I'm not even remotely a senior developer, but I definitely had a senior moment right now... ... that's gotta count for something.

Switched from node to Bun recently and I'm loving the experience. Updating a binary version with one command may just be near the top of the list. 😍

Recently acquired a Echolens - one of these digital disposable camera clones that are a little more eco-friendly, but still don’t allow you to pixel peep before your 52 shot roll is up - so that I can document the life a little more frequently and have less “I hate photo editing” excuses…

Vibe coded a basic @svelte.dev app which displays the NFL playoff picture, since it's soon to be Wednesday in Europe and the official #NFL Playoff picture page still displays the playoff standings as of last week. 🫠 Maybe I should slap a "playoff probability by next nextGen stats" at the top. 🤔

Had a blast at the Ljubljana @laravel.com Meetup, hosted in the Agiledrop offices tonight. Good talks, good crowd, good code. Laravel forever. P.S. Thanks for the great company, as always @ales.reepolee.com

The tragic reality of being a parent: all of your precious little free time comes when you are too tired to do anything with it.

Recently, I've been playing with the idea of porting @laravel.com's Eloquent ORM to the Javascript ecosystem. Probably spent way too many side-hustle hours on this one, but we made it to the "Houston, we have a rough prototype" phase. It makes @svelte.dev's remote functions shine even brighter! 😎

Next week I’m travelling to Zürich, but sadly I’m leaving a day before the @laravel.swiss meetup 🫠 Still, if any Laravel dev in the area wants to grab a cup of coffee on Tuesday or Thursday afternoon & talk code, life, … shoot a Bluesky butterfly (or whatever we call that around here) my way. ✌🏻🇨🇭🤙🏻

Ok, this is turning out to be a pretty good Friday, so maybe I can share the story from the high (green) grass of @laravel.com development. I was recently asked to create a simple B2B app that, in the simplest terms, allows the stakeholders to manage and download PDF files. (1/6)

Here’s a public service announcement: if you bought a domain for your open source project that will eventually house the documentation, but it doesn’t yet… please please PLEASE don’t show it on your github repo and link it to the same github repo. 🤨

@mrmacintosh.bsky.social hey, sorry to bug you on Bluesky, just wanted to check if there’s an email where I can report a security concern to the OpenCore Legacy patcher team 😅. Thanks!

Ship like your life depends on it.

Despite being in tech for decades at this point, I still get a kick out of the tiniest of things, but most of all "the janitorial commits" to open source software. Found two of these gems out in the high grass today and couldn't walk past them. github.com/instantdb/in...

Read this post by The Daily Coach today and realized I needed to give myself a long and hard kick in the butt today. Had the kick been a field goal attempt, it likely would have been a 70-yarder. 😅 www.thedaily.coach/p/a-new-day-...

@freek.bsky.social hey, this may be a long question for 🦋, but can you offer some insight into how you see the @spatie.be laravel-livewire-wizard’s future, with Livewire 4 now primarily switching to a Volt-like syntax? Thanks!

I can neither confirm nor deny that every time I make a task-list-like form in an app, I test it with Adele lyrics. 😅

As we have come to expect with @johnrudolphdrexler.com, he has set and cleared a high (trust) bar with this talk at Laracon US. Great job. (The witch then doth retreat back into the cave.)

Happy to say, you can soon run php artisan make:volt folder.component and it will work as expected. @laravel.com forever 🔥

Had some twists and turns in the past few weeks. Time to go back to the lesson I learned in my Para Alpine Skiing days: when it doesn’t work, go back. In ski racing, that meant no skiing through gates, just freeskiing, making turns and finding the joy in everything being simple again. (1/3)

Tested @svelte.dev’s experimental async and remote function call features these past few days, with some very simple use cases. Complexity of learning to do things “the SvelteKit way” has been lowered dramatically, while maintaining the high DX bar. Great update! 🫶🏻 github.com/sveltejs/kit...

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

@opravicujemo.se indoktrinacija 10-letnika se začne… ZDAJ!

I may have created the ugliest app in the World today, but it’s the internal beauty of it that’s important. Probably the highlight of my week. 🫶🏻

Won’t be able to make it to Barcelona this year, but as a wheelchair user and @svelte.dev community member - knowing that the venue is fully wheelchair accessible (without digging around for info) is hugely important. Congrats to @rich-harris.dev and Svelte Team pushing #a11y online and offline. ✌🏻

In a world, where crappy social network CEOs are the norm, we need more Jays (@jay.bsky.team) to step up and show us how leading and building a inclusive online social network/community is done. 🫶🏻 🦋 mashable.com/article/blue...

Even when you’re not in #Laravel land, community contributions such as this @svelte.dev Starter Kit can really save your 🥓: laravel-news.com/laravel-12-s... Used a slightly modified AuthSplit component yesterday for the auth layouts for Happy Cal. Great work by Osemudiamhen Ughu. 🫶🏻

When you’re 10 layers deep in a Bash script that you wrote last year and forgot how it works: Smeagol: Bash... yesss, precious Bash... We wrote it, yesss… but we don’t remember how!

Decided today is a perfect day to write some non-job-related code and learn some @svelte.dev CRUD with @cloudflare.social D1 in the process. Very WIP at the moment…

<rant> if I got half a cent every time I hear "ND filters are like sunglasses for your camera/lens" on a random Youtube ND filter video review, I'd be challenging Elon in terms of net worth right now... 🫠 </rant>

It has been the second time I have felt the absolute rocket rush that comes after @taylorotwell.bsky.social merges your changes into anything #Laravel... ... and it still feels surreal, every single time. Laravel forever. 🫶🏻

Decided to take @cmorrell.com's advice from his Laracon EU talk "Your first pull request" seriously, brush the dust off my "Open Source (Janitor) Contributor" badge & made a micro PR to #Laravel Livewire Starter Kit... Life is about the little things that bring you joy. github.com/laravel/live...

Signed up for this one. This has been the missing ingredient for a while now and is getting added soon. 🦾 And then @coulb.com can convince @calebporzio.bsky.social to make “Make Zed Awesome” and we’re in business… 😎

@coulb.com GO BIRDS! Sure picked the right time to move… 💚🦅

Started off the day filling in at the livestream commentator post for the IBU Para Biathlon World Championship 2025 in Pokljuka, Slovenia… That’s my I barely know what I’m doing face from the booth. Brilliant experience, thanks again for the opportunity! 💚

This is awesome. PHP is back, with a vengeance. 😎

I hate waking up early in general, but rarely will the name of my least favorite alarm ring more true than tomorrow… 😫

Lots of folks have been asking for a video about using state in Verbs, and I've finally gotten around to putting one together. youtu.be/d6_ggotpb_8

January 3rd. Smart home setup and crappy access to home router gets you a good selfie sometime… 🙃

Playing with local LLMs has funny side-effects sometimes... like #Ollama not being aware of what Ollama is. 🫣

The official Laravel VS Code extension is now available in beta. ✨ Blade syntax highlighting 🖊️ Eloquent autocompletion 🔗 Route, config, & middleware linking 🧠 Smart diagnostics And more... Get it now → marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Hey @nunomaduro.com I made you a video! But… anyone else who is interested in Verbs should check it out, too 😄 youtu.be/uQKl_J_1oqg

Asked two LLMs - Gemini Advanced & Claude - to help me write some boilerplate text, explaining #Laravel to a non-developer/non-technical client. We've officially reached the stage of LLMs reading & copying other LLMs while trying to convince humans how vastly different they are from one another. 🫠

Attended the Slovenian #Laravel Meetup, hosted by @agiledrop.bsky.social a few weeks back. As always, super welcoming crowd, fun talks and great time hanging out with php artisans. 🫶🏻 Also, wheelchair always guarantees a front row seat in the group photo, whether you’re a speaker or not. 🤓

Heard @cmorrell.com state on @overengineered.fm recently that he would consider putting the users’s room temperature at the time the event was fired into event data. Strongly considering adding user agent to Verbs event metadata to see which browser triggered that nasty exception this time. 🤔😎

Once again, @joshhanley.au has found a way to take a complicated topic and collapse it down to something digestable to any event sourcing newcomer. Great talk as well as Q&A. 👏🏻

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently: We spend a lot of time praising frameworks, concepts, programming languages & software that helps us get where we want to go in life. We don’t give nearly as much attention to the people that help us along the way. So let’s change that.

Been waiting for a perfect project to come along, that absolutely warrants the use of event sourcing in #Laravel, using Verbs by @cmorrell.com and @coulb.com... ... and reading this, I think the Universe has delivered.

This is gold. Now I can add sports teams and journalists without breaking my 🦋 feed. And just like that, @bsky.app gets another 🌟 in my book.

Had this idea bouncing around in my head for a while to port Laravel Jetstream functionality over to Breeze, so yesterday I sat down to build a new (somewhat opinionated) starter on top of #Laravel Breeze with #Livewire Class API scaffolding.