Žiga Benko

Welcome! 🙌

Don’t just log errors. Log context. Where. Why. What user. What input.

Beginners of today are leaders of tomorrow. Treat them well.

Today I had the most motivated debugging assistant money can buy. Literally. I was testing Revolut payments in production. Every time I didn’t fix a bug… €3 vanished from my account. No Ai assistant beats the debugging pressure of real money flying out the window.

Is that time of the year again… When I need to publish updates on apple app store. This used to be simple… Now? Now you need a phd.

Anyone else having issues with verifying phone number via Google? Either on profile or youtube?

substack felt like a good idea until it ate my whole first post i copied it just in time (paranoid dev reflexes ftw) but can’t even paste it back — it’s still broken is this what the cool kids are using? someone point me to a blog platform that doesn’t fight back

Remember when ChatGPT didn’t exist? Would you go back?

📢 Vibe coders! (Those who didn’t do any programming before) Would you be interested to level up, by learning only the important stuff? No more pulling you hair and screaming at AI to fix it. You would have a solid ground to stand on! No math, algorithms. Just important stuff. #vibecoding

Anyone programming without AI assistants these days?

I was open-minded today. So I tried React. … Thank you @evanyou.me for crafting such an elegant developer experience with Vue 🫶

Yesterday I was arguing with ChatGpt how it should fix my code for 1hour, because I was to lazy to do it myself. After an hour I gave up and rewrite it myself in 10minutes. Oh AI what a timesaver indeed 🤭

Some last feature releases before 2nd beta launch of openpledge.io 🤩

I missedtyped “checkbox” and it became “checkboy” 🫠 You just gotta love qwertz keyboard.

My happiness ended in April 2024… Why? Because when testing Stripe payments, I can’t just spam 4242424242424242 anymore— the form auto-fills 04/24 as the expiry date, and guess what? That’s in the past. 😭💔

I’m not a coffee drinker, but today, for some reason, I decided to follow clean code principles, which suggested drinking coffee. Now my hands are shaking, my heart is racing like I’m sprinting, and I’m making a typo in every other word… Never doing that again.

Another day, another conference scheduled 🤩 This time in the Denver Colorado 💪 Looking forward to @linuxfoundation.org open source summit.

I just bought ticket for @wearedevelopers.bsky.social 🤩 Looking forward to connect with great geeky minds 💪🫡

If I had to choose between AI coding assistants and a debugger for the rest of my career… Debugger. Every. Single. Time. 🫶

I gave windsurf ai editor a try past two days. In general I am not huge fan of AI for developers, but Windsurf actually helped me spend more time doing meaningful development and less time figuring out how to fix my docker configuration. I am not completely sold, but on the way 😄🫡

Buried in reports. Drowned in meetings. But I finally stole a few hours to do what I love—code.

I just ran PHPStan analysis with —level=max for the first time on a huge project. The error count is now higher than my monthly calorie intake.

A CS degree is useless—unless you can execute. No one cares about your degree. They care if you can: ✅ Build working systems ✅ Fix things when they break ✅ Handle scale ✅ Push back on bad ideas School won’t teach you this. Get real experience. Build. Launch. Solve problems. That’s what matters.

Being just a developer isn’t enough anymore. AI tools like ChatGPT & Copilot write code well—but we were never just code-writing machines. To stay irreplaceable, you need to: 🧠 Understand business logic 🗣 Talk to stakeholders 🚀 Make strategic decisions [] What else?

I built a side project just to learn a new framework. Never planned to monetize it. A year later? Companies started asking to license it. Lesson? Even your “learning exercises” can turn into income streams. Never underestimate the value of your side projects.

Did you know that 95% of open source projects are abandoned within a year? That means no security updates, no bug fixes, and no new features. How many of those do you rely on? When was the last time you contributed or supported a dependency that keeps your business running?🥶

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Most devs make the same mistake with feature requests: they jump straight into coding. But most requests miss the bigger picture—it’s our job to evaluate, not just code. Sometimes, the best solution isn’t code at all. It’s understanding the problem and solving it efficiently.

Laravel tip: Setting your queue to sync in dev? Be careful! Auth::user() works with sync but fails with workers since no user is authenticated. Fix it by passing the user to the job or setting it in the job’s constructor. Save yourself the headache! #Laravel #DevTips

Fluent terminal use should be the norm for developers. It’s faster, prepares you for server management, and makes you look badass in front of the ladies. Would you agree?

Can we normalize reading code? Code isn’t art; it’s a language meant to be understood. If your code feels like a riddle or a secret handshake, you’ve failed the team. Write clear, consistent, and refactored code—it saves time, welcomes contributors, and grows with the project. Agree?

Finally gave @filamentphp.com a try, and wow—feeling grateful to be part of a dev community that keeps pushing the boundaries. It just clicks. 🙌

2025 starts today... 🎆 🥂 Your first commit of the year sets the tone for the next 364 days. Make it: - Clean. - Tested. - And not “Quick fix” Let’s start the year right! Happy coding, everyone! 🎉 #NewYear #CleanCode #DeveloperGoals

Are you sure that last deploy of the year is really the last one? Or is there a ‘quick fix’ waiting to happen? #nopressure

Just discovered requestcatcher.com — a simple yet powerful tool for testing webhooks and HTTP requests. Instantly create a unique URL to catch requests, and easily review all the data (headers, body, etc.) in real-time. Perfect for debugging without any hassle! 🛠️ #DevTools #API

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution… “I will refactor this later” “I don’t have time for tests right now” “Let’s hard code this token for dev purposes” “Comment this line, we will remove it later” “Don’t write docs, we will remember” Sounds familiar?

Open-source is the future🚀🤌