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@gal.jakic.dev
Product & Project Manager @ Acenta.
3x Paralympian.
Founder @ We Wow Web.
Blogging at https://gal.jakic.dev/
Dad to an awesome human being called Leo.
Recently, I've been playing with the idea of porting @laravel.com's Eloquent ORM to the Javascript ecosystem.

Probably spent way too many side-hustle hours on this one, but we made it to the "Houston, we have a rough prototype" phase.

It makes @svelte.dev's remote functions shine even brighter! 😎
October 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I can neither confirm nor deny that every time I make a task-list-like form in an app, I test it with Adele lyrics. 😅
August 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Had some twists and turns in the past few weeks.

Time to go back to the lesson I learned in my Para Alpine Skiing days: when it doesn’t work, go back.

In ski racing, that meant no skiing through gates, just freeskiing, making turns and finding the joy in everything being simple again. (1/3)
August 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I haven’t figured out how to reset form fields from @svelte.dev remote function call (within form) after submit.

Currently running this Frankenstein approach, where I don’t specify the withOverrides(), but it seems redundant, since it’s verbose & doesn’t utilize the optimistic update. 🤔

(1/2)
July 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@opravicujemo.se indoktrinacija 10-letnika se začne… ZDAJ!
June 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I may have created the ugliest app in the World today, but it’s the internal beauty of it that’s important.

Probably the highlight of my week. 🫶🏻
June 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Won’t be able to make it to Barcelona this year, but as a wheelchair user and @svelte.dev community member - knowing that the venue is fully wheelchair accessible (without digging around for info) is hugely important.

Congrats to @rich-harris.dev and Svelte Team pushing #a11y online and offline. ✌🏻
April 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Decided today is a perfect day to write some non-job-related code and learn some @svelte.dev CRUD with @cloudflare.social D1 in the process.

Very WIP at the moment…
March 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Started off the day filling in at the livestream commentator post for the IBU Para Biathlon World Championship 2025 in Pokljuka, Slovenia… That’s my I barely know what I’m doing face from the booth.

Brilliant experience, thanks again for the opportunity! 💚
February 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I hate waking up early in general, but rarely will the name of my least favorite alarm ring more true than tomorrow… 😫
January 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
January 3rd. Smart home setup and crappy access to home router gets you a good selfie sometime… 🙃
January 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Playing with local LLMs has funny side-effects sometimes... like #Ollama not being aware of what Ollama is. 🫣
December 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Asked two LLMs - Gemini Advanced & Claude - to help me write some boilerplate text, explaining #Laravel to a non-developer/non-technical client.

We've officially reached the stage of LLMs reading & copying other LLMs while trying to convince humans how vastly different they are from one another. 🫠
December 13, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Attended the Slovenian #Laravel Meetup, hosted by @agiledrop.bsky.social a few weeks back.

As always, super welcoming crowd, fun talks and great time hanging out with php artisans. 🫶🏻

Also, wheelchair always guarantees a front row seat in the group photo, whether you’re a speaker or not. 🤓
December 11, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Without a doubt, my aspirations for ever calling myself a software developer again would have stalled without a supportive group of people that always find time to help out - my Bestest People.

🙌🏻 @ales.reepolee.com & a bunch of other people who are yet to find their way to blue(r) skies here 🦋…
December 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Been waiting for a perfect project to come along, that absolutely warrants the use of event sourcing in #Laravel, using Verbs by @cmorrell.com and @coulb.com...

... and reading this, I think the Universe has delivered.
December 6, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Hello, I’m Låg, a tall pitcher for your refreshing beverages.
November 29, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Asked an LLM to make a joke about Laravel and got this back...

... perhaps LLMs are not context aware, but we should talk about boundaries.
November 22, 2024 at 3:11 PM
How is this one?
November 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Glad the Verbs docs recognize this to a degree and I don't feel like I'm the only one to dumb to nail this right of the bat. 🫠

verbs.thunk.dev/docs/referen...
November 18, 2024 at 7:18 PM
My 2nd Macbook, a Late 2013 model also known as logos, just received a new battery, got upgraded to macOS Monterey via OpenCore Legacy Patcher and is becoming the first computer of my 9 year old son.

Waiting on late night OS upgrades sure bring back memories of computer era that is no more. 🥹❤️
November 11, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Every time @ianlandsman.com and Aaron Francis reference The Godfather on The Mostly Technical podcast, I want to make this joke… finally found the font to do it. 🫣
November 1, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Tomorrow, my wife is taking me to IKEA to look for a table…

… it’s basically a database admin joke.
November 1, 2024 at 9:21 PM
This meme by @mrpunyapal.bsky.social made me laugh super duper hard… ❤️
October 30, 2024 at 10:01 PM