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Keith Rabois shares a sharp, opinionated take on how AI is reshaping startups, careers, and product teams. The episode is especially interesting for its thoughts on hiring, the future of product management, and building with more speed and intensity.

Anthony Hobday shares a thoughtful framework for thinking about software quality, from reliability and speed to clarity, efficiency, and beauty. I liked his argument that quality depends on both individual care and organisational appetite.

Jakub shares a collection of small interface details that compound into a much better user experience, from text wrapping and concentric radius math to interruptible animations and optical alignment. It is packed with practical UI polish ideas that . ...

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 ...

Nick and Dries share how they built Kaartje, a digital postcard wall with a spinning 3D globe that places postcards near the sender's city. It's a fun behind-the-scenes look at the stack, the role AI played during the hackathon, and the performance . ...

The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built . ...

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 ...

Sebastian shares a practical three-step workflow for writing feature specs, from gathering notes with tools like Granola to using a thinking model to surface contradictions and scope. He then switches back to hands-on editing to shape the final spec ...

At our latest hackathon, we built Live at Spatie, a Laravel and React wrapper around Owntone that lets the whole team queue music, see what's playing, and control the office speakers. The nicest touch is the Slack bot: thanks to an MCP server powered ...