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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/09/2026

Really feeling the conference FOMO this week, so I bought a ticket for Rocky Mountain Ruby conf! 🎉 Can't wait to meet more people in the Ruby community!

Confirmation of a ticket for Rocky Mountain Ruby conf.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/05/2026

We were blessed on this lovely Star Wars day

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/05/2026

Me watching my AI agents cook 🧑‍🍳

Leah, a woman with brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling as she watches Francesco talk. She looks perpetually confused but supportive.

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Richard @choir241.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Spent some quality time with @leaht.codes in NYC ☺️ Delicious Malaysian food, Italian sweets, and some bookstore browsing ☺️🙌

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 11/01/2026

Happy Sunday! Going to a football watch party today. Do you think they'll notice if I read a programming book the whole time?

Leah, a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while wearing a Jags beanie and sweater. Behind her is a packed bookshelf.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 10/01/2026

Ok I'm really enjoying working through “How to Prove It” so far 📝 I didn't realize just how much I missed solving math problems and taking notes

“How to Prove It” third edition is opened up on top of a pink blanket. To the right of it is a notebook with math notes written out.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 10/01/2026

Because I need more math in my life

A “How to Prove It” third edition textbook is sitting on a wooden table on top of a 5-subject notebook. On top of the textbook is a pack of BIC mechanical pencils.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 09/01/2026

I finally caved and ordered a calculus textbook for fun

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 09/01/2026

Another year and I'm still trying to finish Designing Data Intensive Applications 😅

Leah is holding up a copy of the book Designing Data Intensive Applications, which is opened to page 171.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 08/01/2026

Happy Thursday! Started the day off with a stream and now I'm pumped for the rest of the day and week 🔥

Leah, a woman with brown, wavy hair and blue eyes, is smiling while holding a white monster. Behind her is a Christmas tree and a bookshelf full of books.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 08/01/2026

I'll be going live on the @laravel.com channels today (1/8) at 12 PM ET with @zuzana-k.com from Larabelles! We’ll talk about the origin story of Larabelles and what it’s all about Hit “Notify me” to get an alert when we go live! www.youtube.com/live/gtt5Xx5...

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The Larabelles Story | ft. Zuzana & Leah

YouTube video by Laravel

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 08/01/2026

So excited for this!! Join us on Friday at 1 PM ET to learn more about the new version of Laravel Wayfinder ✨

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 05/01/2026

Update: I made it up to module 4 out of 15 for the Udemy course! There's hope yet that I'll finish it before the end of the year

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 05/01/2026

Happy Sunday! I started working through a Udemy course that I bought back in 2024. Will 2026 finally be the year that I complete my first Udemy course? 😂

Leah, a woman with long, wavy, brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while standing in front of a standing desk with an ultra-wide monitor.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 03/01/2026

The spoils from my bookstore outing earlier! I'm in the mood for thriller books again, so let me know if you have any recs! Or just general book recs 🫶

A large iced cinnamon roll latte from 7brew is sitting on a granite countertop to the left of a stack of four books. The four books are (top to bottom): All the Missing Girls, The Lonely Hearts Book Club, Funny Story, and The Possessions.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 01/01/2026

First blog post of the year is live! It’s an in-depth retro of my 2025. A year that was filled with many wins, but also many life-altering moments. It’s hard sharing struggles on social media, but I really leaned into vulnerability in my post. I hope it resonates ♥️ tinyurl.com/38mzdh2y

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 06/12/2025

We launched Laravel Wrapped today! I had so much fun working on this project. It was a huge effort by the whole team and I'm proud of what we accomplished ✨ Make sure to check out and share your Wrapped if you got one (check your email)!

Laravel Wrapped personalized OG card showing off that I shipped 133 times on Cloud this year, had a deployment streak of 5 days, 1.1K nightwatch events, and was in the top 15% percentile

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Laravel @laravel.com · 05/12/2025

We must ship. In 2025, Artisans around the world did exactly that. Laravel Wrapped is here with the story of what we shipped together in a historic year for the ecosystem. wrapped.laravel.com

wrapped.laravel.com

2025 Laravel Wrapped

Laravel Wrapped highlights the contributions of our global Artisan community and everything they shipped.

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Laravel @laravel.com · 26/11/2025

14M requests. 50,000 sites. 1 engineer. @ghost.org chose Laravel Cloud to run their new site directory, Ghost Explore, with zero infra management. See how Ghost's founder @johnonolan.bsky.social runs a production app without a big ops team: laravel.com/blog/14m-req...

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14M Requests, 1 Engineer: How Ghost Runs a 50,000-Site Directory on Laravel Cloud - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

Ghost uses Laravel Cloud to power Ghost Explore, a 50,000-site directory with 14M monthly requests, enabling a single engineer to run production infrastructure.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 22/11/2025

Updated Inertia site shipped this week! And it is 🧼

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 20/11/2025

It’s a good day to use Laravel ✨

Leah, a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while sitting at her desk. Behind her is an ultra-wide monitor open to the Laravel starter kits website. Leah is also wearing a Laravel shirt.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 19/11/2025

Women only want one thing for Christmas

A hand is holding a copy of O’Reilly’s Designing Data-Intensive Applications book in front of a Christmas tree

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 19/11/2025

We're 11 months into the year and I'm crushing most of my annual goals, but I still haven't finished a single technical book....

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 18/11/2025

Happy Tuesday! I'm back in my natural habitat (with a monster in hand) and ready to ship 🚀

Leah, a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while holding a white ultra white monster.

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Christoph Rumpel @christophrumpel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If you like to see us cover more "advanced" topics on the Laravel YouTube channel, what would they be?

