(they/them) Lead Programmer at @tightenco. An all-around silly, weird, nerdy human. Laravel | Livewire | 3D Printing | LEGO | Band | etc. More active on 🦋
Chicago, IL
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Andy Swick retweeted
Make Ship Happen is cancelled this Friday and will proceed with another Friday next week.
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The worst part of every project is if you need some Google API key.
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I really would like to submit a talk to @LaraconEU (or any of them really) and have zero ideas 😅. I wish I had Matt’s skill of coming up with amazing talks year after year.
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My office building is having an ice cream social! Guess I know what I’m having for lunch now 😅
ALT A line of people in front of a Rainbow Cone tent in front of an office building. There are balloons fluttering around the line.
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I used this mic in high school when using SmartMysic (now called @MakeMusic_Cloud) what a throwback.
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Andy Swick retweeted
Ever have your whole page come to a screeching halt as JavaScript processes something heavy?
Web Workers give your app more threads for running CPU-intensive work without blocking the UI.
Check out @nicodevs' practical introduction to Web Workers:
tighten.com/insights/web-wor…
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Andy Swick retweeted
Introducing Snapkin: turn a Photo into a Calorie estimate. 🌶️
This is a calorie tracker that works really well for me. Turns out, for others too. I tried & quit many different apps already, it needed to be simpler.
Want to help test? See getsnapkin.app/en
RT = ❤️
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Meet Spidey: a mac app that stays with you, speaks to you, helps you remember stuff and you can also speak with it in English and Hindi!
Built this with @AgoraIO (thanks to 300 free minutes and the credit). Link to the code is in the comments.
Also, you can play around with Spidey’s web and truly customise him according to your needs. See screenshots for that.
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Andy Swick retweeted
JabKeeper is now live on the app-store. Track your GLP-1 dose easily without binding yourself to a subscription
apps.apple.com/us/app/jabkee…
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HydePHP & Laravel Security with Emma De Silva | Make Ship Happen #7 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwdad…
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Andy Swick retweeted
Tomorrow @EmmaDSCodes will be joining us on Make Ship Happen podcast, 5pm British summer time.
piped.video/live/GD79xXKuwwg
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For my Uke or Puke app, I got a little out over my skis with the audio detection plugin. Remembering @mattstauffer's Laracon talk, I'm now asking the agent to explain what was done and asking follow up questions about the algorithms and the people from 1800s who invented them.
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Andy Swick retweeted
Without spending hours, this can be done in the video editor I'm building. It also doesn't need a whole lot of GPU/CPU.
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I’m so excited! I won the @LarabellesPHP ticket to go to @resend Forward! I wanted to go sooo badly when @_christinacodes announced it, and wasn’t sure if I could afford it, and now I can make it work. 😁
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Make Ship Happen - Episode 6 - Live Show nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKVmybQr…
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Andy Swick retweeted
Finished making a giant Laravel button that opens a terminal and runs laravel new on my laptop.
Inspired by merch that @TightenCo gave out at Laracon in 2025.
#productengineering #esp32 #iot
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Claude or Codex can write your own PRs but @ryangjchandler thinks you should instead. Read why writing them yourself makes you a better engineer and a better teammate.
laravel.com/blog/why-i-think…
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Friends know I’m an anime/animation junkie, and one of my favorites is the 2017 DuckTales reboot. In one episode, the kids play a Guitar Hero-style Japanese import called "Uke or Puke". In trying to get better at prompting, I’m building it all in Solo, no manual code changes. Here’s a proof of concept Astra made in ~5 minutes:
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