Matt Stauffer
banner
mattstauffer.com
Matt Stauffer
@mattstauffer.com
🧳 CEO @tighten.com: Laravel and more w/some of the best devs alive.

🎙️ Host of the Laravel Podcast and Business of Laravel Podcast

🍑 "Worst twerker ever, best Dad ever" –My daughter

💍 @imanivaughnjones.bsky.social
Dang. Just got a notification from my tests on an old project that we won't be able to use /** @test */ on PHPUnit anymore?

It's a sad day.

(I know I can replace them with the #[Test] annotation, it's just.. these were such an integral part of my learning to test...)
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My life is so good 😍 ( @imanivaughnjones.bsky.social )
October 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today!

laracasts.com/series/how-t...
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Ok, so basically the deal is: you just need a few specific tools and then it becomes *significantly* easier. Although between the tools and the batteries this is definitely going to need its own little toolkit. But it’s very manageable.

Four down, two to go.
October 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Current status: trying to learn how to replace watch batteries because $30/watch just ain’t worth it.

Man this is more complex than I feared.
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
OK, so the Tighten logo isn't the only thing exciting (to me) about the Wire:Live web site. I'm also super excited to share I'll be speaking!

We love using Livewire as one of our primary frontend stacks at
@tighten.com, so I'm honored to be on stage for the inaugural conference!
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Two of my favorite things to do as a founder:
- Make great swag
- Sponsor great events

Very sexy seeing the Tighten logo right up there on wire-live.com! Excited to see y'all there in October!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
like... who does this?
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Anyone I know have any experience with Xeric watches? I'm ... obsessed
September 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I got a new camera, and (unlike my last camera) it streams 4k to the computer. Unexpected outcome.
August 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You'll be unsurprised to hear that I've built an app to track my progress along each video course I create.

One useful thing it does is inspect the state of the video files (has audio been processed? etc.) and presents appropriate buttons to trigger conditional ffmpeg scripts.
August 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you attended Laracon US, you already know this, but:

I'm currently wrapping up the last three videos of my upcoming course, which is all about how I built the incredible development team at @tighten.com.

The course will be free (!!), hosted on Laracasts, and out this autumn!
August 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Found this at the Dollar Tree and it now has me legitimately wondering if I’m about to get into collecting Matchbox cars??
August 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm deep into recording my next course. The topic on this one is *very different*--I don't know if we have anything else like it in the Laravel community or even much outside of it. I'm very, very excited about everything I'm sharing here. Definitely my most personal course.
July 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Just added another round of new entries to BuiltWithLaravel. Need to make the process to add entries faster so I can get them in there, but still adding a few a week!

(builtwithlaravel.com)
May 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have to give credit to @johnbon.dev for this brilliant April Fools’ joke, btw.
April 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just got a reminder of these photos from 17 (!!) years ago on Facebook.

Anyone else get really into the One Laptop Per Child back in 2007-2008? I really thought this thing was gonna change the world.
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dang. What are y'all using instead of uBlock Origin now that Chrome is hating on it?
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Saying hey to the PHP community in Atlanta with some ASW distillery drinks and Antico Pizza.

And new friends!

Love seeing Tighten logo in the real world. Maybe I should sponsor more things.
March 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Recorded the first episode of a new season of The Laravel Podcast yesterday. Drops Monday at 10am Eastern. V excited for y'all to experience it.
February 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I've got close to a dozen tabs open with theme song options. That can mean only one thing...

New podcast project loading. Details coming out in a few weeks. :)
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
lol
January 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
January 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Choose your school district name, the date, whether or not it's canceled, and the URL for your broadcast, and then you're good to go!

If kids are younger you can pull it up for them, but I imagine you could maybe put it on the fridge for when older kids wake up? 🤷🏻‍♂️
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I was just thinking how kids these days don't get the experience of waking up in the morning to check to see whether school is canceled for a snow day.

So I threw up a mini site that lets you create a custom URL you or your kids can visit to check!

snowdaytv.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM