Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world (sound on).

That’s weird af.

OK this looks pretty amazing: github.com/chenglou/pre...

After ~10 years of dating, my wife and I sent our friends and family an engagement announcement video set to the song “Snails” by The Format. That was 15 years ago. About to go see The Format live tonight (after a long hiatus by the band). Very excited!

Guess the cat is out of the bag! I've been writing PHP since the late 90's, and its growth as a language has paralleled mine as a developer. I'm happy and honored to be able to be a part of a group of people working to continue advancing the language so many of us depend on!

We are very happy to welcome Matt Stauffer as the newest Board member for The PHP Foundation! Matt brings decades of experience and we are grateful for his insight as we move forward. Welcome, Matt! 🤩 🐘 🚀 Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2026/03... #php #thephpfoundation #phpc

It happened! cmorrell.com/one-billion

Surprising absolutely no one, Sam’s latest article is exceptional.

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

📣 Save the Date – PHP×Tokyo Laravel Live Japan Pre-Party is happening! Let's turn up the heat before Laravel Live Japan 2026 kicks off! 🗓️ May 23, 2026, 1pm - 5pm 📍BEENOS Inc. Tokyo-to, Shinagawa-ku, Nishigotanda 8-4-13 JP Building 7F RSVP: phpx.tokyo Want to speak? forms.gle/3GBdiBLQt84R...

If you're a Laravel open source maintainer, this might be useful to you: cmorrell.com/laravel-matrix It's a tool that lets you generate Github Action test matrices based on the Laravel/PHP versions you want to support. /cc @freek.bsky.social 😂

I’m only 15% of the way into this, so I can’t say for sure, but this has been a fantastic audiobook so far. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

@terrygodier.bsky.social do you have Feedly as a source anywhere on the roadmap for Current?

I just used github.com/travisvn/sto... to prevent the Tahoe upgrade notifications. I don't know why I didn't do it earlier.

I don't think anyone would be surprised to hear that news websites suck. The thing that blew my mind was that the NYT homepage is as big as *all of Windows 95* 🤯 thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Next Big Forte project is about 75% done Next _very_ big Forte project is about 35% done If you're curious to see what's already done, you should check it out here! fortephp.com

I should have a PR to adopt cmorrell.com/expver shortly.

OK, I think I'm happy enough with clave.run that I'll post about it publicly. It's still a work-in-progress, but I've been using it for weeks now with great success. Clave lets you run Claude Code in a VM in a way that let's you pretend that it's running locally on your Mac…

What an incredible number of new features for a x.x.15 release. 🤩

This is another great read. Beautifully done, too. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

Every time I use a "new" javascript feature and realize that it's just natively supported by all major browsers I'm still stunned. What an amazing world we live in!

I've seen this passed around a bit but I finally took a moment to read it. What a wonderful picture of how so many of us nerds got to where we are today: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

I'm going to Laravel Live Japan! So excited to meet everyone 😃 Are you going? You can generate your card here: card.laravellive.jp #LaravelLiveJP

I can’t remember which newsletter it was in but my whole family are now simultaneously playing this stupid thing and it’s simple and joyous! 100jumps.org/play/

The nice thing about AI is that now I can get 10x more done before I get to the last 20%.

MadCSS Day 2! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaS5...

Made this 3D animated puppy that I rendered into a 2D 1-bit style spritesheet CSS animation for my website. Weekend project went a bit overtime, but had to get it done before I'm off travelling 😪

Now that I know that “chocolatey” is code for “cocoa powder + vegetable oil” I’m seeing it everywhere. I bought Girl Scout cookies and thought, “hm, these don’t taste as good.” Turns out, they’re not using real chocolate anymore 😭😭

Hey happy birthday @davehicking.com :)

I’m so excited for Forte! I think that Blade has so much more to give, but it needs to be a proper language first. This is one huge step towards that.

I am happy to announce that Forte v1 is now available! Forte is my new library for parsing and modifying #laravel Blade. fortephp.com

I’m tempted to set an alert for when the counter hits 987,654,321…

@johnbon.dev I saw this and was going to order it for you and then I saw it was a $145 tee shirt so instead I’m just gonna send you a link 😂 coolhunting.com/buy/slice-t-...

I'm experimenting with an "you're at this point of the page" highlight that shows all sections proportionally to how much of the page they take up. What do we think? (I'm not convinced, but it's an interesting approach.)

Ooh, @ryangjchandler.co.uk just made lesserknownlaravel.com which looks very cool.

Just sent a new version of Chronicle to the JetBrains Marketplace. A few new features: - Automatic PII anonymization - Smaller document output (less likely to hit context window) - Support for multiple templates

Huge feature of LLMs: they're great at writing linters. And with a large enough codebase, it's pretty easy to test if a linter works (just lint your codebase). We have some (admittedly odd) conventions at InterNACHI that Claude used to get wrong often. Now `yarn lint` automatically corrects that.

Inertia 3 beta is here! 🚀 This is a big one. New Vite plugin, optimistic updates, standalone HTTP requests, layout props, simplified SSR, and Axios has been replaced with a built-in XHR client. Here's what's new 🧵

Super excited to finally have this in people's hands, let us know what you think!

At the current rate, I’ll finally hit 1B downloads right around the beginning of April. Thinking about doing *something* to celebrate, but I don’t know what… Any thoughts? cmorrell.com/one-billion

How many people who would happily pay $1099 for a MacBook Air are now going to pay $599 for a MacBook Neo because of colors, and then be annoyed when the run out of disk space?

I set up an automated provisioning script for remote Claude Code sessions. Thought I'd share it in case anyone else finds it useful: cmorrell.com/claude-remot...

It finally happened. After many years of service, my original first-gen airpods batteries are bad enough that I can’t use them. It was a good run!

Running claude code in a local VM has been a huge unlock for me. Being able to scope things at a much larger scale and then let the LLM run with them for an hour or two is amazing. I finally feel like I'm getting a sense of both the workflow that requires, and useful guardrails.

Building your own tooling is incredible. Chronicle + Clave is turning out to be such a powerful combo.

@cmorrell.com convinced me to get a TRMNL eink display and I've made a custom @kilopx.com status dashboard so I can keep tabs on it remotely. It's actually quite a joy

Currently running: Two claude instances in isolated local VMs using clave One claude instance on my machine, debugging a clave issue Two claude instances on anthropic VMs via the Claude app It's not always like this, but it feels pretty great when everything is going right.