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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 12/10/2025

Better pics of the jig itself. Just clamped a speed square as a stop block lol

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 12/10/2025

Working on a growth chart for my wife’s bday, made out of white oak. I made a jig from random scraps to get straight consistent lines with my router. Making jigs is one of the most satisfying parts of woodworking

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 21/09/2025

Great find at the lumber yard today 😍 figured sapele for a great price. I don’t have a project in mind, what should I make with it? I might make a serving board for my sister for Christmas but would still have 2/3 of the board left

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 02/09/2025

honestly a relief that even tailwind hasn't totally figured out dealing with 419s in inertia 😂

tailwindcss.com showing a 419 Page Expired error

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 31/07/2025

NFL Network digging into some important topics this morning

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 29/07/2025

One of Atlanta’s own on stage at Laracon! Go Thiery 💪🏼 @thierylaverdure.com

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 29/07/2025

Great turnout at the @mostlytechnical.com waitlist party tonight! @ianlandsman.com

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 11/07/2025

So tonight I discovered I can directly access route model bindings inside a FormRequest, but it feels sort of icky since the FormRequest doesn't necessarily *know* it's being called from a route that has the model bound. what do you do in this situation? 🤔

class UpdateBucketRequest extends FormRequest
{
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*/
public function authorize(): bool
{
return Auth::user()->can('view', $this->bucket);
}
}

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 29/06/2025

This is the first time I've ever seen a captcha that required me to click every square

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 24/06/2025

@ianlandsman.com small feedback, it felt off to sign up at outro.fm and receive “Sign up for Userscape” in the email with no mentions of Outro or Mostly Technical anywhere

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 20/06/2025

omg I didn’t know this was an iOS setting

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 05/06/2025

Flew to Greece last night 🇬🇷 first flight since I got these earbuds which let you plug the case into a headphone jack for an instant wireless connection. So I can watch the built in screen with noise cancelling earbuds. Such a great idea

A hand holding an ear buds case, plugged into the headphone jack under the built-in screen on a delta flight

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 31/05/2025

I haven't dabbled too much with MCP yet, but mcpilot.ai from bradenkeith@x made it super easy to set up and play with. Curious how I can use this in my day to day life, programming and otherwise. Also ⭐632 on Github noice

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/05/2025

4 base cabinets mostly done, need to measure out 2 of the back panels to extend outlets from the wall where they are going

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/05/2025

Lots of careful clamping to make sure these pocket holes aren’t walking all over the place

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/05/2025

The most satisfying part of building a cabinet and it’s not even close

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/05/2025

Project living room builtins is moving along!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 08/05/2025

5 years today since my wife and I got married in my parents backyard (think about the date lol) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ I can’t imagine life without her

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 20/03/2025

Custom functions are now supported! 🎉 existing hammerspoon users will love this. you can now integrate any custom logic you want with Hammerflow, using the function: prefix in your toml config

screenshot of code to use custom functions with hammerflow

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/03/2025

all I want for christmas is for Zen browser to leave the sidebar collapsed when I close/open/switch tabs

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 16/02/2025

Our oven was spewing gas every time we used it so we had to replace it. We decided to take the plunge and go with induction. It’s good! Definitely an adjustment at first, still figuring out scrambled eggs haha

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 16/02/2025

Over the past few days I've been cooking up an *awesome* productivity set up for MacOS. Full video coming on YouTube soon, but any guesses based on this? 👀

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 08/02/2025

To add a function hello_sam to PHP, I created a hello_sam extension in the ext folder. I used AI to help me out with writing the actual extension and which commands to run to build it, just to see it work. And it does!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 08/02/2025

And just like that we've got home grown PHP

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 08/02/2025

Unfortunate, but hey looking and feeling dumb is part of learning 🤷‍♂️

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 05/02/2025

You already have it! It’s called a Labeler in Bluesky I’m pretty sure. Somebody made this laravel contributer labeler, but you have to subscribe to it to see the badge

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 04/01/2025

Can anyone offer some Laravel Livewire advice? I've only used Inertia but looking into Livewire because of how cool Flux is. Is this the best way to send data down to the frontend for client-side iteration? It feels a bit clunky to send a stringified JSON object but maybe this is typical?

