Alex Justesen
@alexjustesen.com
Compliance Consultant at MassMutual | Owner/Founder @maltmethod.dev and building @leaguemanager.club | Speedtest Tracker | Not where I parked my car
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Alex Justesen
@alexjustesen.com
· Nov 19
👋 I'm a developer and habitual problem solver from Connecticut. I help businesses build software solutions that solve problems. I work mainly in the #Laravel ecosystem.
🧑💻 Coding @maltmethod.dev
🚀 Launching @leaguemanager.club
🐇 Building speedtest-tracker.dev
🍻 Drinking untappd.com/user/ajustesen
🧑💻 Coding @maltmethod.dev
🚀 Launching @leaguemanager.club
🐇 Building speedtest-tracker.dev
🍻 Drinking untappd.com/user/ajustesen
The internet needs to get their shit together today 🤬 www.githubstatus.com
GitHub Status
Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
www.githubstatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The internet needs to get their shit together today 🤬 www.githubstatus.com
Oh look... the internet broke again 🙄
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oh look... the internet broke again 🙄
Don't waste tokens on your test suite 🤣
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Don't waste tokens on your test suite 🤣
Writing tests is a waste of tokens
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Writing tests is a waste of tokens
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Just signed up. Would love to be able to find more local Laravel folks!
Love this project by Dennis Koch: A community driven map showing Laravel developers across the world.
laramap.dev/?utm_source=bsky
Already noticed some new Laravel developers how haven't come to one of our meetups yet. 😅
laramap.dev/?utm_source=bsky
Already noticed some new Laravel developers how haven't come to one of our meetups yet. 😅
Laramap
Laramap is a community-driven map connecting Laravel artisans worldwide.
laramap.dev
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Just signed up. Would love to be able to find more local Laravel folks!
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Who's using Docker + PHP with serversideup/php?
We'd love you to share your link below 😃
github.com/serversideup...
We'd love you to share your link below 😃
github.com/serversideup...
Who's using serversideup/php? Drop your link below! · serversideup docker-php · Discussion #601
Hey all, We're so grateful for this community and the continuous growth we're seeing together. Hitting 1.5 million Docker pulls has been amazing, but what's even better is meeting all the awesome p...
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Who's using Docker + PHP with serversideup/php?
We'd love you to share your link below 😃
github.com/serversideup...
We'd love you to share your link below 😃
github.com/serversideup...
Urg I was almost done with the feature too
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Urg I was almost done with the feature too
Reposted by Alex Justesen
who called it arson and not crime brûlée
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
who called it arson and not crime brûlée
I been sitting on cleaning up translations for a while, time to get this over the line github.com/alexjustesen...
Localization with Crowdin by alexjustesen · Pull Request #2372 · alexjustesen/speedtest-tracker
📃 Description
This PR implements localization (translations) using https://crowdin.com.
✅ To-dos
Update the English (en) file with all known strings.
Update all strings to use PHP's built-in...
github.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I been sitting on cleaning up translations for a while, time to get this over the line github.com/alexjustesen...
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Really great talk by friends of the show NativePHP. Crazy stuff going on for PHP on mobile.
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Really great talk by friends of the show NativePHP. Crazy stuff going on for PHP on mobile.
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Reposted by Alex Justesen
This graph makes me happy. 🙂 It definitely shows how well SQLite performs when properly tuned. Thanks to @alexjustesen.com for helping out with this back in August! 🍻
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This graph makes me happy. 🙂 It definitely shows how well SQLite performs when properly tuned. Thanks to @alexjustesen.com for helping out with this back in August! 🍻
Reposted by Alex Justesen
📣 The Laravel Open Source team is hiring!
If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙
apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...
If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙
apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...
Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Team - Laravel
Calling all Artisans!We're on the lookout for more senior software engineers to join our tight-knit team here at Laravel. If you're someone who thrives on challenges and loves pushing the boundaries o...
apply.workable.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📣 The Laravel Open Source team is hiring!
If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙
apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...
If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙
apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...
Knowing when to drop an idea/project is harder than building anything.
October 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Knowing when to drop an idea/project is harder than building anything.
Reposted by Alex Justesen
Curious about what makes Nightwatch tick?
@jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here -
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...
@jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here -
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...
How Laravel Nightwatch handles billions of observability events in real time with Amazon MSK and ClickHouse Cloud | Amazon Web Services
Laravel, one of the world’s most popular web frameworks, launched its first-party observability platform, Laravel Nightwatch, to provide developers with real-time insights into application performance...
aws.amazon.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Curious about what makes Nightwatch tick?
@jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here -
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...
@jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here -
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...
The real benefit to having AI in your toolbox is multitasking...
- Prompt && brew a coffee
- Instruct && reply to emails
- Cook && prep dinner
- Prompt && brew a coffee
- Instruct && reply to emails
- Cook && prep dinner
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real benefit to having AI in your toolbox is multitasking...
- Prompt && brew a coffee
- Instruct && reply to emails
- Cook && prep dinner
- Prompt && brew a coffee
- Instruct && reply to emails
- Cook && prep dinner
It's been on my todo list for a while to get this function into the @laravel.com framework core so I can pull it out of #SpeedtestTracker's helpers 🤞
github.com/laravel/fram...
github.com/laravel/fram...
Added bitRate number helper by alexjustesen · Pull Request #57285 · laravel/framework
📃 Description
This PR introduces a bitRate() number helper to convert a given bit value to a string representation. Example 1000 to 1 Kbps.
📖 Docs
laravel/docs#10846
github.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It's been on my todo list for a while to get this function into the @laravel.com framework core so I can pull it out of #SpeedtestTracker's helpers 🤞
github.com/laravel/fram...
github.com/laravel/fram...
Don't mind the eggs, just listening to a classic
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Don't mind the eggs, just listening to a classic