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Ron Northrip
@ronnorthrip.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood white beard!
Building Draftsman using Laravel & React.
Organizer of the KYPHPUG dev meetup.
dev, father, husband, friend, wine-drinker, foodie, musician
Blogging at https://friendlyneighborhoodwhitebeard.dev/
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First code cuts on Draftsmandev!
Live. Live! LIIIIIIVVE!!
#buildinpublic #laravel
If you see this, repost with your model of masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm a long-time follower of @gruber.foo and Daring Fireball and that's where I learned that Apple is getting a shakeup at the top of UX/HI. Here's hoping! Apple hasn't followed their own HI guidelines in many years.

Gruber's article is excellent.
daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_...
daringfireball.net
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Hey 🏗️,

It’s been a wild 24 hours. I lost a sizable new customer yesterday, which stings even though you understand it. Then today, I gained a customer worth more than 3x that amount.

Building a SaaS is an emotional ride🎢. The swings are real. #buildinpublic
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Heads up lovely laravel friends. Exactly 90 days to Laracon EU
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🤣
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I stuck this on my office wall a couple of weeks ago.

Even with this in my face every day, I still find myself reluctant to publish stuff I’m writing.

Best way to get better at dealing with this situation is to write and publish over and over.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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HARU IS MISSING IN HOBOKEN: 30 pounds and last seen near Willow and 8th Avenues. If you've seen or found her please go here:
www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or phone 877-818-0060 and PLEASE RT HARU!
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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HAPPY DAY OF CONSUMPTION AND GRATITUDE.

I figure, sure, why not do a day-appropriate apple review.

As such, you get -- GRANNY SMITH.

Enjoy, and have a glorious eatingsday appletime.
Apple Review #36: Granny Smith
It is the day of the giving of thanks, a holiday that is ostensibly problematic in its origin but kind of nice and pure in its current form — it’s a celebration only minimally about buy…
terribleminds.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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When you weren't ready to take down the Halloween decorations.
💀 🦃
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Anybody out there who hacks Stripe or Polar have any tied what's up here?
EMERGENCY

I set up Polar today and started to set up Stripe
Managed Payments and now I'm getting kicked off Stripe!!

Literally nothing else has changed.

Can anyone from Stripe or Polar help me out please? 🙏 🙏 🙏

Sharing is appreciated
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Holy shit:
“We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized.”
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Take my money
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It's easy to insert a new column after a specific column in your MySQL table, but what if you want to insert it at the very beginning? Here's how! masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-1...
How do you insert a new column at the beginning of a MySQL table? | Mastering Laravel
And more importantly, why would you want to?
masteringlaravel.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Marlboro: yesssss it is also against our TOS to get cancer from smoking our cigarettes
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Laravel 12.40 adds a powerful improvement, you can now pause and resume specific queues without stopping all workers. 🚦

Perfect for handling flaky APIs, maintenance tasks, heavy jobs, or rate limiting scenarios. 🛑

More control, less disruption. ⚡
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Just because you weren’t alive the last time these diseases killed hundreds of thousands of children doesn’t mean they won’t kill hundreds of thousands more.

Please, if you love your children, get them vaccinated.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I sure hope it’s real.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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☕ c h e e r s
a black mr. coffee coffee maker is pouring coffee into a white cup
Alt: a black mr. coffee coffee maker is pouring coffee into a white cup
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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huge mail day over here
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Happy Caturday Everyone
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🎉 php 8.5 is out! bringing new stuff like the pipe operator, closures in attributes, and more… congrats php internals and the whole community! Full review: youtu.be/M1ksgzGbS60?...
PHP 8.5: Full Review – What’s New & What Changed!
YouTube video by nunomaduro
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM