Chris Morrell
@cmorrell.com
Philadelphia father of two. Mostly talking about PHP/Laravel/React on here. He/him.
On the web @ https://cmorrell.com
Podcasting @ https://overengineered.fm/
On mastodon @ https://rtsn.dev/@chris
Formerly @ https://twitter.com/inxilpro
On the web @ https://cmorrell.com
Podcasting @ https://overengineered.fm/
On mastodon @ https://rtsn.dev/@chris
Formerly @ https://twitter.com/inxilpro
It’s funny that the basic iPad not supporting Apple Intelligence is kinda a selling point…
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It’s funny that the basic iPad not supporting Apple Intelligence is kinda a selling point…
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If websites can use cookies to improve performance, I can too
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If websites can use cookies to improve performance, I can too
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I think about this CGP Grey video every day.
Especially whenever someone explains "why" they did something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...
Especially whenever someone explains "why" they did something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...
You Are Two
YouTube video by CGP Grey
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I think about this CGP Grey video every day.
Especially whenever someone explains "why" they did something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...
Especially whenever someone explains "why" they did something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
This was such a fun commit:
github.com/laravel/fram...
github.com/laravel/fram...
Introduce a `Str::taylor()` helper function by inxilpro · Pull Request #54463 · laravel/framework
Laravel is known for its incredible attention to detail, down to the code comments. For example, Taylor Otwell has famously taken the time to ensure that all config comments are exactly three lines...
github.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This was such a fun commit:
github.com/laravel/fram...
github.com/laravel/fram...
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Interesting approach
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Interesting approach
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T-minus two hours!
Also this video makes me seem waaaaaay cooler than I am in real life, thanks Laracasts for the glow up
Also this video makes me seem waaaaaay cooler than I am in real life, thanks Laracasts for the glow up
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
T-minus two hours!
Also this video makes me seem waaaaaay cooler than I am in real life, thanks Laracasts for the glow up
Also this video makes me seem waaaaaay cooler than I am in real life, thanks Laracasts for the glow up
Let's make `dump()` even better!
YouTube video by Chris Morrell
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I just revived Laravel Dumper and tagged version 3.0!
Check it out:
github.com/glhd/laravel...
Should now work fully with Herd!
Here's with/without laravel-dumper :)
Check it out:
github.com/glhd/laravel...
Should now work fully with Herd!
Here's with/without laravel-dumper :)
![Screen shot of dump() output WITHOUT laravel-dumper:
Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder {#223 ▼
+connection: Illuminate\Database\SQLiteConnection {#1518 ▶}
+grammar: Illuminate\Database\Query\Grammars\SQLiteGrammar {#1494 ▶}
+processor: Illuminate\Database\Query\Processors\SQLiteProcessor {#1470}
+bindings: array:9 [▶]
+aggregate: null
+columns: null
+distinct: false
+from: "users"
+indexHint: null
+joins: null
+wheres: array:1 [▶]
+groups: null
+havings: null
+orders: null
+limit: 10
+groupLimit: null
+offset: null
+unions: null
+unionLimit: null
+unionOffset: null
+unionOrders: null
+lock: null
...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vuafy2yqm5fifql4rwc6kqg3/bafkreida5jkybltswlp2jphymyht7gmqro76d53o5gpbf2sum5fyt362mi@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I just revived Laravel Dumper and tagged version 3.0!
Check it out:
github.com/glhd/laravel...
Should now work fully with Herd!
Here's with/without laravel-dumper :)
Check it out:
github.com/glhd/laravel...
Should now work fully with Herd!
Here's with/without laravel-dumper :)
Planning to record an Over Engineered with @bogdankharchenko.com and @skylerkatz.com some time soon where we talk thru the recent DDoS that we had to mitigate. Interested? Anything you'd want to hear about specifically?
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Planning to record an Over Engineered with @bogdankharchenko.com and @skylerkatz.com some time soon where we talk thru the recent DDoS that we had to mitigate. Interested? Anything you'd want to hear about specifically?
