Martijn Smit

@lostdomain.org

I share learnings, tips and tricks, and achievements around running and building products solo. 👷‍♂️ Building productivity tools like whatpulse.org [Professional], MuteDeck.com, TypeTest.io, and more. Stroopwafels. 🧇

3d printing tip: if you have large overhangs that need support and it fails because the supports fall down, change the Support Style to Tree Strong - don't slow down the print changes the supports from first pic to second pic

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I've been building a Laravel deployment tool for a few months, and decided I'm open-sourcing it for anyone to use if you're a fan of Envoyer, this'll fit right in. Think of it as an internally hosted Envoyer. Written in Go, it's super fast More info later github.com/smitmartijn/...

GitHub - smitmartijn/conveyor: A self-hosted zero-downtime deployment tool for Laravel applications

A self-hosted zero-downtime deployment tool for Laravel applications - smitmartijn/conveyor

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just sent out a welcome to a batch of a few 100 users where I've enabled the feature flag for WhatPulse Leagues! really curious how they'll find it and what feedback they come back with 😊 Leagues are weekly competitions on keys & clicks where you can progress through divisions and collect badges

this is weird: Claude started responding in Dutch mid-conversation and I asked it why it did that.. it figured because of my name and because WhatPulse is a Dutch product (??), it would respond in dutch 🤷‍♂️

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interesting new type of phishing, pretending to have bought something damaged from your company and sending a "demo video" with proof which of course turns out to be malware

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Handy is an open-source text to speech app that's really good, fast, supports multiple languages, and also pretty cute stop paying for WhisperFlow

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HipyoTech casually dropping he uses TypeTest.io for his typing tests 🙌🤯 if you're unfamiliar (do you even like keyboards?!) - check out his YouTube for everything related to keyboards. The different types, switches, and sounds (oh the sounds)

TypeTest.io - Test Your Typing Speed and Improve Your WPM

A clean and simple typing test website. Take timed tests of different durations to find out your WPM, track your progress, and improve your typing ability.

typetest.io

I just switched my local Laravel Herd to Yerd and not looking back laravel apps, services (db, kv stores), custom proxy, integrated with cloudflared, mail and dumps - it's pretty awesome 😊

I built this internal app to deploy my Laravel apps, but it's turning out the way I architected it makes it also suitable for other types of apps just added a NodeJS Discord bot, also deploys smoothly 😊

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local transcription setup that just works: - ffmpeg loudnorm + 16k mono - VAD-based chunking - Whisper medium/int8 - lock language after the first segment - emit SRT with timestamps no uploads, no caps, just files in, text out. great for long meetings and podcasts. takes about 5 minutes per 1hr

if LLMs are going to read your docs, structure them like you care: - one answer per page - H2/H3 that say the quiet part out loud - a copy-paste block at the top - explicit “does not” section - canonical links and stable anchors humans appreciate it, machines ingest it, win-win

increasingly, people sending in support tickets about software are including an analysis and recommended fixes from AI agents which is great, and sometimes hilarious... great because they're spending the time and tokens to suggest a fix hilarious because hallucinations are off the chart 😅

two agents on one Laravel codebase without trampling each other: - git worktrees: one per agent/session (use worktrunk) - a .env per worktree (APP_ENV=agent_a / agent_b) - separate sqlite/db filenames per env - unique cache/queue prefixes per env same repo, totally isolated runs.

you can know create oauth apps on @whatpulse.org and create a "Login with WhatPulse" experience to have your users get their stats in your app! can't wait to see what you create with it 😊 up first will be the PulseView mobile app, which will be updated to use this soon

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