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Head of Enterprise Enablement @laravel • Speaker • Founder @cachethq • Organiser @phpstoke.

Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
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What are we using as a CleanShot alternative? I tried Capso but it's so slow in comparison.
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Laravel devs: what's the one Cloud feature you'd ship tomorrow if you ran the roadmap? I'm reading every reply.
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I promised I was reading every reply. Some of which we can ship improvements to, starting with easily creating API tokens as read only.
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Halloween has arrived in Shapoku 🎃 Until 7 November, the board turns pumpkin, ember and gold, with a new spooky (but cosy) soundtrack. Switch on Background Music in Settings and settle in. Still free, no ads, works offline. shapoku.com
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James Brooks retweeted
Amp now has macOS Satellites! Agents can now spawn Macs and build, test and run your iOS and macOS applications on them. Rolling out now. ampcode.com/news/macos-satel…
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Berroku is now completely free 🫐 Pro Puzzles, including the Endless library of 6,000 puzzles, is free for everyone. Place three berries in every row, column and block, and use the numbers to find them. Three daily puzzles, no ads, works offline. berroku.com
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Loopoku is out now on the App Store: a peaceful path puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Tap stones to turn their paths until they join into one closed loop. No losing, no timer, no move limit. A new daily garden, plus Endless boards. Free, no ads, works offline. loopoku.com
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While we were driving yesterday I had Grok spin up a word search game for my kids with different word themes. Everything was deployed to Laravel Cloud and playable by the time we arrived! cozy-word-search-production-…
I’ve taken to making little apps for my kids and hosting them at kids.samwho.dev. They love it. They’re all PWAs so they can look like apps on your home screen if you want. My eldest has loved self-scan at Tesco recently so I made a lil’ barcode scanner app for him 😁
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Grok dispatching to Amp is mad. I said to @benjamintyrer that I’d probably never use it, but it’s cool. Well, I used it and it’s cooler than I thought!
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Pumpkin season has arrived in Berroku 🎃 Three pumpkins in every row, column & block. No tricks, just a cozy little puzzle. The Halloween theme is available and switched on for the season. berroku.com
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Kids' drawings in, tiny film out. I gave @bot four felt-tip sketches and a one-line story, and it made a 12-second animation of two boys fighting over a strawberry and then sharing it. My kids are delighted. 🍓🎬
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Even with poorly lit photos, it did a great job. We’re trying this again tomorrow with more pictures.
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Regrettably cancelled my iPhone Duo order. Apple spent years making the crease disappear, and the screens have now gone with it. I'll be back when the hinge is fixed 🫡
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Shapoku is out now on the App Store: a calm block puzzle on a 9×9 grid. Place three shapes at a time, clear rows, columns or 3×3 squares, and chain your clears into streaks. Free, no ads, no account, works offline. shapoku.com
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Linkoku is out now on the App Store. Take turns placing tiles that touch edges and connect five of your colour to win. Out of tiles? Move one. Up to four friends on one iPhone or iPad, or play the AI. Free, no ads, works offline. linkoku.com
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sending my love, tears and thoughts to every engineer out there that was involved in this catastrophe of unfortunate events
Hey Its Friday * OpenCode Hacked * php screwed the internet * node said hold my beer * ruby said hold my beer * curl said hold my beer and eMudhra held that beer * Railway said hold my beer * OpenCode again helluva week and I only mentioned literally 1/2 of what I know about
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I built a free iCloud Mail MCP with @AmpCode because @Apple doesn't have one. If Apple shipped MCP for Mail, Calendar and Reminders, with read and write access, it would own the AI assistant space. Come on, Apple 👀 cloudpost.ing
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CloudPost now connects your public iCloud calendars to AI assistants via MCP. Add multiple calendars, name them, and let your assistant read or search events. Read-only, no Apple login required, and CloudPost never stores your events. cloudpost.ing
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Laravel Forge update: Patched PHP is now available for every version on Forge, from PHP 5.6 to 8.5. Click “Update PHP” on each server, or update over SSH → laravel.com/forge/docs/knowl…
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