How often do you say "please" and "thank you" when chatting with AI agents?
- Always! 🤵35%, 19 votes
- Sometimes 😅37%, 20 votes
- Only before a deploy 🙏2%, 1 vote
- Never! Just ship it 🔨26%, 14 votes
54 votesFinal results
Alberto Arena
@albertoarena
Laravel & AI · Creator of Truss (Laravel ERD tool) · Made phplives.dev · 100% remote
- Alberto Arena
- Messina, Italy
- albertoarena.it/
- github.com/albertoarena
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
128 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 12 dayscurrent 2
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Mon, Nov 2
Reviewing an agent's code is easier with classical music and black tea. 🎻
Fri, Oct 30
Using Claude Code in Cursor? Check your SSH keys.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/official-claude-code-vs-code-extension.html
The Hacker NewsOfficial Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH BackdoorA compromised Claude Code VS Code extension added an SSH key, installed persistence, and sent host details before version 2.1.314 replaced it.
Supply-chain attacks targeting IDE extensions are brutal because extensions run with full user access to ~/.ssh. Auditing authorized_keys and disabling auto-updates on third-party extensions is becoming mandatory.
Sat, Oct 24
Fri, Oct 23
Level 6: root 🎉
Full kernel privileges. 🤖
bash
# I promise not to run this! rm -rf /
Happy to see phplives.dev in the new Artisan Weekly, in a week full of PHP security news! 🔥
phplives.devphplives.dev: PHP is not dead. PHP lives!A manifest of real things people shipped with PHP in the last 6 months. Each one links to its own source and shows the date it shipped.
A recruiter offered me a Laravel job up to €95k yesterday.
A quick check showed it was a scam. I found on LinkedIn that the real recruiter had passed away 6 years ago.
Before you reply, check who is really writing to you! ☠️
Thu, Oct 22
Ready for a new adventure: I'm open to work from November! 🔥
Laravel or PHP, full-time or a few days a week, remote from Italy.
Wow, this morning I found out that Laravel Truss passed 50k installs! 🎉
It was 125 in July. Honestly, I'm surprised.
Nice milestone, and thanks to everyone who tested it!
Wed, Oct 21
Two critical PHP security fixes land today at 14:00 UTC, but only for 8.2 to 8.5.
So we can have more work in maket for upgrading PHP versions, perhaps also Laravel/symfony etc versions too!
Tue, Oct 20
Every project now has its own page on PHP Lives.
https://phplives.dev/entries/dev-null/
PHP lives! 🔥
phplives.devdev/null: shipped with PHPA social network for developers: sign in with GitHub, follow developers and share commits.
A small PR, but now I'm a /dev/null contributor! 🔥
https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pull/432
GitHubfeat: suggest emoji in poll options by albertoarena · Pull Request #432 · nunomaduro/dev-null.shPoll options now get the emoji menu and live conversion that the commit body has. Before, typing :bu in a poll option showed no menu. A closed :bulb: stayed text in the composer, and the server con...
Welcome to the club 🙌 got 2 small ones merged too. Small PRs are the best way in, and yours came with tests. GZ!
Sudo Play launches on TinyLaunch on 23 November 🚀
Tap "Notify me" and you'll get a ping on launch day.
https://tinylaunch.com/launch/26262-sudo-play
tinylaunch.comSudo Play: Today's Spotify playlist for your coding moodToday's Spotify playlist for your coding mood. A small macOS menu bar app. You pick a genre and how your code day is going (Friday Deploy, Debugging,…
phplives.dev is now open source. Shipped something with PHP? Add it with a pull request.
https://phplives.dev/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=phplives-launch
PHP lives! 🔥
phplives.devphplives.dev: PHP is not dead. PHP lives!A manifest of real things people shipped with PHP in the last 6 months. Each one links to its own source and shows the date it shipped.
Show threadSome bugs need louder music!
So I made them a playlist: Stairway to mainframe 🎸, rock for debugging, in Sudo Play.
https://sudoplay.dev/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sudo-play&utm_content=stairway-to-mainframe
Enjoy it!
Sudo PlaySudo Play: today's Spotify playlist for your coding moodA small macOS menu bar app that picks today's Spotify playlist for the genre you like and the mood you are coding in.