John F Morton

Upload Drive-In Upload Drive-In is a self-hosted web service that makes accepting files of any size for your organization an easy and robust process for both your team and your clients.

Just wrapped my final hackathon sprint: Upload Drive-In.
A Laravel app that makes big file uploads as easy as drag & drop, landing straight in your Google Drive.

Hackathon project page: devpost.com/software/upl...

No more email attachments. No more “link expired.” Just drop it off at the Drive-In.

YouTube video by John Morton Upload Drive-In, a self-hosted file upload service that integrates w Google Drive. h/t Kiro IDE.

My video intro to Upload Drive-In is posted. Whew! The video was probably harder than the development work. 🙃 @kirodotdev #hookedonkiro www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiuX...

Worth mentioning the similar, but different `BasicHttpAuthStatic`: craftcms.com/docs/5.x/ref...

New blog post: Password-protect individual Craft CMS 5 pages without plugins! 🔒

Uses native sessions, super simple for content managers to use. Based on a Craft 3 tutorial but updated for v5.

Perfect for keeping looky-loos out of exclusive content.

I will do that!

It’s built on Laravel. It includes support for multiple employees in the company. Email notifications for both clients and employees for file uploads. Self organizing of files in Google Drive.

It’s a self-hosted service for small businesses to accept large and sensitive files from clients that integrates with Google Drive.

What are you building? Can you share?

Kiro Kiro is an agentic IDE that helps you go from prototype to production with spec-driven development.

I've been working on an app using Kiro - kiro.dev. If you're a dev friend of mine, you'll know this already. Sorry for the constant kiro talk! I'm working on an app I call Upload Drive-In. I will share it here soon. @kirodotdev #hookedonkiro

I’m giving your playlist a spin. It’s fun to dive into another’s long-running curated playlist. Thanks for sharing.

I’m reading Tramps Like Us. Coming of age story. Starts in 1975. I’m half through in a day. Loving it.

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.

Bespoken Customizable, high-quality text-to-speech generation for Craft CMS.

New release: Bespoken 5.0.9 adds Redactor field support for Craft 5 sites that haven't updated to CKEditor fields. Create professional narrated audio from your content with a click of a button with ElevenLabs. #craftcms plugins.craftcms.com/bespoken?cra...

A guide to learning Craft CMS in 2025 A guide to learning Craft CMS in 2025

Switched from WordPress to Craft CMS just over a year ago. Steep learning curve at times, but no regrets. Wrote up some of the best resources that helped me get started—hope it’s useful to other newbies too!

🔗 weareabstrakt.com/insights/cra...

#CraftCMS #WebDev #CMS #FrontendDev #DevResources

Bespoken Customizable, high-quality text-to-speech generation for Craft CMS.

Bespoken 5.0.8 is live. Voices can now have individual models and pronunciation rule sets. Great for multilingual sites. Backward compatible with existing setups. #craftcms

plugins.craftcms.com/bespoken?cra...

A video billboard for YouTube that says, “There’s only one YouTube.”

Is Google a monopoly? Let’s check with the YouTube team.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

Two. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Same-Sex Marriage Is the Law of the Land. Some States Are Debating It Anyway. (Gift Article) State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.

Rights are not things that are up for debate. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Markets are now down ~14% since Trump was inaugurated.
Not as bad as the recent trough under Trump, but the gap between market performance to date vs. performance in same period in earlier administrations appears to be growing

Tips on Getting Great Voice Clones from ElevenLabs - SuperGeekery Learn how to create a natural-sounding ElevenLabs voice clone using your own writing. Get better TTS results with this simple, effective recording tip.

Tips on Getting Great Voice Clones from ElevenLabs. supergeekery.com/blog/tips-on...

Putin

@jimacosta.bsky.social You are rocking on Substack. It’s quickly become one of my must listen shows. Thanks.

Can I get a, “But her emails,” for old time’s sake?

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.

Now imagine if Joe Biden did this.

Every day is another “major escalation” in the war on normal. It must stop.

The Residence A brilliant, eccentric detective must solve a murder in the White House residence — where the staff and guests at a state dinner are all suspects.

I’m enjoying Uzo Aduba in The Residence so much. www.themoviedb.org/tv/242054-th...