Tighten's 2026 @LaraconUS puzzle coming out tomorrow! I'm so freaking excited!

On a (domestic) flight and it’s World Cup as far as the eye can see

Went to write a post about how I wanted to be wearing one of those FIFA american flag jerseys right about now, and went to search for an image for the tweet, and my brain did that thing it always does when I try to write or read "USMNT"

Anyone else? (No good results, sadly, but damn if I didn't enjoy watching their World Cup run)

Working on some YouTube videos for the first time in aaaaaaaaaaaages. Gosh, I love recording and editing video.

Just recorded the first episode of The Laravel Podcast in months! And this time.. I have a plan to make it more consistent, with less breaks between chunks of each season. Coming out next Tuesday!

haha he outed himself on twitter

I've now had *five* people tell me limiting Pragmatic AI ( pragmaticai.fm ) to 45 minutes is the wrong decision 🤣 Mayyyybe I push it to an hour limit?

I just experienced something I'm going to call "Rage phishing". We used Act-on years ago, and I just got this email purportedly from Act-on about how they're going to automatically add a political support button to every email we send. Not really Act-on, of course, but clever!

mannn... get you a podcast host that goes the extra mile!!! / @justinjackson.ca

Dang. Just got a notification from my tests on an old project that we won't be able to use /** @test */ on PHPUnit anymore? It's a sad day. (I know I can replace them with the #[Test] annotation, it's just.. these were such an integral part of my learning to test...)

My life is so good 😍 ( @imanivaughnjones.bsky.social )

The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today! laracasts.com/series/how-t...

Ok, so basically the deal is: you just need a few specific tools and then it becomes *significantly* easier. Although between the tools and the batteries this is definitely going to need its own little toolkit. But it’s very manageable. Four down, two to go.

Current status: trying to learn how to replace watch batteries because $30/watch just ain’t worth it. Man this is more complex than I feared.

OK, so the Tighten logo isn't the only thing exciting (to me) about the Wire:Live web site. I'm also super excited to share I'll be speaking! We love using Livewire as one of our primary frontend stacks at @tighten.com, so I'm honored to be on stage for the inaugural conference!

Two of my favorite things to do as a founder: - Make great swag - Sponsor great events Very sexy seeing the Tighten logo right up there on wire-live.com! Excited to see y'all there in October!

like... who does this?

Anyone I know have any experience with Xeric watches? I'm ... obsessed

I got a new camera, and (unlike my last camera) it streams 4k to the computer. Unexpected outcome.

You'll be unsurprised to hear that I've built an app to track my progress along each video course I create. One useful thing it does is inspect the state of the video files (has audio been processed? etc.) and presents appropriate buttons to trigger conditional ffmpeg scripts.

If you attended Laracon US, you already know this, but: I'm currently wrapping up the last three videos of my upcoming course, which is all about how I built the incredible development team at @tighten.com. The course will be free (!!), hosted on Laracasts, and out this autumn!

Found this at the Dollar Tree and it now has me legitimately wondering if I’m about to get into collecting Matchbox cars??

I'm deep into recording my next course. The topic on this one is *very different*--I don't know if we have anything else like it in the Laravel community or even much outside of it. I'm very, very excited about everything I'm sharing here. Definitely my most personal course.

Just added another round of new entries to BuiltWithLaravel. Need to make the process to add entries faster so I can get them in there, but still adding a few a week! (builtwithlaravel.com)

I have to give credit to @johnbon.dev for this brilliant April Fools’ joke, btw.

Just got a reminder of these photos from 17 (!!) years ago on Facebook. Anyone else get really into the One Laptop Per Child back in 2007-2008? I really thought this thing was gonna change the world.

Dang. What are y'all using instead of uBlock Origin now that Chrome is hating on it?

Saying hey to the PHP community in Atlanta with some ASW distillery drinks and Antico Pizza. And new friends! Love seeing Tighten logo in the real world. Maybe I should sponsor more things.

Recorded the first episode of a new season of The Laravel Podcast yesterday. Drops Monday at 10am Eastern. V excited for y'all to experience it.