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tim.macdonald.au
Doggos, hypermedia, and core team at Laravel https://tim.macdonald.au
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“Because of their excessive reverence for omens, they let the words of others guide them rather than their own intuition, and they creep down alleyways picking up advice from other people’s remarks, thinking with their ears, so to speak, not with their brains.”

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Respect to @tim.macdonald.au and the Laravel community for understanding the decision to release breaking changes in a patch and gracefully handling the disruption to their users. And shoutout to other maintainers in the ecosystem for helping their users upgrade and stay safe.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I just published my 27th post. A bit personal and vulnerable, and I really wonder how I'm going to feel about it in the morning, but for now - here it is: www.zuzana-k.com/articles/som...

submitted 84 days ago • 24 comments

Wanna make Slack better? Settings: 1. Appearance > Font = Robot Mono 2. Messages > Theme =Compact 3. Messages > Names = Just display names 4. Messages > Additional options: uncheck “Display information about who is currently typing a message” Give it a week. I don’t even hate Slack anymore.

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

🍭 Refactoring a callback to a first-class callable? Heck yea. But also… You might be subtly changing behaviour by implicitly passing additional arguments, especially with collection pipelines.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Learnt something new about Laravel today. I always thought Laravel’s `$fallback` value kicked in when a retrieved value was either missing OR `null`. I always thought these two approaches were equivalent. Always learning.

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

A pattern I’ve been enjoying recently is extracting binding callbacks from Laravel service providers into smaller dedicated factory classes and then replacing the anonymous closure with the factories invoke method. Just want the container to accept `callable` rather requiring `Closure`.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

One of the APIs I'm most happy with is in [Gretel](github.com/glhd/gretel) — defining breadcrumbs right next to your routes is *so nice.* Adding a route? Just chain the breadcrumb on. Removing one? Just remove the whole block, and the breadcrumb config is gone, too!

submitted 120 days ago • 4 comments

Starting the week with a keycap refresh 💅

submitted 121 days ago • 4 comments