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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/07/2025

What do you mean by "Terminal AI Flow"?

Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/07/2025

If I was going to Laracon this year you know there'd only be 19 tickets left. Unfortunately, life has other plans this year!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/06/2025

That's so good 🎉 Thanks!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 20/06/2025

Sorry my cursor is distracting there, I'm talking about the grey text I've added in the screenshot above the controller method.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 18/06/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, With all the awesome work you're doing on route inlay hints. Reckon we could add support for showing the route above controller actions? Would be really handy for quick skimming.

A php class method showing a grey text above it with "GET /customers/send-access-code"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/05/2025

Saw you were trying out the Antlers Toolbox plugin. I still use phpstorm for the php side of things because it's 10x better. Even just basic stuff like automatically updating the namespace when I move a class. But for antlers I switch to vs code because it's great.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/05/2025

Yeah just choose the provider or tag would be great

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 01/05/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com Do you have plans to add doing vendor:publish as an action? Would be wicked to be able to do this without switching to the terminal 💡

Screenshot showing the Laravel vendor:publish artisan command output.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/04/2025

Would ya look at that, our @laravel.com Inertia Data Providers package now has a make:data-provider command and integration with @laravel-idea.com! Check it out and let us know what you think! github.com/webfox/larav...

A screenshot of the Laravel Idea action menu showing a selected item of "Create Inertia Data Provider".

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 09/04/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, would it be possible to add an intention on controller methods to "Create Form Request". All it would do is open the "Create Form Request" dialog like you do from the Code Generation menu, but would automatically add it to the controller method once you hit "OK".

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 31/03/2025

Understandable, yeah - I just checked because I was curious and all Statamic focussed vs code extensions (2) have been downloaded only 20k times combined.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com what's the likelihood of you supporting for@statamic.bsky.social, e.g. antlers syntax and completions? Something like this but for @jetbrains.com products stillat.com/antlers-tool...

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Antlers Toolbox | Stillat

A collection of kickass developer tools for Statamic developers. Tools include syntax highlighters, code completion, validation, formatters, and more!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 23/03/2025

Will double check when I'm back in the office, but it's whatever the latest release is 👍 IDE and plugin fully up to date

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 23/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, Since the latest update I've been getting this a bit. Is this a known issue or something specific to me? I've reported the issue via the IDE.

A warning "Plugin 'Laravel Idea' might be slowing things down"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 22/03/2025

The actual value there (an array of levels) was just a dummy example. It could be anything you might want to implicitly return. Could have been public fn save(): bool => $this->query->persist(); For all the example value matters.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 22/03/2025

Yeah withPivot exists, but right now you have to specify the columns on both sides of the relationship. Pretty easy to miss one when you add a new column. But also if I have a custom pivot model for casts, I want that to be the source of truth for what columns are included.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

I really wish #php would add short methods public function getLevels(): array { return ['low', 'med', 'high']; } could be public fn getLevels(): array => ['low', 'med', 'high'];

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

I wonder if #laravel would accept a PR to allow adding a `getAdditionalPivotColumns` to your custom pivot models. public function getAdditionalPivotColumns(): array { return [ 'level', ]; } It would act the same as calling `->withPivot(['level'])` when creating the relationship.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

Hey neat! @github.com Copilot now has Edits in @jetbrains.com products. Good to see us getting feature parity with @vscode.dev again.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 19/03/2025

Hey @typescriptlang.org and @react.dev people, For native elements is `ComponentProps<'button'>` always the right way to do it? What about for components that don't export their prop types? When wouldn't `ComponentProps<typeof SomeComponent>` work and how would you do it? #typescript #react

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 18/03/2025

I'd argue the attributes *are* the API to remember in this case. Still neat though

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 05/03/2025

O write enough JavaScript now that spreading em just feels good. array_merge feels obsolete somehow, like writing array() instead of just []

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 05/03/2025

You're awesome, thank you heaps. It looks much better now :)

A PHPStorm dialog created by Laravel Idea for creating Webfox's PHP backed enums, with a combobox labeled "Type" with two options "string" and "int"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 04/03/2025

Sounds like you're talking about view transitions? There's a couple of examples here that should get you going, but just know that Firefox is a letdown. developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...

