gal.jakic.dev

1 Sept

Ten years ago, a kid with a dream decided he wanted to work for himself in web development. And @wewowweb.com was born. The first logo was drawn on a sheet of A4 squared notebook paper so the lines would be straight. It was edgy—literally. (1/2)

1 Sept

That is to say, we almost launched our website today to commemorate this special moment, but decided against it because: a) you should never launch before it’s ready, b) we get all our clients through referrals, and c) we’re kind of notorious for not having a website, so why ruin it now? (2/2)

mangart.ninaingal.siMangart — Manga Collection TrackerTrack your manga collection: owned volumes, series still being read, and next targets to hunt. A bold black-white-red...

24 Aug

Got tired of asking the same questions every week, so I built a little something - a manga tracker for my son’s collection - over the weekend. My sanity restored. 👌🏻 mangart.ninaingal.si/en-us/

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Jack

@jackinpogform.bsky.social

For close to 10 years, my company has operated with a website that looked exactly like the screenshot below. For a mostly solo developer, operating in the IT space and mostly receiving word of mouth client recommendations, I sometimes wonder how we managed to survive. 😅 New website incoming... 🤓

21 July

@alharlamov.bsky.social prebral v šusu, v dveh dneh - predvsem zato, ker jo je težko odložiti, delno pa zato, ker je čakalna vrsta v familiji dolga že za 3 ali 4. Skratka, nadsuper. 🖖🏻

13 July

Why do we have JPG and JPEG, but only PNG and no PNEG?! Might have to solve this tonight with Fable 5… 🙄 /sarcasm-off

ft.comWho cleans up after the vibe-coding party?Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

11 July

Great read.

Sam Learner@samlearner.bsky.social

wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

2 July

The impact of LLMs is crazy. Even Jesus is into APIs now. 🫣

lucumr.pocoo.orgDangerous Technology For Americans OnlyAI nationalism, safety and European weakness.

14 June

Love Anthropic & use Claude daily, but denying access to Fable for non‑US paying users means Claude joins ChatGPT on my "should replace" list. This move will only drive more people to abandon US models in favour of Chinese alternatives. Great blog by @mitsuhiko.at, you & your LLM should read it.

Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at

When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/am...

18 Feb

Been dreaming of this for a while now and now it’s here! My favorite frameworks now overlap! ✌🏻❤️

Joe Tannenbaum@joe.codes

Welcome to the party, @svelte.dev New starter kit just dropped: Laravel + Svelte + Inertia

22 Jan

I'm not even remotely a senior developer, but I definitely had a senior moment right now... ... that's gotta count for something.

21 Jan

Switched from node to Bun recently and I'm loving the experience. Updating a binary version with one command may just be near the top of the list. 😍

20 Dec 2025

Recently acquired a Echolens - one of these digital disposable camera clones that are a little more eco-friendly, but still don’t allow you to pixel peep before your 52 shot roll is up - so that I can document the life a little more frequently and have less “I hate photo editing” excuses…

9 Dec 2025

Vibe coded a basic @svelte.dev app which displays the NFL playoff picture, since it's soon to be Wednesday in Europe and the official #NFL Playoff picture page still displays the playoff standings as of last week. 🫠 Maybe I should slap a "playoff probability by next nextGen stats" at the top. 🤔

2 Dec 2025

Had a blast at the Ljubljana @laravel.com Meetup, hosted in the Agiledrop offices tonight. Good talks, good crowd, good code. Laravel forever. P.S. Thanks for the great company, as always @ales.reepolee.com

Local Laravel faction was presented very well through Blaž Oražem, who had a very interesting talk about October CMS, presenting many of the strategies they use at the Spletna Postaja agency to successfully run and deploy ~700 projects in their day to day.

2 Dec 2025

Last, but definitely not the least (insert queue joke here) @harrisrafto.eu from @laravelnews.com came to the event in person to talk about Laravel queues, jobs and workers. Learned something new today, Bus::chain() for the win.

First speaker was @joshcirre.com, with his intro on Laravel Cloud and its capabilities. … also seen channeling a bit of the @ianlandsman.com in some of his slides. 🤓

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Sam Rose

@samwho.dev

9 Nov 2025

The tragic reality of being a parent: all of your precious little free time comes when you are too tired to do anything with it.

22 Oct 2025

Recently, I've been playing with the idea of porting @laravel.com's Eloquent ORM to the Javascript ecosystem. Probably spent way too many side-hustle hours on this one, but we made it to the "Houston, we have a rough prototype" phase. It makes @svelte.dev's remote functions shine even brighter! 😎

Next week I’m travelling to Zürich, but sadly I’m leaving a day before the @laravel.swiss meetup 🫠 Still, if any Laravel dev in the area wants to grab a cup of coffee on Tuesday or Thursday afternoon & talk code, life, … shoot a Bluesky butterfly (or whatever we call that around here) my way. ✌🏻🇨🇭🤙🏻

Ok, this is turning out to be a pretty good Friday, so maybe I can share the story from the high (green) grass of @laravel.com development. I was recently asked to create a simple B2B app that, in the simplest terms, allows the stakeholders to manage and download PDF files. (1/6)

As for the database—same thing. SQLite allowed me to use the local DB and SFTP it to staging. Want to revert to a previous version of the DB? It’s a file. Swap it. Want to store a cleaned version? It’s a file. Store it. 5/6

All this to say: building and shipping software can often be done with far simpler tools and methods than vendors selling DevOps solutions would have you believe. 6/6

I needed a simple strategy so that the files could be (re)named in a predictable way, and we could swap them at will. I also wanted to give them the option to test using production data, but without worrying about unintended side effects, such as test email leaks. 3/6

I contained the emails by using MailHog on the staging server. Dummy files were processed locally, and then the files from the storage folder were SFTPed to the staging server using Cyberduck. 4/6

Setting the stage: I was given 4,000 dummy files by the client, which have strict naming rules, so that we can extract the data and create DB records from them. The client asked whether these could be replaced with the real files at a later date, once out of QA. I said, “Sure!” 2/6

Here’s a public service announcement: if you bought a domain for your open source project that will eventually house the documentation, but it doesn’t yet… please please PLEASE don’t show it on your github repo and link it to the same github repo. 🤨

13 Sept 2025

@mrmacintosh.bsky.social hey, sorry to bug you on Bluesky, just wanted to check if there’s an email where I can report a security concern to the OpenCore Legacy patcher team 😅. Thanks!

