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— Robin Layfield, Cotswolds-based freelance PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter & WordPress developer. I spend my time cutting code into tiny bits.

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I got 9/10 on the Laravel Senior Developer practice exams. Maybe I should do the full thing.

certificationforlaravel.com

20.10.2025 12:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

29.09.2025 06:22 👍 6687 🔁 2624 💬 610 📌 354
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Jakob Engel-Schmidt told the Guardian: “In the bill we agree & are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI.”

26.08.2025 12:05 👍 114 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 6
In the seeing-stone's dark glass, billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel's gaze replaces Sauron's
— Palantir, a corporate eye that hoards your every secret, dissects it, and forges it into chains of power.

(source: https://molieresloge.substack.com/p/the-digital-cage )

In the seeing-stone's dark glass, billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel's gaze replaces Sauron's — Palantir, a corporate eye that hoards your every secret, dissects it, and forges it into chains of power. (source: https://molieresloge.substack.com/p/the-digital-cage )

Broligarchs promise revolution—but deliver chains. When so many #Palantir employees walk away and say this, listen closely:

“Big Tech, including Palantir, is increasingly complicit, normalizing #authoritarianism under the guise of a ‘revolution’ led by oligarchs. We must #resist.”

26.08.2025 14:06 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism The media industry is betting its future on artificial intelligence, going as far as to start replacing journalists with the tech in an effort to keep costs down. The result of these efforts so far has been nothing short of abysmal. We've come across countless examples of publications resorting to publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating journalists and their unions, highlighting the tech's glaring and persistent shortcomings. Widespread hallucinations are infecting large swathes of our online lives, from hilariously terrible Google search results and brainrot gambling content in newspapers, to entire AI slop farms that blatantly rip off real journalists' work. […]

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

24.08.2025 23:35 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3

Alpha male LOL

25.08.2025 00:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Star Trek / Mr Spock: LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Star Trek / Mr Spock: LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Wealth ≠ money. It’s control of real resources. If the ultra-rich own all the land, energy, and tools, then you—and your government—own nothing. Without ownership, you can’t feed, house, heal, or create. Ownership isn’t just power—it’s survival.

#WealthTax #Limitarianism #Economy #RBE #EndOligarchy

25.08.2025 17:54 👍 32 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0

Very interested in your experience with the Fairphoine.

My S21 Ultra is still going strong, though I just took off the protective case and am surprised to find that it's smooth and slippery as hell. It keeps sliding off surfaces when I put it down.

26.08.2025 09:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Printmakers are inspiring artists!

01.06.2025 09:58 👍 468 🔁 47 💬 0 📌 1
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

09.04.2025 06:33 👍 91072 🔁 28402 💬 885 📌 1329
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GitHub - NativePHP/laravel: Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework. Contribute to NativePHP/laravel development by creating an account on GitHub.

Native PHP v1. is here! 🚀

github.com/NativePHP/la...

09.04.2025 04:15 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

08.04.2025 00:03 👍 31371 🔁 8766 💬 258 📌 466

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

07.04.2025 15:41 👍 39094 🔁 5981 💬 532 📌 248

It's what Truss and Kwarteng attempted to do over here.

04.03.2025 19:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

America. We told you. It's happening.

#Trump #recession #inflation #wealthpump #tariffs #tradewar #QE #oligarchy #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #PeterThiel #NRx #MAGA

04.03.2025 19:05 👍 222 🔁 126 💬 23 📌 5

A billion is stolen time—obscene hoarding of wealth that could end poverty, cure plagues, save the planet isn’t success—it’s violent theft. Money is power, stripped from collective dignity. Billionaires aren’t geniuses—they’re sickness, parasites gorging on stolen time. Abolish this cruelty. Wake up

03.03.2025 02:34 👍 244 🔁 137 💬 12 📌 0
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

02.02.2025 17:33 👍 46728 🔁 19489 💬 1247 📌 1829
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👇👇👇👇

03.02.2025 03:28 👍 37910 🔁 11653 💬 1165 📌 525
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GitHub - tombonez/noTunes: A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching. A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching. - tombonez/noTunes

Gah! Getting increasingly frustrated with MacOs launching the Music app whenever I put my headphones on for a meeting.

What a relief to find NoTunes that can be installed using HomeBrew and stops this invasive Dark Pattern in its tracks.

github.com/tombonez/noT...

03.02.2025 09:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

29.01.2025 20:53 👍 67084 🔁 27499 💬 1216 📌 1882
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I'm utterly bewitched by the MacOS Sequoia screensaver.i just find myself watching it visualising moving under giant redwood trees. It's bloofy gorgeous

29.01.2025 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have been literally trying to find a way to do this for years

28.01.2025 10:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Altering Post Title in the ACF "Post Object" Field Working on a WordPress project gives the the opportunity to tinker and learn.  On a project I completed recently, we used a few custom fields, courtesy of Advanced Custom Fields PRO.  Although I loath...

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If you have ever used the POST selector in Advanced Custom Fields on a large site and been frustrated by seeing a list of posts with the same title in the drop down, then this very handy scriptlet from Dream-Encode is for you

dream-encode.com/altering-pos...

28.01.2025 10:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's a good time to be the best CMS now that Matt Mullenweg is turning #WordPress into a dumpster fire by trying to become a #TechBro

It's nice to have options

15.01.2025 17:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Solution to Giant Killer Cars Is Really, Really Simple It’s not cars that are more sophisticated.

Carmakers, meanwhile, claim that there’s no reason to worry about harms from oversized cars b/c new tech will prevent crashes entirely.

In Slate, I called bullshit.

The only way to eliminate car bloat’s harms: Stop building needlessly gigantic vehicles.

slate.com/business/202...

28.12.2024 12:38 👍 207 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 5
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Image Cropper This is a Laravel 11+, Nova5+, PHP 8.4 compliant update of Clément Tissier's original nova advanced image field that allows Nova editors to upload and crop an image in any format.

I've had a productive Christmas break, upgrading the Nova Advanced Image field to be #Laravel11 #Nova5 #PHP8.4 compliant.

It's the first time I have released a composer package so it's been an amazing experience going through the process. Here's to many more 🥂

novapackages.com/packages/ult...

27.12.2024 07:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Laravel 11 / Nova 5 / Ignition 2 is gorgeous. So slick. Feels like it's poised with so much power and it's ready to roar!

20.12.2024 01:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LARAVEL NOVA & HERD GOTCHA
— I've just spent around 2 hours trying to work out why my large file transfers to Digital Ocean from a fresh Laravel 11 / Nova 5 instance were intermittently failing —

Turns out that I hadn't configured the Max File Upload Size to be greater than 2mb.

#laravel #herd

20.12.2024 01:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I've build an Unified Dashboard for #Laravel Apps.

As an independent developer, my main concern is to ensure that all the projects I manage are functioning correctly, for both my clients and my side projects.

17.12.2024 09:29 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Downloaded & Installed ✊

17.12.2024 09:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0