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Photos by Andrea Paulseth, Evelyn Nelson, Luong Huynh, Nick Meyer, and Kip Holmen.

A few weeks ago, I finally shipped my most ambitious project ever, hoping for a solid reception.

TL,DR: I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it If you just want to play with it, goto kilopx.com.

Inspired by my friend Zuzana and her #30in30 experiment, I decided to make a photograph each day for 30 days.

Yet again, Joe provided the spark: I immediately knew I needed to build an app to let internet friends guess your height and find out just how much they were under- or over-estimating how tall you are.

My buddy Chris Morrell was kind enough to have me on his extremely chill podcast, Over Engineered, to talk about my Pair-amid Scheme.

On my absurd podcast Cheese & Weather we covered a topic Jason Beggs has been requesting: what do we think of this soup that has been continuously simmering for 45 years?

I was honored to chat with my friend Matt Stauffer on his new podcast, The Business of Laravel.

I recorded my first tip video for the good people at Laravel News.

I typically pair with people on my team but I recently reached out to Joe Tannenbaum when he mentioned that he'd never paired before.

Laravel Herd is a fantastic application from the Germans wizards at Beyondco.de that makes it so easy to run PHP applications on your Mac or Windows machine.

Laravel v10.44 just shipped with a new approach to global scopes: #[ScopedBy].

I was just helping someone set up a hyper key and was surprised at how confusing most of the guides were.

I run a large marketplace application that has a Shopify sales channel application.

I'm located in Wisconsin, where we typically have harsh winters - in January our average daily low is 15 °F (-15 °C) and our average daily high is 23 °F (-5 °C).

Let's mash up two concepts: automated tests and disk defragmentation.

This is the easiest backup solution I've found!

Update July 2025: you can now experiment with the Kilopixel and submit art to be drawn!

I had a very shower-y shower thought: why does turning my shower handle a tiny bit make such a huge difference in the comfort of the shower?

My nephew was graduating from high school and my sister in law asked me if I could recreate a sentimental cribbage board for him.

When you have a chance to work with some of the best developers in the Laravel ecosystem, you take it.

lsyncd runs a daemon to watch your filesystem for changes, and when a change occurs, copy files to another location.

I just set up Laravel Horizon to manage our queue in a multi-server environment.

Here's how I set up a load balanced environment on Laravel Forge and deployed with Envoyer.

I've recently become interested in creating timelapses with my Canon 20D DSLR and have discovered a workflow that uses all free and/or open source software to take your digital photo sequence and turn it into a timelapse video.

This took up a good chunk of my afternoon.