Meet Taylor Otwell — from solo dev to creator of Laravel, the beloved #PHP framework. When he created Laravel in 2011, it wasn't meant to become a massive #opensource community - he simply needed better tools for his own projects. For a decade, he bootstrapped Laravel while

Marcus Milione I remember the amazing feeling of having our first 10 customers. Which was around $30/month in revenue total.

is there no way to pick an account during oauth 2.0 for the x api? currently it just defaults to a random account even if i’m logged into multiple. anyone figured this out?

Except Burger King?

Aayush Desai Z Fellows Patrick Collison did not originate the quote "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." He shared it on X in May 2020, explicitly attributing it to Nat Friedman. Multiple sources, including blogs and articles, confirm Nat Friedman as the likely source, though the exact

📉 Rails makes it easy to ignore how often your app talks to the database—but each query has a cost. This post walks through how to measure, cut, and optimize the queries. #Rails andyatkinson.com/tip-track-sql-…

When PMs hear someone making a request directly to their devs instead of going through them

so much of coding is basically building state machines

“I didn’t intend to start a startup, I tried to get a job at Netscape, but nobody responded. So I decided to just start writing software myself and see where it goes” -Elon Musk origin story

Crazy case: a guy came to the U.S. illegally in the early 2000s, was accused of child SA, and then stole someone's identity to obtain: -A Florida ID -An SSA card -A Florida voter registration card (and voted in federal elections) -A CCW permit (and bought a gun) -A passport

🚨 AI Mode data is now officially in Google Search Console: Google has added an AI Mode section to their Google Search Console documentation, describing how the data is shown 👇 * Clicking a link to an external page in AI Mode counts as a click. * Standard impression rules

ai mode data is now officially in google search console support.google.com/webmasters/ans…

playwright is powering a bunch of these ai browsers and scrapers...another cool microsoft open source project that people are layering on top of…

my 3rd PR for goose, add xAI as a provider and Grok models: github.com/block/goose/pu…

Does anyone remember in 2021 when you could get literally anything delivered to your apartment in under 15 minutes and VCs paid for it? I miss those days.

Austin Rief ☕️ Today, that's AI inference.

5D chess move by Sam Altman - He said none of their best ppl take the offer. If you take it, seen as not top talent anyway - Zuck might not even be offering 100M but now this becomes the market price - Everyone else at Meta feels envious