Samuel Levy

It's #hottest100 day! Let's find out how out of touch the youths are with good music!

It’s been a year today since I walked on stage at @laracon.au 2024 and opened up about my experiences with depression and anxiety. Mental health should be talked about. And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible. youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0

Lumpy disappointment. The yeast didn't go off properly.

Quick poll for a security friend. If you are a dev: Do you know what threat modeling is? Do you do it? Why or why not? If so what does that look like for you?

Is #LaravelBakers a thing? #Larabakers? Anyway, I'm half asleep after @laravel.com worldwide meetup last night, so instead of working I made blueberry muffins.

Last night I spoke at the @laravel.com worldwide meetup about the "magic" in Laravel. And you can watch it now, on YouTube! www.youtube.com/live/j9dqD9S...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

CFP for this year's event, held in Brisbane on November 13-14, is now open! Talks are 30min, and we welcome speakers from home and abroad presenting on Laravel and the wider ecosystem. Submit as many times as you'd like! Successful speakers will be contacted by May 30th

Sick of people responding to AI summaries of your emails instead of actually reading them? Try poisoning your email signature with new instructions for the LLM!

I'm pretty sure that they call the second one "pairing", and yeah. It's a totally legitimate way to not have to do a formal PR review afterwards. Outside of any automated CI checks, PR reviews are mostly just a form of asynchronous pairing with more passive aggressive nit-picking.

Bogan Cyclone #Alfred, just hanging out doing donuts.

Looks like my Laracon EU talk is live on YouTube! Somehow I didn’t notice. youtu.be/EDlxFQz5kh8?...

Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

I've never felt more like Seymour Skinner than I do listening to the pointy end of the #hottest100. No, it's the kids that are wrong.

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I'm going to share my journey with learning new things, starting with my experiences with Livewire. And of course my personal ramblings and insecurities, but hey, that's natural with me, right? I'd love for you to join in on the conversation! www.martyfriedel.com/blog/dev-dia...

Fun fact: bcrypt does NOT only hash the first 72 chars of a password. It TRUNCATES the input to a maximum of 72 bytes. Which could mean as few as 18 characters, depending on the character encoding. The actual spec says to truncate to 56 bytes, but none of the implementations do that.

It's wild how much of my JS and HTML @calebporzio.bsky.social has actually written for me.

I could use your help gathering some data for my upcoming Laracon EU talk. If you ever had a slow Laravel application/slow request/slow command/etc. - what was the reason for it? Would be great to get as many replies as possible. Please share for reach 🙂

I'm far from an expert on #accessibility, but there's one thing that I know: Your assumptions about who uses assistive tech are wrong.