Mitch McKenna

First post from LifePress 2.0!

Laravel Idea plugin is now free, that's pretty dope! https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/07/laravel-idea-is-now-free/

Vite is switching to a rust-based bundler and they're seeing 16x faster build times everywhere 🦀 https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-vite

Welp, guess I’m done “programming” for the day. See you guys on Monday!

Jetbrains also released Junie, a coding agent (plan multiple tasks, do multiple llm calls, run terminal commands): https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

my fellow Jetbrains IDE users, we finally got `edit mode` for AI Assistant where it actually edits the files and you just click "accept" like Cursor/etc https://youtu.be/zMSmhKDajKQ?si=oIGy3BfYkodKV88M&t=162

Plex "remote playback" not free anymore. Anyone use Jellyfin or Kyoo or something else? https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/#remote-playback

In #rust cargo.toml the caret (^) is actually implied by default, and thus unnecessary to add.
e.g. these are equivalent:
tokio = "1.37.0"
tokio = "^1.37.0"
Very semvar-purist, I like it!

OpenAI releases Deep Research where an Agent scans the web for 5-30 minutes and compiles a report for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6WxQvMrHM

Laravel Nightwatch (paid) is a full-blown Datadog competitor specifically for Laravel (zero configuration), pretty impressive https://youtu.be/gzujJSPR2mI?si=gF_F0cABWKKVe405&t=474

I was kind of hoping I could sync my Mastadon 🐘 posts to Bluesky 🦋 or vice-versa, no one's got that figured out yet?

This was pretty wild to watch live: Linkin Park is back with new lead singer Emily Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/live/IL1nlWOciL0?si=T6VLjlWXJstQQKbk&t=994

Laravel getting it's own Vercel competitor https://cloud.laravel.com #php

“Is that part of the legacy code?”
“No, I wrote that, so it’s vintage code”

“Not having time to write docs, means you have plenty of time for interruptions later.” - oh man, in #SoftwareEngineering, the realization of how true this is

New blog post: "Git Hooks: Check Code Quality & Unit Tests on Every Commit" http://mitchmckenna.com/blog/2023/01/git-hooks-check-code-quality-unit-tests-on-every-commit/

Ice Cubes is a nice Mastodon app for iPhone:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884 and it’s open source: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp

What finally got me to try out Mastadon, hope they back pedal on this one:

Just incase this Twitter thing goes more south…