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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
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✨ We are giving away 1 ticket to Laracon EU 2026 in Amsterdam (March 2–3)!

👉 Open to PHP/Laravel devs who do not identify as men. You can enter by Jan 31, 2026 for your chance to win.

💜 Some financial support is included.

🎉 See you in Amsterdam!

#laravel #laraconeu
January 12, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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Trying a new strategy this year:

We decided all of our dates for the year up front!

And our next meetup is February 5th at Clair, come hang out:

phpxnyc.com
PHP × NYC | A fresh PHP meetup for NYC area devs
A fresh PHP meetup for NYC area devs. Kicking off in 2024
phpxnyc.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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sysadmin hits different now
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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The new version of Laravel Wayfinder is available in public beta! This version transforms much more into TypeScript, straight from your PHP:

📍 Routes
⌨️ Form Requests
🗃️ Eloquent Models
🔢 PHP Enums
📃 Inertia Page Props
🌎 Inertia Shared Data
📡 Broadcast Channels
📣 Broadcast Events
⚙️ Vite Env Variables
January 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Just added the Build More Housing! sticker to my laptop. Thanks @5thsqadvocacy.org! You can get one by becoming a member! www.5thsqadvocacy.org/membership
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I've seen this passed around a bunch and skimmed it and nodded in agreement (because obviously the new mac OS interface design is bad), but I didn't actually sit down and read the whole thing until just now.

God, it's just brutal.

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
tonsky.me
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
🥱
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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I can finally announce:

I am in the next season (series) of Taskmaster! My favorite tv show! I’ve seen every season & some multiple times! Thrilled to be with this group of hilarious sweeties.
Amy Gledhill
Joanna Page
Armando Iannucci
Joel Dommett
And me!
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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I created an Apple Shortcut for iPhone that lets you quickly generate accessibility alt text for images using Apple’s Private Cloud Compute model — it’s accurate & the prompt is based on Harvard’s alt text guide

Download here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/61a09e98865b48118b91334d1ae0ddb5
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Happy new year! ❤️
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Why on earth can I still not watch the last 5+ seasons of Grand Designs in the US?!?

Every once in a while I check, thinking surely the BBC will have licensed it to Netflix or something by now, or at least BritBox, but no.

Wild.
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/cmorrell.com Working on an update to modular!
@cmorrell.com is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
Working on an update to modular!
stream.place
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s been a lovely year with y’all!

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s funny that the basic iPad not supporting Apple Intelligence is kinda a selling point…
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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If websites can use cookies to improve performance, I can too
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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...
You Are Two
YouTube video by CGP Grey
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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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...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Interesting approach
Let me show you why I'm excited about getting `laravel-dumper` working again.

youtu.be/UsmCeoJzuYk
Let's make `dump()` even better!
YouTube video by Chris Morrell
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Let me show you why I'm excited about getting `laravel-dumper` working again.

youtu.be/UsmCeoJzuYk
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 :)
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 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?
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM