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Laravel Things I Always Lookup

This post is a list of things I frequently need to look up in the Laravel documentation. So here’s a quick cheatsheet for myself that you may also find interesting or helpful.

TIL: Raycast Quicklinks

One of the most significant barriers to writing new blog posts is opening my Statamic control panel. Today, I extracted that away by creating a Quicklink for Raycast.

First Friction with Coverage and PHPStan

While building Sunny, I’ve been vaguely checking my code coverage and checking PHPstan and seeing what I’m “forced” to write to get to 100% coverage or to make stan happy. So far, everything it has found has been something I missed. I’ve encountered an instance where these tools encourage me to break my patterns. I probably wouldn’t have written a test for this without coverage or PHPstan.

Sunny Update as of November 22nd

Sunny Update as of October 20th

LifeOS Introduction - Sunny

A while ago, I made an application for my family to manage our things, the boxes they were in, and the boxes’ locations in our house. Then, I added the ability for my spouse to log their chronic pain. And then, I added a way to see a dashboard on my desk. It quickly became the application that I put everything in, not just for things to help us manage our lives but also for me to test out new technologies. I'm rewriting it to add new features and play with Flux UI. Check out the features that I'll be building, and come along for the ride!

What to Publish

While driving to Walmart earlier today, I listened to the latest episode of Caleb Porzio's Notes on Work podcast, and I had some thoughts and wrote them down.

Big Things Get Smaller

This is a perfect example of how learning works! Initially, things are scary because they are too big or hard, and then I try and over time, it gets easier and easier. Eventually, it's easy to forget that it was daunting initially. Original Post

How to familiarize yourself with a new app

Opening up a new project that you're unfamiliar with can be daunting. Where do you start? What does the stack look like? After working at Tighten for two years and routinely switching to different projects, I have developed a system to familiarize myself with an application quickly.

Lines through Space

Today, I finished another William F. Whiteside- inspired art piece to fill in a hole on my office wall! It looks great from far away, but I am a bit more critical the closer I get. I need to remind myself that mistakes happen. I'm improving with each painting I do.

Icon Maker by Raycast

I found this Icon Maker by @raycastapp, and it's exactly what I wanted to eventually build a few years ago with Iconi. 1️⃣ Pick an icon 2️⃣ Play with the styles 3️⃣ Press Export Perfect size for my Stream Deck!

Geometric Cube

I'm on a painting kick because I just finished this project a day after finishing the previous one. Years ago, I saw a painting in my favorite Chicago diner by William F. Whiteside, and I recreated it with different colors for my office. I'm super happy with how it turned out!

Owl House Painting

One of my favorite recent shows is The Owl House created by Dana Terrace. It originally aired on Disney Channel, and I watched it on Disney+. I really like the idea of having subtle nerdy things as my backdrop during video calls, so I painted the Owl House from the show.

Introducing Rollo: A Time Tracking app using Laravel and Filament

Follow along as I stream the process of building a Time Tracking app that works for me using Laravel and Filament.

New office configuration

Instead of recording video #1 for the new series I'm planning, I reorganized my office, and added some new shelves. I guess the videos will have a pretty background at least!

Holiday Episodes

Ash and I have been making an list of all of our favorite holiday episodes, so we can watch them around that holiday. Unfortunately, with the new Slack changes we lost our list. I'll be updating this list whenever we come across a holiday episode.

Tighten's February Calendar

This month on the "Pets of Tighten" calendar features my two dogs Velvet and Geo.

Pokémon Violet: Worth It

Though Scarlet and Violet may have some graphic glitches, it is a game that truly stands out in the world of Pokémon. With three captivating storylines and an abundance of content to explore, it feels like the culmination of everything that the recent Pokémon games have been building towards. Whether you're a seasoned veteran of the franchise or a newcomer to the world of Pokémon, Scarlet/Violet is sure to provide hours of entertainment and satisfaction.

5 Underrated Filament Features by Alexander Six

Reminder to my self to check out later.

Jazz Club (10312) - Bag 4

Bag 4 ✅ With that it looks like the first floor is 99% done. There's still a gaping hole in the front of the Jazz club, so I'm curious what that build will look like!

New Website

I just deployed my new website, which feels like I do every other year or so... take a look at the details on how it's set up and stuff.

Jazz Club (10312) - Bag 3

Bag 3 ✅ In this bag I really enjoyed building the Double Bass case (bottom right attached to the bass player). I wish it could accommodate the actual instrument that he's holding but that would have made it a lot bigger. Also on the bass player, there is a hearing aid or monitor on the right side of the head which is a print I've never seen before!

Jazz Club (10312) - Bag 2

Bag 2 ✅ The first floor is coming along! I really liked building the stage (bottom right) and wood burning pizza oven (bottom left).

Tips for real-world Alpine.js · Code with Hugo

Post I found during a 🍐 session with Andrew. It was useful for us to see a dump of the data.

Jazz Club (10312) - Bag 1

Bag 1 ✅ Follow along on my progress with building the latest LEGO modular building: Jazz Club (10312)

Gridfinity Nozzle Box

Model Source: Printables I printed this using Blue Inland PLA. I really like how the design has two rows for the .4 nozzles, since we have a ton of those nozzles.

Filament v2 - Table Header Actions in Widget

An undocumented feature of Filament v2 I found recently is the ability to add actions to table headers!

Gridfinity Wrenches

Model Source: Printables This is printed on Blue Gray Filaments.ca EcoFill PLA. I don't have Stanley wrenches, but this box worked great for what I've got.

Gridfinity Can Holder

Model Source: Printables Printed with Inland Yellow Matte PLA.

First Gridfinity Contribution - Timeular Tracker

I use a Timeular Tracker to track what I'm working on during the day, and wanted to add it to my desk Gridfinity baseplate. Designed using Zach's Parametric templates in Fusion 360. Model: Gridfinity Timeular

Gridfinity AirPods Pro

Model Source: Printables I printed this using Matte Yellow Inland PLA. This holds the AirPods securely but also can be removed without much difficulty.

Gridfinity Dice Holder

Model Source: Printables Printed with Inland Matte Yellow PLA. The D6 doesn't really fit in the slot for it, but the rest fit well but are still easy to remove.