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@davidhemphill

6 years

It’s pretty shitty that tech companies will drag folks through 4-6 weeks of interviewing, make them do code challenges and contracts, only to email something like, “Sorry we can’t move forward.” Offer something in return for the person’s time and emotional energy spent. 🤷‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

7 years

🤠 Found myself writing simple redirects a lot, so I wrapped it up in a macro:

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@davidhemphill

7 years

🔥 Go crazy with Blade directives. The simplest things can abstract away tons of visual noise from your templates.

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Remember that new project I teased a while back? 😈 Well, I'm now ready to show you what I've been working on for the past few months:

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Been sitting on a nearly-done Laravel social network for several months. Just not sure if I'd have the time to care for it or if it would even be useful. Even got decently far on an iOS app for it...

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@davidhemphill

2 years

Working on a Nova feature that allows you to add badges to menu items. Could be kind of useful...what do you think?

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@davidhemphill

5 months

Here's my dead-simple way of adding multi-tenancy to a Laravel application using the new "Context" feature. It uses a combination of middleware, global query scopes, observers, and context to handle single database tenancy.

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@davidhemphill

4 years

🔥 I really want Laravel to have a `Str::markdown` method, but until that day comes, you can always add your own macro. 👍

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@davidhemphill

10 months

Which option looks the cleanest to your eyes?

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@davidhemphill

4 years

You're welcome. ;-)

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7 years

🔥 Trick I picked up from @davidhemphill , you can escape characters in your CSS to create more expressive class names:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🚀 New post: Why Build X When Y Exists?: I see this come question come up just about every time a new take on an old idea is announced. Here's some good reasons.

Why Build X When Y Exists?

There are many reasons people keeping reinventing the wheel. Here's a few of mine.

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@davidhemphill

8 months

Made something for fun the other day...another invoicing product! Say hello to , a dead-simple way to generate an invoice in PDF format. No account required. Here's an example:

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@davidhemphill

6 years

It seems like companies are just not incentivized to help rejected candidates. If a potential hire has 80% of what you need, you could tell them the 20% they could work on so they could reapply when they're more ready.

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Nova's upcoming dark mode is looking kinda clean:

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🛠 Currently hacking on a new Laravel Nova feature allowing BelongsTo/MorphTo relation links to show a card when you hover over them. You could configure a small set of fields to show here. Useful?

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Generating PDFs with @vuejs components: I have a public invoice "print" view, styled with @tailwindcss , and served by a @vuejs SPA. I'm using spatie/browsershot to hit the page and generate a PDF download response of that public page:

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@davidhemphill

6 years

@chriscoyier My buddy @AndrewDelPrete has a whole series on low hanging perf fruit here: . Helped me a ton

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Hotel room was sort of hard to find. 😐

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Set these two values on MacOS and instantly improve your life. A must-do on every new computer!

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Putting some finishing touches on the light/dark themes for the next Nova series. Bumped up the contrast a bit and tweaked some spacing, sizes, etc... Plus we've added a ton of improvements already including using full Tailwind along with JIT. Feels really nice to use! 😎

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Nova v3.7.0 has just been released and includes a new "Stack" field for more visual organization options!

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🚀 Exploring an exciting new Nova feature this week...the ability to create relations inline:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

The power of 'wip' is undeniable.

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Just learned that an input element with a type of "email" can take the boolean attribute "multiple", allowing for a comma-separated list of emails to be entered. 🔥

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@davidhemphill

7 years

Started working on some beta features for @pushsilver . Needed a way to opt some users in. Came up with this simple setup:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🔥 Testing simple S3 uploads with randomized file names in Laravel? Use `Storage::fake` and real-time Facades. Handled.

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@davidhemphill

4 months

📺 By default, when using Laravel Jetstream, API tokens are only generated for users, even when it's configured with the team feature. On nearly every app I build, I prefer API tokens to be associated with the Team (like Stripe). So I thought I'd share a breakdown of how you can

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@davidhemphill

2 years

Coming soon to a Nova near you...

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@davidhemphill

2 years

When I see people still trying to dunk on Laravel in 2022 I just lol. Who cares what you use? Just make it awesome. Me? I’m riding this artisan starship on the way to Andromeda collecting that Lambo money. Roll with us if you like. See you in the cosmos. Laravel forever. 🏄‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

1 year

Sometimes, when I'm using Nova to manage Nova, I'm amazed at how beautiful and useful we've managed to make it. I really enjoy using it. 🏄‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

2 years

With the Nova v4 release close, I thought it'd be fun to go back and look at the prototype that would eventually become Laravel Nova...Beam. Spent a few months building out this proof of concept before @taylorotwell and I rewrote it from scratch over the next 6-7 months. 🏄‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Not to overhype...but the new Nova looks *so* good and has so many killer new features. Can't wait to unload it on y'all.

