Joy & Curiosity #93

Friends, yesterday got back from Boston where I gave a talk at Laracon about how I prompt Amp. Tomorrow I’m taking the train to Munich, where I’m meeting with the whole Amp team. Here’s some telegraph dispatches from this week, imagine someone saying “full stop” after each line.

• Laracon, what a pro operation! The A/V setup backstage was mind blowing. So many helpers! Going on stage felt like I was about to go on live TV. Few things as enjoyable as getting to see proper professionals up close when they do their job.
• A moment of these times: Taylor presented latest changes in Laravel live on stage (man, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone be calmer and cooler while giving fantastic live demos) and started by saying “well, I don’t write that much code by hand anymore, but yeah, maybe let’s look at the code.” And then we all looked at the code and I couldn’t stop thinking about whether these abstractions in a framework are useful or not. Can’t the agent one-shot these helpers to display images? It could, I know that. But isn’t it useful to have these primitives in a framework? Maybe? He also showed some helpers around queue management, such as debouncing. I know what debouncing is, I can instruct the agent to add debouncing, I don’t need the helper. But what if you don’t know what debouncing is? What if you don’t even thinking of asking the agent for it? It would help to have these primitives in the framework, no?
• I finally, finally got to meet Adam and Aaron in person!
• A self-driving Cybertruck chauffeured me through downtown Boston. How are they not going to win this? Serious question.
• Finally had Raising Cane’s chicken fingers. Good! Very good even, but… not life changing? I kinda expected it to be life changing.
• At times I felt like a heretic. I would watch a talk and thinking to myself: “The tokens will wash all of this away.” Then I’d talk to people and would have to admit that I don’t know exactly how this is going to play out, but I do know that in five years…