Tim MacDonald

Doggos, hypermedia, and core team @laravelphp.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@dgarbs51_ @jasonlbeggs @samsappenfield1 I used dark mode for my whole career until a few years back when I experimented with light mode for a month.

I start to feel much better at the end of the day. Less headaches. Less eye strain. Better concentration.

Personally, I'll never go back.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@taylorotwell

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@taylorotwell And here I was, thinking I had gotten over my need to buy more keyboards...

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@_newtonjob 🥹 Newton, you are too kind. Thank you for the kind words.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

Recently, I spoke at Laravel Live Japan

The intention of my talk was to widen the audience's understanding of streams in PHP

We start at file_get_contents() and end by deleting keys from Redis via unlink()

No matter your experience, you might learn something along the way 🔗👇

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@fsamapoor Appreciate you taking the time to check it out, Faraz, and for sharing it. Was a really fun talk to present. Hopefully will get to share it at more conferences soon!

[Faraz Samapoor @fsamapoor]

This is easily one of the most informative "PHP" talks of the year for me. Really interesting to think about the possibilities and the use cases.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@gonedark Love this

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@aschmelyun @mjackson ...and I don't care what anyone says, it's pronounced "Ben Code" not "Bee-encode".

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@aschmelyun @mjackson I realise my reply was a bit ambiguous as to who I was addressing 😅

It was https://t.co/OuwxcNgGrB

Coincidentally, the initial draft of my talk covered Bencode!

[MJ @mjackson]

Look at PHP/Ruby/Python for crying out loud. You don’t see those guys crying about not having streams. It’s the exception in all of those paradigms.

I did PHP and Ruby for a decade and never needed a stream until I came to Node.js 🤔

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@mjackson @aschmelyun While you are here chatting PHP, thought I'd let you know: one of your tweets from a maybe like a year ago was part of the inspiration for my most recent Laracon talk 🐘

[Ryuta Hamasaki @avosalmon]

8/27 に Cloudflare のイベントで話すんですが、参加者数がすごい 😂 ミートアップではなくてカンファレンスの規模。Laravel と Durable Objects でイベント用ライブ翻訳アプリ (@yoyotranslate) を作った話をします！

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@kevinhoangbui I think it might be

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

Was reminded today how freaking wild the implementation of Laravel's serializable closures are.

You gotta go source dive that stuff. Nuts.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@joshcirre I know a guy...

(it's you. you are the guy)

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

More people need to ask themselves these questions when it comes to handling validation.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@CodingWisely @laravel Why couldn't the user enter the correct details on the first go? Why are they being guided by error messages in the first place?

For simple input requirements, the solution to this is usually the introduction of help text, e.g., "At least 5 characters".

[Jason McCreary @gonedark]

After weeks of livestreaming and dogfooding, I’m excited to officially announce Double. 🎉

A modern PHP mocking library built around developer experience.

Inspired by Mockery and RSpec, Double stands on their shoulders, with very little to learn. Just enjoy a smoother DX.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@CodingWisely @laravel Freaking *love* it, Vlad!

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@dgarbs51_ @simonhamp Right back at you, Devon.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@MrPunyapal @CodingWisely @laravel This is not the case for a tool tip.

If you *need* to hover a tool tip to know how to use the thing, it shouldn't be a tool tip.

[Tim MacDonald @timacdonald87]

@MrPunyapal @CodingWisely @laravel Help text, not a tool tip.

But for the complex password input specifically, a real time help *guide* would be better.