Testing the image generation features of Flow, now available in Google AI Pro. Findings on the He/She pronoun issue, the effectiveness of natural English prompts, and how to use Flow vs Gem.
After reporting that Nano Banana Pro wasn't available even with a Gemini Pro subscription, it finally rolled out — here's what character-consistent image generation actually looks like in practice.
Testing the new LSP feature in Claude Code v2.0.74 with a PHP setup. phpactor fails on Windows, intelephense installs but isn't recognized — turns out it's already filed as Issue #14803.
A record of designing prompts to make Gemini's image generation correctly draw a side ponytail, and building a Gem using a full 360° set of reference images.
I started tweaking Claude Code's settings files to stop the constant permission prompts, and fell into a rabbit hole. When the official docs say permissions 'can be bypassed' and call them 'tricky,' perfect control is probably not the goal.
CVSS 10.0 React2Shell, fix it and another vulnerability appears, fix again... I was done. Migrated to Astro — including a lesson learned from installing 60 shadcn UI components and using only one.
Japanese text gets mangled when inserting into MySQL on Docker from PowerShell. PHP-based insertion works fine, suggesting the issue is PowerShell's character encoding, not the application.
