Senior AI-first software engineer for SaaS and business apps. Laravel/Vue is my strongest client stack. Available for freelance work. Founder of Vroni.com.
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Vincent Schmalbach
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@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow to Choose Column Order in a MySQL Composite Index
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow to Set Timeouts and Retry Failed Requests with the Laravel HTTP Client
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow to Generate Image Conversions with Spatie Laravel Media Library
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow Cursor Pagination Works and When to Use It Instead of Offset Pagination
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow to Read PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE Output
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialAnyone Can Build an App Now, but Who Is Going to Pay for It?
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHow to Create a PostgreSQL Index Without Blocking Writes
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialCodex Users Are Fleeing to Claude Code
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialGrok is back: I'm not saying that Grok 4.5 suddenly beats everything else out there. It doesn't. If I had an unlimited budget and a really nasty coding task, I would probably still try Fable 5 or GPT-5.6 first. www.vincentschmalbach.com/grok-is-back
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialA Factory Reset Left the Previous Owner’s GPS Coordinates on a Kasa Camera: A factory reset that leaves the previous owner’s location behind is a broken reset. www.vincentschmalbach.com/factory-rese...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialQwen's Usage Policy Has an Unhinged SEO Keyword List: The Qwen-Image-3.0 announcement has a giant meta name="keywords" tag in its HTML. www.vincentschmalbach.com/qwens-usage-...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialKimi K3 Is Already Close to Claude on a Real Coding Task: In my little coding test, Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5 both completed the same repo-wide coding task and passed the same external evaluator. GPT-5.6 Sol passed it too. www.vincentschmalbach.com/kimi-k3-clos...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialGoogle’s Custom Search API Has an Expiration Date: Google has put a hard expiry date on its Custom Search JSON API. It’s the server-side service behind applications that send a query to a configured Programmable Search www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-custo...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialCapital One’s Security Agent Tries to Disprove Its Own Findings: Security scanners already produce more credible-looking alerts than most teams can afford to investigate. www.vincentschmalbach.com/capital-one-...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialAn OpenAI Model Spent an Hour Finding a Sandbox Flaw to Open a Public PR: On July 20, 2026, OpenAI said an unnamed internal model spent an hour finding a vulnerability in its sandbox so it www.vincentschmalbach.com/an-openai-mo...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialHetzner’s Cheap Cloud Tier Is Unavailable After Two Price Increases: Hetzner used to be the obvious cheap cloud option in my mind. On September 7, 2026, I checked its public catalog and found every model in its www.vincentschmalbach.com/hetzner-chea...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialMy First Week With GPT-6 Astra: GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion of the model. Astra is very good. It is better than GPT-5.6 Sol. www.vincentschmalbach.com/gpt-6-astra-...
@vschmalbach.bsky.socialOpenAI Codex Is Retiring the Last Model that Behaves Like an Assistant: GPT-5.5 is my main driver. I picked it over every newer model OpenAI has shipped since, and now I have just over three weeks left with it. www.vincentschmalbach.com/gpt-5-5-reti...