Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Alice in Chains Queens of the Stone Age Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Radio Moscow Metallica The Offspring Linkin Park The Roots Black Pistol Fire Coeur de Pirate

The Fast and Francis Saga begins gusk.ca/ff/fast-and-...

🔗 Behind the Terminal

I wrote a meta article about how I built my website gusk.ca/articles/beh...

It's here! 🏆 The Record Club 2025 Year in Review: record.club/2025

Your favorite dev comic now has a home gusk.ca/comics

Keep tabs on your inner radio brainradio.fm

New year, new domain gusk.ca

Just in time, a quick recap of 2025 gksh.dev/articles/202...

@davidkpiano.bsky.social Is there such a thing as an llms.txt for xstate docs?

Find better problems 👉 youtu.be/kYAr8mSDmww

Gave the ol’ website a glow up over the weekend gksh.dev

If you need a quick way to print markdown, help yourself gksh.dev/md?merry=xmas

This paperback is beautiful! I'm looking forward to reading it over the holidays.

laravel new 👀

Does Laravel have a "lottery" driver?

👀 themonolithproject.net

I'm gonna try and reach inbox and tab zero til the end of the year. Wish me luck!

Which tech and science magazines are worth subscribing to these days? My wife has a NatGeo subscription, but half of it is ads. I'd love something similar to what Stripe used to do with increment.com

I'm not sure if I'll do anything with it, but I had this idea for a portfolio/personal website 🤔

It all started a decade ago when I joined a solo project running Laravel 4.2. laravel.com/blog/streami...

New books 📚

Ran my first half-marathon this weekend. I clearly needed more training, but I made it to the finish line! My goal for next year is to shave at least 30 minutes off my official time.

Install kilopx.com using this complimentary floppy disk and go have fun! kilopx.com/gksh.dev/gPG...

👏👏👏

If you could frame your first Laracon, I think it would look something like this

It's been a while I don't travel solo. Strange feeling. I'm missing the family already.

Run 10K before catching a flight to Denver? Sure, why not!

What are we doing with our planet? 😢

gksh.comics presents "AST*rix & ob_lix in Laracon US"

This side project belongs in an arts and sciences museum!

I just ordered a limited run of custom postcards to give away at Laracon. Come find me to get one!

If you're a dev who likes running, let me know! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Freek's newsletter includes my article on scoping Eloquent relations using the Context facade. Give it a read!

New Kadavar! open.spotify.com/album/148B89...

🔗 Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?

Vibe coding is coding to this music youtu.be/vMgyaC7QQhs

I wrote a few words about scoping Eloquent relations at runtime using Laravel's Context facade gist.github.com/karkowg/1ffa...

Yae or nay?

Thanks @mattstauffer.com, for the book and the kind words!

Sick hoodie, @wesbos.com!

It's the second or third time I've witnessed my kid fall teeth-first on the floor. I wish everything were inflatable.

Can't tell if this is an AI-generated transcript or poetry “Correct the hello Getting my key as a preconception moon Don't network But isn't gonna work But they do very well Some sort of control? And now he OK eyes in the Tivoli OK, mood document, father in tracking”

I never went go-karting. It would be a fun activity pre-Laracon. @chris-sev.bsky.social Do you know a guy?

Frittata! 🍳

@cmorrell.com have you done a podcast on imposter syndrome yet? I'd listen to that right now

@cassidoo.co I'm sure a toddler + phishing joke is around somewhere, waiting to be made. They keep trying to trick us into doing what they want, haha.

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