✨Leah✨

I know! I need to buy a new laptop again to put them on 😂

Art on a wooden display called a Kilopixel - pixel art by Matt Stauffer

I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)

Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!

Leah, a woman with wavy reddish/brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera while holding a strawberry shortcake mug full of coffee

Happy Monday!

I caught up on some sleep over the weekend, and now I'm ready to ship things 🚀

Laracon US kicked off the second half of my speaker tour🔥

August: speaking at Laravel Live Denmark in Copenhagen

September: speaking at Commit Your Code in Plano, Texas

November: speaking at Laracon Australia in Brisbane

If you see me at any of these, make sure to say hi!

Also repping Laravel Nightwatch! I forgot I was wearing my Nightwatch glasses

Leah, a woman with reddish/brown hair in a ponytail and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera. Behind her is an open field and further back are the Rocky Mountains. Leah is wearing a pink hat that says “Laracon AU Brisbane ‘24” on it.

Getting through the post-Laracon crash by touching some grass 🍃

And repping @laracon.au while doing it

So much swag! Some of it is also speaker gifts too

Nope, I think I'm good on shirts and stickers for a while 😂

I know! And they're little stress toys that you can squeeze too😂

A ton of merch and swag from Laracon that includes stuff from Laravel and other companies like Sentry and Tighten. The merch is spread out on a granite countertop.

The amount of swag/merch that I brought home from Laracon is next level

It was great meeting you in person as well! And I can't wait to see you again in Denmark in a few weeks

It was great!

Leah Thompson, a woman with reddish brown hair and blue eyes, is standing on the stage at Laracon US 2025 giving a talk.

A group photo of the Laravel team wearing red shirts and posing on the stage smiling.

And just like that, Laracon US 2025 is a wrap ✨

I had such an amazing time and am so thankful to be a part of this insanely talented team. And beyond honored to be one of this year’s speakers!

Laravel forever ♥️ #laraconus

One of my favorite things to do is to introduce my friends to the wonderful @laravel.com community

I'm so thankful for this community and how much it’s changed my life, and I’ll always try to share it with anyone I can ♥️

You did go?! I wish I would've seen you, but I hope you had a fantastic time!

It really was! I touched so much grass while there haha

It was so nice! A great break for sure

A clearing that is green and surrounded by pine trees on all sides except the front. Behind the pine trees are views of the Rocky Mountains.

A green tent is set up in a campsite, surrounded by tall pine trees through which the sun is shining

Leah, a woman with blue eyes and brown hair, is smiling while wrapped up like a burrito in a blue blanket and wearing a Laravel beanie. Behind her is a green tent which is set up at a campsite.

A creek cuts through pine trees and grass. The creek is running over rocks and is orange from runoff from abandoned mines

Traded the bugs in my code for mosquitoes and bears 🐻

That is very respectable!

I need to level up and at least start carrying a purse ranch 😂

When you're trying to ship code but you really just want to ship yourself to bed

Yes, because I mentioned I've put ranch on spaghetti before 😂

A screenshot from Discord of a message. The username of the person who sent it is “LeahTRanch” and the profile picture is Leah in a ranch suit. The text says “I swear I'm not actually one of those crazy people with ranch”

I'm never beating the big ranch allegations 😭😂

Yes! It’s so beautiful there, we already went back to visit it again haha

Leah, a woman with reddish/brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling while holding a small brown dog. Behind her is a field full of grass, bushes, and trees all of which are green. In the background are mountains.

A field full of grass, bushes, and trees all of which are varying shades of green. In the background are multiple rows of mountains that are varying shades of blue while the frontmost layer of mountains is gray.

Leah is holding a white monster while a Kindle Paperwhite is sitting to the right of the monster. In the background is a tarp lying on the ground and a red camp chair to the left of the tarp. In the background are a green tent and a blue/gray Mazda CX-50 which has its trunk open.

I managed to get away for a short camping trip this weekend ⛺⛰️

It was much needed! I touched some grass and unplugged for a little bit. But now I'm home and ready to write more code

The streamer brain is just part of me now 😂

Hahah, my bad 😂

It’s one of those days 😂

It was dead, but it still counts 😂

I've already asked myself “What was I just doing?” at least 100 times today

Leah, a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes, is smiling towards the camera. She's wearing a black dress with pink and blue flowers on it.

Happy Thursday!

Short weeks are great, but they're also a struggle when there's so much I want to accomplish and have to try and cram into 4 days 😅