Dan Hampton

@joshcirre The built in testing tools. Integration tests that hit the database are as easy as unit tests. Tools for mocking are there when needed.

New and seasoned Laravel devs alike: What’s something built into the framework that is underrated or should get some more community “show it off” love?

@karomancer The search for the rare food + empathy hybrid friend continues

(to be clear, there's a time and place for both! But both are needed)

In my mid 30s and I've only now started to make groups of female friends for the first time. I finally get the hype around female friendships. I love my dude friend groups but they definitely hit different.

@karomancer The power of friendship

@karomancer Now do 2032!

2020: Remote is the future. 2023: Hybrid is the future. 2026: 4 days a week in the office for the "culture” The culture today: everyone with noise cancelling headphones

@amylynn87dev @karomancer @CateHardy Oh that looks fun! I see you've chosen your favorite 😂

I didn't know about this !! Choose your winner! @karomancer @dancancode @CateHardy madcss.com/bracket/AmyLyn…

@karomancer I'm going to keep an eye out for these "casual intensifiers." What a great term.

I asked Claude to analyze my writing and tell me what it would do to sound like me. Damn ok! Fairly spot on.

Alright interns, we need to have some real talk here I am tired of vibing on stream. I dont really like vibe coding unless its a tool i have no desire to build (how i manage things on my stream / how i write my youtube videos are great examples of things i would never build but i have). I dont like vibing the things i care about. I hate the code it generates, i hate the feeling of getting everything i ask for and nothing i want. I hate the subtle offness around vibe coded things. It is just driving me nuts. So for the next while i am going to be done vibing on stream. I genuinely have been trying my hardest to make this work and i cannot quite put a finger on why i hate it, but i do. And i just feel so horribly guilty and wrong because i am not getting the results of "everyone else on twitter." How am i, someone who prides themselves on making youtube videos that i think are actually good for people. To make videos that help people laugh at the silliness of tech or learn something new. But here i am not able to keep up with all these people claiming the sky is literally coming down. I just feel horrible and guilty about it. Now i know the world is changing fast, and i want to be able to understand that change super well, be able to talk about it, be able to give really accurate opinions about it so for the last 3 months i have vibe coded an absurd amount of things. But now... i am just tired of it. I dont want this any more. I want to be a tradcoder. I dont know why i told everyone this, but i just have this growing sickness that is just eating me alive around vibing and i dont know how to express it. You all are fired, CEO ThePrimeagen

@karomancer @fitzgerald1337 I would

Had a great time on my 1st ever X space with @fitzgerald1337! I've thought of hosting an interview series with my fave entrepreneurs, researchers, and artists in tech, but I always got tied up with logistics. Would people be interested in that in X Space form?

@taylorotwell @linear Heyyy we use both of these things! Glad to see the kids playing nicely together.

Nightwatch 🤝 Linear. Create and link @linear issues directly from your Nightwatch issues, routed to the right team automatically. nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/linear

@karomancer Alright but I've entered my 40s. That's just a taller vantage point.. right?!

Your 30s are not ‘too late’ — they’re a different vantage point.

@Madisonkanna Oh no! Ya got me. 😆

@DanCanCode It’s from a book :)

in my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

@kmcnam1 Sharing with @karomancer

Just a little OpenClaw :P

@karomancer You bought the Duolingo Dungeon DLC didn't you?

Why have my past 4 units (not lessons in a unit) on Duolingo been focused on cleaning cages...?

@karomancer "Okay I know I've already done this 7 times but just maybe..." It is a cool view though

"I'm trying to figure out where to take her to impress her on our first date, and I really wanted to bring her to see the nice views here in the [Meta] office, but she said she's already been here 8 times because guys keep bringing her here". - Actually overheard today in SF

@barryvdh Sounds amazing

I released Laravel Debugbar 4.0! Check the release blog: fruitcake.nl/blog/laravel-d… This brings a lot of changes under the hood (like php-debugbar 3, no jquery, optimized loading) but also a lot of Laravel improvements (better Livewire/Inertia/Octane support) and more collectors!

@Madisonkanna Small for now. But big book club must grow larger!

i wrote an essay about this that is coming out on my very new substack probably soon madisonkanna.substack.com/about i've been on substack more lately because my twitter has become too big and people yell at me a lot, but substack is small and intimate (i only have 200 subscribers)

as a software engineer, i feel a real loss of identity right now. for a long time i defined myself in part by the act of writing code. the pride in a hard-earned solution was part of who i was. now i watch AI accomplish in seconds what took me hours. i find myself caught between relief and mourning, awe and anxiety. the craft that shaped me is suddenly eclipsed by a machine. who am i now?

@marcelpociot After these instructions they still might not have written any php lol

If you've never written PHP in your life, do these things tonight: 1. Download PHP from php.new or use Laravel Herd 2. Run "laravel new my-awesome-idea" 3. Run Claude Code and build something amazing I guarantee you that it'll be an awesome experience!

@awcodes1 @alexandersix_ I believe he did.

@alexandersix_ Want to say Nuno did a video on it.

Any Laravel devs I know using the Mago toolchain? It looks awesome and I'm considering diving deeper into it, but I feel like I haven't heard much about it yet?

@Madisonkanna @AmazinAz Also, in part those old school reps were how we built understanding in the first place. Will likely need to carve out time to still do them, or atrophy.

@AmazinAz I wasn't saying that. I agree with you, my reps as an eng are amplified now. but I do still feel a loss of identity as i no longer write the code as much myself or sometimes ai finds the bugs that i used to take pride in finding. reasonable take, no?

I genuinely don't understand this take. For AI to do the "right" thing you need to know what that looks like. All the reps you gained as a Software Engineer are now amplified to reach the true goal of delivering value instead of toiling away in syntax and logic. Unsubscribed