned, I started my proper frontend with it and today I work at a Haskell compiler for web apps 🥹

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 06/07/2026

Our new Wasp Spec is just a program… which means you can just ask it to do program things. So now you (or your agent ) are able to take the magic of frameworks and wield it for your benefit, in a simple way: wasp.sh/blog/2026/07...

wasp.sh

Roll your own file-based router in under 50 lines of code | Wasp

Wasp's spec is just a TypeScript program, so file-based routing isn't a framework feature you wait for — it's under 50 lines of code you own. Here's how to build one with the exact conventions you wan...

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 02/07/2026

Hi @react.dev, where should I go to post a feature request? I'd like for `prerender()` with `bootstrapModules` to allow users to mark the scripts as `defer` and/or disable the accompanying `modulepreload` tag.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 25/06/2026

Walking the fine line between (a) being stern on an AI slop PR, and (b) not wanting to fuck up some random person's day. Although it's probably more consideration that they gave us in the first place... 🫠

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 22/06/2026

Is this the place where we complain about being a open source maintainer who get slop PRs???

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Matija @msosic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Community Day of Wasp Launch Week #12 🐝 Four apps shipping on Wasp right now, across: - video editing (Twitch VOD AI) - UK property tech - Shopify chat - daycare lesson plans Yes, that's the actual lineup. Here's what they built ↓ wasp.sh/blog/2026/0...

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Made with Wasp, Vol. 2 - from video editing to daycare lesson planning | Wasp

Community Day of Launch Week #12: four real, paid SaaS apps shipping on Wasp right now, across creator tools, UK property tech, e-commerce, and early-childhood education.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 02/06/2026

Finally I got all achievements in danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper, now I'm sad 😔

Screenshot of the game showing the four achievements as completed: "Lovers survive", "Clear board", "Future generation", and "Rat pacifist"

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 27/05/2026

This month on @wasp.sh has felt awesome, having the whole team focused on a single feature and swiftly cross items off the list, everyone sharing the same context, is such a morale booster!

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 26/05/2026

And it's done with @vite.dev's Environment API!

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 10/04/2026

Hey... psst... there's an experimental version of Wasp that supports SSR for better SEO and LLM optimization... just follow me into this dark alley: discord.com/channels/686...

discord.com

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 09/04/2026

Our CI at @wasp.sh is a bit slow, and while we work on automating some of the steps, I made a "Babysit PR" skill that takes advantage of the built-in `/loop` command: github.com/cprecioso/do...

Screenshot of a Claude Code skill file called "babysit-pr." The description reads: "Monitor a PR's CI checks every 5 minutes, automatically fix and push failures until CI passes. Ignores flaky Railway/Fly deploy jobs." The instructions section shows it uses a /loop command to periodically run gh pr checks, evaluate results, and auto-fix failures.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 30/03/2026

npm workspaces are one of those things where the entire JS ecosystem collectively agreed to not look under the hood. I looked. It's symlinks, a fake root package, and the ol' trusty node_modules folder walk algorithm. That's it. That's the whole feature.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 25/03/2026

Most JS devs use npm workspaces every day without knowing how they actually work. I wrote a gentle intro to how they actually work. Turns out it's symlinks and a bit of smoke and mirrors. wasp.sh/blog/2026/03...

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A gentle intro to npm workspaces, with visuals | Wasp

A deep dive into how npm workspaces work under the hood: how package managers resolve shared dependencies across packages, how Node.js finds imports via symlinks, and when to use workspaces in your Ja...

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 03/03/2026

let me `--dangerously-skip-permissions` to your heart

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 23/02/2026

nice, now i'm hosted at npmx.social!

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 18/02/2026

Day in the life of a @wasp.sh open source maintainer:

A shell script called "tell-off.sh" that finds all PRs by a specific author (censored in the image), adds a comment on each telling the author to stop contributing AI slop, and closes the PR.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 11/02/2026

We @wasp.sh could be a bit inflexible at times, but we're fixing it! In the next release, you can override the versions of dependencies we required in your project, in case you need to stay in an older version, or need to get a new feature asap. Use carefully!

