Back in the days, I used to stay up to date with what happens in the Laravel community by just following some key people on Twitter. Now that I've left that platform and moved here, I feel like I'm not catching up on the same amount of information. What do you folks do to stay up to date?

My 23 weeks @buffer.com streak is lost 😭😭 😭

More than 60 days that I started at @buffer.com and I still need to get used to someone saying "Have a nice weekend" on a Thursday evening call 🙈

Crazy idea, what if your desk was the PC case. It’s a thick “box” that could fit a lot of components, why couldn’t this work?

I'm due for another iteration of my personal website rathes.me and I am wondering if I should try a version that has no navigation at all and everything is based off the homepage. You can navigate my website without the navbar already but I am thinking of removing the top navigation altogether 🤔

Any parents that work on side projects? How do you manage that? I would love to work on some of mine but the last few weeks if not months, I've just been too tired at the end of the day 😴😪 😅

So, can I just ask Openclaw to earn as much money as possible and it will just do the work for me in the background? 🙈😂

It’s this kind of day today 😅

I’m currently using purely Claude Code in the terminal and then only use Cursor for reviewing these changes and sometimes make quick manual changes. Do I still need Cursor then? 🤔 Is there anything I can do with Cursor here that would improve my flow?

Found my native language #Tamil 😍

With AI tools, everybody can build tools now that nobody uses 😅🙈

Please help me fight the urge to build my own calendar component 🙏🏾😅

Looks like I need new running shoes. What’s the one I should’ve get for the time until the new Pegasus are coming out?

I’m about to start Dan Browns “The Secret of Secrets”, I really hope it’s closer to the first few of the Robert Langdon books.

I've been going for early morning runs (waking up at 5:30am and out at 6am) and while my running hasn't improved, I had a really nice side effect: I can kinda handle the cold better than I did before 🙈 I'll take that as a win!

I’m just going through all Sherlock Holmes books again and it’s crazy to think I’m regularly taking the same Metropolitan line that is mentioned in the books from all these years back 😮

After more than 4 years and having a top 2% streak, my wife and I decided that we won’t renew our Whoop membership anymore. £412/yr are just not worth it

You know what’s painful? A runner’s nipple 🥲

Happy New Year everyone!

Post Christmas Day Breakfast: Panettone and Coffee. Perfect combination.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅🏾💫

✍🏾 Publish my probably most personal and reflective Year in Review post rathes.me/blog/en/revi...

Anyone's started writing their Year in Review posts? I think mine this year will be a different one compared to the previous ones. I've started to enjoy writing more about my reflections so this Year in Review post will be going in that directions as well.

Similar to what I did with todos.aheenam.com, I’m really inclined to build a fully stripped down version of Notion. Just for writing and organising it. Not AI stuff, no calendar or email, maybe not even databases

My Bluesky Wrapped. Love my replies to posts ratio 😍 www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Shipped a small side project: a todo app for solo devs juggling multiple projects. Built it mainly for myself — to code without AI but also to have a simple enough place to manage my side projects (Notion does not work for me) todos.aheenam.com

✍🏾 New post: My social media plan for 2026, or something like that In short, different platforms get different versions of me. And for Bluesky I think this is where the nerdy side lives — technical stuff, side projects, dev thoughts. What I've been sharing so far anyway. rathes.me/blog/en/soci...

After a few months of trying, I’m back to light themes in my terminal and editor by default. If I ever change to dark mode they will automatically adapt but I barely use dark mode 🙈

Curious, is a popover that opens from a dropdown menu item a bad idea from a UX standpoint?

How does our 10 month old already know that he can swipe on a phone display? And we don’t even actively hand him a device. He hasn’t even any screen time yet. 😮😮😮

Even if you think it might be too small or too specific to you we would love to hear it!

Finally feeling a bit better again! Wish you all an amazing week 🙌🏾

October was one of our strongest months this year at Buffer! MRR reached $1.91M (+1.21%), ARR hit $22.9M, and our cash balance grew by $434K to $4.34M. 🔗 Full update: buffer.com/shareholders...

Since joining @buffer.com, I've been more active on social media than I've been in years. The team's energy is infectious, and I found myself posting more on LinkedIn, Threads, BlueSky, and Instagram. But with that came an unexpected challenge.

I used to roll my eyes at the AI hype. When my previous workplace announced “Everyone needs to use AI now,” I felt like following a trend rather than solving problems. Here’s how I went from being sceptical to embracing AI tools: ➡️ rathes.me/blog/en/ai-j...

Two weeks into my new role at @buffer.com and I'm genuinely blown away. After applying 3 times over the years, I finally got in as a Senior Software Engineer. And honestly? It's everything I hoped it would be and more. Here's why 🧵

I need some help from the Laravel makers: I have an almost fresh Laravel 12 application, added Laravel Fortify to it and now want to update the page the user lands on after successful auth. So I updated the 'home' in config/fortify.php and it works after login but ... 🧵

I'm late to realize this but I'm reaching so many people on LinkedIn, would have never thought that. Yes, it also attracts lots of spam but even without, it's a quite useful channel

I’ve improved the website that I created for my little macOS app

Vibe-Coding in a language that you've never learnt is fun until you hit an edge-case that AI just doesn't get. Today @steipete.me and his blog post saved my ass steipete.me/posts/2025/s... macOS has some weird issues 😅

Just published my first macOS app - a menubar tool for checking teammates' time zones! 🎉 Wild part? Fully native SwiftUI despite never writing Swift before. Claude Code helped me learn & ship it. AI can be easily used as a tool for learning new stuff! apps.apple.com/gb/app/offse...

So excited about the journey ahead of me 🤩

It’s harder to get the app published on the App Store than actually developing the app 😅

There was/is an AWS outage? If it wasn’t in the news/socials, I wouldn’t even have noticed. Not working at the moment has its benefits 😂

Coal Drops Yard, London. September 2025

The Eurostar terminal in Amsterdam is soooo much better than the one in London

Remember the MacOS app that I mentioned I was building using AI? I’m actually thinking of getting it published 😅

What follows straight after the baby was ill and is now starting to feel better? Yes, I’m proper ill now myself ☠️

Really cool thing that coding using AI made possible: I was able to build a small native macOS app in just a few hours. All Swift and SwiftUI without ever having been successful ever before

This is how sleep stress levels look like if your little one is ill 🤧 👶 You are basically not sleeping