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Dan Matthews

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Laravel developer. Building charity software over at @socialsync.io.

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Buzzfeed lists are back!

07.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Charlie sheen in fisheye, from the movie Hot Shots, maybe i have walleye vision?

Charlie sheen in fisheye, from the movie Hot Shots, maybe i have walleye vision?

New glasses day.

07.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Second one.

06.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Evangelical leaders pray over the orange shit daemon.

Evangelical leaders pray over the orange shit daemon.

Separation of church and state πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

06.03.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A list of current world leaders that all claim to be "backed by god" - just different gods.

A list of current world leaders that all claim to be "backed by god" - just different gods.

06.03.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone said to me "landlords have costs too".

They own TWO (extra) houses (that we know about) worth Β£165k+ on top of their own home. They could sell them and never have to worry for the rest of their lives...

05.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Insane. We live in the North of England, so things are generally cheaper here, and I know some of my southern friends would kill to have our rent / house prices, but average rent has increased by Β£300 in the past 3 years here, i dread to think what it's like for those further south.

05.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Should i just eat less avocado toast (I don't like avocado) and live on beans or noodles for a year and a half?

You should be able to live, save, and own your own home without Β£10k+ from your parents, it shouldn't be this much of a pipe dream.

05.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any houses less than Β£100k are bought by landlords or property management firms making buying a "starter" home impossible.

All the new build houses are 3+4 bed houses that START at Β£250k (which would be a minimum 17.5k deposit for a 95% mortgage.

Council houses have huge waiting lists.

05.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't even know how to complain, how to stop it.

Landlord wants more money, using renters rights act to get it. Moving management of the property to a company, which in turn costs more, which is passed onto us.

Once people buy houses they don't care about renters anymore as they're sorted.

05.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We have just had our rent increased by 25% in one go.

That's Β£200+ less that we can save each month for a house deposit.

We're paying someone else's bills and i'm tired of it.

I'm so angry.

The only viable way to purchase a house in this country is with your parents' money.

05.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Feeling like shit today, so curled up on the sofa with the first season of Scrubs and a blanket, forgot how good the music was.

04.03.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, but nobody's talking about the Pedo-files anymore.

04.03.2026 10:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, also reminds me of the start of the new Robocop film where they deign AI too autonomous and decide to put a "human" into the system instead.

03.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The US, known for friendly fire incidents, decided to make it even easier to cause friendly fire incidents.

03.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would make it easier to get seed funding.

03.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LOTS of nice updates in Inertia V3 incoming. We're going to have to accelerate moving off Svelte v4 now!

The built in Http client is nice, we wrote our own so it'll be nice to phase that out in favour of something that has so much stuff built in.

03.03.2026 09:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just got "the" email that our landlord is looking to put a rent up as a result of the new renter's rights act. A local housing group has gouged their local tenants with Β£200 increases, not sure how the hell i'm supposed to just "swallow" an increase that big.

02.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

02.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 369 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 13

Yeah, it's a crap situation.

02.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Big up to Laravel for having a sign interpreter at Laracon EU.

02.03.2026 09:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So DO something you useless nitwits.

02.03.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shabana Mahmood to announce asylum system changes to take effect From Monday, asylum seekers granted refugee status in the UK will be offered only temporary protection.

"We're going to bomb the shit out of the middle east again, so to alleviate the problem we help create, we'll be making refugee status temporary."

Unbelievable.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

02.03.2026 08:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best take on the whole situation I’ve heard so far.

02.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries."

"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries."

Absolute level 7 capitalist gobshite stuff.

Also the joke of thinking that America is not essentially autocratic right now is hilarious.

27.02.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Ron!

26.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

25.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

25.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 9075 πŸ” 1758 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 62

😍

(kinda looks like my pupper)

25.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Promoted to CTO. Let's go.

25.02.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0