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@davidhemphill

2 years

👨‍🔬 We've been in the lab cooking up some 🔥 for Nova...

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@davidhemphill

2 years

Out with the kiddos after a successful and smooth Nova v4 launch. Thanks to the Laravel community for all the Nova love. Appreciate the hell out of y’all. ❤️

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🔥It's easy to test your custom Nova actions using the built-in goodness of Laravel, despite what those haters @noplanstomerge say:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

My mom was trying to describe what I work on to a kid who wants to learn. She said, “I know it’s computers and he goes in from the back…” 😂

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Can you customize Nova to use your logo and branding colors? Yes. 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

4 months

There's lots of ways to skin this cat, but I'm curious: which of these two Laravel filtering strategies feels the cleanest to you? 🧐

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@davidhemphill

6 years

🔥 When using Laravel Dusk to test @stripe Elements integrations, sometimes Dusk will type faster than Elements can handle, so I use this little trick which adds a pause between each keystroke:

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@davidhemphill

6 years

@mbritton No one's whining. You're clearly out of touch with the job market. 4-6 weeks is *very* common for tech jobs. Maybe lose the self-righteous attitude when coming to a conversation about empathy.

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🔥 @fideloper and I are creating the painless CI app for Laravel! We're calling it Chipper. Interested? Check it out:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🎅 My lady @tesshemphill has been making really cool Christmas ornaments and wanted to give the Laravel community a chance to hang one on the tree this year. So here we go…snag one to put your Laravel love on display and confuse your family members!

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@davidhemphill

1 year

So cool to be featured on the new Livewire website on !

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Maybe you need some Miami Ice? 🕶

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Beginning to think a majority of developers don't *actually* want development to be simpler.

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@davidhemphill

5 years

🔪 Came up with a neat little Blade directive to output a CSS error class without needing a closing directive. It uses Tailwind's red border by default but also supports passing in a custom error class:

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@davidhemphill

5 years

If you don’t have your Dock set to auto-hide on MacOS, I know I can’t trust you.

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@davidhemphill

3 years

LARAVEL FOREVER!

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Soooo....we got out of the hospital today. Little man really showed improvement all last night and they set him free. 🎉

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@davidhemphill

6 years

@velvetsemtex @steveschoger "We liked how you approached {{ problem }}. The top 3 candidates displayed a simpler/more-advanced/trendier use of {{ technology }}. In particular we were looking for some with {{ skillset }}." Basically any information at all would help a lot of folks.

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Along with the release of Laravel 8, a fresh new Nova release it out. Includes L8 compatibility, a new field, and a bunch of other fixes and features. 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

8 years

💡 Get real-life visual feedback on long PHPUnit test suites with a @thingm blink(1) status light.

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@davidhemphill

2 years

I wanted to convert a backed enum's cases into an array suitable for use in a Nova select field. Created a simple little helper on the enum to return a simple array like `['nice_label' => 'Nice Label']`. 👍

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Answered some support emails. Wrote some code. Recorded a podcast. Feeling inspired. Good day to be wearing this shirt. 🤙

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@davidhemphill

5 years

📝 Wrote a little bit on why I think it's important to celebrate your small wins:

Small Wins

It's easy to forget to stop and celebrate the small wins, especially when it seems like everyone else is doing much better. But by forgetting those tiny victories, are we robbing ourselves of...

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@davidhemphill

7 years

Came up with this handy macro for working on front-end views without dedicated routes:

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@davidhemphill

4 years

🔥 Just pushed the first 2021 release of Laravel Nova v.3.19.0. Includes PHP 8 compatibility. 🧑‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

5 years

We're in the phase where we can now use @ChipperCi to build @ChipperCi and I think that's so cool.

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@davidhemphill

3 years

Man, y'all seemed to like that last Nova tweet! 😘 Will let you know more as progress continues. Today I'm working on some improvements to how cards/metrics are displayed among other things...

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@davidhemphill

4 years

🚀 Just released Laravel Nova v3.21.0. Now you can show custom modals after running actions. Also includes a bunch of nice fixes. And for the next few days, use coupon code "surprise-020221" to get 25% off your license purchase. 🤙

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🧑‍🚀 Needed a break from working on some complex Nova updates, so I built a Tag field for your BelongsToMany relations. Shipping soon! Any features you'd like to see for the Tag field?

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Alrighty friends, here's a video on customizing Nova's colors and logo:

Customizing Laravel Nova's CSS and Logo

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🚀 Boom. Laravel Nova v4.6.0 has been released and includes support for searching relations more than one layer deep. 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🥱Hacked on some new Nova features before bed last night:

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Anyone interested in a little screencast on customizing Nova's logo and colors?

