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James Allen

@jamesdallen.me

130 followers 364 following 364 posts

Christian, Husband, Father, Full stack Laravel developer

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 24/09/2026

This is some grade A phishing/trolling. Got this message from "Sendgrid"

A message from "Sendgrid" saying they are going to put a "Support Clavicular" message at the bottom of all your messages

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 02/08/2026

Dinner is served

A perfectly can shaped hunk of refried beans in a saucepan

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 29/07/2026

uhhh- nevermind

Add Claude?
It can:
Access the page debugger backend
Read and change all your data on all websites
Display notifications
Manage your downloads
Communicate with cooperating native applications
View and manage your tab groups

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 14/07/2026

I’ve got a new prompt I’m testing out

A post-it with the phrase- “Do the work perfectly. NO MISTAKES”

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 19/05/2026

It’s a little hard to see but it looks like we are going to have a good crop of utensils this year

Plastic forks and knives surrounding a plant for some reason

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 14/05/2026

Coding in 2026 (kind of joking)

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 28/04/2026

This made me chuckle on downdetector

Message from Clifford: "OMG I need Claude to remember how to breath... do I inhale or exhale???? Please restore Claude now before we all expire!!!!"

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 14/04/2026

I’ve heard of a raven, but what does it mean when I have a finch that’s gently rapping at my patio door?

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 27/02/2026

I think I might be going insane

A picture of a chat window with chatgpt where it says, “So your assumption was mostly right, just slightly simplified” I responded, “Well your response was largely the same but over complicated so we’ll call it even” “Fair enough…” was the response

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 25/01/2026

It snowed

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 20/01/2026

This right here sums up my frustrations with AI coding perfectly

My response: "you made that up didn't you?"
AI response: "Ha! You caught me. Yes, I did. I apologize for that - I shouldn't have made up the..."

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 29/11/2025

We asked my son to circle a couple things he might like for Christmas in the Amazon book we got. Looks like he got concerned we might go with Barbie’s this year

A page from the catalogue which has Barbie products is mostly crossed out

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 18/11/2025

Me thinking- maybe I’ll just bypass cloudflare by switching the dns temporarily

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 27/07/2025

TIL you can nest backticks that are inside a js expression like this

a formatTicket function with a Ticket tuple. The important bit is this line-

return `#${id ? id : ""} ${comment}${label ? ` [${label}]` : ''}`;

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 21/07/2025

Can we just make these the rules for riding as a passenger in general? 😅

Pamphlet that says: riding as your teen’s passenger- when riding do not hit the imaginary brake, make scared sounds or jerking motions or express road rage at other vehicles

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 08/07/2025

Its been one of those days

a git commit history from bottom to top- move up the page, merge pull request, update redirect, try old school approach, merge pull request, chat gippidy don't let me down, merge pull request

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 12/05/2025

I let my kids play around with my old computer earlier today and they accidentally drew an anarchy symbol

Microsoft paint with a red and green drawing that looks a bit like the anarchy symbol

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 06/05/2025

Everything is fine

$derp = (array) $this->activeSitemap;
$blerp = array_pop($derp);
dd(array_pop($blerp));

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 26/04/2025

ChatGPT is weirdly playful today... creeping me out

Would you want me to show you an even fancier version where you register production seeders automatically based on environment?
(So you never even have to think about it.) 🚀
It's a trick I use on bigger projects.

You said:
show me the fancy version

ChatGPT said:
Alright — you're going to love this.

This is how you can make Laravel automatically seed the right data based on the environment.
No thinking, no mistakes, no fake data leaking into production. 😎

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 19/03/2025

Man the extended warranty guys are really getting shady- this is one they sent me today. Is this even legal?

A fake check from an extended warranty place

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 16/03/2025

Vim problems

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 01/03/2025

Who asked you anyway?

Duo lingo French lesson says je crois que vous buvez trop de cafe- which translates to I think that you drink too much coffee

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 25/02/2025

playing around with the new laravel starter kits and I didn't believe that shadcn was installed at first- it definitely is though!

a shadcn switch, button and generic You're logged in message side by side demonstrating shadcn in the new laravel starter kits

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 11/02/2025

Man you find some weird stuff while digging into the docs- I had no idea you could track click locations on an image from php

When submitting a form it is possible to use an image instead of the standard submit button with a tag like <input type=“image” src=“image.png” /> when a user clicks somewhere on the image, the accompanying form will be transmitted to the server with 2 additional variables, sub_x and sub_y. These contain the coordinates of the user clicks within the image.

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 09/02/2025

Wow this is pretty cursed-

A screenshot of a comment on the php variable variables documentation where it says you even add more dollar signs and proceeds to do it many times

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 27/01/2025

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 24/01/2025

Uh oh- I'm apparently a robot folks. Do you think it happened while I was sleeping?

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 22/01/2025

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 17/01/2025

Just realized you can do this $el.scrollIntoView() trick in alpinejs

within @error blade - you can set an x-init="$el.scrollIntoView()" to get autoscroll to your error message as soon as it appears on page

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 08/01/2025

I still got it

A completely flawless snow angel minus the flaws

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 06/01/2025

What it feels like attempting to do productive things when severance season 2 is just a couple weeks away

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas everyone!

Laravel + mongodb socks make a good Christmas combo

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 19/12/2024

I did it! You're welcome

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James Allen @jamesdallen.me · 08/12/2024

Set this up in about 20 min. Its a custom ViewComponent called ExampleComponent with tailwind styling and its own little preview

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