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Added this to my prompt as a joke - now it’s standard: “Write this like Taylor Otwell would. Clean, expressive, elegant - no fluff.”

Just upgraded a site from Laravel 11 to 12 via a Dependabot PR — no code changes, tests all pass, zero issues, smooth as butter. Love these kinds of upgrades.

RIP Around.co 💀 (EoL) Our daily standups always wrapped up with a 5-minute Bomberman battle between the devs—pure chaos and competition. Anyone have a go-to breakout game with their team as the day starts?

Found this gem while rescuing an app today

Ever used the `stub:publish` command when you only needed a few stubs but ended up publishing all ~50 customizable ones? I’m working on a PR to address this by adding a selection menu so you can choose exactly which stubs to publish. Would love to hear any feedback! github.com/laravel/fram...

a man of his word.

That’s my kid—already making solid life choices.

Linkin Park's new album is such a banger. Feels like I'm in high school again.

TIL you can instantiate a class via constructor property promotion in PHP: travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-cons...

I think about this often 🤔 – it’d be great to see something like this in a future version of PHP—instantiation on property declaration. I get *why* we do this, but the number of constructors I could clean up... 🧹