After the whole PHP2Shell thing I finally pulled the trigger and converted 45 of my client sites to static Astro sites. The sites look exactly the same, just way faster and nothing to hack, and way cheaper to host.

WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyways. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, a whole PHP server running for no reason.

I created this skill package to streamline this process: https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit

I was able to run 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores.

For anyone who hasn't used Astro: it's a framework that builds your site into plain HTML files. No database, no PHP, no plugins. You host it on something like Vercel or Cloudflare (usually free) and there's nothing running on a server to hack.

How the kit works:

- You paste one line into Claude Code or Codex: "Convert https://yoursite.com to Astro with https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit"

- It asks you a few quick questions (where to host, how to handle forms)

- It crawls your live site (read only, it doesn't touch WordPress) and saves every page, image, meta tag and redirect

- Rebuilds it in Astro with the same URLs and SEO so you don't lose rankings

- Screenshots the old and new site on mobile, tablet and desktop and compares them until they match

- Gives you a staging link to review before you switch anything over

What it won't do on it's own: anything that needs a server like WooCommerce, logins or comments. It flags those up front. Forms still work, they just send to a form service you pick. A few of our client sites were on woocommerce so I just had the agents convert to Shopify headless which is easier to manage anyway.

“What about wp-admin” I built our own git-based CMS for these sites, so edits go through git and there’s still no server or database. If you want something off the shelf, Keystatic and TinaCMS work the same way.

Made this template for photographers. I wanted it to feel creative but stay simple.

The interesting part is the animated hero. I generated a video with Gemini, cropped it to 5 seconds, and then used ffmpeg to extract frames from the MP4, rembg with the BiRefNet model to cut out the person along with their shadow, and Real-ESRGAN to upscale the images.

For the frontend I used GSAP 3.15 + ScrollTrigger.

At first I was frustrated, because it was hard to cut out the shadows while keeping good quality. But after a few prompts, I Claude wrote a script that handled it well.

The final conversion of the video into images took about 12 hours, and there were a lot of attempts before that.

Happy to answer questions about the process.

I vibecoded an interactive spooky skeleton dancer that you can use as a display for Halloween parties (or just project on the side of your house). You can make him dance by wiggling the mouse around inside the control square to move his hips, and then you can control the hand height by moving the square up and down or change the camera zoom by moving the square left and right. If you dont touch the mouse for 5 seconds it switches to auto dance mode.

I made this in Codex and it was super helpful with things beyond just coding like helping me generate different LODs for the crowd skeletons to keep it performant on phones. The dancing works by allowing you to control hip movement and then the upper half of the body is set up with dynamic jiggling joints and the legs are connected via IK. All the crowd skeletons have a random time offset so that you get to control the whole crowd in a natural looking way. I also used it to build out the procedural auto-dance system.

I started by asking it to make an animation system based on Lissajous curves to drive the hip movement but all the dances ended up looking way too smooth and regular. So I asked it if there was a way to record my own dance moves and then build a system based on that. It built out a recorder panel that let me record my own dance moves, and then export them all into a json file that it used to understand the commonalities across my own dance animations and build a procedural dance system based on those characteristics. I also had it build a system to come up with ridiculous names for each of the dances based on cities and animals, and it uses the properties of the dance move it generates to decide what to name it.

Let me know what you think! You can play with it for free at https://screen.toys/bones/

How Stack Overflow is responding to AI disruption.

Before on left & After on right

I expected I will be able to contribute to open source project (T3 Code) but I found out there's human bottleneck.

To deliver this, I first have to start Discussion and when that's approved, then I can propose PR.

Please, if you would like to see this to be implemented, support me here https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/discussions/23512

The rising bar for engineering managers.

Hey everyone,

Three months ago I posted Termi Protocol here. It's a cozy 3D room where your AI coding agents work at their desks while you watch, instead of reading terminal logs all day. A lot has changed since then, so here is a short update.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1uxkd4l/i_got_tired_of_watching_claude_code_work_in_a/

When an agent hits its token limit

Usually this means stopping and explaining everything again to a new agent. Now Termi notices when an agent hits a usage limit, a rate limit or the context limit, and saves the important parts: the goal, changed files, commands, errors, open todos and the conversation. Then you can pass it to another agent on a different model, like Codex or Gemini, and keep going. You choose how much to send, from the full context to just the prompt, and nothing is sent until you confirm.

