iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 01/09/2026

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)

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 24/08/2026

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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Mangart — Manga Collection Tracker

Track your manga collection: owned volumes, series still being read, and next targets to hunt. A bold black-white-red...

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 22/07/2026

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... 🤓

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 21/07/2026

@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. 🖖🏻

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 13/07/2026

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 02/07/2026

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 14/06/2026

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.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 18/02/2026

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 22/01/2026

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 21/01/2026

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. 😍

Screenshot of the Bun javascript runtime upgrade process.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 20/12/2025

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…

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 09/12/2025

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. 🤔

Screenshot of a basic web app displaying current NFL Playoff picture ranking.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 02/12/2025

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

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 09/11/2025

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.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 22/10/2025

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! 😎

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 19/09/2025

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. ✌🏻🇨🇭🤙🏻

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 19/09/2025

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)

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 19/09/2025

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. 🤨

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 13/09/2025

@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 · 03/09/2025

Ship like your life depends on it.

To all the developers out there, I have two words: Free solo. --Aleš Vaupotič from Lessons learned

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 02/09/2025

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...

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Remove duplicated db.ts by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #1604 · instantdb/instant

Hey, 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...

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 02/09/2025

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-...

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A New Day: Bear Bryant’s Daily Lesson in Growth

By starting each day as a new day, with gratitude and freedom from burdens, we begin the journey toward growth.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 27/08/2025

@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!

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 19/08/2025

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. 😅

An HTML form and previous entries are the first three lines from Adele's song Hello.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 12/08/2025

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.)

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 06/08/2025

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 05/08/2025

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)

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 31/07/2025

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...

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Remote Functions · sveltejs kit · Discussion #13897

The 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...

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WBUR @wbur.org · 08/07/2025

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

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Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 18/06/2025

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

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 13/06/2025

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. 🫶🏻

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 13/04/2025

Won’t be able to make it to Barcelona this year, but as a wheelchair user and @svelte.dev community member - knowing that the venue is fully wheelchair accessible (without digging around for info) is hugely important. Congrats to @rich-harris.dev and Svelte Team pushing #a11y online and offline. ✌🏻

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 12/03/2025

In a world, where crappy social network CEOs are the norm, we need more Jays (@jay.bsky.team) to step up and show us how leading and building a inclusive online social network/community is done. 🫶🏻 🦋 mashable.com/article/blue...

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Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 12/03/2025

Even when you’re not in #Laravel land, community contributions such as this @svelte.dev Starter Kit can really save your 🥓: laravel-news.com/laravel-12-s... Used a slightly modified AuthSplit component yesterday for the auth layouts for Happy Cal. Great work by Osemudiamhen Ughu. 🫶🏻

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Laravel 12 Svelte Starter Kit - Laravel News

The Svelte Starter Kit for Laravel was created by Osemudiamhen Ughu and provides a Svelte version of Laravel's New Starter Kits.

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Bobby Iliev @bobbyiliev.com · 11/03/2025

When you’re 10 layers deep in a Bash script that you wrote last year and forgot how it works: Smeagol: Bash... yesss, precious Bash... We wrote it, yesss… but we don’t remember how!

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 09/03/2025

Decided today is a perfect day to write some non-job-related code and learn some @svelte.dev CRUD with @cloudflare.social D1 in the process. Very WIP at the moment…

Screenshot of an upcoming personal app called Happy Cal, which you can use to save events that make you happy

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 07/03/2025

<rant> if I got half a cent every time I hear "ND filters are like sunglasses for your camera/lens" on a random Youtube ND filter video review, I'd be challenging Elon in terms of net worth right now... 🫠 </rant>

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 04/03/2025

It has been the second time I have felt the absolute rocket rush that comes after @taylorotwell.bsky.social merges your changes into anything #Laravel... ... and it still feels surreal, every single time. Laravel forever. 🫶🏻

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 04/03/2025

Decided to take @cmorrell.com's advice from his Laracon EU talk "Your first pull request" seriously, brush the dust off my "Open Source (Janitor) Contributor" badge & made a micro PR to #Laravel Livewire Starter Kit... Life is about the little things that bring you joy. github.com/laravel/live...

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Update tests.yml with the Flux Pro config by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #51 · laravel/livewire-starter-kit

Hi to all, today I installed the Livewire Starter Kit as well as Flux Pro into the project and realized that while the default lint.yml accounts for the possibility of Flux Pro being installed as p...

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 28/02/2025

Signed up for this one. This has been the missing ingredient for a while now and is getting added soon. 🦾 And then @coulb.com can convince @calebporzio.bsky.social to make “Make Zed Awesome” and we’re in business… 😎

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 10/02/2025

@coulb.com GO BIRDS! Sure picked the right time to move… 💚🦅

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 09/02/2025

Started off the day filling in at the livestream commentator post for the IBU Para Biathlon World Championship 2025 in Pokljuka, Slovenia… That’s my I barely know what I’m doing face from the booth. Brilliant experience, thanks again for the opportunity! 💚

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 05/01/2025

I hate waking up early in general, but rarely will the name of my least favorite alarm ring more true than tomorrow… 😫

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 03/01/2025

Lots of folks have been asking for a video about using state in Verbs, and I've finally gotten around to putting one together. youtu.be/d6_ggotpb_8

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Using state in Verbs

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 03/01/2025

January 3rd. Smart home setup and crappy access to home router gets you a good selfie sometime… 🙃

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gal.jakic.dev @gal.jakic.dev · 19/12/2024

Playing with local LLMs has funny side-effects sometimes... like #Ollama not being aware of what Ollama is. 🫣

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