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Tom Westrick

@wsamoht

An avid cyclist, Owner & Senior Consultant of Media Grid LLC, founder of Cirrus Forecast, Systems Architect, developer in Laravel/PHP, Vue.js, Ionic/Capacitor, and C#/.NET.

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I've been using Mint at least since 2016 on my laptop as my daily driver. Love it! Still a Windows desktop for gaming though sadly.

03.03.2026 03:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - harris21/laravel-fuse: Circuit breaker for Laravel queue jobs Circuit breaker for Laravel queue jobs. Contribute to harris21/laravel-fuse development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just announced Laravel Fuse on stage at Laravel India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ”ฅ A circuit breaker for your Laravel queue jobs. When external services go down, your workers stay protected. Zero data loss, automatic recovery. Itโ€™s open source and itโ€™s live now! github.com/harris21/laravel-fuse

31.01.2026 10:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A simple graphic showing engineering projects before and after using AI. Above, scoping is approximately 10% of the time, coding 80%, and QA 10%. After, the total time is reduced by about half, and scoping is 40%, coding is 20%, and QA is 40%

A simple graphic showing engineering projects before and after using AI. Above, scoping is approximately 10% of the time, coding 80%, and QA 10%. After, the total time is reduced by about half, and scoping is 40%, coding is 20%, and QA is 40%

This image from my blog post earlier this week really seems to be unexpectedly resonating.

With Claude Code, our total project time is way down, but how engineers spend their time is very different. More architecture, more QA, less coding. www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...

23.01.2026 09:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Standard email and password with unique passwords generated from my password manager.

20.11.2025 02:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Testing!

22.08.2025 11:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wonder if there are any stats of usage between the two. Hunch is you might want to do both as there are Options API loyalists out there ๐Ÿ˜…

15.08.2025 14:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Composition! I was also reluctant at first but love it now. Also easier with Typescript ๐Ÿ˜€

15.08.2025 12:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ipv6 support ยท Issue #5 ยท stripe/stripe-reachability Does Stripe intend to support being reachable via ipv6? Currently it looks like api.stripe.com is not accessible over ipv6 root@host:~# dig +short -6 AAAA google.com 2a00:1450:400a:800::200e root@h...

Oops, I totally forgot to check Stripe. They apparently don't support IPv6 which is bizzare - github.com/stripe/strip....

Maybe we need to switch to Laravel Cloud as we'd probably save money ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿคฉ๐ŸŽ‰

06.08.2025 19:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I disagree ๐Ÿ˜… In our case, we have web and worker servers. Our web servers are behind an ELB which has IPv4 but supports a dual-stack so the servers themselves don't need public IPv4. And all of the services our workers connect to support IPv6 so no need for IPv4 there either.

06.08.2025 18:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is it finally gonna support connecting to only IPv6 servers? I'm spending money every month with AWS for public IPv4 just so Forge can connect to them.

06.08.2025 17:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My order of worst to better is Azure, GC, AWS ๐Ÿ˜…

05.08.2025 02:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Laracon 2025 The flagship Laravel conference.

The schedule is over here - laracon.us#schedule

29.07.2025 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Laracon US 2025 - Denver - Day 1 Live Stream
Laracon US 2025 - Denver - Day 1 Live Stream YouTube video by Laravel

Day 1 of Laracon US! Let's go!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eMB...

29.07.2025 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I believe MailGun still does. Even though not listed, last I knew you can downgrade to PAYGO. I had a client do it after MailGun changed their plans. I also still have two accounts with them on PAYGO but they were created prior to the plan changes.

09.07.2025 12:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely! It's cleaner and less code.

24.06.2025 19:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Light! The Solarized Light theme right now is my go to for development.

24.06.2025 19:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - spatie/laravel-queueable-action: Queueable actions in Laravel Queueable actions in Laravel. Contribute to spatie/laravel-queueable-action development by creating an account on GitHub.

I use Spatie's package to turn actions into jobs - github.com/spatie/larav.... I also use `execute` as `handle` is Laravel's function for jobs so it's less confusing.

I haven't fallen in love with `_invoke` yet. Just don't like variables being callable ๐Ÿคท

06.06.2025 11:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good News! The National Weather Service is hiring again, after DOGEโ€™s โ€œbrilliantโ€ decision to lay off essential staff. Apparently, round-the-clock weather alerts donโ€™t send themselves. Who wouldโ€™ve guessed?

02.06.2025 23:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 6589 ๐Ÿ” 1114 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 135 ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

06.05.2025 10:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 11872 ๐Ÿ” 3648 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 681 ๐Ÿ“Œ 518
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Introducing Motion for Vue - Motion Blog Motion finally arrives on Vue, complete with variants, scroll, layout animations, and everything else you love from Framer Motion.

Motion for Vue is finally here!

motion.dev/blog/introd...

21.03.2025 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@gitkraken.com can do this.

12.03.2025 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always! Clearer and helps the IDE auto completion.

04.03.2025 17:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Season 1 was amazing. Can't wait for Season 2!!!

24.02.2025 19:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜… I'm waiting for us-east-1 too as our DB provider is there and not in Ohio.

24.02.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome! Any plans for an RSS feed for the blog?

06.02.2025 14:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice! Being able to hook into an existing ecosystem (like Capacitor) could be beneficial so native plugins don't have to be reinvented. That would definitely give a leg up for adoption.

Keep up the awesome work and I hope the Apple review goes well!

13.01.2025 17:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Laravel + Ionic/Capacitor dev here! This NativePHP idea is cool! Using Livewire would be dope on native. I'm curious what you are thinking for native API integration. Something similar to Capacitor?

13.01.2025 15:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Another +1 for an RSS feed!

13.01.2025 15:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We had two hour delays here in Michigan.

12.01.2025 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok, figured it out. I Followed the podcast and they are showing up now. It must have forced a refresh. Whew....

07.01.2025 00:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0