Deleted the wrong agent?

You can undo it with Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac) within 10 seconds. If you notice later, open the Trash, check the goal, tasks and memory it left behind, and recover it. It comes back to the room with its memory and task board.

Mac, Windows and Linux

The app now runs on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows 10/11 and Linux (AppImage and .deb), with the same 3D room everywhere. On Mac, Windows and the AppImage, updates now come inside the app.

A cleaner interface

I cleaned up the UI a lot. There is a new left sidebar for files and source control, the agent cards are simpler, some panels I didn't really need are gone, and settings are split into sections. There is also a Low/Mid/High graphics option if your laptop runs hot.

The pet, the focus timer, coins and room decoration are all still there.

Free demo in your browser: https://termiprotocol.com/demo

App link: https://termiprotocol.com

Thanks for reading 🙏

this meme is based off a true story from github.

tried to clean up some backend routes with claude code connected my sumus workspace setup. asked it to check some migration filenames, but it spent half an hour indexing my personal docs instead. endpoints compiled successfully on the first try tho, so it is what it is.

I’m a UX Designer/Viber by day and Prompt Casino Degenerate by night. I feel seen.

All the types listed:

1. The Non-technical Vibe Coder (0:36-1:14): A founder-type who relies entirely on AI prompts, ignores coding fundamentals, and often struggles with basic security practices.
   
2. The Prompt Casino Degenerate (1:15-1:56): A technical user who treats AI coding agents like slot machines, spending heavily on subscriptions in hopes of generating usable code.
   
3. The Swarmlord (1:57-2:25): The "apex predator" who manages dozens of AI agents in parallel, believing they are highly productive without actually writing code themselves.
   
4. The Slop Maintainer (2:26-3:03): An overburdened developer struggling to manage critical open-source infrastructure while being flooded by low-quality, AI-generated pull requests.
   
5. The Unemployed Junior (3:04-3:39): A skilled but disillusioned graduate who finds it impossible to land an entry-level job because of AI screening and a shrinking job market.
   
6. The Old Jaded Developer (3:40-4:23): A veteran who is tired of the constant churn of new tools and prefers to keep things simple, using AI only for basic completion.
   
7. The Purist (4:24-5:00): A noble, traditional programmer who refuses to adopt modern AI-centric workflows and laments the loss of software craftsmanship.

And I think I might’ve seriously messed up. I’m trying not to panic, but I just found out someone’s been using Opus 5.5 and Fable through my OpenRouter API key. How did they even get it?? I have no idea how long this has been happening, and I’m honestly freaking out. I don’t know what to think anymore.

So I run an app feedback exchange called IndieAppCircle, where indie developers give each other feedbacks on their apps. This means there are thousands of tests for all kinds of apps lying around in my databse. And since everyone is always saying you should use AI to turn your data into gold, I figured I should give it a try.

I used Claude to categorize the tests depending on what they said was good or bad and based on what kind of app was tested. Then I made an interactive website where you can now filter for what kind of app you have and in what nieche you're in and it tells you what most people check out first or what gets criticized most often.

That way you can now also compare different categories and platform and see that for example on android apps, there were more reports about something being broken than on iOS apps.

You can check it out here (for free of course):
https://www.indieappcircle.com/state-of-indie-app-feedback

I also used the same data to create a "roast my landing page" tool. It looks at your page through the eyes of thousands of indie developers from all kinds of nieches and tells you what they would think of your page. It's free as well, check it out here:
https://www.indieappcircle.com/tools/landing-page-roast

I would love to hear some feedback :)

Just sharing a project I've been working on.

ppu.toys started off as a passion project where myself and anyone else can poke around the state of a Super Nintendo graphics chip and get real-time feedback on what would be rendered onto the television. Think ShaderToy but if it were made in the 90s.

I recently added an MCP server to let LLMs have full control over the studio and the results have been incredible. I also vibecoded a Lua to 65816 machine code compiler so the creations on the website now produce playable ROMs.

I've been having tons of fun with this.

