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Rissa Jackson
@rissabubbles.bsky.social
Fullstack Software Engineer who loves Laravel! Also a Partner Acrobatics Teacher.

You can generally find me upside down, dancing, or coding.

Website: Rissajackson.github.io
After the amazing
@calebporzio.bsky.social's Livewire 4 talk, I'll be on stage
@LaraconUS
talking about Git Interactive Rebase. So excited to be here talking about a topic I love a lot!

You can watch it live here: youtube.com/watch?v=GM0g...
Laracon US 2025 - Denver - Day 2 Live Stream
YouTube video by Laravel
youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Good thing
@joe.codes talked after lunch and not before otherwise we would all be thinking about food and not his amazing updates! Very excited about configureEcho 😍
July 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
@taylorotwell.bsky.social is on stage @LaraconUS to start off an amazingly packed keynote! I recommend watching the livestream now if you aren't already.
July 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
@mary.win is on stage for her first @LaraconUS talk about Design Patterns! She is killing it and I loved all her puns 😍 truly a pun artisan!
July 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@nunomaduro.com talking about @pestphp.bsky.social 4 on stage at #laraconus. I'm so excited to try out Pest 4 browser testing for PHP!
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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We have a livestream! m.youtube.com/watch?v=_eMB...
Laracon US 2025 - Denver - Day 1 Live Stream
YouTube video by Laravel
m.youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
July 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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When do you know if you're ready to become a senior developer?

@rissabubbles.bsky.social joins @davehicking.com to talk about how much experience you need and how to talk to your team about what it means to be a senior dev.
May 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🔗 A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
Troy Hunt recently becaming the victim of phising. This proves yet again, that this can happen to anyone, not only non-technical people.
www.troyhunt.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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When you’re applying to job after job after job, how can you help yourself stand out?

@rissabubbles.bsky.social joins @davehicking.com to share tips for new devs looking for a job - understanding who might be reading your application, how to make your non-dev experience relevant, & more.
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 23:

Q: Not everything is racism! E.g. Black folk die young because of high BMI from their bad diets! That's on y'all! Right?

A: Black people in the UK have higher BMI than white people, and live *longer* than white people.
🙂🙃

Read the whole linked thread.
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history. Q: Not everything is racism! E.g. Black folk die young because of high BMI from their bad diet...
hachyderm.io
February 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The new Tailwind homepage is a real stunner my goodness

tailwindcss.com
Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
tailwindcss.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you want to learn Rails or get better at Rails this is definitely a course you want to check out!
I'm incredibly excited to announce that we've partnered with
@fractaledmind.bsky.social to produce our first course on Ruby on Rails.

Sponsored by @hatchbox.io and @honeybadger.io, High Leverage Rails is an in-depth video course on Rails + SQLite for beginners.

Coming in February!
January 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Excited for the launch of Geocodio's new technical blog, Code and Coordinates!

@codemonkey.io kicked it off with a post on how we keep 300M+ addresses up-to-date. (Spoiler alert: it involves Laravel, SQLite, and crabs.)

www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...
Blog - Geocodio
Bulk geocode US and Canadian addresses and latitude/longitude coordinates via spreadsheet upload and API. Quickly and easily append Census data, ZIP+4, Congressional districts, timezones, and more.
www.geocod.io
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Want to know what happens with NativePHP for mobile without having to be glued to social media?

Join the mailing list!
simonhamp.mailcoach.app/nativephp
NativePHP
Get the latest news about NativePHP straight in your inbox! Will likely be monthly - ar most once per week when *really* exciting stuff is happening.
simonhamp.mailcoach.app
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I think a lot of places already do this without admitting it 😁
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
December 22, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Did a little write-up about this past year before I officially shut the laptop for the rest of 2024

blog.joe.codes/2024-year-in...
2024 Year in Review
Banner year, have some notes.
blog.joe.codes
December 20, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Cracked 10k installations in less than 36 hours, sheesh

Lot more work to be done, but off to a good start
December 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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🧑‍💻
December 13, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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THESE ARE YOUR COMMIT YOUR CODE SPEAKERS!!

Tonight was a very impactful night. These are some of the biggest influences in my life.

Some paved the way for me in the beginning, some continue to pave the way now

Some, strangers that have become life long friends!

#CommitYourCode
December 5, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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THIS IS THE COMMIT YOUR CODE CONFERENCE!!

This is what this is all about for me. 🥹

Developers from different backgrounds coming out to a conference and hanging out together!

This is COMMUNITY!
Super proud of how this all came together.

#CommitYourCode
December 5, 2024 at 6:00 PM
@aaronfrancis.com was amazing at @dthompsondev.bsky.social's #CommitYourCode conference! I've heard his Publishing Your Work talk before, and it is even more powerful than I remembered. Worth rewatching the previous recording or this one when it is posted!
December 5, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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In the next few weeks we'll be kicking off work on new Laravel starter kits. Here's what I'm thinking...

I don't think the starter kits should be packages. Instead, I think they should just be GitHub repositories you clone. All of the code lives in your application, no "install" commands. 🔨
November 30, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Oh that's right, it's Black Friday!

Buy my book for cheap, or don't.

Kindle is $€£ 5 bc it's nearing 5,000 copies sold!

I'd set the paperback at that price, too, but I'd make negative money so Amazon won't let me. So it's $€£ 9.99

www.amazon.co.uk/Deploy-Empat...

www.amazon.de/Deploy-Empat...
Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers
Buy Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers by Hansen, Michele (ISBN: 9781737446606) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 7:26 AM