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🚀 Coming soon in Laravel Nova: action modals can now be shown in multiple sizes...including fullscreen! Perfect for really important actions or actions with large fields. 🧑‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

6 years

🎉 My crazy year, the development and launch of Nova, a new house, and more. Coming in at the last hour, here's my year in review: .

2018 in Review

A recap of the most-memorable things in the year.

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@davidhemphill

3 years

🛰Just launched Laravel Nova v3.31.0 into orbit. Highlights include PHP 8.1 and Laravel 9 support! Check it out:

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🔥 Hot tip: Nova can interact with 3rd-party APIs by using "Resource Hooks":

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Just merged pull request #1000 into Laravel Nova! Still so much to come...

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Laravel Nova v3.15.0 has been released with LOTS of bug fixes and quality of life improvements. Big thanks to @crynobone for all the work he's been putting into these releases. 👨‍🚀 🚀

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Nothing like a clean start to the day. 👍

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@davidhemphill

1 year

Here’s a short little update on Laravel Nova… 🏄‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

2 years

I wonder how many people create their own single-person businesses because they have undiagnosed ADHD and it’s the only working style that allows them to be productive and happy.

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Ole @fideloper and I got tired of @ChipperCI feeling like a hobby project, so we decided to go whole-hog and form a new company. Just got word @atlas finished all that up. Everybody say hi to Internal Screaming LLC. 🚀

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@davidhemphill

2 years

Man, if GitHub had an option preventing users with no avatars from creating issues and commenting on discussions, this would cut out 80% of the garbage maintainers have to deal with.

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@davidhemphill

4 years

And we're back with another Laravel Nova release. v3.10.0 includes "standalone" actions, auto-refreshing resources, more debounce customization, and more! 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

3 years

i wrote a regex and it worked the first time after 18 years of pro web dev

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@davidhemphill

3 years

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@davidhemphill

1 year

🚀 Just released Laravel Nova v4.26.0! Includes a new "Repeater" field for creating and managing JSON and HasMany relationships in your resources. Read the docs here: Also includes other improvements and a bunch of bug fixes. 🧑‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Laravel Nova v3.14.0 has been released! Includes new HasManyThrough and HasOneThrough fields, performance improvements, and some nice fixes. 🚀 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

6 years

🔥 Been working on some nice updates to Nova's filters. A couple new built-in filter types are on the way, and you'll be able to create your own using custom @vuejs components.

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@davidhemphill

4 years

🧑‍🚀 Just released a juicy Nova v.3.16.0 which includes a bunch of bug fixes. 😎

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@davidhemphill

3 years

🚀 Laravel Nova v3.23.0 is hot off the shelf with support for Laravel Octane! Also includes some big improvements for relations with pivot columns. 🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

5 years

Oldie but a goodie. Improve the reliability of testing @stripe Elements inside your @laravelphp Dusk tests.

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@davidhemphill

6 years

🔥 When using Laravel Dusk to test @stripe Elements integrations, sometimes Dusk will type faster than Elements can handle, so I use this little trick which adds a pause between each keystroke:

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6 years

One of my favorite tricks for remembering to handle something or viewing something later is to snooze a browser tab for when it needs to get done using Tab Snooze:

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@davidhemphill

11 months

Folks asking for Laracon to be cheaper are implicitly asking for the event to be shittier. Laracon US could've: - chosen a crappy hotel venue - picked an uninteresting city - had no open bars - had no catered lunches - had no afterparties - had no live entertainment - skimped

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I don’t often dive into the specifics of business around Laravel, but feel a bit compelled to clear up one misconception because I see it keep popping back up. I have never made any money from an in-person Laracon. Not a single cent. 🤷‍♂️

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🚀 Just released Laravel Nova v4.5.0 into the wild. Nova keeps getting more beautiful, functional, and stable with each release! 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

6 years

Still hacking on some more Nova stuff. Was playing with the idea of an "advanced" filter. There are some overlap with the existing search input, but does this seem useful?

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🚀 Just released the source to our Nova Log Viewer tool. Install it to view your application logs or use the source as an example to create your own tool: 🖤

Log Viewer

A Laravel Nova tool for viewing your application logs

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@davidhemphill

2 years

anytime i release something i always get nervous i left a "dd('Fuck!');" somewhere in the code

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@davidhemphill

4 years

Yo, @TablePlus is the new GOAT for DB management. SequelPro had a good run, but can’t touch the multiple DB drivers, constant updates, and modern UI. 👌 Grab DBngin too for an even more powerful combo.

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@davidhemphill

2 years

🚀 Just released Laravel Nova v4.8.0! Includes new menu helpers, conditional badges, improved metric date helpers and a bunch of other fixes and improvements. 👨‍🚀

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@davidhemphill

3 years

It's been a minute since I posted about Valet Lite... I decided to rewrite it in Swift in my free time. It's super fast as a result. Everything's running great on my M1 machines. Now to finalize packaging its library and implementing licensing flows.👍