I have never, not once in my life, used a blue pen intentionally.

Had a blast attending Wire Live in Buffalo this week. Laravel forever no doubt, but more importantly #tightenforever

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When people talk about the struggles of having a newborn they tend to talk about the same 3 things over and over. But the true worst part? There’s always a random spot on your shirt that’s a little bit damp.

I can’t believe school had me convinced that September and October were bad months for 18 years

“He’s kind of whiny” - my wife in reference to our newborn child. She ain’t wrong

Sara is one of the best people I’ve ever worked with and is now just a dear friend of mine. She also has a really interesting journey to the current place in her career. Check out her story 👇

I actually owe a lot of my career to RuneScape 🙃 laravel.com/blog/evolvin...

This went really well, the internet was good to me! I wrote about the experience here: benholmen.com/blog/kilopix...

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at Wire⚡Live next month! As someone who has used Livewire since its initial release, I'm excited to share the tips and tricks I use to write production-ready Livewire apps. Come to Buffalo to help make the first Wire⚡Live great!

"Embrace the tools you use (even if you don't love them)" My first blog post in over 2 years! It's about a big lesson I've learned working on the Laravel Cloud team and having to use - spoiler alert - React. jasonlbeggs.com/blog/embrace...

Just registered for Wire Live. Any other 🦋 Laravel devs going? wire-live.com

My sleep tracking app pinging me every day since my baby was born warning me my sleep debt is getting out of control.

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Launched my _other_ side project a week ago 👶🏻

Call me basic but this is the best use of A.I.

I had a ton of fun talking to Joe last month about my side project, TellyDraft, which just passed 60k total users. Check it out if you're interested in the behind-the-scenes of the last 7 years we've spent building it. Thanks @joe.codes for inviting me on and being a great host!

Does Horizon do this weird thing for anyone else? It's fine on initial load and when you click around, but if you refresh the browser it 500 errors until you manually change the URL back to /horizon.

Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into

there’s too many sizes of eggs

Dave's talk is great and worth watching. He's also the chillest person I've ever seen on stage. There is 0% difference between stage Dave and the Dave you grab a pizza with. The man is chill. It's something to behold.

My biggest parenting foe is without a doubt well-rested John. He’s constantly setting the bar for tired John far too high.

y'all: using A.I. to vibe code start-ups me:

A month ago my side project launched for its 8th year. In the last month it’s gained an additional 9,500 users, pushing the total since 2018 over 60k. It’s one of those things I want to talk about more often but it’s hard to find the time or solidify what to take away from it.

Blaze, Slots, Islands, Livewire 4 looking 🔥

Apparently they're doing Love is Blind Philly. The world will not be ready.

If you have a page with a table, and each table row has a button that triggers a modal with dynamic content, is your default move to have one Livewire component per row, or one Livewire component on the page and do some trickery to make the content dynamic?

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Is there a name for the unsettling fake way too happy personality morning shows have? Just once I’d like a morning show host who looks like tired as hell and is like “JESUS IT’S TOO EARLY FOR THIS”

Does anyone more familiar with Flux know what this section is referring to? Even when I remove @fluxAppearance, I still get dark mode classes in my Flux markup.

Are there any great email delivery platforms that still offer pay as you go pricing? Feels like they're all trying to lock you into tiers now.

One of my favorite uses of A.I. is just dumping it raw queries and being like "recommend me some indexes".

I'm so proud: two years of working together with a lot of talented programmers, finally we tagged Tempest 1.0: a new framework for PHP web and application development embracing modern PHP tempestphp.com/blog/tempest-1 #php

There’s a Reddit post about how someone found out the Trump Mobile website is built with Laravel and this comment is sending me

not a fan of being told to have a great day. don’t put that on me

Editing demo videos for my side project is one of my least favorite parts, but Screenflow really does make it as least miserable as it could be.

We just shipped Nightwatch: application monitoring & logging obsessively optimized for Laravel. ✨ Start with a single command 📊 Monitor every event ⏱️ Review precise timelines & logs ⚠️ Hear less noise with smart alerts And much more, including a free plan for anywhere you deploy Laravel apps.

I like that step 1 of the instructions on my facial cleaner is "rub this all over your face" and step 2 is "avoid contact with eyes". Pick a lane.

Apple getting rid of the headphone jack is still a bunch of baloney.

Awesome and quite clever.

Insane how much longer a 3 day weekend feels vs a 2 day weekend

I love that the self checkout at my grocery store can detect if I don’t bag something and automatically call an attendant, but if I take more than ten seconds to scan the next item it’s like “Hello have you disappeared!!? Do you still want these 47 items you’ve spent 12 minutes scanning?”

Really wish you could forward all props from a parent to a child in a blade component.

ROOMMATE: Have you seen my sock puppets? ME: *muffled screams from my shoes* why

Whichever washer/dryer brand implements a “detect AirPods” feature first will have my undying love

One day Tailwind's truncate class will do what I expect it to, but that day is not today.

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Me anytime I'm working with Filament

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