Andy Hinkle
@andyhinkle.com
Builder of things.
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August Laravel Worldwide Meetup! Join @andyhinkle.com for Keeping Laravel Elegant When Business Gets Messy - tips for writing clean, maintainable Laravel code when deadlines are tight.
📅 Aug 26th, 12PM EDT
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📅 Aug 26th, 12PM EDT
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Laravel Worldwide Meetup
Join the official Laravel meetup in the cloud. Learn from familiar faces and new speakers while chatting with fellow Laravel devs.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
August Laravel Worldwide Meetup! Join @andyhinkle.com for Keeping Laravel Elegant When Business Gets Messy - tips for writing clean, maintainable Laravel code when deadlines are tight.
📅 Aug 26th, 12PM EDT
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📅 Aug 26th, 12PM EDT
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The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started!
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You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months!
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The State of Laravel Survey
This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
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July 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started!
You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months!
Please RT for reach ❤️
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You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months!
Please RT for reach ❤️
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Added this to my prompt as a joke - now it’s standard:
“Write this like Taylor Otwell would. Clean, expressive, elegant - no fluff.”
“Write this like Taylor Otwell would. Clean, expressive, elegant - no fluff.”
July 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Added this to my prompt as a joke - now it’s standard:
“Write this like Taylor Otwell would. Clean, expressive, elegant - no fluff.”
“Write this like Taylor Otwell would. Clean, expressive, elegant - no fluff.”
Just upgraded a site from Laravel 11 to 12 via a Dependabot PR — no code changes, tests all pass, zero issues, smooth as butter. Love these kinds of upgrades.
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just upgraded a site from Laravel 11 to 12 via a Dependabot PR — no code changes, tests all pass, zero issues, smooth as butter. Love these kinds of upgrades.
RIP Around.co 💀 (EoL) Our daily standups always wrapped up with a 5-minute Bomberman battle between the devs—pure chaos and competition.
Anyone have a go-to breakout game with their team as the day starts?
Anyone have a go-to breakout game with their team as the day starts?
March 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
RIP Around.co 💀 (EoL) Our daily standups always wrapped up with a 5-minute Bomberman battle between the devs—pure chaos and competition.
Anyone have a go-to breakout game with their team as the day starts?
Anyone have a go-to breakout game with their team as the day starts?
Found this gem while rescuing an app today
December 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Found this gem while rescuing an app today
Ever used the `stub:publish` command when you only needed a few stubs but ended up publishing all ~50 customizable ones?
I’m working on a PR to address this by adding a selection menu so you can choose exactly which stubs to publish. Would love to hear any feedback!
github.com/laravel/fram...
I’m working on a PR to address this by adding a selection menu so you can choose exactly which stubs to publish. Would love to hear any feedback!
github.com/laravel/fram...
December 4, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Ever used the `stub:publish` command when you only needed a few stubs but ended up publishing all ~50 customizable ones?
I’m working on a PR to address this by adding a selection menu so you can choose exactly which stubs to publish. Would love to hear any feedback!
github.com/laravel/fram...
I’m working on a PR to address this by adding a selection menu so you can choose exactly which stubs to publish. Would love to hear any feedback!
github.com/laravel/fram...
a man of his word.
November 29, 2024 at 6:58 PM
a man of his word.
That’s my kid—already making solid life choices.
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 PM
That’s my kid—already making solid life choices.
Linkin Park's new album is such a banger. Feels like I'm in high school again.
November 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Linkin Park's new album is such a banger. Feels like I'm in high school again.
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TIL you can instantiate a class via constructor property promotion in PHP: travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-cons...
Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion
travisnorthcutt.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:12 PM
TIL you can instantiate a class via constructor property promotion in PHP: travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-cons...
I think about this often 🤔 – it’d be great to see something like this in a future version of PHP—instantiation on property declaration. I get *why* we do this, but the number of constructors I could clean up... 🧹
![<?php
...
// Current
public Carbon startDate;
public function __construct()
{
$this->startDate = new Carbon('2024-01-01');
}
...
// Instead, Would be nice:
public Carbon startDate = new Carbon('2024-01-01');
// or
#[InstantiateOnConstruct]
public Carbon startDate = new Carbon('2024-01-01');](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gadydfm4lvc5zkuqsyewgo2m/bafkreigsgiowbtwjqpgb4vktzqbm733wm3z24ub2k4ijxkt3hsmrk2oq34@jpeg)
November 14, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I think about this often 🤔 – it’d be great to see something like this in a future version of PHP—instantiation on property declaration. I get *why* we do this, but the number of constructors I could clean up... 🧹