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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Absolutely. I’ve been at it for 20 years and am filling knowledge gaps on a daily basis with AI. Its not just the “how” either, but the “why” - so I can be an annoying child asking excessive questions again

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Of course! Currently marinating whether the things I’ve done to in-app Notifications today was in fact bad

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Fair enough - I guess the attribute could take an optional name param / set a sensible default? I need to take a look at the source but sounds interesting!

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I’ve never put a lot of thought into routes, just went with file based routing in codeigniter then laravel routing when I moved over. Attribute routing makes a heap of sense; I wouldn’t be surprised if this became optional in laravel at some point. How would you share routes with client-side?

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Very nice trick! Any thoughts on how you’d update an item in a collection / paginated data? Would you map over the collection and replace the updated item?

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’ve run a small team ranging from 2-10 people for over 10 years - currently at 7 full stack devs (including me). Definitely very hard to strike the right balance across skill sets and business requirements. Strong workflow processes and shared responsibility with stakeholders goes a long way.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is smart. Thinking back on tests where I’ve done 3+ ifs on the attributes; assert equals is much cleaner 👌🏻

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Fair point, I haven’t tried the bom app but WillyWeather is pretty good and has push notifications for BoM warnings. Also just discovered ZoomEarth which has some great visualisations and projections

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In about 24 hours I’m going to have a new life experience 💨

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There must be “reasons” why our national meteorology website can’t support https, but every year it becomes a little more comical. Also 0/10 points for mobile responsiveness - fair to say a few people are using a mobile device while a cyclone bears down on us 😬

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Of course this also requires that every date in the db is UTC and the app is writing UTC dates. Basically everything is UTC except for display purposes 🤝

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As long as you are casting to a carbon date you can apply any manipulation you need on the app side… +1 for UTC, I’ve never seen a good use case to keep dates in any other tz.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

yup i'm a bit on the fence as well, love that it is actually possible to do that, but would prefer to have a php class in ./app that can magically wire up to a vue page / component with a composable or something. Also generating types for autocompletion would be amazing.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

AFAIK no, but having a standardised “Laravel backed component” approach would be awesome. Watching with interest what @aaronfrancis.com is about to demo

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

import.meta.glob() takes care of discovering all the possible components (for Inertia people, bear in mind Pages are already registered, so don't put the components there). With the component ready to import, we then simply need to register it with vue. Example use case: user generated templates

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One of those annoying problems i've encountered is how to dynamically load Vue components, but avoiding having to essentially eager load everything upfront. Welp, after a long weekend, 10ish hours 😅, 4,545 browser tabs and dozens of chats with AI, I finally cracked the riddle.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We don’t get any meaningful help from authorities, and hacker capabilities are improving at least as fast as our own. It’s not like the authorities have abandoned us online, they were just never there in the first place. I’m not sure I even want them to catch up, but better firewalls would be 👌🏻

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It’s funny to think how the internet is the Wild West, and as software developers we play cat and mouse with people trying to hack or DDoS our apps pretty much 24/7/365. Sure, some of it is easily blocked, but sometimes it is sophisticated, and blocking whole countries is an ok solution.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I almost never write tests first, but I do introduce them as early as possible and iterate with them. Main reason: manual testing is slow and unreliable. The best time for a test-first approach is when changing something that already exists as you can just write a failing test for the change.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I had the same thought… seems like a giant waste of money for a business we have no relationship with. Maybe they think it will keep regional people away from starlink 🤷‍♂️… good luck with that

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The hardest problem I’ve encountered in livewire is organising complex logic and readily finding where things are happening, especially when state mutates across multiple methods. I just love invokable controllers that do one thing well. I’m sure there are many things I could do better in LW.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you’ve seen the movie Apocalypto, the hero gets the nickname “almost” and I feel like it applies to me 😅 My perception is that I’ve taken a lot of good ideas to 90% completion and sabotaged / jumped on the next shiny thing in the last mile. The mind is way too OP and comparison is brutal 🧘‍♂️

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yeah, it’s much hotter now than then! Currently rocking my summer uniform of shorts and thongs (🩴!) to the office. It does get cool here (Gold Coast) in the winter, like occasionally I wear a jumper AND long pants during the day 😂

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Interesting! I don’t pay much attention to lyrics so assumed it was boys night out or literally dogs on the loose

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I had “who let the dogs dogs out” ranked #1 a couple of years back. Compliments of google speaker and young children

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Not gunna lie, I haven’t heard anything of any of those artists! Apparently I’m still stuck in the 90s rock phase 🤘🏻

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Still not working for me - maybe it is too long ago for the api limits 😅

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I’d be very keen to see the MySQL release. I haven’t tried Aurora serverless but dsql sounds next level. So many options in rds 🤯 I also wonder if it will work with cross-db joins, which is a super practical thing to have in multitenancy (and not possible on the likes of Planet Scale afaik)

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

oops those links are @me github.com/laravel/docs... github.com/laravel/fram...

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

these two: github.com/laravel/fram... github.com/laravel/docs... It just occurred to me; how does it actually match?

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wow that’s so cool that this is possible! Nice work. Unfortunately my small contributions didn’t make the cut, they were not recent (and the only one in the last 12 months was to docs).

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The issue I have with circle pits is that there is always some mofo throwing roundhouse kicks on repeat until they get someone in the face. Mosh pits in general are a lot of fun though

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

Inspired by @justinjackson.ca’s Laravel starter pack, I’ve thrown together one of Australian Laravel folks! Keep in touch with some local people sharing your affinity for the Laravel framework, between Laracons. Missed people? Let me know! go.bsky.app/NNFmHx1

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

TIL that people live stream on IG / TikTok holding up products and saying “this one is 5 bucks”, then someone comments “buy” and then the streamer sends a PayPal link to the buyer. And this actually works and takes market share from established ecommerce sites. Frankly I’m impressed 🤯

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Are you bullish on AI as an assistant to coding in say 10 years time, or do you think it will reduce the developer workforce? I feel it will either be great or terrible for us, not sure which yet 😅

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Annual “holy shit it’s December” moment is currently underway. Equal parts panic (about the various 2023 wip items that I want to tick off) and opportunity (what do I need to fix for 2025 and let’s do that now). In other words, starting a new list before I finish the old list 😂

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’ve tried to come at this problem a few different ways over the years. For me the motivation is to have a skeleton that keeps a diverse range of apps in a somewhat consistent state. Eg. Adding 2FA and it just works. TBH improved tooling has closed most of the gap, and packages can fill the rest.

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is taking the rubber ducky strategy to a whole new level

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Climbed a hill, saw a snake. 10/10 would recommend

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Good article 👍🏻. Can I ask what the specs of the MySQL server are? I’m surprised the first (and ongoing) bottleneck was not the max connections limit

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Steve Thomas @steve-coding.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Strong agree. No need to lecture an advocate like Nuno after they already tagged it.

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