Okay, after much thinking and chatting with a few folks, I'm going to be starting a new podcast to talk about this stuff in depth. x.com/jackmcdade/sta… I think it's the best format overall – easy for folks to consume at leisure, episodes don't have to be evergreen or

I am obsessed with Mintlify and believe in amplifying incredible works of software engineering. They have everything you can think of. I was thinking about how to document two different kind of proxies and, boom, I can get tabs working in seconds vs coding it myself.

TIL the PHP AWS Composer package includes *all* of the AWS SDK out of the box... ...but they have included a way to delete the stuff you don't want after-the-fact github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ph…

I've been using OpenAI, Gemini, & Groq directly in my bill splitting web app for AI related actions (using Prism PHP), with my own API keys, but I'm thinking about using OpenRouter but I'm not fully convinced yet... anyone have great success stories moving to OpenRouter?

If you’re building AI Agents, it’s super important to figure out the optimal use-cases that maximize what agents are good vs. what they’re not ready for *yet*. There are so many categories of work that AI Agents can help automate or augment. Choosing the right ones that can

Yes it does, a basic but well optimized VPS can handle 10,000 requests per second That's more than most need Also I agree with this, it's basic engineering knowledge to be able to operate your own server, even if you go back to PaaS after I'm noticing it's becoming a blind

Lots of conversation on what the future of software looks like in the enterprise. Here’s how I think it plays out. For deterministic workflows where the cost of getting something wrong is high, enterprises will have a tendency to pick core platforms for their most common,

👋 AI coding example prompt from my real work today: "let's add declare strict types to the top of all files missing it, run phpstan and fix until it's happy then give me a summary" This project doesn't have pint or rector atm, and while it's doing that I work on other things 👌

Top product designers often have huge egos - they're often somewhat introverted and don't pound their chests, but if you get the white wine going it's clear they think they're the shit. So it's very telling when they unanimously declare that one of their peers is a beast.

James Polar Okay so how tax works is that you pay based on a threshold of customers you have in that country. So hypothetically say 20% tax on transactions in the US after 100 customers. You look at your customers list and see oh great only 85 customers in the US, no taxes need paying!

Wrote up my thoughts on the "extreme work culture" more and more AI startups expecting devs to work regularly late into the night and on weekends at AI startups. I don't think it will change but cannot see this being healthy. (The hope of) money talks? blog.pragmaticengineer.com/new-trend-extr…

Apparently, the configuration sort of works?, but Pulse still skips it and logs the event anyway. All other caching and queries are filtered as expected—so how exactly is Pulse bypassing this check?

Shopify is getting all this credit now for driving efficiency, but I think this is a classic case of “taking credit for solving a problem I created.” Sometimes you have people in businesses say things like “I just saved us 5% on server cost” or “we downsized the team and

I realized that everyone that makes a comment like this, never tried the feature and so don't know how it works. Com'on guys, Laravel knows better than to load relationships that you don't need.

“is that what you think or what experts think?” is savage 💀🪦

Newton Job Yes! I remember I had to re-shoot an EXPLAINER video about how EXACTLY that feature works, because people were assuming differenty. So... Laravel Eager Auto-Loading: What/How it Loads? (RE-Explained) youtube.com/watch?v=VF6Twl…

I want to propose a talk on how to analytics on a lot of data easily with Laravel. But I need a catchy talk name. "Big Data with Laravel": meh 🤨 "1 Billion Rows with Laravel": ok 🤔 Has anyone a better name idea?

The studio is built, the mics are hot, the cameras are ready. Recording the first ep of my Recovery Mode podcast tomorrow! 🔥 More about it here: x.com/jackmcdade/sta… BTW I'm looking for sponsors. Slide into my DMs if you want to reach an open-minded tech audience.

What's the fastest way to hit $100k/month? Easy: Sell a $50 subscription to 2000 customers. Sounds simple. But getting those 2000 customers? That's where 90% startups die. Here are 5 proven methods that got me there (4 times): ↓

Honestly, we should celebrate an OSS maintainer putting their foot down, saying "you know what, I'd like to make my OSS project that is heavily used commercially to be sustainable the long-term, and not burn out." This is what Rob Mensching is attempting to do, and it's great.