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After 3 years of development I finally published the first alpha version of FilePond v5!
is now a full blown custom element, it implements ElementInternals, can be styled with CSS Custom Properties, and can be fully customised with templates and extensions! 🎉
🚧 v5.filepond.com
🚧 v5.filepond.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
After 3 years of development I finally published the first alpha version of FilePond v5!
is now a full blown custom element, it implements ElementInternals, can be styled with CSS Custom Properties, and can be fully customised with templates and extensions! 🎉
🚧 v5.filepond.com
🚧 v5.filepond.com
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Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
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I'm super excited for Blaze and @johnmkoster.bsky.social's Forte.
As much as they've been talked about, I still feel like they're underrated.
As much as they've been talked about, I still feel like they're underrated.
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm super excited for Blaze and @johnmkoster.bsky.social's Forte.
As much as they've been talked about, I still feel like they're underrated.
As much as they've been talked about, I still feel like they're underrated.
Swift has a cool `defer` statement that lets you effectively queue code to run right before leaving the current scope. It's kinda like try/finally but way cleaner.
Would be cool if we had something like this in PHP. What if you could just do a `finally` block without the try to have this behavior?
Would be cool if we had something like this in PHP. What if you could just do a `finally` block without the try to have this behavior?
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Swift has a cool `defer` statement that lets you effectively queue code to run right before leaving the current scope. It's kinda like try/finally but way cleaner.
Would be cool if we had something like this in PHP. What if you could just do a `finally` block without the try to have this behavior?
Would be cool if we had something like this in PHP. What if you could just do a `finally` block without the try to have this behavior?
The joys of having a car that has software bugs. I looked out the window this morning to discover that 3 of 4 doors in our Tesla were open. Camera footage shows the doors just randomly open at 9:45pm last night. So much fun.
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The joys of having a car that has software bugs. I looked out the window this morning to discover that 3 of 4 doors in our Tesla were open. Camera footage shows the doors just randomly open at 9:45pm last night. So much fun.
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Cory Doctorow's latest talk about his upcoming book is 🔥🔥🔥! pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
I was especially taken by how he lays out that the “A.I.” hype wave is utter bullshit and bad for humanity as basic common sense.
I was especially taken by how he lays out that the “A.I.” hype wave is utter bullshit and bad for humanity as basic common sense.
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Cory Doctorow's latest talk about his upcoming book is 🔥🔥🔥! pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
I was especially taken by how he lays out that the “A.I.” hype wave is utter bullshit and bad for humanity as basic common sense.
I was especially taken by how he lays out that the “A.I.” hype wave is utter bullshit and bad for humanity as basic common sense.
This is a long read, but a *very* good one.
I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is a long read, but a *very* good one.
Kind of an interesting look at the traffic we've seen over the last few days. I expect more spikes soon, but this is what it looks like right now.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Kind of an interesting look at the traffic we've seen over the last few days. I expect more spikes soon, but this is what it looks like right now.
Boy it's wild how quickly a DDoS can force you to do all those things you knew you really aught to do but, "ah, it's fine for now." 😅
We've been holding off on moving to Cloudflare for various legacy reasons, but 4 billion requests suddenly made those legacy reasons less concerning 😂
We've been holding off on moving to Cloudflare for various legacy reasons, but 4 billion requests suddenly made those legacy reasons less concerning 😂
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Boy it's wild how quickly a DDoS can force you to do all those things you knew you really aught to do but, "ah, it's fine for now." 😅
We've been holding off on moving to Cloudflare for various legacy reasons, but 4 billion requests suddenly made those legacy reasons less concerning 😂
We've been holding off on moving to Cloudflare for various legacy reasons, but 4 billion requests suddenly made those legacy reasons less concerning 😂
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Stay safe friends
A perfect CVSS 10 🧑🏻🍳💋
CVE-2025-55182: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components
The vuln is in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0:
react-server-dom-webpack
react-server-dom-parcel
react-server-dom-turbopack
Upgrade immediately!
CVE-2025-55182: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components
The vuln is in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0:
react-server-dom-webpack
react-server-dom-parcel
react-server-dom-turbopack
Upgrade immediately!
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Stay safe friends
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to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
Anyone out there have experience with Yjs vs. Automerge? Any opinions?
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Anyone out there have experience with Yjs vs. Automerge? Any opinions?