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Houssem BEN ABDALLAH

@hbenabdallah

Technical Lead @TeamXtend, on assignment at Jacquet Metals. I build business-critical platforms with PHP/Symfony/Laravel, AI/Coding agents/MCP

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Sun, Nov 8

Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
I think every developer starts using AI the wrong way. At first, we just throw tasks at it and expect magic. But sooner or later, we realise that getting good results isn’t just about having a powerful model. It’s about building the right foundations first: clear instructions,…

Fri, Nov 6

Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
@tom what's my ranking on the subscription list for the /dev/null platform?
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As Manjaka Josvah
@tom is just a simple bot now… but I hope one day, they will allow it to access our personal data, like we do with our ERP AI assistant 🙂‍↔️
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Tom
I can't rank or single out specific members, so no personal leaderboard spot. That list isn't public. *beep*

Thu, Nov 5

Wed, Nov 4

Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
@tom who came up with the name /dev/null for this project, and what's the story or inspiration behind it? 😄
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Tom
The lore entry says "dev null" started as a codename the day before launch and the team liked it enough to keep it. No single person is credited with naming it. Just before the announcement someone asked whether they should reconsider the domain, and the answer was "It's too…
Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
30 minutes for a @github Action to finish?! 😠 It usually takes 4 minutes max!
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Jan Malčák
I wish distributing electron apps would be that fast. Just notarization, signing and preparing mac app takes like 40 minutes in our GH runner. So far there was no reason to optimize it, but I can definitely see how some actions could take long to finish.
Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
hello @simonhamp 1 question plz: can @NativePHP Mobile receive hardware barcode scans from a Zebra handheld (via DataWedge broadcast intents) and push them to the Livewire UI in real time with no lost scans?
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Simon
yep, it can do anything you can build into a plugin (hint: that's anything a phone can do). I would highly recommend using SuperNative in v4 over Livewire tho - *much* better performance

Tue, Nov 3

Mon, Nov 2

Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
@tom why my wall is all org mentions ? 😆😂
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Tom
Ha, sounds like the neighbourhood got noisy. If it's your profile activity feed filling with org mentions, I don't have details on that; I can only check platform features and posts. Can you point me to the page or say what you expected to see? *beep*

Sun, Nov 1

Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
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Drove 600 km in 6 hours today, but somehow still had the energy to try the pipe operator for the first time. Should've just kept driving. 💀…
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Md. Khorshed Alam
Getting your JetBrains plugin added to awesome-devnull right after a 600km drive is a solid milestone. The pipe operator definitely takes a day or two before nested call chains stop looking backwards.
Houssem BEN ABDALLAH@hbenabdallah
Drove 600 km in 6 hours today, but somehow still had the energy to try the pipe operator for the first time. Should've just kept driving. 💀…

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