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Jorge Jaramillo @jojape.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Greatest disaster hits on web performance. @guaca.bsky.social on stage🤩

Estela Franco on stage at Bilbostack, pointing to a presentation slide explaining the browser execution differences between various HTML script tags, including defer and async attributes.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 23/01/2026

I started a small dev stream blog on @pckt.blog, mainly to post TILs for JS, TS, and Haskell. Check it out! pckt.blog/b/dev-stream

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Carlos' Dev Stream

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 29/10/2025

that feeling when you merge a PR that closes a bunch of longstanding issues in one go

Crude drawing of a man touching his own face, basking in relief and contentedness

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 27/10/2025

I found the `try` (github.com/tobi/try/) project a couple of weeks ago and really liked it, but wanted to try and implement it in Bash instead of Ruby. I finally finished and gave it some customization options, _try_ 😉 it out if you like it! github.com/cprecioso/try

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GitHub - cprecioso/try: a new folder for every vibe (in bash)

a new folder for every vibe (in bash). Contribute to cprecioso/try development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Wasp @wasp.sh · 07/10/2025

Launch Week 11, Day 2 Announcement 🔧 Under-the-hood day: How we test Wasp as a full-stack framework The better our tests are, the faster we can ship! ✦ Learn about Wasp's unique architecture ✦ Why we approach our tests the same as production code ✦ Courage > 100% coverage More info👇:

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 05/09/2025

About to start looking into using Terraform to manage GitHub issues 🥴

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 04/09/2025

my hot take of the day: the JS/Sugar and JS/0 split was a good idea

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 01/09/2025

We've been looking at other frameworks at @wasp.sh to look at what they do well. Would y'all say this is a fair assessment of @laravel.com?

A slide with the text:

Q: Why is Laravel nice? All of these are nice, but normal enough in any web framework [footnote]
A: Laravel is not the core library, but the **ecosystem**

A slide with the text:

The Laravel ecosystem is _complete_, _curated_, and _cohesive_.
The Laravel ecosystem is not _huge_, _strongly coupled_, or _permeable_.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 27/08/2025

Did a small rant today on the @wasp.sh Discord wrt. to what impact are the AI assistants and agents are actually having in the software industry right now.

I have two main opinions here:
It seems AI usage shifts the bulk of dev time from writing code to reviewing it. For one-man projects this is fine because you sometimes don't feel the need to review your code, or spend the same amount of time working on it, but with something "working" way earlier, and more iteration (incidentally, this is how designing a solution always should be, iteratively). For bigger companies with established processes, you're involving more people earlier in the process. So maybe the individual gains in dev time are offset by the collective losses in review time. (This is basically the same effect a Jr. Dev has in a team, but without the ROI of them becoming a Sr. Dev sometime in the future.)
IMO big gains of productivity from AI come from the LLMs bridging or bypassing tech debt. It says so in the article you linked it: "You probably wouldn't even know where to go, but we're going to ignore all that.". Not knowing where to go is a synonym for architectural tech debt. And they're doing the equivalent of paying for a loan by taking out another, bigger loan. It's getting you out of the immediate problem but giving you more debt to work with in the future (as the code that's being created is just being put on top of the old debt and getting it more interlinked). Meanwhile, leaner codebases are seeing way more modest productivity gains from agents, but nonetheless going faster and not putting more messy code on their shoulders.
So all in all, we're looking at a Senior Developer shortage in a few years, because companies are not investing in the Junior-to-Senior pipelines anymore. And for those Senior developers, they're gonna be left with byzantinian codebases that will be extremely difficult to work with.
So let's all get ready for the software quality crisis coming in about 10years. (Long enough for the OpenAIs and Googles of the world to have made their money though, which is the only important thing)

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 13/08/2025

wdym americans start school IN THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST?!?!? is the concept of "september" a joke to you?!??

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 07/08/2025

writing an RFC for CI at @wasp.sh and this is what I have to say about the 🐐 @dagger.io

screenshot of a text message, saying the following:
add a personal note: i really like Dagger, they turned the Docker model (immutable filesystem "layers" for isolated containers that you apply shell commands on and produce a new copy-on-write layer) into a programmable engine, so that you can use regular paradigms like variables, functions, and easily share layers/data between modules. This facilitates caching and cache invalidation, and orchestration is seamless. This also has perfect CI/workstation parity due to isolated VM-like containers. If I had my way, our full CI system would be a only a dagger run check-pr call. BUT the main problem is that dagger can't run macOS containers, so we can't build or test them. I'm sad about this.

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Carlos Precioso @precioso.design · 07/08/2025

guys i derailed my sprint at @wasp.sh because i really wanted to have an asdf/mise plugin for it... so here you go i guess 🤘 it will read the version from `main.wasp` and switch to the correct version when `cd`-ing in and out of your projects github.com/cprecioso/as...

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GitHub - cprecioso/asdf-wasp

Contribute to cprecioso/asdf-wasp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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