An example code snippet using Laravel's `Js::from` helper to stringify data in Livewire and send it down to the client for Alpine to iterate through.

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 28/12/2024

I found my game boy advance SP at my parents house 😱

Game boy advance SP on a table next to a bag full of game boy games

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 16/12/2024

Sanding is just part of woodworking and nobody likes it. but every now and then a project comes along that reminds you why you hate sanding 😅 *especially* hand sanding. My fingers hurt

Wooden salad tongs made from cherry, on a workbench next to tools and sandpaper used for hand sanding. Sawdust is all over the workbench.

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 25/11/2024

I tried these white drywall screws I've had laying around for a while for the side of the bracket that is not in a stud. A quick sharpie fix had them blending in with the bracket and the other screws 🚀

A shelf mounted using a bracket with one white screw that is barely visible above the edge of the shelf

The mounting bracket without the shelf, showing the white screw now colored black with a sharpie to match the bracket

The shelf is placed back on the bracket, and the white screw now appears black where it just peeks over the shelf thanks to the sharpie

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 25/11/2024

Happy with the results! I hope the HDR photo works on bluesky because it's wayyyy more color accurate for how the shelves look IRL. I'm guessing it won't though unfortunately. They pop a lot more in real life than the SDR photo 🤷‍♂️

Two walnut floating shelves, mounted on the wall in a kitchen

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 19/11/2024

Sanded and finished 🤤🤤🤤 love walnut

Two freshly finished walnut floating shelves left to dry on a workbench

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

Double success! Still not pushing all the way in yet. Next step is round over and finishing the shelves 🖌️

Two floating shelves, mounted one above the other in the kitchen

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

A laser level is a must have for these kinds of jobs

Laser lines showing where to drill to mount a shelf

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

Success! Not pushing it all the way into the wall yet cause I still need to finish the shelves

A walnut floating shelf on the wall in the kitchen

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

Let's hope my holes are straight 😅😅

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

Back to work on the shelves! Wife picked a bit thinner and to leave them square for now so no bevel. Less work for me 🤪 Using my new doweling jig to drill straight for the hardware to go into

A doweling jig clamped to the edge of an in progress shelf

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/11/2024

Pantries/closets (any room you wouldn't close the door while inside), light on when the door is open, off when closed. Simple but nice!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 15/11/2024

Hey David, good start! I've got a bit of an overflow issue on mobile

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 09/11/2024

Testing the new version for squish 👀

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 09/11/2024

Looks like this was fixed woo!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 02/11/2024

Thoughts on cutting a bevel like this into these shelves? It may make it a bit more interesting. I wouldn't round the corners as much as this pic but would do a similar profile

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 02/11/2024

Two shelf boards ready to go! Haven't cut them to length yet but have 4 square sides 🎉 have to decide the final length and also decide if we're going to leave them at this thickness - 1 13/16". I like beefy shelves but I think my wife will say a tiny bit thinner 😁

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 02/11/2024

The before and after of cleaning up lumber is so satisfying

A piece of walnut that has been cleaned up on a planer sled

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 02/11/2024

Milling up some walnut for a couple kitchen floating shelves!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 01/11/2024

I've been using a glove80 for a while, it's a nice keyboard! My first time with a keywell and ortholinear so it took me a good like 3 weeks to feel productive with it but now I like it a lot!

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 24/10/2024

Check out the OnlyPosts feed for a super clean timeline 🧼

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 19/09/2024

the hardest part of making a video is deciding which color I like the best for the thumbnail

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Sam Lewis @saml.dev · 17/09/2024

Wow I really snuck in before a huge uptick in blue sky users lol only joined a month ago but apparently 4 million others have joined since then

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