since I am not there and I am DEFINITELY NOT JEALOUS, what are the favourite talks from LaraconAU so far this year, Shane Smith and Matt Stauffers both look super interesting.
Shaun SImpson
@shaungsimpson
Software Engineer from Sydney Australia
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- Joined October 2026
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wrote a skill to summarise and record standup notes so i don't get sidetracked in technical details and stick to covering just the bulet points. Does add notes for intereting problems, blockers and details as well
Too many times i focus on a few tasks completed and completely…
Investigating web vitals and SEO are not things I would rather be doing than being at LaraconAU...
All of the LaraconAU talks are recorded so if you aren't here, hopefully you can catch up on the talks later :)
Wed, Nov 4
So learnings alredy parallel works nicely but because you are competing with device resources its more of a smoke test than an accurate read. Expanding features and improving ui design as I go
Initial build done. it works. it's not pretty yet and crawling multiple pages or device types in linear atm so I will probably fix that first, then some up niceties
Tue, Nov 3
How I feel when I build something nice and I have to explain why it's so good. Hahah guess it's time to learn sales now.
Initial build done. it works. it's not pretty yet and crawling multiple pages or device types in linear atm so I will probably fix that first, then some up niceties
Looking at building a terminal tool to trigger lighthouse runs and seo crawls, store the results ad allow you to navigate around in a nice interface. Anything to avoid search console. Eventually want to be able to bridge code repo locally and results from prod to diagnose and fix…
So learnings alredy parallel works nicely but because you are competing with device resources its more of a smoke test than an accurate read. Expanding features and improving ui design as I go
Looking at building a terminal tool to trigger lighthouse runs and seo crawls, store the results ad allow you to navigate around in a nice interface. Anything to avoid search console. Eventually want to be able to bridge code repo locally and results from prod to diagnose and fix…
Initial build done. it works. it's not pretty yet and crawling multiple pages or device types in linear atm so I will probably fix that first, then some up niceties
Mon, Nov 2
Automated terminal screenshots converted to webp for >70% smaller images on docs for a git command center tool I am building. the entire action is run via
mise screenshots which allows me to run it in bash mode in claude before commiting docs updates pushing for pr and then tag…Oh man, this is SO COOL!
I'm happy that I inspired you on that!
It's great when we're building and having a lot of fun along the way!
Keep rocking!
Sun, Nov 1
Whoa very nearly missed a day in my streak! Been too busy learning how to make nice terminal apps in Go. Was an interesting rabbit hole.
The first one is going to be something to cut down on noise at work while still keeping on top of things. Then I suspect I will rebuild the…
Haha, seems like a nice thing to add to the app @simonhamp ...I could contribute to the app tomorrow. Stream reminders seem handy. I'll also add it to my own iOS app.
Sat, Oct 31
Trying to come up with ideas of things to build but keep getting distracted by all the cool sotes and projects I am seeing here!
Fri, Oct 30
One cool feature is while building my tui, i created a feature for teh develelopment process where it automatically creates snapshots of demo data in the terminal for images in the readme. The local dev cycle ensures the readme, tests, linting and screenshots are up to date…
Built a terminal command centre today for keeping track of multiple Git repositories.
One place to see what changed, what needs my review, and what’s waiting to ship.
Features so far:
- **Repo overview:** branches, ahead/behind counts, dirty worktrees and recent commits.
-…
Sending this message from the tui built by @WendellAdriel and have to say this is amazing, the experience is phenomenally polished. Now I can have my Ghostty quake console terminal setup with dev-null.sh to catch up quickly and easily 🎉 Note the full emoji support experience is…
Thanks a lot man! My goal is to create a great experience so anyone can use it from terminal if they want to! Next week will be adding more features
Thu, Oct 29
Is anyone working with ai assisted programs that feature RAG and also have strict privacy so as not to share the data? Is this something you would use a local model for? Trying to figure out how to enhance functionality without piping data away
Wed, Oct 28
Dates, money and phone numbers. So many tears over not choosing the right schema at the start of projects... Seems like i keep dealing with legacies of these. ...sigh
FWIW
should be generally in UTC, as value objects with value and currency and for the love of devs e164
Tue, Oct 27
Heh, looks like a few half started projects in there, nice
I really need to clean up my desk at one point
Mon, Oct 26
Can't wait to try this it looks awesome!
Still a long way to go
But my TUI app is coming along nicely! 🔥
Started using ponytail for claude, seems nice so far, I might need to tweak it more to follow laravel idioms in the backend and vue/nuxt idioms in the front, but thats something I am constantly moving towards anyway.
I don't want to heavily tune my agents because i dont want to…
Sun, Oct 25
Oik, need some expert advice. Looking to get a new keyboard, my current travel keyboard and daily work keybord is the Logitech MX3 full size.
I want afull size keyboard that ideally supports mac and windows, but would prefer something more mechanical for my home desk. I have a…