I quote Australia’s returning prime minister after today’s election, “kindness is not a weakness”…

Even though I've worked on many closed source applications over the years and have contributed a handful of bug fixes and enhancements to open source projects, I always wanted to start on my own journey of sharing my work. That starts, very tentatively as a WIP, today github.com/ryanlovett-a... .

A few weeks ago I did my first 'laravel new' since Laravel 6.. It was such an amazing and refreshing experience, completely blew my mind.. But, that was also the day before Laravel 12 and new starter kits were announced, so now I am even more excited to do my next 'laravel new'... waiiiiting.. 😬

Just for funnies I have reproduced the Laravel Horizon dashboard using Laravel Prompts! It even auto updates.. 😃

So.. I am working with a client who uses Filament... And uses Laravel model attributes (think getPaidAttribute()) as columns, but you cant sort on those, right? Because filament would add an ->orderBy('paid') to the query and if the column doesnt exist.. 💥

It's too true.. In reality what the authors of this article is talking about is simply a religious attention to detail and constantly asking 'what if'... Traits that would resonate with most developers! stackoverflow.blog/2025/01/22/w...

Wow, thats google for that erosion of my self confidence (and yes @marcelpociot.bsky.social, thats even with using match all the time)...

You know.. If I could just write APIs forever, I think I would be the happiest boy in the world...

Why yes, I am installing homeassistant… finally time to upgrade from openhab.

Virgin Australia has started playing Christmas carols as boarding music. 🎄 And I’m here for it!

Sometimes I wonder if all the effort for camping coffee is worth it. Yes, yes it is…

This morning I changed a tyre and, for the first time in my life, used a torque wrench to tighten the wheel nuts. I feel so, legitimate.

Why can I never remember how to format a switch statement?!

I attend something like 5-6 conferences a year across multiple professions and disciplines.. Hands down Laracon AU is my favourite! It's why I was so proud an excited that I was able to present this year at Laracon AU in Brisbane.. You can now watch my presentation here: laracon.au/talks/ryan-l...

Working from “home” wins!

Sitting on a plane this morning from SYD to ADL and just as they close the last cabin door I get an alert that the training environment for one of our customers was throwing errors.. A minute later a text message from the customer... Thank goodness the flight had working wifi.. 15 min outage 🤨

This week I had the awesome chance to do take all modes of transport. And you know what…. Train productivity FTW!

Dad, can you take a break from the computer so we can go for a bike ride? There is only one answer to that question. 🥺 🙂‍↕️ Sometimes it’s hard and lonely working from home. Sometimes it’s 100% the right decision.

I had one of those awesome Livewire moments today. Finally working on my first Livewire app after years of Vue (which I 💚), and I needed to convert a date between formats and timezones on the FE. So I braced myself for JS hell when I thought, wait! This is Livewire, I can use Carbon! OMG! 👊🏻

Timezones!!!!!! 😡

One of Australia's largest telcos has been fined for outages on its network that impacted access to life-critical services. The scale of the fine was not because they had an outage, but the duration and numbers impacted. Minimise downtime, respond appropriately.. www.acma.gov.au/articles/202...

After a mid-life career change to development, this week I had my first opportunity to share my story and my experience with the Laravel community as a speaker @laracon.au. Having worked across several industries and in several states, this community just feels like I have come home.. 🙏🏻 💜