A high level overview of how I built the ultimate @CounterStrike 2 nade database with Laravel, Go and a sprinkling of JS. Prefer to watch? There's a video in the article speedrunning the entire pipeline.

Laravel Nightwatch has been one of the most worthwhile investments I've made since creating Stratbase.

why do anything?.

I wanted to use Laravel's concurrency facade without a timeout, but you can't do that!. So I figured out how the concurrency facade works and did it myself, and then figured I'd make a video about it .

Emailed the CEO of Valve cos I was running into an issue with the Steam API and Steam support couldn't help. A day later and it's fixed!. You can just email people! Crazy!.

gemini needs to add a global instructions option, it's so verbose! I don't want to ask it to be concise in every question.

What if you could use the same controller method for your API and your Inertia pages?. It wouldn't work everywhere, especially if you've got custom logic but imagine just having to write this for both routes to _just work_!!. Same controller method!

Got the server provisioning job working today!. The next step is getting a site up and running, then a database. Once that's done, a UI 😂.

On multiple occasions I've thought about using cursor: progress with loading states in the UI but never done it. We often reach for adding UI spinners and loading bars. Why not add the native UI interaction too? 🤔

doing some chill coding while I'm sick.come hang out. working on my deployment project.

I feel like this is SaaSable, it's a unique angle on the whole approach I haven't really seen I don't think. It would almost be like a coolify specialised for Laravel in a way. Be interesting to see if I can pull it off. we'll see.

I like Forge and Envoyer. Vapor and Cloud are very cool but I like having my own servers. I very much like the site-centric way of managing infra that cloud has. I've wanted to tinker with making a provisioning tool for years. Even if it's just an experiment. laravel new.

today is the day my primary keys become consistent (bigint) and I'm far too excited.

I will say, they really don't like you getting in touch if you're on the free plan (which I understand). but this is a payment issue, which is makes the whole process a bit frustrating.

Getting in touch with Cloudflare with an issue during my domain transfer (not their fault). It's obviously picked one of my domains at random to create my account name. Why did it have to pick this one? 😭

I've been using zen since the arc browser xss fiasco a while ago. The performance ended up being so much better I've never looked back. There are two features I've been missing since the switch, however. This is one of them, the only one missing is renaming tabs. Love to see it.

It's a bit mental that there's no native way of reordering columns in postgres I'm not gonna lie. but that's the only thing I'm not liking so far.

this will save me a bit of money, hell yeah.

Laravel is so cool man. I use OpenID for the primary login on Stratbase, Steam's OpenID has been broken for the last 12 hours. I can just re-enable the Breeze login pages and force password resets and we're good to go. 20 minutes.

RT @indexCS: This thread is so true. The main reason Stratbase has been kinda quiet on the new features front is because I'm making change….

RT @JackEllis: Building new software is easy. I’ve rebuilt big, existing projects in a single week during Christmas. It’s modifying existin….