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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Jeesh chatty G, calm down I know you like me but let's keep things cool

Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Not sure of the function of it (yet), but @laravel.com Forge's "GitHub deployment records" is really cool. Shows recent deployments in the project's github repo. Anyone from the Laravel team can explain its function / why I like this so much? @jbrooks.uk maybe?

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Okay, okay, okayyyyyyy.... I've come around to typescript

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Welp. Today I learned about "click sabotage" in google ads.. if I set a budget of (say) $20 and set a specific keyword, there are bots set up by SEM companies for competitors that will click my ad frantically, blowing my budget early in the day. 1 impression for $14.

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

TIL: Creating a new AWS in the AWS "organisations" system, allows you to create a new org with a root user, but - wait for it - **They don't allow the new user to log into the new AWS org** 🤦

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Any #aws product people floating about here? AWS organisations has _completely_ fudged my account settings up and I need a dig out

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Jeepers LinkedIn - pheromone sprays?

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just seen on LinkedIn: Vibe Coding repair services 😂

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

VueJS - probably late to the party, but the defineModel() for deep reactivity - SO SO SO good. We're slingin' models around like crazy people over here now! 🤠 @vuejs.org

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I’ve just switched mine off for the day :) Nah, the scope was fine; the code I pasted wasn’t what was actually used. I needed to reinterpret the variable using a logical OR prior to passing it to the function, so it wasn’t interpreted as a book. Got it working, but wasted too much time on it 🫠

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It returns index of 0, which is correct - passing the result of the findIndex (0) into a function is where javascript acts like an ass - it interprets it as false

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

FFS javascript const index = myArray.value.findIndex(item => item.name === 'foo'); // returns index 0 ffsJavascript(index); function ffsJavascript(index) { let newObj = myArray.value[index]; // not found, `index` false - ffs javascript }

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

You’re all right. UTC always for the win; always use and convert to UTC before committing. However: pick timestamp over datetime field types when setting up the DB, is what I learned. Your field type choice matters!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

True, agreed - but - inserting a value into a `datetime` field, if another application connects to the DB and attempts to apply timezone offsets to the inserted data based on its own timezone configuration, the offset won't get applied to the datetime fields, only the timestamp fields. Interesting

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hope this helps another dev out there!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Something I learned yesterday: in Laravel (any framework really), if your users are going to be in different time zones, use timestamp() instead of dateTime() in your migrations. dateTime doesn't hold timezone info, and if you use a BI system (eg Metabase), the date-centric fields will misbehave.

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Prediction: WebFlow will be bought by Adobe, and rebranded "Dreamweaver" #iykyk #iamold #veryveryold #webdevelopment #html

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

AWS Console multi-session support! Yes!!!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I managed to lose a wordy issue submission 😭 - note to self, write it in a text editor first!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Ah - thanks Bron! It's usually something I'm doing too - glad it's not me :)

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Anyone having trouble creating issues on GitHub? Hmmmm

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Anyone out there start their programming on either of these two machines? Might be mainly folks based in Europe back in the mid 80s :)

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Having a bit of a rose-tinted look back at my first #programming efforts. Started on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spec...), then moved to an Amstrad CPC-464 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad...) - I think the spectrum was cooler though, the CPC464 was really only used for games.

en.wikipedia.org

Amstrad CPC 464 - Wikipedia

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There's no way AI is coming for devs. I just spent a half hour disagreeing with Chatty G about some sliiiightly incorrect code it generated, and after a few rounds, it completely backtracked. Companies relying on GenAI for code are wading into risky territory #hottake

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Beast Games: Bumfights for the modern age. Change my mind /oldmanshoutingatcloud.gif

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Just installed Inertia JS v2 into a Laravel app - seamless upgrade! Loving prefetching & polling so far #laravel #inertia

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Michael Dyrynda @dyrynda.au · 03/12/2024

Expanded the starter pack to include our Kiwi mates across the Tasman! go.bsky.app/NNFmHx1

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Chatty G admitting there’s not much “Open” going on over there

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today I'm learning about with Laravel's encrypted environments so that we can stay within AWS Lambda limits for Vapor If this were the 1600's, the whole Laravel team would be burned at the stake for this witchcraft. Witchcraft!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Laravel `schedule:work` command is a little bit of gold within the framework - makes local dev work really nicely with how the app would behave in the real world. Love it!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Very cool - does it need the full bluesky url, or just the handle?

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

How good do we have it with 8! Are you looking forward to any 8.4 features?

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Built my first PHP3 website in late 1998 - it was _so terrible_ - plus, we found out afterwards that the organisation that commissioned it (a police website) was a front for the two org leaders to have an affair (!!)

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

PHP8.4 released as we awake in Australia. Wuhu! Hands up who started on PHP3 back in the day? ✋ #php 👋

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

ChatGPT acknowledging that there will be an AI uprising. We’re doomed - doomed!

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 25/10/2024

I’ve just update the Laravel starter pack (with some great suggestions from @cmorrell.com). Lots of good people to follow here: bsky.app/start/did:pl...

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

On the Reddit app on iOS, my mic is switched on every time the in-app browser is activated from a feed post. Very weird. Anyone else seeing this? Have Reddit jumped the tracking shark, now that they’re in cahoots with #google ?? Hmmmmmm. #reddit #mic #tracking #privacy

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Hey! I had heard folks talk about it but I hadn’t seen it for myself - thanks for this Pádraig!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

(I don’t even follow the man)

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

So I’ve pulled back from interacting with Twitter, and this is my notification feed now. Tell me it’s not on its last legs

Twitter feed being only Elon Musk notifications

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Any fellow #php #laravel #vuejs #flutter #golang developers here in the ‘sky? Like this post and I’ll give you a follow, looking to connect with more tech dev folks here. Have a great week!

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Paul Grimes @ok200paul.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I was there in the room! It seems to be install-per-application, but it’s only a matter of time before someone slaps a SAAS together for it 😊. It looks pretty awesome.

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