Tim Van Dijck

Resolving merge conflicts is my favourite thing to handoff to an AI agent.

It’s almost there!

I had a really productive day. Some nice things that I have been working on:
- New Mailcoach version with support for Livewire 4 ✉️
- New version for laravel-site-search with an Sqlite driver! 👀

Going to Japan in May, I can learn Japanes before I leave... right?

It was cheaper than going to Laracon EU 😂

Tickets ✅ ✈️

Were you already on Opus 4.6? That seems to have been a nice jump, but sadly also in token usage...

Release the unredacted snippet!

We are planning to go to Laravel Live Japan with a couple of the Spatie guys and it's honestly really exciting. First time in Asia! 🇯🇵

Looks really good 👌

The thing I appreciate most about Claude is his enthousiasm. If Claude was a human he would have said to me to bugger off a 1000x times.

Introducing Ray 3.0 After months of beta releases and getting great feedback from our testers (seriously, thank you!), we're launching Ray 3.0 today.

We've just launched the latest version of Ray, the best dump debugger for Laravel, PHP, JS and more. It's faster, more polished, and packed with great new features. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, read more about our new release on the link below.

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That's actually a good idea, I'm going to do more walks next week.

I wonder if AI will increase burnout rates in a couple of months. I love how powerfull AI makes me, but I also feel like it makes me go faster than my brain is used to. Either that feeling will go away and we get used to it, or it's going to quietly burn a lot of people out.

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...

Memoisation in Laravel Using the "once" Helper In this article, we'll discuss how to use the "once" helper in Laravel to memoise data. We'll also look at how the "once" helper works with Laravel Octane applications and alternative approaches you c...

Memoisation in Laravel Using the "once" Helper 🚀

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Thanks, I'll look into it!

Sadly for me muting is not enough, I go looking for it myself and I end up spiraling.
I'm going to look into apps that can hard lock social media between certain hours.

I had a terrible night of sleep. I spend way too long doomscrolling X and Reddit about the Greenland stuff. It's probably time to distance myself again from those platforms, but it's really hard when they also provide value I rather not miss.

There’s really no numbers that indicate a decline. These people think they see the first signs of a decline, nothing more.

We’ve launched Filament v5 and Filament Blueprint today! 🤖

Filament v5 adds support for the newly-released Livewire v4!

Blueprint is a premium Laravel Boost extension that gives AI agents deep, structured knowledge of Filament, so they can write detailed implementation plans.

Products like Hootsuites can aggregate all interactions across platform. I would expect that now they have dedicated marketing people they already use some of those tools for X.

Blessing in disguise, X is ran (and it's algorithms tuned by the demands of) a man who openly threw a nazi salute on stage at a US political event, has helped undermine democratic process with his money, and recently has allowed his Grok AI bot to create child abuse images, and wouldn't stop until nation-level governments threatened bans and action that would hit it's bottom line. Most people who refuse to move to other places like Bluesky have used the excuse that they would lose their community, but I notice a heavy group of those people who give that excuse have a paid X account, and are therefore making money from engagement, so are likely not wanting to lose their income, however small. I get that leaving X would be seen as a 'political' move by Laravel's team, therefore they're unlikely to do it as a statement piece, but I think if enough people leave X and go to other platforms, engagement and audience numbers will drop to a place where it's natural to move to those other platforms or find better ways to engage with the community. You don't, or shouldn't, have to be 'political' to see that X is a heinous platform. It saddens me massively as well, I was on the original Twitter "back in the day", I met loads of devs there, i got my first job there. Such a shame.

Said my piece on X in the Laravel subreddit, I really hope we can start migrating away as a community and it was so good to see so MANY people calling it out for what it is already in the comments.

Yeah totally agree, I get why they don't delete their accounts, but with current social media tooling it's trivial to add their presence on Bluesky and other platforms.

It's really sad Laravel doesn't give about X being run by the baddies. Some of the employees are here, but no main account or Taylor. There isn't even any post-mirroring (which should be super easy for them to do).

As long as the big accounts of the community don't migrate, others won't either.

Yeah it's tempting to compare yourself to the people on Youtube who do this for a living.
I try to not compare myself too much and just enjoy the process, I find it very relaxing and it's fun to have something that doesn't involve a screen.

You have some nice painited mini's in there 🙌

If there's one thing I hope AI prompting teaches people is that just saying "it doens't work" is worthless.

I love snow, but todays commute was a bit rough 😅

At this point I'm starting to think the Avatar franchise is a huge money laundering scheme.