Joey McKenzie

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but plain ol’ Blade is more than sufficient for 95% of use cases.

code reviewing AI code is not half as fun as writing code.

Mood after eight solid hours of React today

It's like Office Space, but AWS

Now that I’m on a team that uses Linear, I will do anything and everything in my power to never have to go back to using Jira.

TMED;DR

Too many em dashes; didn’t read

I’m sorry to everyone that has been an em dash enjoyer before the age of AI. I find myself instantly nope’ ing out of emails that are littered with them nowadays.

It only took three years, but I think I’m finally accepting the fact that I love neovim (btw).

I feel the urge to compile PHP from source. I have no idea why, but the C code... it calls to me.

I want "Father, Husband, and loved Laravel Forge" etched on my headstone when I'm no longer on this earth.

Still not sure if the JS Andy's talking about server rending like it's some new groundbreaking technique on every other podcast I listen to is real or not.

MySQL, a man of taste I see…

GitHub - JoeyMckenzie/artisense: 📕 Laravel docs from the comfort of your terminal. 📕 Laravel docs from the comfort of your terminal. Contribute to JoeyMckenzie/artisense development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sometimes I build things and I have no idea why. So, here’s an alternative to the docs artisan command that no one asked for.

Full-text search Laravel docs right in your terminal!

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Feels like the new “this microservice could have been a SQL query” is “this AI startup could have been a ChatGPT prompt”

MAN, it’s tough out here trying to convince companies to let me build things in Laravel for them.

Someone on Reddit said profession software development is like being asked to solve a puzzle you’ve never seen before and being asked how long it’s gonna take, and if don’t solve it time, there’s a nuke that’s going to be launched.

We got Laravel/TypeScript RPC before GTA 6.

Vibe coding with Cursor on a Laravel project recently, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. The codegen is nice to get a feature off the ground.

The tradeoff is watching it spin its wheels when I ask it to write Pest tests that also cover mutations. Seems to just code itself into circles.

This is mostly a frustration of mine around the hiring process. Coming from .NET, it’s not difficult to pick up Laravel.

The difficulty mostly lies in trying to convince potential employers you can build things with it when coming from a non-Laravel background.

The draw for me is the community and the DX. After nearly a decade in .NET, it feels like a deterrent to teams that are seemingly looking for framework experts rather than generalists.

There’s probably a bit I could do to help my case, but it definitely feels like an uphill battle at the moment.

Holy smokes. Trying to transition into Laravel from a non-Laravel background is the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to do career-wise.

Git hook libraries hate him. Find out how he removes dependencies from projects with this one simple trick!

.git/hooks/pre-commit:

#!/bin/sh

set -x

composer run fix

GitHub - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan: PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan

Nobody asked for this, yet here we are. Godspeed, young package. 🫡

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I always think I've outgrown pop punk only to spend an entire Sunday doing yard work and listening to Four Year Strong and Neck Deep on repeat.

Example of nasastan phpstan plugin

Hollup... let me cook. Six rules down, four to go. 😤

GitHub - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan: PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan

Halfway there. Two thoughts keep coming to mind as I write this package:

1. Why am I doing this
2. How does NASA live like this

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Man… it’s a tough job market out there for .NET-to-Laravel dudes like myself.

I think it’s time to start streaming again. Feels like rebranding might be the way forward.

Huh… so implementing NASA rules in PHP is a little harder than I thought.

GitHub - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan: PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten in your PHP code. - JoeyMckenzie/nasastan

I can’t tell if this is the worst or second worst idea I’ve ever had. I’m leaning towards the former. Let’s find out.

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New life goal achieved:

✅ Get a PR merged by Mr. Laravel himself