Sebastian De Deyne

Pre-Laravel Live stroll through Copenhagen

@gruber.foo "This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon." You mean horseshit, right?

An app that lets me point a camera on a piece of paper on my desk, and live vectorizes my sketches to a web UI so I can screen share or reference afterwards. Does this exist?

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Trying to slowly move all my domains to Cloudflare but already the second time they don't support the TLD I need 🥲

Next up: router.once(). Same as router.on(), but auto-unsubscribes after the first event. Contributed by @sebdd.net 👏

Didn't know about the compact line height feature in GitHub's review UI 👌

RSS is still so good

I love websites!

When Claude says "almost done", it it really almost there or like a developer saying almost done?

I really wish Roam had succeeded, other node-based note taking tools feel bloated

Some people are cursed to see bad kerning everywhere. My curse is spotting missed opportunities for `font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;`

Where AI is bringing value to my work

Still haven't come across anything that beats the bang for buck you get from the /grill-me skill

Reopening our vacancy gates! We're looking for a frontend engineer to build React apps with us ⚒️ Work from home part time but you should be able to join us at our office in Antwerp. All details: spatie.be/vacancies/fr...

I just published a new piece about YouTube and the podcast industry: justinjackson.ca/youtube-kill...

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Taylor just retweeted my blogpost on X, so maybe my imposter syndrome is wrong and it might actually be worth the read... #laravel spatie.be/blog/five-le...

🔗 Introducing PHP Operators

🕺 Fun project release day! Introducing PHP Operators: a reference guide for operators in PHP old and new. You can browse, search, filter, or jump to a random operator. Give it a read, you might learn something new! → php-operators.com

Blog post time! We use Inertia & Livewire at Spatie. Why both? When which? Many questions, many answers! But if you want a definitive answer to which one is better, prepare to be disappointed. spatie.be/blog/livewir...

@wesbos.com Hi! During your dotJS talk you mentioned you had a utility that notifies when your browser's framerate drops during development. Is this something open source?

@sdw.bsky.social Hey! The Orion site seems to be down orion.tube

Tailwind 4's ability to set arbitrary CSS variables and the shorthand syntax are 💯

Practicing perspective 📸

Rare remote job opportunity at Spatie 👀👩‍💼👨‍💼 We're hiring a part-time support engineer. Full job description on our site later, but if you think you're the person we're looking for send a cover letter to jobs@spatie.be. ⬇️ Quick task overview below. Feel free to respond with any questions!

This week on the blog: @vanpachtenbeke.com on our philosophy around open source. Why do we do it? What do we expect from our contributors? When do we reject contributions? Many many questions, all answered in this post! spatie.be/blog/what-to...

Need a Laravel package? Light the Spatie-signal! 📦 We're always on the lookout 🦇

New (kind of?) package day: Laravel Backup Server is now free and open source! 💽 It ensures your servers are backed up (using rsync). It purges old backups, monitors their health, and sends notifications when something's up. Read all about it on our ✨ shiny new blog ✨ spatie.be/blog/reintro...

Going great today

Currently enjoying SimCity Vibes at the office 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/3z0...

Any way in or plugin for @obsidian.md to copy Markdown as formatted text?

Any tips for handling large #Laravel Horizon jobs more effectively? Getting [job] attempted too many times usually points to OOM/timeouts, but debugging is tough - especially with 30min+ execution times and retries. What's your approach?

@calebporzio.bsky.social Building a SPA-like experience for a small Livewire app, and wish wire.navigate had some kind of preserve scroll modifier like Inertia has 👀 inertiajs.com/links#scroll...

About Pokémon and SWR in tomorrow's href.email

What's a good place to get audiobooks without a subscription?

And if you want this in your Laravel app, our feed package adds a stylesheet out of the box! github.com/spatie/larav...

Structures 📸

Anyone have Paris dinner recommendations?

Celebrated late Thanksgiving on Sunday. First time I did the bird and stuffing, pretty happy with how they came out!

Go get this! With the new version we are cooking you are in for a treat!