Aaron Eisenberg

As a self-identified freaky little mage in a cave, @johnrudolphdrexler.com’s talk was awesome.

I’ll be there!

Thanks, I hate it

PHP Devs (or even JS Devs 😱) in the Lexington area, come out for a Meetup next week! I’ll be giving a talk on InertiaJS with Laravel. And stay for a drink afterwards!

8 weeks for paternity leave. I didn’t sleep, fed and changed a baby, and helped keep the other 3 little humans alive. It’s exactly what I expected. Didn’t so much as answer an email or write a single line of code. Came back exhausted and not very refreshed lol.

@calebporzio.bsky.social I’ve got to say (dad of 4 here, 6m to 5y), your description of multiple hours with just one kid (!) working outside sounds like heaven. An unrealistic fantasy as this point in my life, but sounds really nice. Anyway, back to the joy/mostly agony.

Well, never mind. That’s nasty. Don’t need to smell Boston Kreme… anywhere outside a Dunkin.

You… know what day it is, right? Hopefully that’s the why.

Tress of the Emerald Sea is another really good standalone Sanderson novel.

Beers with Ron, Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup This month we're just socializing. Come get a cold one with Ron and bitch about your code. * No Presentation * 7:00p - 8:00p on Second Tuesday * At Awesome Inc (348 E Main

This Tues Mar 11 will be the monthly KYPHPUG meeting.
Beers with Ron.
This month we're just socializing.
Come get a cold one with Ron and bitch about your code.
At Awesome Inc (348 E Main St, Lexington, KY 40507)

www.meetup.com/kentucky-php...

And DTO fields can be typed as whole other DTOs (composable, reusable). All DTOs extend a base class and all attributes extend a base attribute class with "hooks" (functions) for different functionality.

Another benefit is being able to generate fake API responses for testing from the DTO itself.

DTOs that use PHP Attributes DTOs that use PHP Attributes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Sure! My (slightly nasty 🫣) DTOs use reflection heavily to introspect the type of a field to generate a list of validation rules. I use custom attributes on the DTO properties to make it more fine grained (ex. date format).

gist.github.com/PikaJew002/d... (FilesProperties.php is the actual DTO)

I found an interesting use case for using them with DTO properties to provide validation for third party API responses.

Torch/components/view/index.php at master · mattstauffer/Torch Examples of using each Illuminate component in non-Laravel applications - mattstauffer/Torch

@mattstauffer.com at one time setup the Torch repo which gave some examples of how it could be used outside of the framework (github.com/mattstauffer...). But it’s only up to date with Laravel 8.x. And not really set up to work as a standalone package. I still found it helpful though.

Just came back from 7 weeks of paternal leave 2 weeks ago . Don’t think you forget how to code… you just forget all of the context for every single project you were working on before. Takes a few weeks to get it all back in your head. Good luck!

The final Calvin and Hobbes strip: a Sunday strip with a classic sledding theme. Calvin: wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Hobbes: everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new! Calvin: a new year...a fresh clean start! Hobbes: it's like a big white sheet of paper to color on! Calvin: a day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! They sled off into the white blank distance.

Happy new year!

I just turned 30 and I hope to reach that milestone one day as well. Whether or not the main meat has a name or is my first born. Lazy people are smarter or something?

Screen shot of Colossi card game plus print and sticker pack order confirmation

Putting those Christmas/Chanukah monies to good use… can’t wait!
@johnrudolphdrexler.com

Looks just the same as my mom would make for Erev Shabbos dinner. Nailed it for sure. Mazel Tov!

How do you balance family and work? Just coming back to work from a leave for baby 4. By 11 am after getting kids to preschool/daycare and working for a couple hours I’m ready to sleep again. Days I get a lot of work done, my evenings are shot. Literal zombie mode. Might be a 0.25x dev problem?

Great post, Gergely. Your insights are spot on and your analysis is impeccable. Keep up the good work!

That tracks. I think you or Shawn (on an ep of Over Engineered) explained models as display for UI. Didn’t know if that was using event-sourcing-lite or the intended way. Might have a pathological need for knowing the “correct” way to use events, which might be the wrong way of looking at this.

Woah… I’ve been event source curious for a while and this was a great explanation of how events work vs just Eloquent models. The time-traveling bit was especially satisfying. Now what about States instead of Models… ?

It’s only 4 minutes 14 seconds? Always feels like an eternity of weird, awkward synths played by a cat walking across the keyboard.

We watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with the 3 and 4 year old. Didn’t understand we couldn’t pause it and we couldn’t watch it the next day. How expectations change.

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Code Monkey have boring meeting, with boring manager Rob.

Came here to say this lol. 👆🏻
Really does hit different. Trying to long term plan around the 6-12 year range of magical wonder where they’re young enough to enjoy actual activities/trips, but not jaded teenagers.

I’m here for it