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Aleš Vaupotič

@ales.reepolee.com

3 Sept 2025

Ship like your life depends on it.

github.comRemove duplicated db.ts by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #1604 · instantdb/instantHey, I just started a new vanilla JS project with Instant and noticed that out of the box, there is a duplicated db.ts file that doesn't appear to be linked anywhere. I would also love to say t...

2 Sept 2025

Despite being in tech for decades at this point, I still get a kick out of the tiniest of things, but most of all "the janitorial commits" to open source software. Found two of these gems out in the high grass today and couldn't walk past them. github.com/instantdb/in...

github.comFix typo in vite.config.ts filename by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #1605 · instantdb/instantHey, I noticed another small typo when going through the examples. In your sandbox files, the vite.config.ts was accidentally named vie.config.ts. Thought I'd fix it, since you probably have mo...

2 Sept 2025

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; github.com/instantdb/in...

thedaily.coachA New Day: Bear Bryant’s Daily Lesson in GrowthBy starting each day as a new day, with gratitude and freedom from burdens, we begin the journey toward growth.

2 Sept 2025

Read this post by The Daily Coach today and realized I needed to give myself a long and hard kick in the butt today. Had the kick been a field goal attempt, it likely would have been a 70-yarder. 😅 www.thedaily.coach/p/a-new-day-...

27 Aug 2025

@freek.bsky.social hey, this may be a long question for 🦋, but can you offer some insight into how you see the @spatie.be laravel-livewire-wizard’s future, with Livewire 4 now primarily switching to a Volt-like syntax? Thanks!

19 Aug 2025

I can neither confirm nor deny that every time I make a task-list-like form in an app, I test it with Adele lyrics. 😅

youtube.comBuilding High-Trust Environments | John Drexler Laracon US 2025YouTube video by Laravel

12 Aug 2025

As we have come to expect with @johnrudolphdrexler.com, he has set and cleared a high (trust) bar with this talk at Laracon US. Great job. (The witch then doth retreat back into the cave.)

John Rudolph Drexler@johnrudolphdrexler.com

My new talk is up! 5 practical things developers can do to build trust with their non-technical bosses. In the high trust environment you have less micromanagement and conflict, and more freedom and harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zki4...

github.comSupport the dot in the make:volt command by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #140 · livewire/voltHi, looking over Caleb Porzio's Livewire screencasts today, I noticed that the make:voltcommand doesn't support the dot notation, that is already present in make:livewire command. Here'...

6 Aug 2025

Happy to say, you can soon run php artisan make:volt folder.component and it will work as expected. @laravel.com forever 🔥

gal.jakic.dev@gal.jakic.dev

So, today I sat down and made another “signature” PR to @laravel.com’s Livewire Volt. It’s what I call a “janitorial PR” - that crack that’s bugging you until you fix it - even if it’s only you who sees it. As a reminder to never stop going back and giving back. github.com/livewire/vol... (3/3)

5 Aug 2025

Had some twists and turns in the past few weeks. Time to go back to the lesson I learned in my Para Alpine Skiing days: when it doesn’t work, go back. In ski racing, that meant no skiing through gates, just freeskiing, making turns and finding the joy in everything being simple again. (1/3)

firstcommit.isfirstcommit.is - @morpheus7csThe first commit of morpheus7cs on GitHub

5 Aug 2025

A constant through all the rock’n’roll of early stage startups my ❤️ for open source. 7+ years since my first contribution that got me hooked. That gave life to my company and will continue to do so long in the future. So simple. One addition, one deletion. (2/3) firstcommit.is/morpheus7cs

Tested @svelte.dev’s experimental async and remote function call features these past few days, with some very simple use cases. Complexity of learning to do things “the SvelteKit way” has been lowered dramatically, while maintaining the high DX bar. Great update! 🫶🏻 github.com/sveltejs/kit...

github.comRemote Functions · sveltejs kit · Discussion #13897The RFC was tweaked, see #13897 (comment) for a list of changes tl;dr Remote functions are a new concept in SvelteKit that allow you to declare functions inside a .remote.ts file, import them insid...

31 July 2025

I haven’t figured out how to reset form fields from @svelte.dev remote function call (within form) after submit. Currently running this Frankenstein approach, where I don’t specify the withOverrides(), but it seems redundant, since it’s verbose & doesn’t utilize the optimistic update. 🤔 (1/2)

livewire.laravel.comForms | LaravelA full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.

31 July 2025

Livewire has a $this->reset() helper on the Form Request for this very case. If anyone has a good @svelte.dev equivalent, I’d appreciate a hint. (2/2) livewire.laravel.com/docs/forms#r...

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WBUR

@wbur.org

8 July 2025

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

wbur.orgMeet the Google engineer making Maps more accessibleAfter a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

18 June 2025

@opravicujemo.se indoktrinacija 10-letnika se začne… ZDAJ!

13 June 2025

I may have created the ugliest app in the World today, but it’s the internal beauty of it that’s important. Probably the highlight of my week. 🫶🏻