Steven Quinn

@jamonholmgren That’s the hockey level chirps I’m here for.

This might be off brand for me but … worth it

@asmah2107 Store every possible phone number in a table and create a pivot table to link them 🤣

Quick question : You need to add a new, required phone_number column to your users table, which has 500 million rows. You write a simple ALTER TABLE script. You run it during a "maintenance window." It locks the entire users table for 8 hours while it adds the new column to every row. For 8 hours, no one can sign up or log in. Pain right ? You cannot perform "stop the world" operations on a live, large scale database How will you do a “Painless Database Migration” ?

@jamonholmgren I had a boss that would do that with website reviews. We learned a lot about print styles sheets during that short time.

Years ago, I had a client who would print out my emails, write his responses in pen, and then fax it back to me.

@jamonholmgren We mob so there’s not really a review. Just a quick “anything get left in that we need to remove” like debugging lines.

What do you spend more time on, all things being equal:

@emirthedev Brew

wHaT ShOuLd I iNsTaLl fIrSt??

@acentrix_jordan @marcelpociot I just wish pro was a single buy and not a subscription that disables the features after a year.

Laravel herd is a game changer. New laptop up and running in minutes I use to dread moving laptops The pro features are so useful to manager all services in one place

@jamonholmgren Goalies are weird.

...this is a joke, I don't have beef with anyone. Except that one C-league goalie, who is a jerk to me every time we play. I don't even know why

All you people who I have beef with need to hear this

@jamonholmgren Same thing I’m doing every day. Hookin’ dental chairs into the Internet and sending data back and forth.

Working on anything cool?

It’s so fun being a software engineer. My wife wished her smart product would send her an alert periodically but didn’t want to pay a hefty subscription. This morning, a little python script and some Go running in a @digitalocean function, and she gets automated reminder emails!

@strager Right? It used to have “scratchpad” mode but that went away. Bruno is definitely lacking but it did enough for us to make the transition a no brainer.

@stevenquinn Oh my god, Postman doesn't work without an internet connection???

Postman requires an account??? Do people do this?

@strager In this case, something akin to a raspberry pi that broadcasts an AP that other devices can join and communicate over. To test, my Mac connects to that network, I use the API for configuring this device, but neither of us has an active internet connection (single antenna).

@stevenquinn What does "offline APIs" mean?

@otisframpton The aspect ratio also looks like it’d be better for general media playback.

I like that it’s a little bigger. I played many hours of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in handheld mode. I might have played more with a bigger screen.

@otisframpton Unfortunately walkabout is the only thing anymore that gets me to put on my Quest 2

Fur the record, it’s the El Dorado course in Walkabout and the Faron Region in BOTW.

I’m not surprised. I hate to say it, but VR games may have ruined 2D gaming for me. The it immersive nature just can’t be beat. There’s a level in @WalkaboutMG that feels exactly like a location in Breath of the Wild, and now I only want to play Zelda in VR!

@jamonholmgren It’s also amazing the ones that do “modernize”, end up applying a technical solution (shiny tech stack) to a non-technical problem (bad business process), don’t solve their problem, and become adverse to trying new software in the future.

Ask anyone not in tech about the software they use in their jobs. Like really, just do it. They will sigh, groan, and then tell you things that will make your hair stand up. There’s still so much software to be built. Stop worrying, learn the tools, get to work.

@Mochievous If I don’t know the answer, I always start with “I don’t know”. Sometimes we leave it at that, and sometimes we try to look it up. But I always try to be really honest with my kids that grown ups don’t know everything. In fact most of the time, we probably don’t know most things.

I ended up really enjoying my time with them. Their curiosity was so refreshing. But for parents that do this everyday, damn. What happens when you don’t know the answer to the questions? Just a simple good vibes interaction I thought to share. Wishing A & S all the best.

on my flight, I was sat beside two kids. The hostess came up to me and asked if i could do her a favour. She said, the kids (8 & 12) were traveling alone and if I could please watch them especially when we touch down. The plan was to hand them over to ground staff.

Another update to my app for band and music teachers to manage their stage setups! Link below - easier entry + cleaner UI. Built with React Native.

@taylorotwell Went through the same progression with a client boilerplate. Packages became a pain to maintain and onboard. Cloning a repo was dead simple we still had an install command for basic config.

In the next few weeks we'll be kicking off work on new Laravel starter kits. Here's what I'm thinking... I don't think the starter kits should be packages. Instead, I think they should just be GitHub repositories you clone. All of the code lives in your application, no "install" commands or copying files around. Just clone a starter kit and start building. 🔨 Think something like "laravel/simple-starter-kit" and "laravel/saas-starter-kit"... and maybe more in the future? "laravel/api-starter-kit"... "laravel/ai-starter-kit"? Easy to inspect what is included, easy to accept community contributions. 👍 Thinking the simple starter kit would be the equivalent of today's Laravel Breeze. Basic registration, authentication, password reset, profile management. The SaaS starter kit would include all of that, teams, Stripe Checkout integration with Cashier, and more. 💰 Both totally free and open source. Livewire and Inertia 2.0 flavors. Tailwind 4. Maybe something like @shadcn for the Inertia variant? What do you think?

@aarondfrancis Curious to try it. Forge has been great, Vapor has been even easier (but harder to predict costs obviously). Hope it’s somewhere between.

@stevenquinn Different! I will use it more than Vapor, personally.

I just deployed my first app to Laravel Cloud, and y'all, the hype is real. So fast, so smooth, so easy. Never gonna use anything else!