In case anyone from the State of Washington was thinking of hiring me, apparently starting in October, I would need to start collecting Sales Tax from any Washington clients. AFAIK this will not affect any clients I have outside of the state, since Washington determines the tax

Redesigning my website. I think I am settled on the hero. Right below this will be an intro video followed by some scrolling client logos right above the fold.

What better way to celebrate the release of Filament 🦒 v4 than installing it onto my own website to power my eventual client portal and custom CRM backend.

There were lots of good talks at Laracon this year, but John Rudolph Drexler's was my favorite for sure. So much actionable advice for communicating with managers (or clients if you're a freelancer like me) and other team members.

Idk who runs their social media account, but this is just funny. Almost as funny as that guy thinking he could outrun all those cops.

I thought at one point Elon Musk was going to release handles taken up by dead accounts. The handle I want was claimed in 2012 but has one (clearly bot) follower and no post history. ☹️

Is it me or is GPT5 a step backwards. It keeps going in circles asking the same questions and getting nowhere before I'd run out of free usage and have to try again several hours later. I just gave up.

With AI, Senior Developers are the new Junior Developers, and Principial Developers are the new Senior Developers. If all you can do is sling code, AI can do that. It might not be good code but neither is a lot of Junior Developer code. To make it in a post-AI era you need to do

Are there any smaller SaaS related podcasts that don't cost an arm and a leg to sponsor?

Any good resources for learning AWS? Free resources always welcome but not opposed to a paid course if it's good quality and in depth.

the vibes are shifting