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Stefan Zweifel
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Web Developer (Laravel PHP / TailwindCSS) • Maker of many open source things • Minimalist • Hiking in the alps • 🇨🇭🏳️‍🌈 he/him

Part of the crew organizing Laravel meetups in Switzerland (@laravel.swiss).

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Stefan Zweifel @stefanzweifel.dev · Nov 12
Quick #introduction
I‘m Stefan. I call my self a Full Stack Developer and have been writing code for the last 15 years. Mostly #PHP with #Laravel. Sometimes #vue, #svelte.

Love writing open source packages that solve a particular problem well. I also have a blog on stefanzweifel.dev.
👋
Stefan Zweifel • Full Stack Developer
Hi 👋. I'm a full stack developer creating things on the internet. Welcome to my personal website.
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freek.bsky.social
We just launched Performance Monitoring in Flare! 🚀

Catch errors and performance issues in your Laravel and PHP apps, all from one platform, at no extra cost. Read on why this a big step for Flare 👇
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
stefanzweifel.dev
Love this project by Dennis Koch: A community driven map showing Laravel developers across the world.
laramap.dev/?utm_source=bsky

Already noticed some new Laravel developers how haven't come to one of our meetups yet. 😅
Laramap
Laramap is a community-driven map connecting Laravel artisans worldwide.
laramap.dev
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
whispering into my ring like a fucking Nazgûl
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
stefanzweifel.dev
Currently 2300 meters below the Gotthard mountain rushing through the base tunnel in a train with 160km/h and pushing code to GitHub.

Pretty wild how good Swiss infrastructure is. 😎
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
the most corrupt administration in my lifetime
New York Times article reads: "Mr. Zhao had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and served four months in federal prison, after a yearslong investigation by financial regulators and U.S. prosecutors. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Thursday. “The Biden administration’s war on crypto is over.” The pardon was the latest example of how high-profile business partners of Mr. Trump and his family have benefited from his rollback of the wide-ranging crypto crackdown orchestrated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. To seek the pardon, Mr. Zhao hired lawyers and lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration, while Binance struck a business deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up."
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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laravel.swiss
Time flies — and so do we! The next meetup is just around the corner. We’ll be in Basel at Ascent next Wednesday, October 29th.

Join us for an evening full of talks about PHP and modern web development with @gros.co and @stefanzweifel.dev.
RSVP here:
www.meetup.com/laravel-swit...
October Meetup, Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join us at **Ascent in Basel** for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. **First talk starts at 18:30*
www.meetup.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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aschmelyun.com
I recorded an overview and retrospective on how (and why) I set up a receipt printer to receive anonymous messages.

Here’s how it went!

youtu.be/7KtyekivpRM
I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
YouTube video by Andrew Schmelyun
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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joe.codes
📣 The Laravel Open Source team is hiring!

If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙

apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...
Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Team - Laravel
Calling all Artisans!We're on the lookout for more senior software engineers to join our tight-knit team here at Laravel. If you're someone who thrives on challenges and loves pushing the boundaries o...
apply.workable.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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developer.mozilla.org
📣 Firefox 144 is out!

What's new for developers:
🧩 View Transition API for SPAs
⚙️ New Map/WeakMap methods (getOrInsert)
🧱 Element.moveBefore()
📱 ScreenOrientation.lock()
🕐 Built-in time picker for (🧪exp.)

Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Firefox 144 for developers - Mozilla | MDN
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 144 that affect developers. Firefox 144 was released on October 14, 2025.
developer.mozilla.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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ollie-williams.bsky.social
Firefox now supports view transitions, the command and commandfor HTML attributes, and the moveBefore() method.

www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...
Firefox 144.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
www.firefox.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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tef.bsky.social
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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laravel.swiss
Our second talk from the September meetup is now online.

@xanobius.bsky.social shares some neat tips and tricks for using the built-in HTTP client in PhpStorm. Check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQVH...
Jetbrains Scratches for daily little itches with Philipp Lauwiner
YouTube video by Swiss Laravel Association
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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joe.codes
Curious what it looks like to implement the new Inertia Infinite Scroll component? Have 3 minutes? That's all it takes.

I whipped up a little demo:

youtu.be/gQB6DdPHzSY
Infinite Scrolling with Laravel + Inertia
YouTube video by Laravel
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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laravel.com
This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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burtds.bsky.social
🎮 Built a real-time multiplayer game with Laravel, Livewire & Reverb!

Yes, Laravel can handle real-time gameplay 🚀
Here’s how I did it:
🔗 youtu.be/tm-9ala3Fjw

#Laravel #Livewire #Reverb #PHP
Build a REAL-TIME Multiplayer Game with Laravel, Livewire & Reverb!
YouTube video by Code with Burt
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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laravel.swiss
Join us at @infomaniak.bsky.social in Geneva for the next Laravel Switzerland Meetup!

Talks:
1️⃣ Modern Architectures – Clement Blanco
2️⃣ JetBrains Scratches for daily little itches – Philipp Lauwiner

RSVP 👉 www.meetup.com/laravel-swit...
September Meetup, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Join us in at **Infomaniak** in Geneva for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. ☝️ Infomaniak is spon
www.meetup.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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una.im
How useful is it for you to be able to style select elements?

Is this something you've had to do before?

Would you adopt the native browser API if it shipped cross-browser?
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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neal.fun
I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now!

good luck :)

> neal.fun/not-a-robot/
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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freek.bsky.social
At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it: ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)
This post covers tips and tricks for performance tweaking your SQL queries by first identifying which queries need work.
ohdear.app
September 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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tpetry.me
The State Of Laravel 2025 results are live!

Sadly, this year we didn't reach the same number of participants as last years. So please subscribe to the newsletter to be notified next years.

stateoflaravel.com

1/3
stateoflaravel.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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silvanhagen.com
Here is the tutorial with demo repo on how to build a Laravel Cloud breadcrumb navigation in Filament v4 silvanhagen.com/writing/lara...
Laravel Cloud Navigation in Filament 4
A tutorial on how to build a custom top navigation in Filament 4 that looks similar to the breadcrumb navigation in Laravel Cloud
silvanhagen.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
stefanzweifel.dev
"The Roses" was such a fun movie. Also successfully introduced my partner to Olivia Colman and her wit and humour. 😊

boxd.it/MjnI
The Roses (2025)
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career n...
boxd.it
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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danielwcarlson.bsky.social
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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matthewtrask.com
Ryan Weaver, a Symfony contributor and SymfonyCasts founder/teacher, passed earlier this week after a long and hard fight with a brain tumor. He was a giant in the community ❤️

#php #phpc

obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...
Ryan Weaver Obituary (2025) - Grand Rapids, MI - Grand Rapids Press
View Ryan Weaver's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
obits.mlive.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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gros.co
Tomorrow in Zurich, I'll be talking about technical debt. It'll be mostly a soft talk, focusing on how tech debt impacts team velocity. My thesis is that if we can measure the debt and its impact on productivity, we can get management to be more enthusiastic about paying it down.
August 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM