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!!

EXACTLY 2 WEEKS UNTIL LARACON!!!

I’ve been working on a “package manager” for distributing internal applications. Just a few more finishing touches and then I’ll be tagging the first release!

git commit -m "who knows. just ship it."

I’m building the @myportal.church marketing site using the same CMS Engine I built for MPC. This is resulting in even better features being added!

Enum support for field names just landed in my @filamentphp.com helpers package! (v3.2.0) github.com/EncoreDigita...

I just refactored all my tests to no longer rely on an external MySQL server. Now all tests run using SQLite. What used to take 3-4 minutes in CI to run now takes about 30 seconds!

As a part of building @myportal.church, I've been writing my own feature flagging library. It not only helps with deployments, but it also helps when configuring which pricing tiers have access to which features! Today has been a lot of trial and error for this library...

My list of things to do before launching @myportal.church by August 15th is just long enough that I’m sweating a bit. But it’s also not too long that it’s completely unrealistic!

The MVP implementation of Custom Themes just went live on @myportal.church!

Tomorrow night! Come hear @marcbeinder.com speak about creating exceptional experiences! phpxstl.com/meetups/3129...

There is a fine line between "I'm an idiot" and a tool being "too magical"...

There's still a lot of work to do, but I'm shooting for August 15th, 2025 as the open beta data for @myportal.church!

i ate pizza roles straight out of the microwave just to feel something…

Credit reports are stupid. Literally nothing has changed except me paying down debt and my score drops 20 points! Like what the hell man!?

1 week until the next PHPxSTL meetup! Come hear @marcbeinder.com talk about creating exceptional experiences! RSVP at the link below: phpxstl.com/meetups/3129...