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Smooth transitions with the View Transition API | View Transitions | Chrome for Developers

The View Transition API lets you add transitions between views of a website.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 03/03/2025

We do use ide.json, you can see it in the commit linked above. Help would be awesome, thank you!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/03/2025

Hey @jetbrains.com the completions are pretty sad for something I'd be paying $20NZD/month for... To create the screenshots below I have 3 files open UserTypeEnum, enums.php (current file), and VisibilityTypesEnum @github.com Copilot got it straight away, Meanwhile JB seems to have zero context.

Completion provided by Github Copilot showing the expected result.

Completion provided by Jetbrains Assistant showing a hallucinated result.

Attempting to give Jetbrains Assistant one more go, we've added an extra character and manually invoked the multiline completion. It still completely hallucinates the result.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com , I've added support for generating our enums via github.com/webfox/larav... Can I combine these two with a dropdown for the type (which would also change the 'value' param? Or allow users to add enum mappings directly in the dialog? I expect not but it doesn't hurt to ask!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

From a DX perspective, my favourite thing about Laravel Cloud is the search dialog.

A screenshot of the Laravel Cloud search dialog, showing search results grouped by "Navigation" "Organisations" and "Applications"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

I just thought it was a funny omission given half the Laravel team calls AU home 😆

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

Yep, I got bit by that one too!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

So Laravel Cloud is pretty nice, bit odd not having a Sydney region though. Do you know why this is @driesvints.com?

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Laravel Idea @laravel-idea.com · 13/02/2025

Laravel Idea 10 is out! 🚀 It's probably the most significant update ever!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 12/02/2025

This is killer, nice work!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, Can we do anything with ide.json in our package to add a custom generation to this list? github.com/webfox/larav...

Laravel Idea "Run Action" dialog with the search results for "create"

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Laravel Idea @laravel-idea.com · 10/01/2025

Laravel Idea now is two high-skilled developers working full-time on features we couldn't dreamed about 1-2 years ago. The 10.0 release will blow your mind.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 10/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, At some point I'm going to need to start paying you for a custom support plan 😅 Today's query! Do you think you could make "Related Rows" in the database tools work for pivot columns? E.g. pressing F4 in either of these cells should open the media table with id 4 selected.

A screenshot of a database tool showing two column headers "retainable_type" and "retainable_id". The type column contains a class name of Media. the id column contains the value 4.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 08/01/2025

Also @laravel-idea.com, I'd love an intention here that would create the missing method for me.

A Jetbrains IDE context menu activated from a Laravel route definition with the cursor over the method name.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 07/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, The Run db:seed dialog is a bit weird. It asks for the class and then also the class flag. Also, do you think we could get completion for the seeder class names here? :)

A screenshot of the Run db:seed dialog from Laravel Idea.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 22/12/2024

I got a new vacuum today. I was like a little kid pulling it out of the box and putting it together 😅. The actual vacuuming was unremarkable.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 19/12/2024

Here's the same features by @github.com copilot. It's much more jarring, you get a separate diff window where you can insert the code, or copy it. It's also only works on a single block of code at once rather than being able to suggest multiple isolated blocks.

A screenshot showing the Github Copilot prompt for making ai edits to a file.

A screenshot of the response suggestion provided by github copilot.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 19/12/2024

Hey @jetbrains.com I have a question for you. This UI, are these interface elements specific to the Jetbrains AI plugin, or are they part of the intellij platform and usable by other AI plugins (e.g. if copilot wanted to). I'm just trying to work out why copilot's UX is so bad in PHPStorm.

Image showing the AI refactor suggestion by the Jetbrains AI plugin.

Image showing a prompt "Ask AI to generate code"

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James Hulena @jameshulena.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In New Zealand, we have a yearly fundraiser for LBCNZ, us firefighters climb 51 floors with all our gear. I am asking for anyone of you lovely people to get behind me. Every $1 counts. If you can't donate please share around. Thank you all! firefighterschallenge.org.nz/james-hulena

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Please support my Firefighter Sky Tower Challenge

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 16/12/2024

You'll make @jameshulena.bsky.social a happy dev. I've never seen such a rollercoaster of emotions than the happiness of installing the plug-in and then the despair realising it's not going to work.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 16/12/2024

If you're using Linux then it's not you. The internal version of php-parser is only combined for ARM64 at the moment.

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