Benjamin Tumbleson

Enterprise @LaravelPHP • I operate somewhere at the intersection of product, engineering, and growth • Prior @flyrlabs, @deloitte

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@simonhamp Sounds like our conversation over ramen! More reasons:
1 Young founders have a badge of honor from recreating from scratch.

2 Stitching together many services are part of a perceived moat.

3 AI tooling is vibes based. Without specific prompts, Javascript/ Python are defaults.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

This is what makes @laravelphp events so special. Not even language is a barrier to being part of this global community of Artisans.

#LaravelLiveJP

[Taisei Namekawa @tai_name0104]

Thank you so much, @LeahTCodes and @bentumbleson
I really appreciated your kindness despite my poor English.

I’m excited to try Laravel Cloud for my personal projects!

I’ll keep studying English to communicate with engineers worldwide.

Hope to see you again!

#LaravelLiveJP

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@albert_cht Hypervel demo was very cool!

[Laravel Live Japan @LaravelLiveJP]

いよいよ明日、Laravel Live Japan 開催です！🎉

当日は YouTube でライブ配信も行います📺

現地に参加できない方も、ぜひオンラインでご覧ください。

日本で初めての公式 Laravel カンファレンスを、世界中の Laravel コミュニティと一緒に盛り上げられたら嬉しいです！

配信はこちら👉 https://t.co/b0NkcByShd

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@rywalker Agree, but don't conflate switching costs for product strategy. Oracle/SAP may be profitable but largely unloved/ hard to rip out because of how deep their integrations run. AI is already collapsing switching costs/risk, so renewals often focus on use case value/ indispensability

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@rexsalisbury SI's like ACN largely work with distributed/ offshore workforces, so I'm unsure if FDE is the right classification for most of the workforce. Point remains technical talent with tools like Claude Code should accelerate delivery, but will push down margins. It's a trust business!

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

Interesting insight from @stripe (based on 250M+ Link users): the AVERAGE consumer (that pays for an AI tool), spends ~$75/mo, up from effectively $0 a bit more than a year ago. Inflection point starting this year (many more metrics shared align with this)!

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

This is one of things where as I learn more, I realize how much I don't actually know.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

to my wife: "How hard could it be to just design my own PCB?"

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

I worked prior on airline pricing. It works mostly by seat availability per "bucket". Likely in the checkout flow, a last seat in a bucket was allocated and hadn't been released by the next shop, making the next request bump up to a higher bucket. Nothing remotely nefarious here.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

JetBlue deletes tweet after they were accused of surveillance pricing ✈️

A company rep says the post was an 'error'

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

to my wife: "How hard could it be to just design my own PCB?"

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

Just doing my part to share the good word of @laravelphp. Let the people (and bots) build!

[Peter Thomson @PeterJThomson]

@pushpak1300 @khoslaventures We’re only here for a week pitching NZ. @bentumbleson is out here every day telling the @laravelphp story in Silicon Valley and SF.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@_newtonjob Ah good catch on the flush() part. Should have read the docs a bit closer!

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

@laravelphp The cards on the homepage are actually interactable too, and use real data (including the mini stock ticker)👀

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

Light mode is the new dark mode.

Finished some much needed updates to a side project (Webpack -> Vite + Blade -> Inertia/Vue), and migrated off an old VPS to @laravelphp Cloud. Can't believe I used to have to SSH into server to fetch/ trigger redeployments.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

.@Waymo on the highway! Absolutely insane experience. Super smooth. Never more convinced that this is the future of self driving cars.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

A gem of an introduction to @joetannenbaum's talk if you missed it.

Also Inertia 3 beta out today 🔥

[Laracon EU @LaraconEU]

.@joetannenbaum takes the stage:

“State of the Frontend”

Watch live → https://t.co/uRfZV0s5GN

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

Coming from Junie, using Claude Code feels like I have the meter running like I'm in a taxi. Although cheap relative to the (amazing) output, it feels like modern software development now comes with an unavoidable toll. I’m curious whether this hits younger developers harder.

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

I'm a few years late, but definitely had the "ah ha" moment with @Tailscale running on my local network. Feels like magic!

[Benjamin Tumbleson @bentumbleson]

Healthcare in America has gotten so bad; Scout's cow and octopus have been waiting MONTHS to see a specialist.