Prince John Santillan

Gotta keep up.

alias keepup="
brew upgrade codex &&
brew upgrade claude-code &&
brew upgrade gemini-cli
"

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The illusion of productivity tools is that it buys you more time for yourself. But the truth is it just allows you to do more in the same amount of time of work.

ps: Having more time for yourself is a boundary you choose.

AI may be taking away some of developer jobs today. But I think that’s only temporary while companies try to figure out how to best utilize AI. Once that’s established there will be re-hiring of developers, with an expectation to do MORE!

You know we're living in a new era when you upgrade an app multiple times a day, every day.

#claude

@phpstorm.jetbrains.com it would be cool if I can just ask AI to customize my IDE.

"Please hide vendor and node module folders from all my search", "Please remove the status bar", "Please install Laravel Idea".

🙏 @stitcher.io

AI is a force multiplier. If you have no skill or no experience to multiply then you will not benefit from it. 100 x 0 is 0.

Man, Clawdbot is fun! 🦞

Is it just me or is 16gb no longer enough? 😮‍💨

Programming with AI significantly reduced the times I find myself in a dead end. It's the best time to be a programmer!

When using PHPStan/Larastan, they said start with Level 1 and just work your way up.

I say go high and have Claude fix them. In just an hour our codebase is now at Level 8.

We have 2360 PHP files and 265,891 LoC.

Programming is transitioning away from practicing complex code to practicing clear communication.

Monologue | Effortless voice dictation so you can work 3x faster Write 3x faster with Al voice dictation that gets your intent right. Say it once, see it written as you meant.

Pair programming with AI feels more natural when you're talking to it instead of typing instructions to it.

Monologue is a game changer for me for sure.

This post in itself is something I just spoke, not typed.

www.monologue.to?ref=VDGPRGG

Help Filipinos rebuild after Typhoon Tino | PHPxCebu

Families in the Philippines lost everything when Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) struck on Nov 4, 2025.

Let’s help them rebuild. 🕊️

💙 Donate to provide food, shelter, and medicine:
👉 phpxcebu.betterworld.org/campaigns/help-filipinos-rebuild-after-typhoon-tino

#TyphoonTino #ReliefPH #BetterWorld #PHPxCebu

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GitHub - princejohnsantillan/weave: An elegant and easy way to format strings and stubs. An elegant and easy way to format strings and stubs. - princejohnsantillan/weave

In the spirit of Hacktoberfest I created a mini package for myself. Feel free to give it a try and give me your thoughts. 💪🏼

#laravel #php #hacktoberfest

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TIL: You can namespace constants in PHP. 🤯

#php #laravel

Building Up the Laravel Community in the Philippines Prince John Santillan found his footing with Laravel, connected at Laracon Australia, and launched the PHPxCebu meetup.

Thanks, Laravel! Honored to be today’s Artisan! Laravel for life!

#laravel

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Even as I grow older, my goal is to keep a 9 to 5:

- Sleep from 9PM to 5AM
- Eat only from 9AM to 5PM

I got Nightwatch to work on our Vapor setup. It will require a separate EC2 that’s on the same network. Then just set the NIGHTATCH_INGEST_URI env to the EC2 private IP, and make the agent listen on the same IP. 😎

#laravel #nightwatch

Setup was super easy! Super cool!

Laravel Nightwatch 😎

Confidence is a product of seeing yourself produce output.

False confidence - you accomplished what others expected from you.

True confidence - you accomplished what you said you were going to do, being a man of your word, a man of integrity.

I wish autoscaling is part of @laravel.com Forge's big update.

After years of being a #laravel developer. I finally got my Lambo!

Liam Inbound Email Services

heyliam.dev

I built myself my own Inbound Email Service. Now I can make my own read-only or inbound-only mailboxes.

A few cases I use it for:
- Email to web hook automation (useful with n8n)
- Newsletter subscriptions
- Mailbox for notification

We must ship, they say.
Scratch your own itch, they say.
You can just do things, they say.
Build your own software, they say.

So I did, I scratched, I built, and I shipped.
It's fun and satisfying. 👇🏼

#laravel

On the 50th day of the year, these precious girls were born. Girls that will bring new beginnings to our growing family, and new beginnings to whatever they put their hands to in the coming years.

Ohhh would have loved to see this demoed on the video too. But super thanks for the video @christophrumpel.bsky.social ! It was super duper useful!