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 18/11/2025

From math teacher to DevRel ✨ I had so much fun being on the Laravel podcast and sharing my journey. Make sure to listen to the episode! Links: share.transistor.fm/e/50090fe4 and youtu.be/cHnIeDwb9IE?...

Leah, a woman with brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while standing in a geometry classroom.

Leah, a woman with brown hair in a braid and blue eyes, is standing on a stage giving a talk at a conference.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 31/10/2025

POV you have a meeting with me but it’s Halloween 🎃 👻

Leah, a woman with brown hair and blue eyes, is dressed in a ranch dressing costume while on Google Meet

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Jamaal B ☕️ @jamaalbro21.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Excellent talk at #CYC25 by @leaht.codes on the advantages of using Inertia.js #100Devs🔥

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Mai | Software Engineer @maiproject218.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

@leaht.codes teaching us the simplicity of InertiaJS #CYC25

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 20/09/2025

Locked in last night, now today I'm locking out 😮‍💨

Leah, a woman with blue eyes and long brown hair, is smiling towards the camera while wearing a Laravel bomber jacket.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 17/09/2025

We launched Laravel Learn! 🎉 On /learn, you can find a Laravel Bootcamp mini course and a PHP fundamentals mini course We worked super hard on this and I'm excited for everyone to try it out 🫶

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 10/09/2025

On today’s episode of LeahTBakes, we have a loaf of chocolate chip bread 🍞✨

A chocolate chip loaf of bread sitting on parchment paper while it cools.

A chocolate chip loaf of bread sitting on top of parchment paper while cooling down

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 06/09/2025

Inside of me are two dogs: One who wants to work on side projects all weekend, and one who doesn't want to touch my laptop at all

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/09/2025

I DID IT! First loaf is a success 🎉

Leah, a woman with brown hair in a bun and blue eyes, is holding up a loaf of bread which is a nice golden brown while beaming.

A golden brown loaf of bread sitting atop brown parchment paper

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Harris Raftopoulos @harrisrafto.eu · 23/08/2025

I’m truly honored to be featured as Laravel’s Artisan of the Day 🎉 I love creating content to help others grow with Laravel, from articles and newsletters to short tips and long form educational videos.

blog.laravel.com

Crafting Code and the Community: Harris Raftopoulos

Read what Harris is building as a Laravel developer, writing as a staff member of Laravel News, and how he's helping organize Laravel Community events.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 19/08/2025

Headed to Denmark! Do you think people can tell that I use PHP? 🐘

Leah, a woman with reddish brown hair in a braid and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera while wearing a PHP hat and sitting in an airport.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 16/08/2025

Happy Saturday from me and all of my Ikea goodies ☀️

Leah, a woman with brown hair slicked back in a bun and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera while sitting in the front seat of a car. Behind her, in the backseat, is a basket full of items from Ikea and a painting.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 10/08/2025

Happy Saturday! Started out the day by going to a state park and then finished by stopping at a bookstore 📚

Red rock formations in a Colorado state park

Leah, a woman with reddish/brown hair and blue eyes, is wearing an orange tank top and a blue skirt while standing on a dirt path in-between a grass field. In the background are red rock formations and mountains.

4 books sitting on top of a white bookshelf. The 4 books being (top to bottom): Dream on Ramona Riley, Looking for group, Audrey Lane stirs the pot, and Everything for you

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 09/08/2025

Not as pretty as my cone from the other day, but the ice cream of the day is chocolate peanut butter + Oreos Buying an ice cream maker was a great decision 😂

A bowl of chocolate peanut butter ice cream with Oreos mixed in and sprinkles on top

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 08/08/2025

How I'm working today 🍃 The left monitor is all business and the right monitor is in mountain mode

Two monitors are sitting on a standing desk. The left monitor has a PHPx event pulled up on the screen, while the right monitor has a picture of mountains displayed on the screen.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 05/08/2025

Went to Target for ONE thing and somehow left with an ice cream maker 😅

A ninja swirl ice cream machine sitting in a Target cart

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Ben Holmen @benholmen.com · 04/08/2025

I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?) Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!

Art on a wooden display called a Kilopixel - pixel art by Matt Stauffer

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/08/2025

Happy Monday! I caught up on some sleep over the weekend, and now I'm ready to ship things 🚀

Leah, a woman with wavy reddish/brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera while holding a strawberry shortcake mug full of coffee

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 04/08/2025

Laracon US kicked off the second half of my speaker tour🔥 August: speaking at Laravel Live Denmark in Copenhagen September: speaking at Commit Your Code in Plano, Texas November: speaking at Laracon Australia in Brisbane If you see me at any of these, make sure to say hi!

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 03/08/2025

Getting through the post-Laracon crash by touching some grass 🍃 And repping @laracon.au while doing it

Leah, a woman with reddish/brown hair in a ponytail and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera. Behind her is an open field and further back are the Rocky Mountains. Leah is wearing a pink hat that says “Laracon AU Brisbane ‘24” on it.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 03/08/2025

The amount of swag/merch that I brought home from Laracon is next level

A ton of merch and swag from Laracon that includes stuff from Laravel and other companies like Sentry and Tighten. The merch is spread out on a granite countertop.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 02/08/2025

And just like that, Laracon US 2025 is a wrap ✨ I had such an amazing time and am so thankful to be a part of this insanely talented team. And beyond honored to be one of this year’s speakers! Laravel forever ♥️ #laraconus

Leah Thompson, a woman with reddish brown hair and blue eyes, is standing on the stage at Laracon US 2025 giving a talk.

A group photo of the Laravel team wearing red shirts and posing on the stage smiling.

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✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes · 01/08/2025

One of my favorite things to do is to introduce my friends to the wonderful @laravel.com community I'm so thankful for this community and how much it’s changed my life, and I’ll always try to share it with anyone I can ♥️

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