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⚙️ Engineering Manager at VCSW 🛠️ Laravel (VILT/RILT, Filament) 🌍 South African living in the Netherlands 🎺 Trombonist (why is there no trombone emoji?) 🏃 parkrun enthusiast https://pinkary.com/@mdpoulter
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Thinking about building a monitoring tool for Laravel's chained jobs. Similar to how Horizon lets you monitor batches (progress, failures, etc.)

Wet jeans and a 2 hour trip home are not a good combination 😫

TIL daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/02...

Really enjoyed the Triceratops exhibition on display @naturalis.bsky.social! Well worth a visit if you find yourself nearby...

The problem with having lots of things to do is that it's very easy to keep yourself busy doing unimportant things.

Can confirm 👇

It's been a weekend of delayed trains and good food 😄

I enjoyed completing the first #AdventOfCode challenge on the train today. A new experience coding on a phone, but it made the travel time fly by! adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

Always worth waking up a little earlier on a crisp, wintery morning like today 🧣

Started using Figma for some flowcharts and so far it's been very helpful as we brainstorm and plan out the steps for a new service with the team 👍

Never more thankful for our tech stack than after discussing the challenges of hiring COBOL developers to maintain a legacy system at another company 😅

Going down a rabbit hole of frying pan buying advice 🍳

Never would have guessed that Strava would become my favourite social media platform!

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: - sales assistant - research assistant - maths and science tutor - marketing manager - videographer - robotics coach