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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 28/09/2026

Me: the UI in this Mac app that Claude built is pretty bad. Let me look at some Apple-made Mac apps in OS 27 to get a sense of best practices. Me: oh.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 28/09/2026

On your Mac, go to: System Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Enable "Content & Privacy" restrictions Click "Siri" and turn off "Writing Assistance" 🎉 Little floating Siri thing finally goes away

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 23/09/2026

This one took the most work, and is in part because it’s the hardest thing I’ve tried to explain with one of these one-off videos. I think it was 6 revisions: bsky.app/profile/cmor...

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 23/09/2026

It’s kinda bonkers how good LLMs are are stuff like that. This video was a one shot with like a two-paragraph prompt. More sophisticated videos might take 4-5 revisions, but most of that is dictated, which means they still take very little time.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 23/09/2026

The GraphQL parser is the webonyx one, and the PHP parser is the nikic one. I wrote all the code to translate the one AST to the other (pre-LLM!). As for the video, it’s mostly just a “use remotion to explain this project in [this way]” prompt to Claude Code with repo access.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 22/09/2026

and converts it to a Saloon and Laravel Data (by @spatie.be) backed SDK. Check it out… github.com/glhd/lineara...

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 22/09/2026

I love Linear, but GraphQL kinda sucks to work with in PHP. Unfortunately, the API is giant and constantly evolving, so building a bespoke PHP SDK would be more maintenance than I'm willing to take on. So I built a tool that automatically parses the Linear GraphQL definition…

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 22/09/2026

Multi select would be nice. I’ll see about adding it in a future version!

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 21/09/2026

Don't know what Thrice is… My gh username is the username I've used on just about everything since the 90s 😅

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 21/09/2026

I got tired of accidentally opening Xcode because I've forgotten to choose "Always Open With…" on my Mac. So I build Short Circuit to manage file associations in one place. Feel free to use it, too! github.com/inxilpro/sho...

Screenshot of a macOS app for managing default file associations. The Code category is selected, showing a grid of file types—including JSON, XML, YAML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Swift, C, C++, and CSS—with their current default applications. JSON data is selected, and a details panel on the right shows Sublime Text as the default app, along with its public.json identifier, .json extension, and application/json MIME type.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 09/09/2026

Yeah, getting permissions right feels like the most important thing. It's tricky to find the right balance.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 09/09/2026

I'm working on a project to process and centralize our knowledge at work. LLMs are so promising for this, but trusting a third party with *all our data* was a non-starter for us, so I built something to run internally. It's a little hard to explain, so I made a video:

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 08/09/2026

Alright, Whimsy Tank is happening on Oct 28! - Pitch your most whimsical idea. - Our two guest judges decide. - Winner takes home a used iPod nano! phpxphilly.com/meetups/4869...

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Meetup @ Curotec HQ - PHP×Philly

Meetup @ Curotec HQ on Wednesday, October 28th 2026 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EDT

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 31/08/2026

I've deployed github.com/glhd/paralle... to a bunch of projects now. It's so nice to cut deploy time by 30–60s!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She was the best of all us 🖤

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Says Skeletor who is the saddest he’s been in a long time. RIP Dolly

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 17/08/2026

Tower by Adam Basanta (2026) www.adambasanta.com/tower.php

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 15/08/2026

It's always annoyed me when build scripts do a bunch of unrelated things in sequence… So I wrote a little parallelization shell script and managed to cut my Laravel Cloud built time from 18s to 11s! cmorrell.com/trim-laravel...

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Trim Laravel Cloud Build Time - Chris Morrell

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026

Please avoid all salads, including word.

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Len Woodward @projektgopher.com · 09/07/2026

🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 8, 2026 A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1. Full video 👇 youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE #PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

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This Week In PHP Internals | July 8, 2026

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 26/06/2026

Finished it. This might be my favorite Ann Patchett book yet—although that may just be because it’s the most recent one I’ve read :)

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 25/06/2026

I'm about halfway thru Whistler by Ann Patchett. I don't know that I've cried this many tears of joy reading a book before. It's such a beautiful portrayal of familial love. Really, really good.

Book cover of Whistler, A Novel, by Ann Patchett

An oil painting of a horse standing in a field facing the viewer. The sky is dark and starry, and a few mountains are in the distance.