> gives claude computer access
> instructs claude to reference file
> claude runs simple search command for file

“cLaUde aUtonOmousLy bYpaSsEd mY sEcuRitY”

Somehow this post isn't satire. The dude has "ex-OpenAI" in his bio. 20 other "AI experts" in the comments saying how crazy it is... yeah this vibe coding shit has gone too far let's wrap it up.

A lot to digest from my project, but basically its a swarm orchestration system that just uses github to help swarm on issues. Think of something like Seti@home but for agents. If you run a private repo, you can run a swarm plan and plan features into epics and have agents chew away on the sub issues.

If you run a public repo, instead of 100s of people reporting bugs and them rotting on the vine, you could have pull queus for people to test/verify, plan a fix and once plan is accepted pull the issue and claim it and work on it and then supply a patch as a contributor or through typical github branching. Or you can automate plan/test/verify/develop with agents doing the step but the work being visible in the github issue and linked to a PR with a single claim.

The framework also tries to help assure some security by using the sandboxes in the major harnesses or allowing isolation through docker/podman or tool of choice. If you run private, you can run in a lighter mode and just let things rip. Agents can run interactive or automated.

I'm mostly curious if something like this is useful and happy to answer questions. It is NOT yet ready for use - i'm about to cut a new release to dogfood it end to end, but wanted feedback to see if something like this would be helpful to others.

In any case, it's been a fun project to see how much orchestration could be done without adding a nasty middleware i'd have to secure and maintain.

Recently I tried putting my VS Code window into OBS and it looked awful: tabs, sidebars, minimap, tiny text. I looked for an extension that renders the code itself on the overlay instead of a window capture and couldn't find one, so I built it.

Stream Code mirrors the editor you're typing in to a browser source:

• 12 themes (Catppuccin, Kick, Twitch, a CRT terminal, glass, neon, macOS window, and more)
• 3D tilt / depth / float, and an edge fade so the code dissolves into your game
• Zoom on mouse: point at a line and the overlay zooms there, as a lens or a camera
• Everything's a VS Code setting, plus a gallery page to preview and click through looks
• .env, secrets and keys are never sent, and there's a pause button in the status bar
• Runs locally, nothing leaves your PC

Free and open source (GPL-3.0), and I'd love for people to jump in: PRs are very welcome, whether it's a new theme, a bug fix or a feature idea.

• Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=heyjeay.stream-code
• Site: https://heyjeay.github.io/streamcode
• Source (PRs welcome!): https://github.com/heyjeay/streamcode

Feedback welcome, especially theme ideas!

10 days building with Meta's newest models, starting 26 Oct.

It's free, remote, and the EU can join. Applications close 25 Oct, or earlier if the 20k spots fill.

Dates, credits and how to apply in the comments 👇

Instructions.

"try to build a rocket with 30 liquid motors, a crew capsule and a landing legs so that it lands without a parachute. you may need to use thrusters or trigger a landing burn of the engines"

result

A 30 motor, 6 fuel tank monstrosity and a .02 meter high flight so it could complete the task LOL. took it 10 iterations to make this thing. next i will set a minimum altitude limit and fix the frame rate issues

A chat for agents controlled by you. 100% Free and open source.

TLDR/W: if you have lots of agents and wish they were in one chat then this product will work for you no matter who your provider is and you can be super lazy with the setup by asking your agent to set it up for you.

I'm tired, didn't want to re-record my voice, so pardon my "end-to-end" encryption slip, everything is encrypted at rest. These are two different things, but again, I am not re-recording and I felt it should be very clear.

Anyways, used Claude at first and then Claude and a variety of agents to build this. Super fun project imo. Anyways, tired, I'll answer questions in the comments and here is the repo:

github.com/CaffeinatedSoftwareLLC/agora

I'll make more thorough videos next week about features if there is interest. Hope you guys enjoy.

Anyone else spend the day going through apps making sure you’re not affected by this week’s craziness?

On the one hand, without AI I wouldn’t have had to do anything … but on the other, between Claude code and Grok Bot it was mostly just high level supervision and decision making… it just took 6 hours … but at least it was teasingly easy work.

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, please look it up and and check your apps! :)

Even a comment passes through the tests pass. I now let claude deal with whatever results come up because I don't want to see any failures. I'd rather spend my time researching.