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January 23, 2026

Live streaming, newsletters, and sponsors - Notes on Work

Work from the week of Jan 19th, 2026

January 21, 2026

I’m going to Laracon EU (and doing something new there)

Next month, I’ll be in Amsterdam for Laracon EU, and Laravel News will be doing something new.

September 5, 2024

Laravel raises a $57 million Series A

The big news of the day is that Laravel announced they raised a series A of $57 million from Accel.

August 16, 2024

Screenflow tip to hide your mic when recording videos

With ScreenFlow, you can use a freeze frame to hide your mic from your talking head scenes.

August 15, 2024

Making connections is a key in life

I used to think having a huge online following was important to me. Granted, having those for business and finding friends in your space is nice.

January 8, 2024

Cooking Some Livermush

My friends over at the Cheese and Weather podcast were curious what Livermush is and how to cook it, so I made a little vlog :)

April 7, 2023

No cellphones at the Masters

I was lucky enough to attend my first-ever practice day in Augusta at the Masters, and one of the unique features of this tournament is a policy of no elec...

March 24, 2023

GitHub Host key verification failed

As I came into work this morning I went to pull from GitHub and hit the error:

March 16, 2023

Display the query from a Filament Table

I’ve been playing around with Laravel Filament Tables and as I was building a really complex table with multiple filters, I noticed that I wanted to see wh...

March 8, 2023

"Touchscreen" by Marshall Davis Jones

This still holds up 12 years later. Sadly, more true now than even back then.

March 4, 2023

PHP Comic

March 3, 2023

Comic: What font, what theme, what editor?

February 28, 2023

Golf Birdie Tracker

Golf is hard but that’s why I enjoy it. One day you could play the best you’ve ever played, the next day it could be the worst.

January 26, 2023

Circle of life

I remember loving playing video games when I was just a little lad. I’d stay up and play Doom on my Sega when I was supposed to be in bed.

January 25, 2023

The story of Laravel News

A neat little excerpt of me from the filming of the Laravel Origins Documentary. Here are some of the behind scenes photos I took that day:

January 24, 2023

ChatGPT vs Google

I’ve heard more and more about ChatGPT being a threat to Google and its dominant position as a search engine, and I must agree.

January 23, 2023

Tweetdeck Beta

The other day I heard some rumblings that Tweetdeck still worked after all the good 3rd party clients got the axe.

January 22, 2023

Football Ticker: Negative Score?

Today I was watching the NFL post-season games and my wife asked me why the score was negative.

January 21, 2023

Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

Great article by Jason Cohen:

January 20, 2023

Minimal Setup for PhpStorm

Brent has a neat video showing how he sets up his PhpStorm to be super minimal: