My son’s soccer team lost their minds today when they won the game and found out the score was 6-7 🙄

Affinity giving there software away for FREE after getting acquired by Canva was not on my bingo card. Definitely seems like a play to get you using Canva and their AI stuff... but wow! www.affinity.studio

👀 Honestly surprised to see blade up there, but it makes sense given that momentum Laravel has been having lately.

Wish I could be at Wire ⚡ Live today. Anyone know if there is a live stream?

The "For You" feed just got a big upgrade!

AI-generated song made it into my discover playlist on Apple Music and half way into it I thought I was listening to a new song from Ariana Grande...🫠

The For You feed is getting really good at showing posts related to live events

@nba.com is back 🥹

One of the most iconic theme songs in sports history! I’m so glad it’s back, bringing back childhood memories.

I've been waiting for a setting like this to come out before upgrading to iOS 26. Coming soon in iOS 26.1!

Has anyone else been receiving spam calendar invites? How do you make it stop?

I always forget how to use these

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...

Remote workers: what’s one thing you do to switch off and go from work mode to family mode?

There is nothing entertaining about where this is heading

Just sent out a 500+ word update about what's been happening with @litebase.com . Hoping to ship public alpha this month, stay tuned!

Is it true that the NFL isn’t on Bluesky just because X pays them and Bluesky doesn’t? Sad for fans who want to follow here.

Last week’s Falcons were a disaster. Today they look like a completely different team and I’m loving it! 😤

Just now seeing the score. What in the world happened to the Falcons?!

In the last 12 months, MongoDB has been investing a lot of energy in its official Laravel integration. Anyone using them for a project or working for someone that does? Interested in what drove the decision to use MongoDB.

The Laravel Bootcamp is back! Alongside it is a new PHP Fundamentals mini-course. Both are free and perfect for anyone brand new to PHP or Laravel. laravel.com/learn

You can absolutely tell AI was trained on human code when Claude uses timeouts to solve concurrency issues. "Perfect! The fix is working consistently!"

Hey Laravel Cloud users, question for you: how much does your database cost you every month? I’m doing some research on what to do on my own ideas Feel free to DM me if you don’t want to say it publicly

Can't believe I'm sending out the first sponsor update for @litebase.com. Big thank you to @rvx.works for being the first sponsor! 🥳 I'm still preparing the first public release, which has me focused on code signing and other distribution tasks. Link if interested: github.com/sponsors/lit...

you may find this hilarious, but one of the fastest ways to level up as a developer is trying to reinvent the wheel

My talk is up! Should you go watch it? (but you'll learn how to find the future you've always wanted if you do) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN3h...

Don't miss our next PHPxATL / AtlantaPHP meetup! Join us on: 📅 Wednesday, September 17th at 6 PM ET 📍 Motion Recruitment (400 Perimeter Center Terrace #300) Please RSVP so we know you're coming: phpxatl.com/meetups/3440...

😤 Just finished up a big ticket item for @litebase.com! Just a few more things to polish up, then I plan to share some builds. github.com/litebase/lit...

My talk from Laracon US is live 🥳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1tD... In 10 minutes & 66 (!) slides I cover everything from academic libraries📚 to Y2K-era dotcom puppets🐶 and why your taste & judgement will matter more than ever before.

My Laracon talk is live! youtu.be/TsEeIjWrPhI?...

Now that @litebase.com is a real project, I'm making real pull requests. Just pushing to main was fun while it lasted 😂 github.com/litebase/lit...

My new talk is up! 5 practical things developers can do to build trust with their non-technical bosses. In the high trust environment you have less micromanagement and conflict, and more freedom and harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zki4...

Ok I only caught snippets of this in real time, just watched the whole thing This man *cooked* on that stage 🧠🧠🧠 WELL worth a watch Also shout out to another member of the No CS Degree Club 🫡 (we need a catchier name)

Here’s my talk from Laracon: You Should Reinvent the Wheel If you were wondering what the slides looked like for the first half, they were added in post 😅 youtu.be/E4_QSEfInrc?...

One of the reasons I love Bluesky is people can just do cool stuff with the open protocol.

“AI can generate ___ so I feel like giving up learning ___” This is a dangerous thought pattern that puts humanism at risk. Play that instrument, write that book, shoot that film, build that side project.

Vacation so far has confirmed one thing: I live in constant fear that my dog will steal food off my plate. He’s not even here, and I’m still looking over my shoulder every time I stand up.

Ghost 6.0 has arrived! An enormous amount of work went into delivering our biggest upgrade yet: 🔥 Networked publishing with ActivityPub 📈 Deeply integrated native analytics 🛠️ Thousands of upgrades and improvements 💸 $100,000,000 earned by indie publishers ghost.org/6/

If you attended Laracon US, you already know this, but: I'm currently wrapping up the last three videos of my upcoming course, which is all about how I built the incredible development team at @tighten.com. The course will be free (!!), hosted on Laracasts, and out this autumn!

Heading to the beach for the week with the fam. Once I get back, it’s back to shipping!

It was amazing to meet you @thierylaverdure.com Your talk was so inspiring! Wanted to share a couple quick shots I got of you. 🫡🤝

All that bacon wrapped bacon I ate at Laracon is catching up with me 😮‍💨

Heading home from Laracon! I didn’t know what to expect from my talk, but from the moment I stepped off stage to now boarding my flight, I’ve had so many great conversations. Grateful to those who saw themselves in my story and felt inspired to reinvent their own wheel. Laravel forever!

@thierylaverdure.com I loved your talk yesterday. Great work!!

Great talk by @thierylaverdure.com at laracon. Check out litebase.com for a very ambitious project to run sqlite dbs remotely.

This talk was amazing, if you missed it you should fix that

Dude @thierylaverdure.com you crushed it, awesome talk. Super interesting and really well delivered. Great work!!

Today, I’m extremely excited to introduce @litebase.com! Something I've been working on for a while that I'm proud to ship. Following along as I build a new type of database.

One of Atlanta’s own on stage at Laracon! Go Thiery 💪🏼 @thierylaverdure.com

You should all go and watch @thierylaverdure.com's LaraconUS talk! It's amazing!