Kevin McKee

Husband. Father of 6. Catholic. Co-Founder of @padmissionapp. Contributor at @laracasts.

[Kevin McKee @KevinMcKee]

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@alexandersix_ Just wanted to know if I’ve already got the performance improvements or if there are incremental improvements over 5.7.0

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@abbygilson28 @LaraconUS Great event!

If you are ready to start thinking about next year, I have an idea…

https://t.co/AoRrHUnctP

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Best time yet! Such a fun game @jbrooksuk

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Well now that I'm upgrading to X Premium+ for the higher interest rate on X Money, might as well do this...

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I know you have many podcasts already, but why not make this another one? No agenda, just friends chatting. If there’s anything people want to keep off the air, have those chats before or after the recording.

Who cares if anyone listens to the thing, but the fact it is a podcast recording makes the date stick I think.

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@MaybeEdward @jasonlbeggs @laravel Next step is a UI for the entire thing and just inject the whole composer config to whatever environment you want.

Quick toggle for that entire line by app 👌

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@jasonlbeggs @laravel Would love to apply secrets here. This is where all our duplication is.

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@aarondfrancis Definitely not on my team. Reviewing and testing features in the browser is the new bottleneck. Even though AI is helping so much with those things it’s not enough.

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@calebporzio Congratulations Caleb! What a great name!

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Check out the new site! https://t.co/z4UY06U0jd

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We've updated our marketing site and it's so much better.

1. Used Claude Design and it did an amazing job
2. Hosted on Laravel Cloud and it's much faster
3. Just a basic Laravel site with markdown files driving our blog

This is such a huge improvement. 🧵

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We didn't need a CMS anymore because our business users can do simple prompting to add a new blog or even make design changes. This is actually much more flexible than a CMS.

They aren't limited by WordPress plugins or anything. Just let Claude build!

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@taylorotwell We’ve had all our lower environments on Cloud since it launched. Just waiting for HIPAA compliance to move production. 🤟

[Manuk Minasyan @MinasyanManuk]

Every Laravel app eventually needs CSV imports.

And every time it's the same grind — mapping columns, validating rows, handling relationships, dealing with 50K row files that timeout.

I built Tapix to kill that loop:

• Auto column mapping
• Users fix their own errors inline
• BelongsTo + MorphToMany handled
• Queued batches — 100K rows, no sweat

What's the worst CSV import you've had to build?

[Kevin McKee @KevinMcKee]

@codearachnid Nope, it works on V4 and V5. No concerns with running the latest versions.

[Kevin McKee @KevinMcKee]

Okay, it's finally launched. Here is Data Lens!

Custom Reports with basically zero coding or config.

30% discount with LAUNCHWEEK until next Sunday.

Here's the story: 🧵