Slightly Caffeinated
by Chris Gmyr, TJ Miller
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Chemex, Prism's Comeback, and Avocet Goes Live
Chemex, Prism's Comeback, and Avocet Goes Live
About this podcast
Join Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller as they dive into the world of PHP, Laravel, and all things programming, while also sharing insights on family life and other musings.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 72 episodes
- Chemex, Prism's Comeback, and Avocet Goes Live · 47 min · Episode 72Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Prism v0.101, built on a community fork, and why Prism still has a place next to the Laravel AI SDK. Chris shares Avocet's launch pricing and an…
- Fall Vibes, AI Evals, and Code Review Bots · 28 min · Episode 71TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr compare the AI code review bots they are each building at work, from fixture repos of real PRs to requiring a line of code behind every finding. TJ also…
- New Models, Open Source Hive, and Avocet · 47 min · Episode 70Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller react to Opus 5.5 and the new GPT models, then dig into Hive going open source and how its profiles shape a lead and worker workflow. They also cover…
- Peru Beans, AI Doom, and Code Review Burden · 41 min · Episode 69TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr get into the week's AI doom and gloom, from the Hugging Face incident to calls for regulation, before turning to a problem hitting their teams right now…
- Laptop Rescue, Rig, and Decision Fatigue · 42 min · Episode 68Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller walk through TJ's laptop locking up past safe mode, how Claude helped him rescue his work over a shared disk, and the agent state he forgot to save. They…
- Starday Coffee, Book Club App, and Tauri vs Swift · 41 min · Episode 67TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers…
- Usage Limits, Codex in Hive, and a Week-Long Sync Build · 43 min · Episode 66Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller dig into Anthropic's expiring 50% usage bump, why both of them swapped their Hive lead from Opus to Fable, and Chris's work bringing Codex into Hive as a…
- Hive, Halcyon Notes, and Shipping Real Products · 42 min · Episode 65TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr dig into Hive, the tmux-based agent orchestration tool Chris built to replace Solo, from profiles and runbooks to the optional dashboard. They also cover…
- Boston Coffee, Just Use Laravel, and Vim in Your Vault · 45 min · Episode 64Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller recap Laracon Boston, from the talks and the community response to TJ's post about stepping away, to Laravel Cloud expanding beyond PHP. They also get…
- Caffeine Cutbacks, Agent Orchestration, and Content Wizards · 39 min · Episode 63TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr catch up after a summer break on family trips, caffeine cutbacks, and getting back into side projects. They compare notes on using Fable for PRDs and…
- New Grinder, Solo, and AI Burnout · 39 min · Episode 62Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller catch up on dead coffee grinders and summer plans, then dig into Chris's experience with Aaron Francis's Solo and its orchestrator-agent workflow. They…
- Meeting Voice Review, Assembly AI, and Marketplace Plugins · 49 min · Episode 61TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through recovering from a back injury, coffee and caffeine finds, and a deep run on AI tooling: voice analysis skills, Assembly AI transcription…
- Turkish Coffee Finally, Multi-Step Synthesis, and AI as Enhancement · 36 min · Episode 60Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller talk about the long-awaited Turkish coffee finally landing, Unitree versus PiDog robot dogs, and a tour of TJ's forum comment analysis system at Luma…
- Rig, Iris Journaling, and 3D Printing with Claude · 47 min · Episode 59TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr walk through a new dev tool called Rig that collapses microservice infrastructure into a single Docker Compose, plus Iris's new internal journal and the…
- Usage Limits, Session Skills, and Iris Updates · 53 min · Episode 58Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller cover personal updates, travel experiences, and deep dives into AI workflows, cloud usage limits, and Iris enhancements. The hosts share insights on…
- LLM Wiki, Content Intake, and Defuddle · 33 min · Episode 57TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr discuss their latest projects involving AI, Obsidian, and Iris, sharing insights on managing context windows, building AI tools, and organizing digital…
- Reflection Skill, PRDs, and Self-Improving Workflows · 39 min · Episode 56Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller discuss their latest projects involving AI, PRD generation, and system automation, sharing insights on improving workflow efficiency and code quality…
- Still No Turkish Coffee, Audit Pipelines, and ButcherBox Automation · 54 min · Episode 55TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr discuss their recent projects involving AI, automation, and software development, sharing insights on building AI pipelines, automating workflows, and…
- OpenClaw, Obsidian, and Dev Tools · 35 min · Episode 54Chris Gmyr and TJ Miller share their latest projects, explore AI tools like OpenClaw and Obsidian, and discuss optimizing AI workflows and costs. They delve into personal…
- New Adventures, Iris Long Running Jobs, and Multi-Threaded Conversations · 39 min · Episode 53TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr share updates on their personal projects, discuss new adventures in their careers, and explore tools like Iris and Claude for AI-driven ideation and…
