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UltraSimplified

@ultrasimplified.com

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— Robin Layfield, Cotswolds-based freelance PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter & WordPress developer. I spend my time cutting code into tiny bits.

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 01/10/2026

I just created a new visual mode to go alongside Light / Dark & System: Goblin mode Dark mode but tinted green, reminiscent of the Matrix, old high contrast computer screens and honestly I feel like I've just come home and walked through the front door. Love it #GoblinMode

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 20/10/2025

I got 9/10 on the Laravel Senior Developer practice exams. Maybe I should do the full thing. certificationforlaravel.com

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 29/01/2025

I'm utterly bewitched by the MacOS Sequoia screensaver.i just find myself watching it visualising moving under giant redwood trees. It's bloofy gorgeous

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 20/12/2024

LARAVEL NOVA & HERD GOTCHA — I've just spent around 2 hours trying to work out why my large file transfers to Digital Ocean from a fresh Laravel 11 / Nova 5 instance were intermittently failing — Turns out that I hadn't configured the Max File Upload Size to be greater than 2mb. #laravel #herd

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 03/12/2024

It's just great!

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 03/12/2024

Astro installation is so straightforward astro.build/blog/astro-5/

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 29/11/2024

My favourite #PHPStorm plugin is Nyan Progress Bar by Dmitry Batkovich. It's so simple, yet it brings joy to me every time I use it. plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8575-... #Laravel #Development #Environment #PHP

A progress bar coloured as a rainbow with a Nyan Cat flying backwards and forwards along it. Nyan cat is a cute grey cat with a pink pop tart for a body and pink blushing cheeks.

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 23/11/2024

It's an absolute gift to be working on this beautiful project that captures the art, music, literature, culture and spirit of the place where I live. #Laravel #Inertia

A snapshot of a website showing an archive of magazines with beautiful, colourful artworks from local artists. From left to right: A mystical smole raven shadow behind a woman; a black man wearing an ornate silver mask; an elaborate piece of signwriting that reads: hundreds of acres of fresh air should belong to us all; a 50s style illustration of a woman vacuuming the cosmos; a deadlocked woman in a long white dress decorated with green snake like print steps out of the water onto a beach; an ornate dragonfly illustration on a background of green - the dragonfly has iridescent wings and a human face, below it is a bouquet of daffodils.

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 21/11/2024

The James Lind Library ================= I was commissioned to build this site by the JLL and partners, to help document the history of evidence-based research from 500 BCE to the present day. James Lind pioneered using controlled trials to help develop a treatment for scurvy amongst sailors.

The James Lind Library website has many areas to explore, from an interactive timeline of 2,500 years of medical trials to deep dives into fair tests, biases, the play of chance and what we do to help patients. The image shown divides the screen between the timeline these four sections. Each section has a picture of a pioneering figure. The timeline snapshot shows vintage photographs and illustrations of medical reseach professionals (all men, all bearded, all looking very sombre in monochrome).

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 20/11/2024

GET-IT GLOSSARY ============== A Laravel site I built for DECIDE, Informed Health Choices and Testing Treatments Interactive to provide easy to understand definitions of common research terms (eg. false positive)

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UltraSimplified @ultrasimplified.com · 20/11/2024

I love this gitreceipt.vercel.app

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