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Christian, Husband, Father, Full stack Laravel developer
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TIL you can nest backticks that are inside a js expression like this
a formatTicket function with a Ticket tuple. The important bit is this line- return `#${id ? id : ""} ${comment}${label ? ` [${label}]` : ''}`;
July 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Can we just make these the rules for riding as a passenger in general? 😅
Pamphlet that says: riding as your teen’s passenger- when riding do not hit the imaginary brake, make scared sounds or jerking motions or express road rage at other vehicles
July 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Its been one of those days
a git commit history from bottom to top- move up the page, merge pull request, update redirect, try old school approach, merge pull request, chat gippidy don't let me down, merge pull request
July 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I let my kids play around with my old computer earlier today and they accidentally drew an anarchy symbol
Microsoft paint with a red and green drawing that looks a bit like the anarchy symbol
May 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Everything is fine
$derp = (array) $this->activeSitemap; $blerp = array_pop($derp); dd(array_pop($blerp));
May 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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ChatGPT is weirdly playful today... creeping me out
Would you want me to show you an even fancier version where you register production seeders automatically based on environment? (So you never even have to think about it.) 🚀 It's a trick I use on bigger projects. You said: show me the fancy version ChatGPT said: Alright — you're going to love this. This is how you can make Laravel automatically seed the right data based on the environment. No thinking, no mistakes, no fake data leaking into production. 😎
April 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Man the extended warranty guys are really getting shady- this is one they sent me today. Is this even legal?
A fake check from an extended warranty place
March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Vim problems
A list of files with one called :q.php
March 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Who asked you anyway?
Duo lingo French lesson says je crois que vous buvez trop de cafe- which translates to I think that you drink too much coffee
March 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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playing around with the new laravel starter kits and I didn't believe that shadcn was installed at first- it definitely is though!
a shadcn switch, button and generic You're logged in message side by side demonstrating shadcn in the new laravel starter kits
February 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Man you find some weird stuff while digging into the docs- I had no idea you could track click locations on an image from php
When submitting a form it is possible to use an image instead of the standard submit button with a tag like <input type=“image” src=“image.png” /> when a user clicks somewhere on the image, the accompanying form will be transmitted to the server with 2 additional variables, sub_x and sub_y. These contain the coordinates of the user clicks within the image.
February 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Wow this is pretty cursed-
A screenshot of a comment on the php variable variables documentation where it says you even add more dollar signs and proceeds to do it many times
February 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Disappointed man meme
January 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Uh oh- I'm apparently a robot folks. Do you think it happened while I was sleeping?
January 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
January 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Just realized you can do this $el.scrollIntoView() trick in alpinejs
within @error blade - you can set an x-init="$el.scrollIntoView()" to get autoscroll to your error message as soon as it appears on page
January 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I still got it
A completely flawless snow angel minus the flaws
January 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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What it feels like attempting to do productive things when severance season 2 is just a couple weeks away
Severance music and dance experience
January 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Laravel + mongodb socks make a good Christmas combo
December 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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I did it! You're welcome
December 19, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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Set this up in about 20 min. Its a custom ViewComponent called ExampleComponent with tailwind styling and its own little preview
December 8, 2024 at 8:09 PM