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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Rough Cut Developer: Data Syncing and Billing Systems with Skyler Katz. Have a listen:

New episode of Rough Cut Developer dropping tomorrow with special guest @skylerkatz.com!

Discovery for Laravel v1.2.0 makes the discovery process just a bit faster by introducing fibers! I shaved about 4 seconds off processing time in my largest app by doing this! github.com/EncoreDigita...

TONIGHT! The last PHPxSTL Meetup of the year! Looking forward to seeing everybody! phpxstl.com/meetups/3742...

We love a big bang production release! @myportal.church is that much closer to an open beta!!

3 shows that I can watch over and over and over again: - Suits - Psych - Chuck

kubernetes side quest this weekend?

I’m not a fan of huge methods, but sometimes it’s easier and more straightforward to have a chonky method than to break everything up for the sake of smaller methods alone.

1 more week! Our next PHPxSTL meetup is next Wednesday, November 12th, at 7:00pm! Join us for a sweet hang to talk all things PHP and Laravel! Space for this one is very limited, so please RSVP! phpxstl.com/meetups/3742...

You ever have that one random obscure error when programming that legit have no idea where it’s coming from? That’s been my whole evening!

Join us for a sweet hang at East Coast Pizza in Chesterfield at 7:00pm on November 12th! We'll just be hanging out, talking about PHP and Laravel, and whatever else comes up! Space for this one is very limited, so please RSVP! phpxstl.com/meetups/3742...

I never realized how intricate the billing page in SaaS apps can be! I knew they were complicated, but wow did I underestimate this!

In God we trust, all others must write tests.

Team: Let's do a production release today. GitHub: I don't think so...

Moved ✅ Work Desk Setup ✅ Server Rack Setup ✅ Personal Desk Setup ✅ All boxes unpacked... Not even close!

This! 100% this!! Say it louder and say it again! DHH nailed it!! world.hey.com/dhh/the-grea...

That moment when CI says you don't have enough test coverage... Me: WHAT! I wrote so many tests!!! Also me: Oh, I forgot to push them up...

When tests pass locally but fail in CI for no reason...

This weekend will be filled with cornhole, billing, coding, and moving prep! It's gonna be chaos and it's gonna be fun!!

That feeling when you get a production alert that something is broken and you know exactly how to fix it before even looking at the code!

The struggle to launch quickly vs correctly is hitting hard tonight!

I'm building my own very custom billing system for @myportal.church. Could I build it directly into the core software itself? Yes. Did I? Nope! It's built as a package so I can use it over and over again in any future crazy project I come up with!

just had my first root canal today and no one asked me for sudo access. should i be concerned?

I was the @laravel.com artisan of the day today!! blog.laravel.com/your-softwar...

Writing parent/child data sync services involves covering so many edge cases! I can't believe I forgot about this one!

We love a sudden $400 UPS battery replacement bill…

I’ve been working on writing all the software that my business needs to slowly replace paying for generic software that I don’t love. One of the items on my list is project management software. I’ve probably written this 2 or 3 times and I still hate it!

Every great code comment starts with an acknowledgment that what follows does not make sense!

Working on some feature flagging code and let me tell you… I have built myself both a very flexible and very complex system! Do I need this level of functionality? Absolutely not! Did I want to build it anyways? Ya darn tootin I did!!

Want to find all the class implementations for a specific interface? I just published my Discovery Package! It provides a fluent API for just this!

Part of writing a recommendation engine is collecting user analytics. This has been a fun project to work on!

- Contract/Licensing Code ✅ - Self Serve Signup Code 🛠️ - Billing Code ⏰ This is the way to write it! Contracts/Licenses completely decoupled from billing code! When something happens in billing, fire off an event that licensing is listening for!

Friday ✅ Chocolate Milk ✅ Absurd Mug ✅

I both love writing this type of business logic code and hate debugging it all at the same time!

That sweet feeling when you finally get xdebug working!

Sunday morning coding at my favorite coffee shop, learning react with the help of Claude. AI can be a great teacher if you review the code it writes and seek to understand.

I gave this talk back in June at @phpxstl.com! I finally got around to editing and uploading it! youtu.be/aoZOWN_XW64?...

The @myportal.church marketing site will be going live soon! Just need to finish implementing the theme design and then it should be ready!

I released a thing! It's a strongly typed fluent wrapper around @spatie.be's Opening Hours package and the Business Day Carbon Mixin to keep both in sync automatically! github.com/EncoreDigita...

Now that's a nice feeling! #PHPStan #Level8

Happy Monday Y’all! Go write some bugs, I mean features!

You make one small change when suddenly... Okay, maybe it wasn't that small... 😏

Just released v1.0 of @phpgenesis.com! I guess it's time to upgrade all my internal packages!

I'm delaying the @myportal.church launch for a bit. There's enough launch-prep that still needs to be done in order to really bring it home!

The biggest thing slowing down the @myportal.church launch is getting the initial version of the marketing site just right...

Starting the morning off with a little music schedule refinement! #RadioLife!!

Had fun meeting Flo in Denver for lunch today! Tomorrow Laracon Begins!!!

PR 1500 has been opened in the @myportal.church repository! Every day, I'm getting closer and closer to launching this thing! Still shooting for August 15th!!