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jamesdallen.me
Christian, Husband, Father, Full stack Laravel developer
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The term treeshaking reminds me of the time I got home from a second shift at about 1am and there was a mocking bird in a small tree happily singing through every bird call it knew. I did some tree shaking

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Man you find some weird stuff while digging into the docs- I had no idea you could track click locations on an image from php

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Wow this is pretty cursed-

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I still like orms in general but one thing I have noticed is that every time I learn a new framework there is a learning curve for the new flavor of orm that is a little annoying. I can see the benefits to using lower level sql libraries

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

At the breakfast table this morning my boys (2 and 5) had a legit argument about who knows the muffin man. Despite their assertions I was not convinced that either of them did in fact “know the muffin man”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

For some reason with the conversational llms I find myself thanking it for giving me the right answer- which makes me wonder how much compute I’m taking up with my gratitude?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just discovered Kevin Powell’s YouTube channel and wow css has gotten good over the years. I love tailwind but it’s cool to see the way vanilla css is improving youtube.com/@kevinpowell...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I recently set up github actions to run artisan commands after deploy on @cloudways.bsky.social here is a blog about it- jamesdallen.me/blog/cloudwa...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Uh oh- I'm apparently a robot folks. Do you think it happened while I was sleeping?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I have a friend back home who, whenever it’s been too long since we chatted, uses my email address to subscribe to something completely ridiculous. I get the opt in or the first message in the cycle and know it’s time to give him a call.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Just realized you can do this $el.scrollIntoView() trick in alpinejs

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I still got it

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments