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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 09/12/2025

Tinkerwell calls me a Query Goblin. I speak fluent Eloquent and my queries have queries. #TinkerwellWrapped 😂

Tinkerwell Wrapped: shows "the query goblin: lives in SQL caves, whispering to databases and summoning query results like spells" with a "chaos rate" of 16.9%; started Tinkerwell 126 this year; Tinkerwell journey started 306 days ago; on average 18.3 code runs per session (0.4% above global average); 100% PHP 8.4 usage; a smattering of framework versions all Laravel 12.x.x

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 12/11/2025

Got to see some an amazing northern lights in the Twin Cities last night!!!

Red and green aurora borealis "curtains" directly overhead

Mostly pink/red and a bit of green aurora borealis in the sky with bare tree branches in the foreground

Vivid pink/red and slight green aurora borealis directly overhead with a few stars in the background and a few bare tree branches in the foreground

Pink, purple, red, and green aurora borealis in the distance with stars in the background and bare tree branches surrounding the left, right, and lower edges of the photo

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 13/09/2025

@mattstauffer.com I don’t know whose idea it was to make these @tighten.com fidget toys for Laracon but it was genius. I have another fidget spinner that I rarely use, but I use this thing multiple times a day, and I don’t even like noisy/clicky keyboards.

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 09/07/2025

From bush to dish in 24h: picked some wild black raspberries and made fresh ice cream 😋

Wild black raspberry bushes with an out-of-focus container of picked berries in the foreground

A pint of freshly-picked black raspberries on a drying mat after having been washed

Black raspberries in a pot on the stove reducing to make a delicious sauce

A bowl of vanilla ice cream custard base, another bowl with black raspberry sauce, and a foil tray of the strained-out berries and seeds to be used as a (very crunchy) spread

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 04/05/2025

I think we’ve reached peak for the year

A row of pink and orange fully-blooming tulips under netting to protect them from rabbits

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 02/05/2025

Nice!! Most of ours were nearly full on Wednesday

A photo of orange, pink, red, and yellow tulips nearly at full bloom with a wooden fence in the background

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 29/04/2025

A day of rain later 🌷 🌷 🌷

A photo of a pink out-of-focus tulip in the foreground and several pink and orange tulips in focus with a house in the background, all along a wooden fence.

A yellow/orange tulip in the foreground with more out of focus in the background

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 24/04/2025

Don’t have much blooming here yet other than the first dandelion but these are about to…

Closeup of an orange tulip that is about to bloom along with some netting to protect it from rabbits

A roll of tulips that are getting ready to bloom along with netting to protect them from rabbits

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 18/04/2025

I love it! It needs a better cover though and I can't decide which one I like 🤔

Book cover from the O'RLY series with the title "Laravel: Up and Running" and the tagline "A Framework for Listening to Modern PHP Apps" by @stauffermatt

a ChatGPT-generated book cover with the title "Laravel: Up & Running" and the tagline "A Framework for Listening to Modern PHP Apps" by Matt Stauffer, published by O'RLY

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 22/03/2025

It was 8 hours ago, but I used this mug

A handmade ceramic mug with a buffalo and the text “Love + protect your parks”

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 25/01/2025

Here are a few from the last couple of weeks in Minnesota

Pink and purple sunset over a lake and woods

iPhone 13 photo (so not great) of the winter night sky showing a number of stars. Taken from one of the darkest places in Minnesota

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 24/01/2025

Great talk by @davehicking.com at the inaugural @phpxmsp.com meetup tonight! Thanks for the reminder to step back and ask questions.

Dave Hicking in front of a slide with the title “Stop Taking Orders; Start Solving Problems”

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Andrew Minion @andrewrminion.com · 09/01/2025

GPaste (github.com/Keruspe/GPaste) is a serviceable clipboard history manager. I added a custom keyboard shortcut (Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts) to bring up the UI. I just wish it would automatically paste to the current app when I select an entry. 🤷‍♂️