@alex_

Web, tech, and code enthousiast at @spatie_be

 Antwerp, Belgium
alexvanderbist.com/
Joined June 2009
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Alex Vanderbist retweeted
Tim ☮️@TimVanDijck5h
Migrate Rails to PHP? DM me if you want it done by professionals! ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/1…

Regexp compilation fixes related to GitLab's CVE-2026-89078, CVE-2026-93577, CVE-2026-97229 and...

We have released Ruby 4.0.9, 3.4.12 and 3.3.13. They fix several bugs in Ruby’s regular expression engine (Onigmo) that GitLab found could be used for remote...

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Andrzej Krzywda
@andrzejkrzywdaOct 21
Migrate from PHP to Rails? DM me if you want it done by professionals
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Spatie@spatie_beOct 21
We're keeping our spirits high in the office
The PHP Foundation@ThePHPFOct 20
The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
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psa: don't ask your agents for pixel art
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claude calling the second one a "friendly face" is a bit of a reach
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Just added calendar support to Spool. If it's a call, it turns into a waveform for the duration the mic was on. Felt it was cute, might delete later.
Spool's loom with a calendar rail: a standup, Mailcoach planning, a focus time block marked as not a meeting, and Flare support sync. Below are thread rows for Flare, laravel-backup, Mailcoach, Spool and Overhead, and the Flare call shows as a waveform during the Flare sync.

ALT Spool's loom with a calendar rail: a standup, Mailcoach planning, a focus time block marked as not a meeting, and Flare support sync. Below are thread rows for Flare, laravel-backup, Mailcoach, Spool and Overhead, and the Flare call shows as a waveform during the Flare sync.

Alex Vanderbist@alex_Oct 6
I work on multiple projects at the same time, jumping from agent to agent. Normal time tracking can't keep up with that. So I'm building my perfect time tracking tool. It uses JEV to turn all that switching between apps and agents into trackable chunks of work.
Spool's Today screen in dark mode: five threads (Flare, Spool, Mailcoach, laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup) on a timeline, with active, thread and focus time totals.

ALT Spool's Today screen in dark mode: five threads (Flare, Spool, Mailcoach, laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup) on a timeline, with active, thread and focus time totals.

Spool's This week screen: a calendar with one column per day, showing coloured thread bands from Monday to Friday.

ALT Spool's This week screen: a calendar with one column per day, showing coloured thread bands from Monday to Friday.

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I work on multiple projects at the same time, jumping from agent to agent. Normal time tracking can't keep up with that. So I'm building my perfect time tracking tool. It uses JEV to turn all that switching between apps and agents into trackable chunks of work.
Spool's Today screen in dark mode: five threads (Flare, Spool, Mailcoach, laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup) on a timeline, with active, thread and focus time totals.

ALT Spool's Today screen in dark mode: five threads (Flare, Spool, Mailcoach, laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup) on a timeline, with active, thread and focus time totals.

Spool's This week screen: a calendar with one column per day, showing coloured thread bands from Monday to Friday.

ALT Spool's This week screen: a calendar with one column per day, showing coloured thread bands from Monday to Friday.

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An hour spent switching between 3 agent chats is one hour of my focus, but three hours of project activity. I wanted to track both. So in Spool, solid blocks are focus time and lighter bands are active time per thread.
The day as threads: each project is a row with solid blocks for focus time and lighter bands for thread time, and several threads overlap.

ALT The day as threads: each project is a row with solid blocks for focus time and lighter bands for thread time, and several threads overlap.

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Works with any app and tracks any activity you can describe. Spool reads the focused window via the macOS Accessibility API and TypeSafe's JEV assigns each bit of work to a thread. No screenshots, no keystrokes, and sensitive apps like 1Password are never recorded.
What Spool reads from a terminal window: the app (Ghostty), the window title, the project folder and some visible text.

ALT What Spool reads from a terminal window: the app (Ghostty), the window title, the project folder and some visible text.

Spool's never recorded list: 1Password, Notes, Telegram and WhatsApp.

ALT Spool's never recorded list: 1Password, Notes, Telegram and WhatsApp.

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Added a swinging sign to the spatie.be homepage. Swing it all the way around and you get confetti. Before AI, stuff like this was never worth the time. Anyone with an agent can generate a slick UI now but the silly extras are what makes it feel a little more human.
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Freek Van der Herten
@freekmurzeSep 8
The past month, I've spent some time building a Mac app for running coding agents. It's called Bloom. Projects on the left, the agent in the middle, and a diff on the right. It's free, open source, and written in Swift.
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Sebastian De Deyne
@sebdedeyneMay 8
These utility packages have kind of lost their place with the current state or programming, but… I'm writing a port of Laravel Collections as pipe operator optimized functions. No more Collection objects to unwrap, all primitives!
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Freek Van der Herten
@freekmurzeMay 4
⚡ We just added deep Livewire support to Flare (@calebporzio). If a Livewire page is slow or breaks, you can now see which components ran, where time went, and what happened inside each step.
Livewire performance dashboard shows component metrics, including invocation counts, runtime details, and response times for various components.

ALT Livewire performance dashboard shows component metrics, including invocation counts, runtime details, and response times for various components.

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Been going back and forth on this for Flare for a couple of days now... Two logs in the current filter. Pin them to the bottom (because that's where new logs land) or to the top (because that's how every table works)? Neither feels obviously right. Both feel slightly wrong 🙃
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Wait, terminal tables are responsive now? How does that even work?
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Freek Van der Herten
@freekmurzeApr 23
🚀 Here's another new package: Laravel Mobile Pass. 🎫 It can generate Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes from your Laravel app. Boarding passes, tickets, coupons, store cards, loyalty cards, all through a fluent builder.
Boarding pass for Artisan Airways flight ART103 from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow, showing passenger details, seat, and boarding time.

ALT Boarding pass for Artisan Airways flight ART103 from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow, showing passenger details, seat, and boarding time.

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We just released a new package: spatie/sourcemaps-lookup It resolves JS stack frames against source maps. Flare uses it in its frame resolver. It's 99% faster and uses 91% less memory on a 6 MB map. Took me a couple of steps to get there... 🧵
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The biggest win: PHP's lesser-known (un)pack function lets you store data as raw bytes instead of PHP objects. Each mapping is 5 ints. As an object that's ±200 bytes, but as 5 int32s in a packed string it's only 20 bytes. That's 10x less memory used!
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The end result on a 6 MB source map: ~100x faster and ~10x less memory usage compared to axy/sourcemap. This is not a stab at axy's package btw (great lib we used for years). Our package is just optimized for our specific read path. github.com/spatie/sourcemaps… & full blogpost soon
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