A few months ago I did an experiment with using Laravel's Scheduler in an event loop. Today I polished it up and released it as a package! Please let me know what you think! github.com/RVxLab/larav...

made my terminal explode when i close it

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “No blockers”

Decided to give my Neovim config a bit of an uplift using vim.pack, I’m blown away by how fast it is. New configs for LSPs and Treesitter, removed some plugins like FixCursorHold. 1.6k lines removed and 600 lines added in total. 32 plugins and load times well below 100ms. Very happy with it!

Hey fam, Can you help me reach active Laravel Artisans on bluesky?

If you see this, post a character that starts with a "G".

Turns out someone is using my photo and name in a scam email about Statamic. The email address listed is some dodgy gmail email. This is not me... so please don't engage with them. No idea what I can do about it though.

> To those who [...] use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who [...] use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us[...]: I not only scold you, I shun you. That goes double if I once admired and respected you. ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Introducing Anti Slop 🚫 A GitHub action that detects and automatically closes low-quality and AI slop PRs. As one of the maintainers of Coolify (50K+ stars) we deal with slop PRs daily so I decided to fix it. Early testing showed this action could have closed 98% of slop PRs.

PSA: There’s someone trying to impersonate me around Discord servers recently. Make sure to check the Discord ID! My ID is evanyou, without a dot at the end.

Age verification? I remember hearing the dial-up sounds through a phone.

I scored 23/35 on jsonwtf.org and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media

A man from Britain is hunted by a mysterious being, gets a message from an old fart in a castle, tortures people, has a drink, wakes up forgetting everything and goes to find the old guy to kill him.

The amount of awesome things happening in the JS ecosystem right now is nothing short of amazing!

@kevinpowell.co I recently started using the |= CSS attribute selector you showed in your simplified modifier classes short and it’s such an improvement over BEM notation. Thank you for teaching me about it! 😄

This is huge 🎉

The #Tailwind / #LLM discussion this week, motivated me to write this plea for slow programming. In honour of Niklaus Wirth. Cc @kevinpowell.co. nwinos.blogspot.com/2026/01/slow...

Oooh my god, this is magical! 🤩

gist.github.com/richhickey/e... This

Has anyone else been running into a lot of 504 errors when running installing composer packages that aren't cached lately?

Laravel's Scheduler running without cron! It works very similarly to Spatie's package, but uses Revolt instead of ReactPHP and doesn't call schedule:run under the hood. This was a very fun experiment and I'm probably going to release it as a package.

Today I learned that it’s entirely possible to make PHP extensions in Zig while only using C for the init logic. Hmm… 🤔

Finally after 9 months I was able to get the green light to upgrade to Laravel 12 at work while everyone else is on Christmas break. No meetings, no chat, just code and I love it.

Let the bullshit begin…

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Hell yeah it’s nearly time 🔥 Pun unintentionally intended

I started self-hosting for partly for this reason.

Oh goddamnit, again?

Tinkerwell is a fantastic app. If you’re the one Yaz is talking about definitely have a look.

Got the first big box of Pebble Time 2 in the mail today!

I made a new version of the @laracon.au recap video to show @thierylaverdure.com what it would look like when he comes next year. How much better is the video with him IN it. RT for reach and to add increased pressure on him to attend.

“A LOT faster” is underselling it. The mobile app is absolutely zooming with this update 🚂

@valorin.bsky.social’s hacking workshop was really cool, learned a lot from it! Thanks Stephen and @marty.friedel.au for organising it and it was nice meeting folks there 😄

Off to the pre-Laracon security workshop!

It’s been a year today since I walked on stage at @laracon.au 2024 and opened up about my experiences with depression and anxiety. Mental health should be talked about. And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible. youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0

Wayfinder is black fucking magic and it’s everything I ever wanted.

Pro tip for programmers: don't shower at the start of your day. Instead, wait until you're absolutely stuck on a problem. THAT's when you shower - instant presto solution! (Note: do not implement this if you work from an office)

Started looking at Laravel Verbs. I find it to be very similar and not similar to actions at the same time. Not sure if I understand it but it’s really cool!

Custom rulesets have to be my favourite new PHP CS Fixer feature. code.rvx.works/RVxLab/php-c...

The new SilverStone retro case is truly a thing of beauty 👌🏻 www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/i...

I have just learned that Fail2Ban has actions. Webhook based tracking panel? 👀

Hosting my own git forge feels so nice. Full control and having a privately controlled mirror is just awesome. Biggest downside is that collaboration is harder. Oh well 🤷‍♂️

Setting up a Tangled knot is super easy with Docker and Coolify! I was able to create a repo on it too. I did learn today that running 2 Git servers side-by-side while only relying on SSHD is a pain in the ass 😅 I won't be using Tangled anytime soon though, it was a cool experiment though!

Tangled looks really cool, I’ll have to have a play setting up a Knot and Spindle in Docker

First time in my life I’ve seen a 10/10 CVE. Even Heartbleed, Shellshock, Spectre and Meltdown didn’t go that high redis.io/blog/securit...

PHPacker and Laravel Zero is a match made in heaven From code to native CLI application in less than a minute 🚀

For a while I’ve been using Git to sync my Obsidian vault, today I switched to using Obsidian Sync. And holy cow is it zooming! I’m a happy boy :>

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