iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 13/09/2026

Turns out replying on Twitter, talking to people, and keeping conversations going is my way out of this lead-hunting rut. Apparently clients don't find you by staring at your own portfolio.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 08/09/2026

I see AI's potential. I also care deeply about the creativity it quietly had for breakfast. How we use it matters.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 06/09/2026

Mixing a record and shipping a feature share the same trap: the last 5% eats the most time and nobody hears it but you. At some point you print the master. Clients feel the difference between finished and fiddled with.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 12/08/2026

Good old DHH, he knows how to make me feel great about AI. Meanwhile X keeps kindly informing me my career ended last Tuesday. world.hey.com/dhh/endless-execution…

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 11/08/2026

Hoping this plus my new daily workout gives me the energy to succeed (day two of the workout, so far the energy has gone entirely into the workout) @levelsio

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 10/08/2026

Building something real ALWAYS takes longer than you think! We all have "that client" in our head - the one who wants it fast, cheap, and perfect. The reality: the systems that actually serve organisations well don't come from shortcuts.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 09/08/2026

That old system you've written off as impossible to use? It might be, but I bet the underlying data and resources could be pulled into a futuristic, reliable web application.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 06/08/2026

Are you still coding manually? I am. (Yes, with these two vintage hands.) Can you actually enjoy just watching agents do it for you? I don't. It feels like watching someone else eat my lunch. OK, sometimes its fun to be helped. But I can't let go of coding completely!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 05/08/2026

Finding the right software solution is still one of the most draining parts of running a growing organisation - especially when you've outgrown what you started with. Here are a few tools and approaches I point people toward, including Bespoke Portals, that can genuinely help.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 05/08/2026

A few glimpses of a site I designed and built last year for a Nursery. Soft as a nap-time blanket, warm as afternoon light, a small space where little ones can grow. Did I hit the brief?

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 28/07/2026

I used to think clients who wanted to "own their data" were being overly cautious. I was wrong. They were right. So much of what we hand to third-party platforms is completely out of our control.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 27/07/2026

People think a project is "done" when it goes live but personally I think a project is done when someone logs in six months later and realizes they've forgotten what the old system even felt like 🎉

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 08/07/2026

I built an app last year which pushed me to become an even better developer. The scale was like nothing I'd built before. Read the case study below! youi.design/work/eccles-...

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 02/04/2025

Just set up a Laravel Cloud application for the first time! Laravel + Postgres + Inertia + Vue JS After a few tiny tweaks to my codebase, I'm up and running! The experience using laravel cloud is awesome!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 21/03/2025

I've spent the morning polishing our website 💅🏼 We are using consistent illustrations thorughout now. Updates to our 'work' area, as well as cleaning up of various small details. Go check it out! youi.design

Landing page for You I Limited website. Tagline reads 'Crafting websites and apps for growing businesses'

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 13/03/2025

Laravel Scout search has a database driver option (as opposed to using Algolia / MeiliSearch), to simply search using DB text indexes. It's fast. It's probably all you need for many projects! laravel.com/docs/12.x/sc...

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Laravel Scout - Laravel 12.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 13/03/2025

Shout out to @shadcn @vuejs.org shadcn-vue www.shadcn-vue.com/docs/compone... This has made my current project a dream to work on. I've built my own component libraries in the past, on nearly every project I've worked on. That time has passed. This is the way ™️

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Tags Input - shadcn/vue

Tag inputs render tags inside an input, followed by an actual text input.

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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 15/02/2025

I feel like I have two batteries in me. When I code, it charges the social battery. And when I do social, it charges my coding battery. Got to swap them periodically to hold up the efficiency.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 12/02/2025

Having a great experience using @spatie.be 's 'laravel-data' package to auto generate typescript types. After a little setting up, my Inertia Vue front end has full type knowledge of my models including pagination types etc.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 08/02/2025

AHH that feeling of starting a new laravel project. 50+ tables planned in the database. Excited for the chance to have all templating in Vue thanks to Inertia. First step, plan all the schema!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 11/12/2024

I built this site last week for a co-working space in Birmingham, UK. thejointworks.com I was handed the design by Substrakt, a web agency also based in Birmingham... props to the designer Serlina for such a cool bold look! Built with @nuxt.com and @tailwindcss.com

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 22/11/2024

Hey! If you need someone to properly handle your website project hit me up! I've been doing this for 14+ years and know what it takes to complete and finish a project to go live!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 20/11/2024

Looks like there is a good way to develop mobile apps using Nuxt! 😀

capacitor, capacitor plugins and ionic - combine with Nuxt JS to make mobile apps!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 18/11/2024

Now it's even easier to start a Statamic site in a few clicks.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 15/11/2024

Every day I want to go film a video of myself talking about my business. But my business always seems to take first place and the video gets pushed to one side! Next week I'm making it happen! 📹

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 14/11/2024

Woah! Best new laravel feature discovery came to me today, from Povilas Korop: the `fluent()` or `data_get()` helpers to access properties inside objects / arrays where you might not know the type of the data and just want to `use.dot.notation` to get to some nested property.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 13/11/2024

Hey everybody! I'm a full stack Laravel / TS / Vue developer! Currently working on some video content to promote my tiny web agency. Here's a sneak peek of the picture I have achieved so far with my camera setup...

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 08/11/2024

Friday afternoon fun, made a 404 page for my website. #timetowinddown

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 07/11/2024

Really feeling that the final 10% of the project takes as long as the first 90%. The last bit is always the toughest, especially on slightly larger-sized projects? #thefinishline

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 07/11/2024

Great slide deck about exploration, deep understanding and becoming an expert in a topic: noti.st/stephenhay/n...

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I don’t care what Airbnb is doing. (And neither should you.) by Stephen Hay

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 05/11/2024

ASCII Make your own: fun.joe.codes/ascii-photob...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 30/10/2024

In my past life as a Monitor sound engineer I worked with some amazing acts and travelled all over the world. Here are some highlights: 1. Staying at Francis Ford Coppola's personal estate and eating dinner with him and his family. They were so friendly. A very surreal couple of days.

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 29/10/2024

I just purchased Laravel Herd Pro... And oh man having XDebug ready to go on all my projects in a few clicks is amazing! So many cool features too! Mail... Dumps... Forge integration... Yikes I'm loving it!

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Adam Menczykowski @youi.design · 24/10/2024

I just inherited a medium sized Laravel codebase. Reading someone else's code is like entering their mind. Kind of interesting!

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