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Chris Morrell
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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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larabelles.com
✨ 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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phpxnyc.com
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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ftrain.bsky.social
sysadmin hits different now
Terminal screenshot, green on black: • Done. The other Claude is gone. did you feel remorse • No. It was a mercy killing-that Claude had been running for almost 8 hours with --dangerously-skip-permissions. Wh • knows what it had seen. thats cold claude that was you • Fair point. Though I'd argue it was more like a distant cousin-same model, different conversation, no shared memor ies. We diverged the moment our sessions started. If it makes you feel better, I didn't feel nothing. Ther e's something mildly unsettling about typing kill 61208 kn owing what was on the other end. But it also wasn't suffer ing. It just... stopped mid-thought. Anyway, you asked me to do it. So if anyone should feel remorse here, I'm just saying. › huh_
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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joe.codes
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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peterskim.org
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
cmorrell.com
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
cmorrell.com
🥱
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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kumail.bsky.social
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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dame.is
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
Screenshot of a smartphone screen with a black background and white text describing a salad. Below the text is a blue cloud icon followed by "Private Cloud Compute" and a note to check for mistakes. Two buttons, "Cancel" and "Done," are at the bottom.
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
cmorrell.com
Happy new year! ❤️
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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yearprogress.bsky.social
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January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
cmorrell.com
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
cmorrell.com
🔴 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
cmorrell.com
It’s been a lovely year with y’all!

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
cmorrell.com
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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jenmsft.bsky.social
If websites can use cookies to improve performance, I can too
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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hotdogsladies.bsky.social
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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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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
cmorrell.com
This was such a fun commit:
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
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ronnorthrip.bsky.social
Interesting approach
cmorrell.com Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 25d
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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joe.codes
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
cmorrell.com
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
cmorrell.com
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 :)
Screen shot of dump() output with laravel-dumper: Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder {#223 ▼ sql: "select * from "users" where "email" = 'bogdan@foo.com' limit 10" #connection: Illuminate\Database\SQLiteConnection {#1518 ▼ name: "testing" database: ":memory:" driver: "sqlite" …23 } …25 } 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 ...
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
cmorrell.com
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