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PHP

★ I built a native mobile word game in two weeks

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At Laracon India, I launched a major update of Ray. For that talk, I needed a little demo project to showcase Ray. I built a simple website about a then-fictional mobile app to play a Scrabble-like word game called WordStockt.

But then I got curious: how far could I push AI-assisted development? Could I actually just create the whole game? After about 10 days, WordStockt is a fully functional word game that's 98% vibe-coded. It's available for iOS and Android. In this post, I'd like to tell you more about it.

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By hadi, ago
PHP

Semantic Diffusion

Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a “telephone game” of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Read more…

By hadi, ago
PHP

How to automatically generate a commit message using Claude

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For years, my git history contains "wip" commit messages. I don't really often use git history myself, but my colleagues do. And when they're trying to understand a change I made six months ago, "wip" tells them absolutely nothing. Might as well not have commit messages at all.

I knew I should write better commit messages, but the friction was real. Stopping to think about how to summarize my changes felt like it broke my flow. So I kept typing "wip".

Now, I have a bash function in my dotfiles that uses Claude to generate commit messages for me.

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By hadi, ago