Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

Co-founder of Studio Sugarfree and Let's Book · Web engineer · Loves (board) games, snowboarding, mountain biking, math, beers and girlfriend. studiosugarfree.com Amsterdam Joined August 2009

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

6 days ago

@jankeesvw Nice quote!

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

2 weeks ago

@bcherny Running 2.1.170 (Claude Code), but Claude thinks it cannot use nesting yet!

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

a month ago

@aarondfrancis @christophrumpel @getpolyscope Even CoW checkouts! My man

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

a month ago

@jankeesvw I got the same message. Thought I was going crazy.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

a month ago

@aarondfrancis @christophrumpel @getpolyscope That’s great news! Looking forward to the release 🤩

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

2 months ago

@jankeesvw @bunq Bunq is losing it. I had high hopes at some point.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

3 months ago

@freekmurze I’d give @ScalingoHQ a try if you’re looking for a platform as a service (heroku model)

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

4 months ago

@aarondfrancis dude, Solo is incredible, didn't know I needed it this badly. Any plans for native worktree support? That would absolutely send it.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

4 months ago

@zeddotdev Mago!

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

6 months ago

Just tried Mago by @azjezz and I'm genuinely impressed. Formats and improves PHP code ridiculously fast. Haven't been this excited about a dev tool in a really long time!

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

7 months ago

I feel the same way. This doesn’t discard AI at all though. You had to know when to use it.

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI. When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

8 months ago

@christophrumpel Same! Also, always using `URL::action(MyController::class)` instead of named routes.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

8 months ago

@christophrumpel DIY. It’s not that difficult to build the basics. I’d use packages for anything but core domain logic. And in my mind, the concept of multi tenancy is part of the core.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

9 months ago

This. I loath “smooth scrolling” in almost all cases.

Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708

9 months ago

the amount of sites on awwwards doing scroll jacking is too damn high

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

10 months ago

@jankeesvw Windows XP vibes. Every time I have to use a school/daycare portal, I feel the urge to build one myself.

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Laurent van Dommelen @DerLola

10 months ago

@DanHollick I didn’t know I needed this, but oh boy am I looking forward to the full thing! Much respect for your attention to detail.

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Devon Govett @devongovett

a year ago

The most important skill for a software engineer IMO is debugging. Writing code is easy. Willingness and ability to debug through layers of abstraction, through code you didn't write, perhaps deep into other areas of the stack (libraries, frameworks, the server, the browser engine, etc.) can prevent you from ever being "blocked". This is a skill I see lacking in a majority of developers these days. Too many people just stop as soon as they hit code they didn't write. They just report it to another team, file a GitHub issue, etc. And then complain when it isn't addressed for them immediately. Your dependencies are your code. You are responsible for them. You can't rely on other people to fix problems you run into all the time. Understand your stack deeply. Learn to debug. It'll help you immensely.