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i'd like to see AI try and replace this work

Rekha Shankar, wearing a dog cone and boxing gloves, attempts to use a pump to blow up a balloon, unsuccessfully.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/06/2026

This is fun. 4 × 3 100 points • 0 mistakes 🌟🟪🟪 🟦🌟🟦 🟩🌟🟩 🟨🌟🟨

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flo-bit @flo-bit.dev · 12/06/2026

the newest and bestest way to scroll through your bluesky feed

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 05/06/2026

Nice little quality-of-life improvement for the Laravel `failed_jobs` table :)

alter table `failed_jobs`
add column `display_name`
varchar(255)
generated always as (json_unquote(json_extract(`payload`, '$.displayName')))
stored after `uuid`,
add column `exception_name`
varchar(255)
generated always as (substring_index(`exception`, ':', 1))
stored after `display_name`,
add index `failed_jobs_display_name_index`(`display_name`),
add index `failed_jobs_exception_name_index`(`exception_name`);

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 05/06/2026

The video from Wednesday’s PHP×Philly meetup is up! “After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers” by Mike Priscella youtu.be/hhLReAGoFgs?...

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After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers - Mike Priscella - PHP×Philly

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 05/06/2026

The video from Wednesday’s PHP×Philly meetup is up! “After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers” by Mike Priscella youtu.be/hhLReAGoFgs?...

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After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers - Mike Priscella - PHP×Philly

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 04/06/2026

As always, it was such a pleasure to get together with the PHP×Philly crew. Mike’s talk was great (and terrifying). Looking forward to our post-Laracon meetup in August!

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 03/06/2026

Reminder! @phpxphilly.com is tonight at 6:00pm! Mike Priscella will present "After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers" RSVP at: phpxphilly.com/meetups/4420...

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Meetup @ Curotec HQ - PHP×Philly

Meetup @ Curotec HQ on Wednesday, June 3rd 2026 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EDT

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 03/06/2026

Reminder! @phpxphilly.com is tonight at 6:00pm! Mike Priscella will present "After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers" RSVP at: phpxphilly.com/meetups/4420...

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Meetup @ Curotec HQ - PHP×Philly

Meetup @ Curotec HQ on Wednesday, June 3rd 2026 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EDT

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 25/05/2026

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live:

A number of folded band tour shirts:

- The Decemberists
- Wolf Alice
- The Format
- Chappell Roan
- Jason Isbell
- Olivia Rodrigo
- Josh Ritter
- The Beaches
- Lucius
- Lily and Madeleine
- The Low Anthem
- Slowly, It Dawns

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 22/05/2026

Oh damn I’m super jealous!

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 20/05/2026

Watched my grandfather, at age 95, take his last breath last night. He was surrounded by his family and died peacefully. It’s sad to see him go, but it was such a beautiful experience to watch it go so gently, in his own bed in his own home, with his grown children/grandchildren holding his hands. ❤️

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 17/05/2026

Ooh, I just bought my first discworld book. I’m excited! Unfortunately, I’m currently binge reading dungeon crawler Carl, so it’s gonna have to wait.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 16/05/2026

Happy @kagi.com user of many years now. Whenever I accidentally end up using Google it’s a jump-scare. I’m reminded of just how far Google has fallen in their mission of organising all of the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 16/05/2026

Sometimes @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com go a little long, so I decided to make a 1 minute highlight reel of the most recent @mostlytechnical.com

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 15/05/2026

"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 13/05/2026

Burned $91.34 with Claude Code /goal in 3.5 hours Unreal, It was able to reverse engineer my Amaran bluetooth lights so I don't have to use the crappy app

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 13/05/2026

CMAT show was incredible. If you have a chance to see her live, do!

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 12/05/2026

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 12/05/2026

But the new attacks are like: - they submit a patch to a project that the makers of my robo-vacuum relies on - they hack a chip supplier who sells chips to a computer vision algo vendor - [45 more steps] - somehow my vacuum issues an npm token to itself and syncs to a random dropbox account

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 12/05/2026

While the vanity metric is very fun, as 'supply chain attack' news increases, I'm feeling less and less comfortable with the fact that I maintain an npm package with 6M weekly downloads and 2.6k dependents… 😅

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 10/05/2026

I went to an event tonight, and there was a close-up magician working the crowd. He was fantastic. It was both a joy to be completely fooled, and even more a joy to watch my friends’ shocked expressions as the card in their hand switched from a club to a heart. Gotta see some live magic. So much fun

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 09/05/2026

Funny. I’ve never even considered where the name Bryn Mawr was from. Just another stop on the regional rail line.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 08/05/2026

Apple should allow you to optionally charge apps $0.01 to send you a notification or increment the unread bubble.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 08/05/2026

One unintended side effect of our current hiring strategy is that I look forward to 1pm every day 😃 (If you know, you know.)

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