Stephen Bateman
iambateman.com
Stephen Bateman
@iambateman.com
Laravel developer, husband, dad.

My interests… building better cities and making web dev side projects.

Fun fact…I’m pretty good at ping pong.
I have to believe that someone at the ad agency said “it’s impossible to screw up a bacon ad.”

Which kicked off a fun internal competition of which the client is totally unaware.
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
a major pickleball development was literally run out of my town because of noise.

...it was going to be on a lot sandwiched between the interstate and a forest.

None of this is a joke. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Nice!
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Yes! I was there on Friday.

For me, Livewire is accumulating memory on every update in FrankenPHP. A big form was using 128mb+. It took forever to figure out what to do.

Did you sort out your obscure error?
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Does the non awful news thing work? That’s a great idea.
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Good for them for taking a swing at it.

Not having a chain is definitely creative.
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Did it! this is great.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you start by developing your knights and bishops early and save your queen moves for later, you’ll jump 100 points this week.
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Have you written an article citing those experts and making the case?

I’d love to read it.
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Oooh this looks great. I wonder if it can auto sync to Dropbox for a poor-man’s Loom
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Yea it’s too willing to write one-off div’s.

It may be the biggest challenge I have with Claude right now.
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Have you ever seen an update with e-bikes? I’d be curious how that compares
October 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Does it take four months of refrigeration? Sounds amazing but I don’t think I have the fridge space for four months of potato storage 🙈
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This was a big tweet for me. I’ve been packing and unpacking toiletries for years…it never occurred to me to just have extra toothpaste that stays in the bag 😂
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I’ve built a workflow that generates about 10,000 words of plan for a feature. All that gets reviewed carefully.

Then I feel a lot more confident letting the agent break the plan down and churn through it.
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I use Phpstorm configurations for npm run dev.

And herd automatically starts db.

Do just Claude for me.
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also…congrats!
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Who did the audit?
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’ve used that a bunch and it’s great.
October 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM