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March 18, 2019

Winston Churchill on Napping

“You must sleep some time between lunch and dinner, and no half-way measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That’s what I always do.

March 15, 2019

Crash Illustration

My friend Mohamed Said asked me, “When are we going to see a cartoon on people who crash on a bike?”, and not wanting to disappoint I decided to make one o...

March 14, 2019

Laravel Homestead Illustration

This is an illustration I created to represent Laravel Homestead. I’m planning on using it for a featured image for future posts.

March 7, 2019

Backdraft

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of fun making quick little comics and here is one I just put together tonight while watching TV.

February 24, 2019

Office Art

As part of my goals to make more illustrations this year I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what to draw and I thought drawing a simple rubber...

February 23, 2019

Rearranging

I have a problem where I want to rearrange my office every month. I don’t know why but it just starts to feel stale and I feel like it gets to routine.

February 21, 2019

Giant Moon Background Image

This 81 megapixel giant moon picture has been making the rounds and according to DIY Photography:

February 18, 2019

Digital Minimalism

Recently I started reading Cal Newport’s new book Digital Minimalism and although I’m only a few chapters in it’s pretty enlightening.

February 15, 2019

Pricing is hard

I’ve been talking to a friend about pricing a new product and figuring out what to charge, especially when you are first launching, is hard. Really hard.

February 12, 2019

Sharing My Illustrations on Dribbble

I’ve been doing a lot of illustrations lately and I’ve been trying to create one a night as practice. Here is tonight’s that I named “Triggered”:

February 11, 2019

Find and Replace Colors in Sketch App

For Laravel News we use a lot of icons for the featured images and these usually come from the Noun Project or Undraw.

February 9, 2019

National Pizza Day

Today is apparently national pizza day so here is a happy pizza drawing I created in Affinity Designer.

February 7, 2019

Netflix Fyre Festival Documentary

I’ve been hearing about this documentary for a while now, and I finally sat down to watch it last night. I can see why this generated so much buzz.

February 6, 2019

F12 Consoles Me

For the past few days I’ve been trying to do one quick drawing a day. Usually over my lunch break.

February 4, 2019

Create a scale model of the room before buying new furniture

When buying furniture it’s sometimes hard to figure how an item is going to fit in a room.

February 1, 2019

Not Crushing My Mornings

Most people set their morning alarm so they can wake up jump out of bed and start their day. I’ve always done this as well.

January 31, 2019

Building Laracon Online

This will be the third year we’ve been running Laracon Online and I have learned a lot about selling tickets in the process.

January 30, 2019

Devops Humor

I came across this video on Twitter today and I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.

January 29, 2019

Wisdom

A child thinks they are making wise choices when we as adults know they aren’t. That is why we guide and push them in the right direction.

January 28, 2019

Notch's Work Calendar for Minecraft

I just came across this image and I’m fascinated by it. Here are some of the highlights: