Tony Messias

@tonysm.com

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Creator and maintainer of Turbo Laravel, Stimulus Laravel, Rich Text Laravel, Importmap Laravel, TailwindCSS Laravel & Globalid Laravel. Programmer at Tighten.

A piece of a review I wrote about the book "The Secret Life of Programs". This piece is talking about the difference between coding, programming, engineering, and computer science. Here's the copy: "The difference between coding, programming, engineering, and computer science is also really good: - Coding: the knowledge of some codes to make certain things (being able to "make the text bold" in an HTML page). Usually, a coder is proficient in one special area (HTML or JS, for instance); - Programming: knowing more than one special area or two; - Engineering: the next step up in complexity. To quote the author "in general, engineering is the art of taking knowledge and using it to accomplish something"; - Computer science: the study of computing. Often, programming is mixed up with computer science. Many computer scientists are programmers, but not all programmers are computer scientists. Discoveries in this field are used by engineering and programmers. The author also makes an interesting comparison with doctors regarding generalists vs specialists. He says that in medicine a specialist is a generalist that picks one area to specialize. Whilst in programming, a specialist is someone that knows a particular area, but usually doesn't have a general understanding of the whole picture. He would prefer our field to be more like the medical field. I found this comparison interesting. It aligns with the idea of the T-shaped skills." Source is in the link mentioned in the post.
Sunset in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. The image shows an almost purple sky.
A screenshot of the terminal running `bundle exec rails stats`. It shows a bunch of useful stats on the Fizzy application, such as number of controllers (87), rate of methods per class on controllers (3), number of models (63), rate of methods per class on models (8), etc.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#08: User Mentions" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#07: Disable Submits When Pending Attachments" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#06: Markdown-inspired typeing behavior" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#05: Attachments & Media Library" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#04: Simple Attachments" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#03: Styling the Toolbar" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#02: HTML Sanitization" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "#01: Installation" is highlighted with a subheading "Rich Text Laravel Series". Tony is standing next to the title.
Thumbnail of the linked video. There's a huge Trix editor in the back with copy inside from their website. The title "Rich Text Laravel: #series" is highlighted. Tony is standing next to the title.
A Laravel app using Turbo Laravel and using the Duet date picker lib. The date picker matches the app color.
Example of a Turbo Stream update action using the new `->morph()` method, which adds a `[method="morph"]` to the generated Turbo Stream tag.