Benjamin Benkert

I really don't like the changes to the limits on github students benefits.

@RThermo56 It’s ok. It’s been a while since I used it. I spent the last year in laravel and rails, some Astro, vue and react too. TanStack looks really interesting. I can’t wait to dive into it. What are your thoughts on it?

@Benjaminbenkert How do you feel about Next.js?

Tanstack Start really has my attention this year

22 years ago today, I married my best friend and the love of my life. With Jesus at the center of our marriage and family, our life together has been filled with so much love, joy, and blessings. I’m beyond grateful for every moment and the family we have been blessed with. I’m excited for all that’s still to come. Happy anniversary! I love you Keri!

What’s everyone using for backups for laravel? I want to backup Postgres and storage

@brian_scanlan Fascinating 🧐

Shipping safely at speed at Intercom - we finally wrote a blog post with some details about how we do this: intercom.com/blog/the-safet…

What's new in laravel? I took a few months of a break. I see boost 2.0, PHP 8.5, Livewire 4. I gotta catch up.

@enunomaduro @official_php Let’s go!

🎉 php 8.5 is out! bringing new stuff like the pipe operator, closures in attributes, and more.. congrats @official_php and the whole community! full review: youtube.com/watch?v=M1ksgz…

@ThePHPF 🙌🏻 I’m actually really excited about this release.

PHP 8.5 Released! 🎉 In this new release we have: – URI Extension – Pipe Operator – Clone With – A new #[\NoDiscard] attribute – Closures and first-class callables in constant expressions – Persistent cURL share handles Read all about it: php.net/releases/8.5/

New look for hopefortheforgottenoutreach.com Let me know what you think! #Laravel

What’s a good email service? I am experimenting with Resend, mailgun, and I just found mailtrap. I need something affordable. This is for a nonprofit application that may see around 1k to 15k in emails a month. User signups, password resets, notifications, communication emails etc.

Working my way from level 0 to max with phpstan. Level 0: 2 errors Level 1: 42 errors Level 2: 38 errors This is fun but I wish I'd used it from the start though. 🤦

@enunomaduro PHP is awesome

if you think php hasn't changed in 20 years.. i made this for you.. watch this: youtu.be/PLkLhIwVfMk?si…

@joshcirre Nice! I was considering using bun after the new release. I’ll be giving this a try today.

Lots of love for Bun recently. Well now, you can easily scaffold a Laravel project to use your favorite package manager (Bun, pnpm, Yarn) The Open Source team bakes.

@jacob_luetzow $80!!? .... Wow.🤷‍♂️

@Benjaminbenkert Yeah, it's strange. But yet people spend $80/month for a premium. So it must be beneficial?

When you get LinkedIn connection requests, you can just tell which people are going to be in your inbox selling something...immediately. It really isn't a great platform, do people actually like it?

Feels good to provision a fresh VPS. So many possibilities.

@jrswab Loyalty to Jesus. Work as if it were for Him. Then wherever you are the standard is the same and the fulfillment is complete. “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,” Colossians 3:23 ESV

I was laid off at the start of February from a company I was loyal to and had no desire to leave. That changed my perspective a lot and now at this new company I'm finding myself building loyalty again. Which I thought would never happen. Should I fight or embrace it?

@jrswab Ohh yeah for sure.

@Benjaminbenkert Candy is a common theme for sure!

To my Brother's in Christ that have children… How do you handle October 31st?