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Andrew Schmelyun
@aschmelyun
Software engineer with too many ideas and poor impulse control. Sometimes I make videos.
Port St. Lucie, FL
aschmelyun.com
Joined March 2010
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Mar 24, 2022
    So here's why I bought a receipt printer: Every time one of my GitHub repos gets a new issue, I now get a physical ticket printed out on my desk 🪄
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Jun 16, 2022
    The JS ecosystem
    A meme of people fighting in the background labeled "Angular, Svelte, React, and Vue" with a man in the foreground calmly eating that says "jQuery being used on 70% of sites in 2022".
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Nov 20, 2023
    My keyboard wasn't mechanical enough, so I made an upgrade
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Nov 2, 2025
    I’ve tried for years to figure out what I have running on AWS somewhere. Every month I’m billed like $6 and can’t figure out where it’s coming from
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    ThePrimeagen
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    Nov 2, 2025
    TIL I have an AWS something or other running
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    May 5, 2023
    what do you think
    Next.js as the PHP logo
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Apr 20, 2020
    My friend quit his programming job because he didn't get arrays.
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Apr 14, 2024
    Backend code that generates plain HTML responses is still the best way to build 90% of applications
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    @buffys
    Apr 11, 2024
    what opinion will you defend like this?
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Feb 21, 2021
    Developers visiting their blogs like
    The car veering off a highway exit meme. The street sign above says "post a new article", or "rebuild the entire site", with the car going toward the latter.
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Feb 18, 2023
    Today I learned that you can remove an element's default styling with a single line in css
    A block of css that reads: button { all: unset; }
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Apr 24, 2024
    you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
    A screenshot of Adobe (sorry, Macromedia) Dreamweaver 8
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Mar 13, 2023
    server side rendering is the future
    "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" meme, with PHP looking at Next.js
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Aug 28, 2022
    PHP is a fun language
    An example of PHP code that reads: <?php $var = 'Hello, world!'; $varOfVar = 'var'; $varOfVarOfVar = 'varOfVar'; echo $$$varOfVarOfVar; // Hello, world!
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Nov 5, 2023
    Laravel developers when they actually have to write code because Spatie didn’t have a package for their specific use case
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    Andrew Schmelyun
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    Mar 24, 2022
    Replying to @joewardpr and @calebporzio
    This just in:
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