Greg Mayes
@GregMayesDev
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PHP performance nerd ๐
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Joined October 2015
Advising junior devs not to over engineer things is depriving them of a pivotal learning experience. It's a rite of passage to massively over engineer a project and then subsequently learn why it was a mistake when you go to maintain it
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Why have so many people on Twitter stopped using capital letters? It almost seems like more effort
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Software decay is a great argument for careful planning and thoughtful use of external dependencies. This was something I took very seriously from the start when writing File Pilot. Especially when you look at the lifespan of some long established file explorers, they often last
I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: https://t.co/9M2qrtPd61 For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But
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I know nothing about PewDiePie but his video on using Linux was so endearing. Also makes me want to rice my install more
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Kind of funny that https://t.co/zKlWSh599u is broken right now with a visible ?> in the output
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Wrote a blog post on the process: https://t.co/mVfj6nLgaD. Even added an RSS feed for the 10 people out there who care about that
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When attempting to upgrade this blog to Tailwind v4, I bumped into a couple of issues with PostCSS. This article chronicles how I removed PostCSS and migrated over to the Tailwind CLI
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Why did I think that PostCSS was a good idea for a Jekyll blog. Time to move to Tailwind CLI
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Who would have thought that a show about the Penguin from Batman would go so hard
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Looking forward to @phpstoke tonight. Almost a mini-Laracon with the Q&A session๐
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I've been drilling C lately in an attempt to work up to contributing to php-src and it's an oddly beautiful language
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Rick Rubin's book is awesome if you're someone who isn't typically creative. 10/10 Christmas present
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There's still so much value to @garybernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts. Hard to believe some of them are 12 years old
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I know they're not designed for userland code, but I really want to try shoehorning Fibers into some PHP code
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Can't make it to this week's @phpstoke, but people should definitely go if they're on the fence. The talks look really good ๐
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Yep, definitely time to stop using the 'For You' tab here. It's just total brain rot
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Can't believe how good Mock Service Worker (@ApiMocking) is. I'm primarily backend now so tools like this tend to pass me by. Could have done with this a few years back ๐
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Doing my PHP micro-optimisations talk at @staffswebmeetup at the end of the month. Also had my first PR merged into a @laravelphp repository. Pretty good month so far!
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Wrote a small blog post on using Laravel model factories in PHPUnit data providers. Hopefully it might help people who run into the inevitable issues! https://t.co/HtgRx6cOzV
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Using Laravel model factories inside PHPUnit data providers isnโt as straightforward as you would think. This article shows you how can pull this off.
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