I decided to repurpose the design from my old professional website and use it for my business website. I took the old home page banner and moved it to the about page.

Just bought a copy of The Web Dev's Guide to Freelancing by @AshAllenDesign. Looking forward to getting some new practical insights.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

Build a basic landing page for my open source project in just a few minutes with the new vanilla JS support by @tailwindui

Sometimes it just comes down to trust. You think and you rethink and you plan and you try to figure out the best way forward. Your gut says this is the way, but you have doubts. So either you go with your gut and against your doubts, or with your doubts and against your guts.

Just finished Understanding Laravel's Context Capabilities by @jwmcpeak and I've already started making some positive changes in one of my codebases using Laravel's context object.

No Laracon this year for me, but I've been enjoying the talks on YouTube. Looking forward to playing around with browser testing with Pest4. Also, updated Forge looks promising.

Today I finally fixed a bug in my code that I've known about for over a year. It had to do with the auto-save on a page quitting after a single failure (such as when internet connection is lost). I don't know why I waited so long because it only took 30 minutes to fix.

I built this tax worksheet to estimate my taxes and help me keep track of estimated tax payments. The effective tax rate is calculated based on my previous tax return.

I upgraded from Laravel 10 to 12 and my tests pass! Now to upgrade another project from Laravel 9.

There's a feature in my accounting app that allows me to upload receipts and auto-populate fields like date, amount, and vendor by scanning the image. The only problem, I've noticed, is that most of my receipts are not images but PDFs. I'm looking into either converting the PDFs.

One key attribute that enables a developer to have a greater impact on their organization is their ability to effectively communicate. This quality can make a developer stand out above his peers even if they are more qualified at the job than him. An effective communicator.

If the foundation is broken, repair the foundation. If the roof leaks, stop everything and fix the roof. The storm forces you to stop, it interrupts your plans and it breaks your routines. The storm is a reminder that you are human. Just when you think you have all your ducks.

AWS finally increased our EC2 CPU limit from 1 to 16. No idea why it took so long. 🤷‍♂️.

I've been trying to get an EC2 service quota increase for one of my clients for 3 months now. @AWSSupport is there anything you can do?.

Apparently AWS limits new accounts to 1 CPU for on-demand EC2 instances. My main account which is over 4 years old has a limit of over 500 CPUs.

Just recorded my first video with Loom. Going to try this out for a month. $15 is worth the price if it gets me making more videos.

If your client makes it hard to schedule meetings or they like to interrupt you, try sending a video presentation instead. They can respond in their own time.

I think I'm going to rename "income_log_entries" to "incomes" and change the relationship to "journal_entries" (one-to-one instead of many-to-many). Same pattern can be used for "expenses" and "payable_payments".

Created a journal entry component

Looking for tools to help to visualize database designs. This one is DrawSQL.