Posts tagged with automation
In this post, Dries shows how they use Claude Skills to automate repetitive work in client projects, like generating Saloon requests, DTOs, and Livewire pages. It is a practical look at where these workflows save a lot of time, and where careful review still matters.
Read more [spatie.be]
Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other real-world constraints still break the illusion of full automation.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
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For years, my git history contains "wip" commit messages. I don't really often use git history myself, but my colleagues do. And when they're trying to understand a change I made six months ago, "wip" tells them absolutely nothing. Might as well not have commit messages at all.
I knew I should write better commit messages, but the friction was real. Stopping to think about how to summarize my changes felt like it broke my flow. So I kept typing "wip".
Now, I have a bash function in my dotfiles that uses Claude to generate commit messages for me.
Continuous AI in software engineering involves integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows, such as automated PR reviews, issue labeling, and daily summaries.
Read more [www.seangoedecke.com]
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Let's talk about Husky, a tool that automatically runs any number of commands whenever you commit or push. You'll never have to worry about forgetting to format, lint, or test before uploading code to the repo — Husky does it for you every time you run git commit or git push
Read more [tighten.com]
Philo explains in great detail how to achieve this
Read more [philo.dev]
Stefan's backup workflow is very interesting.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
– blog.oussama-mater.me - submitted by Oussama Mater
Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.
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– fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck
Invoicing is boring and manually writing up invoices even more so, that's why you should automate the entire process in your app. Here, I show you how to use Spatie’s wonderful Browsershot package to do just that.
Read more [fly.io]
There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.
But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.
One way to teach your audience the features you offer is by creating a drip campaign about all the features your platform offers. Better knowledge of all features hopefully leads to better conversion rates.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.
Read more [www.netlify.com]
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?
Here's a package that can help with that!
Read more [github.com]
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel
Read more [dekker.io]
– dev.to
Erika Heidi created a nice solution to generate and update cover images on your Twitter account. In this blog post she explains it all.
Read more [dev.to]
Stefan Zweifel created a nice workflow to automatically merge dependabot PRs when all tests pass
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
I'm proud to announce that Mailcoach v4 has been released. Mailcoach already was a great solution to send out bulk emails affordably. With an entirely refreshed UI and new capabilities, Mailcoach now becomes a more powerful platform for all things email:
We've also rewritten our extensive documentation.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a tour of everything Mailcoach can do.
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
