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A friend said to me after seeing my recent social media posts: “Unemployment suits you.” I agree. Anyway, new hero for my memory allocation post. You can have a play at staging.samwho.dev/memory-alloc... if you want.

Oh wait, you're no longer working at/with ngrok?

No, and just now it occurs to me I didn’t post about it. Eep, sorry. Nothing dramatic, I got an offer elsewhere I really couldn’t turn down. It was sad to part ways when things were going so well, but I think the content team at ngrok is still extremely strong. I’ll be joining Laravel in November.

I have mixed feelings. I love your work and I think you do a very important service for our field. On the other hand, Laravel... lol

I have to be a bit careful here because I know I have a skewed experience. On the one hand, it makes me a significant but not overwhelming amount of money cleaning up after slop shops (pre-AI term for low quality fast work).

On the other hand, it hides so much complexity under the hood which has allowed the complexity to grow. It robs intent from the dev in a number of ways. Example: `$service->street_address` Is that a property or a method? It requires a lot of work sometimes to find out. How much time you got? lol

Isn't that specific one more php than Laravel? (Totally a valid point though). I've used Laravel quite extensively and never could get it to sit right with me but I'm not a php fan so mostly put it down to that.

Carry on! All good to know. The whole “prop or function call?” thing always bothered me about Ruby, too.