Tea people: I want to love tea. But trying to drink a cup of ginger tea right now and it tastes like someone blended potpourri into water. What am I missing

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

That's how the Larabelles Day 0 event at this summer's Laracon US came about, co-hosted by Geocodio and Tighten, with the enthusiastic support of Laravel. luma.com/0j18sp8t

Rocking my awesome new pizza shirt because @mattstauffer.com thinks I’m worth $145 even if @cmorrell.com thinks I’m worth $49.95 at most

New brand, new site. You should hire us. But don't take our word for it: the new site is chock full of testimonials from our amazing clients. thunk.dev

“Melania” is truly the worst experience I’ve had in a theater” -Abraham Lincoln

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

I got to work with Marje for 6 years and it was as awesome as this is

not cool that you have to parent even when you’re really sleepy

Not until you have a baby do you realize how obnoxiously loud doorknobs are

I’ve been thinking about this post ever since I read it a few weeks ago. So spot on.

Trying this out now, has a very nice vibe.

How we use Claude Code, by @tjmiller.bsky.social www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...

Makes me smile every year when I hang it on the tree

These democratic campaign emails are very “hello fellow kids” to me. It’s designed like they’re texting each other but then they start talking to me?

How did everything get so annoying

Phenomenal article on Laravel's Service Container.

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

📣 The Laravel Open Source team is hiring! If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙 apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...

The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today! laracasts.com/series/how-t...

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.

We're hiring! We're looking for an email-focused Marketing Manager to help people get the most out of Geocodio. If that sounds like someone you know, please send them our way! www.geocod.io/careers-emai...

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?

I've had some availability open up, so if you're looking for a Laravel Security Audit and Penetration Test, DM (or email) me! 🕵️ I specialise in Laravel security audits and have helped many dev teams find and fix some 😱 critical vulnerabilities. valorinsecurity.com #Laravel

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".